How to Make Good Husbands and Fathers - The Church's Youth Program Initiative
When I was in first grade I became a Tiger Cub in the BSA. My mother was good friends with a den mother in a local city pack and wanted me to get involved. I'm not 100% sure what it was that Mom saw in scouting that she wanted her first child to experience, but none the less, I was going to monthly den meetings with other first graders and spent hours and hours with my mother doing crafts and going on adventures that taught about the world we live in. As I progressed into cub scouts I transferred into the ward pack (the church doesn't institute a Tiger program). I continued this pattern of meeting in den meeting once a week, and spending loads of one on one time with my parents earning my Wolf, Bear, arrow points, and eventually Webelos. I went on to earn my arrow of light before I graduated into Scouts. Before I dig into what is generally referred to as "the Scouting program" by Mormons, let me give you a little bit of a wide scope of my family background. My mot