Tomorrow’s Young Women lesson in my ward is on the roles of wife and mother. As I am neither, how do I not sound like a total hypocrit when teaching this lesson to my Mia Maids? This lesson has been tormenting me all week. I don’t disagree that these are divine roles. That isn’t the issue. But all I hear in my mind as I prepare what to tell them is, “This is the most important thing you can do. Plan and hope for these goals. Of course, I’m not doing it, but that’s neither here nor there.†I believe I should be a good role model for the girls, and in all other instances I feel like I am. I like what I can bring to the lessons — the other lessons. However, this topic is outside my experience, so all I bring to the lesson is theory, and I don’t think that’s good enough.
I find myself hoping that the girls will be hyper and inattentive and we will end up on some tangent about Israel and patriarchal blessings (which we’ve actually already had as a huge but interesting tangent, but something else like that).
(If interested, this is the lesson, and I’m supplementing the lesson with this talk.)