Personal Narrative: A Career As A Senior Patrol Leader

At a young age my parents wanted to teach me the value of hard work. As long as I can remember, my father has made do chores without an allowance. Although my siblings and I can say this is an example for being stingy, it has been for the best. Once I matured enough to understand what he was really trying to describe, I had many things in front of me which his life lessons prepared for me. After I crossed over from the Cub Scouts to the Boy Scouts in 2009, I had a lot to learn. One of my early positions of leadership that I was elected to was Senior Patrol Leader. A Senior Patrol Leader is a scout who leads the troop. This position was made to get scouts to understand the importance of leadership. The one thing that I learned while I was in …show more content…
Having assignments and getting to practice on time are just a few examples of how the scout motto has made me into a much more responsible person. Once I received my life rank, I was eligible to go for my Eagle Scout rank. A requirement for an Eagle Scout is to complete a service project. The purpose for this project is not to create something that will have a lasting impression on a scout troop or a community, but it is to develop leadership qualities in a scout. The project took longer than I expected. My project lasted from July 25th 2014, to February 1st, 2015. This project taught me that if you want something to be done right, it takes time. I could have easily completed the project in two or three months, but the quality of the work would have been poor. I find it strange that a role model for me is not a person such as my father or mother, but it is of a man I have never met before in my life. This person is someone that I try to live like every day of my life like, and that person is my 2nd Great Grandfather. John Luther Powers, the man who four people are named after. J.L. worked in the early 1920’s as a mechanical