A Mayor and an Author

Mayor Winder talked about the challenge of balancing career and church assignments with the need to be involved in serving in your community and government. Describe how you will go about including community and government service in your life. I think you can't seperate the two because service in the government is service to the church because you are "honoring, obeying and sustaining the law," and service in the church is service to the government because it is making you and those you have influence over better citizens. As long as you are involved in one you are involved in the other. I will make time for community service because my community is my church and my church is my community. In Mayor Winders research on the history of church leaders interactions with Presidents of the Untied States, one conclusion that has been apparent is the importance of good people serving in and around government. Identify ways that you can have that type of positive influence in both your community and nationally. Please include various ways in which you see yourself being able to lead. The best way to have that influence in your community is to let your light so shine. Whatever you can contribute to your community either in talent or means or time, you need to give. Your contributions will be greatly appreciated and will hopefully inspire others to do the same. There are many things which compete for our attention and our abilities but if you make service your priority you will find great success in all fields. As you evaluate your experience this year in a leadership role, describe what motivated you to make the commitment you have made in your year of service with BYUSA. My commitment this year has come from wanting to give something back to BYU. I feel like we are greatly blessed to be here and everyone should attempt to give something back to help balance the ledger. There are secondary reasons for being committed to the organization such as surrounding myself with good people. This year I have met some of the best people I've ever known. It has been refining and refreshing to have daily interactions with such fine people.