Tonight I am sleeping in Liesl’s new apartment in Salt
Lake. It is a joy to be with her. We
moved her in on Wednesday and then we are going to Women’s Conference at BYU
today and tomorrow. I love her so very
much!
Over the past three weeks she has interviewed three times
with Ken Garff for a website position. Today about noon, she got an email back
that they decided to fill the position with someone internally. They said they were pleased with her, and
would strongly consider her for future openings, but that right now they
determined that they would juggle responsibilities instead of adding another
person to the team. I totally understand
the burden on the payroll of adding more people, but we were excited for her to
have a good position where she might have opportunities to learn from Brad’s
Mission President, President Garff. She
has a good attitude about it, and says she knows something will work out. She has felt guided to be in this cute apartment
with these roommates. They came down from Rexburg several months back to interview
apartments and to visit the singles ward where they would be going. I am happy
that the roommate I have met is a darling girl, Hannah from Washington. She is near
the end (8) of 11 siblings, and she just completed her nursing degree at BYU Provo. She has a big test to take in June she is
worried about. Then she will work for
the Huntsman Cancer Center in SLC beginning in August for her internship. 
Today we heard lots of great speakers, and amazing music
tonight. Liesl and I left here at 5:45 this morning so we could participate in
the Instant Choir for the opening ceremonies this morning. We sang “I stand all
amazed” and “How Can I keep from Singing.”
It was fun to sit by Liesl and hear how confident she is to sing Alto
parts. I am just not that confident.
There were lots of great messages. A couple that stand out:
Yesterday in the temple, the scripture opened to D&C 25
(I believe) the section to Emma. She is told that she is doing a great job, and
that her calling to support her husband. She is told to seek for the things of
a better world. I felt like that was my instruction that it is not for me to
try to fix the Paulsen mess still. I wish that it was resolved, but they have
not made a single stride since Dad wrote the mean text that read “I am tired of
your abuse and disrespect. Good-bye.” Whatever, I had just previously sent him four
texts over a few days, one a photo of the sunset that said something about
Heavenly Father does that for us every night to tell us that he loves us. And that I was grateful that he taught me
that!