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The new YSA wards/stakes are a good attempt to address the problems created by singles wards, but ultimately I think they will be beset by similar problems to what we’ve seen in the 40 years since the inception of the YSA program. Simply put, having separate wards for YSAs creates too many transitions. Hence, the failure rate of the system is high. One of my current sunday school teachers informed me that her father was called to serve as a YSA bishop, and that in his initial training meeting Elder Packard told him and the other bishops that out of 75,000 available YSAs here in Salt Lake Valley about 29,000 attend.
The main transitions that entry into the YSA system portends are as follows:
1. Young Women –> Relief Society
2. Young Men –> Elders Quorum
3. Returned Missionaries –> YSA Wards
4. Young Married Couples –> Local Wards
5. YSA Converts –> Local Wards
6. Midsingles –> Local Wards
Each of these transitions is either created or complicated by the existence of YSA wards. My blog post here goes into further detail:
http://transitionearly.blogspot.com/2010/10/so-many-transitions.html ” class=”bbcode_url”> http://transitionearly.blogspot.com/2010/10/so-many-transitions.html Agree with BJ. Find spiritual salve wherever you can. That is going to often be on your own. Institute classes, though intending to further educate, are often so watered down that they barely resonate above seminary level. What they end up providing, more than anything else, is social opportunities.
