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Marriage:
Having met Frank Marchant and dating all summer I left for BYU. At school I was lonely and missed Frank terribly. I was tormented by what I should do. I needed an answer, so I climbed “Y” mountain in Provo, Utah. I stayed for a few hours wrestling with my feelings and praying for answers. I am a hard-headed Scandinavian. It took two hours for me to start listening instead of talking to God. Finally I could hear the still, small voice. It was a clear, peaceful feeling that I was to marry this man. Immediately I ran down the mountain, found a pay phone and called Frank. As he came on the line I blurted out,

“Hey dude, I want to marry you..”

Ever since then he has told everyone that I asked HIM to marry ME! I’ll never get out of that one, but I do not regret it.

Death:

My grandparents died when I was three and I did not remember them.

My mother passed away when I was 5 1/2 years old.

My sister-in-law, Gabriel Thelin was twenty-eight years old when she passed away of stomach cancer. She left three children and my brother Dennis without a mother or wife. In the family picture she is the one with a white dress. Eric and Michelle and I prayed so sincerely and earnestly for her recovery. The fact that she passed away was a blow to my puny faith. Realizing that answers to prayers are not always yes was a huge awakening moment for me.

God knows us better than we know ourselves. He knows what is best and worst for us. Only he can see the eternal picture. We only know our earthly existence, but we lived before we came and as spirit children of our Father in Heaven we made the choice to come here to obtain a body. In our finite minds we blame God for making bad things happen. When we came here we knew we would have disease, sickness, accidents and many tests. WE STILL CHOSE TO COME!
Adversity subdues, humbles and embues us with strength and power we can obtain in NO other way. I testify to that truth.