Why do I want to utilize Scouting in my stake? Your Calling — What is Your Role? Why do I want to utilize Scouting in my stake?

Experience shows that it is not always the intellectual Latter-day Saint who goes around doing the most good. A large number of boys and girls who are faithful members of the Sunday School, of the improvement Associations, of the Religion Classes, and the Primaries, begin to fall out of the ranks at about fourteen years of age and upwards. One would naturally suppose that the mental development up to this period of life would be such that young people would have an intense desire to go on; but in too many cases it does not work in that way. Again the question may be asked. What is the cause?

By the time our boys have attained to the lower offices of the priesthood, they arrive at an age when they begin to come in contact with things . . . the actualities of life. . . which produce in them sensations by the side of which books and sermons are dry. The result is not being able, from childhood to youth, to combine the practical with the theoretical. The heart with its attendant activities has not been developed correspondingly with the head. In other words, the youth have had but little or no training in the hundreds of things they have heard talked of, or have sung about, read about or in things memorized and recited. They must be taught their duties on the practical side.

What is the role of a stake president or counselor with regard to the LDS-BSA relationships committee?

What is the role of the Stake Young Men’s Presidency?

What is the Role of the counselor in the bishopric?

What do the programs of Scouting provide for adults?

What committees facilitate the implementation of Scouting?

What will you do differently upon your return? How will you support Scouting as a tool in preparing your young men for the future? What will you do differently upon your return?

I’m not asking for a text book answer, or a handbook Answer, not even what you think Brother Francis and I would like you to say. This question is to be answered within your own heart.

Experience shows that it is not always the intellectual Latter-day Saint who goes around doing the most good. A large number of boys and girls who are faithful members of the Sunday School, of the Improvement Associations, of the Religion Classes, and the Primaries, begin to fall out of the ranks at about fourteen years of age and upwards. One would naturally suppose that the mental development up to this period of life would be such that young people would have an intense desire to go on; but in too many cases it does not work in that way. Again the question may be asked, What is the cause?