I was particularly interested with your youth pastor because this happened to me when I went on a christian camp aged 12. I yearned for more contact with the leader of this camp who was also my RE teacher at school. He was a very private almost withdrawn man - tightlipped and incommunicative with us boys but how I craved his attention and his approval . . I sort of made an evangelical commitment to Christ at this camp but I think I really only did this because it gave me an opportunity to speak with him one to one which was almost impossible to do otherwise. Even at the time I felt vaguely guilty about doing this - thinking it hypocritical and strange. The meeting was brief and very unsatisfactory for me because he stuck absolutely to theology and I wasn't able to tell him anything about my personal situation which I really wanted to do (the depth of my unhappiness at home at that time is something I still puzzle over at low times).
In retrospect I don't think I needed to feel guilty about confusing the emotional with the spiritual. Indeed I only wish that I had been able to build on this afterwards because that was most definitely a stepping stone toward a firmer faith though that was to take many years to germinate. . . .in other words, the craving that I had thought solely emotional was probably the burgeoning of a spiritual life that I could scarcely understand at the time. What attracted me most about this man was his strong spiritual life and his utter integrity as both person and teacher.