Today was a hard day in seminary. Some people think teaching seminary at 6:20 a.m. every day is a negative thing, but I really do love it. Weeks like this one make me realize how important it is and how blessed I am to work with the young people as closely as I do. The death of Katelyn last week has hit most of the kids really hard so today we honored her with a DVD which they will play at her memorial tomorrow. Kip assembled it with the help of some of the other kids, took most of the night to put it together and it was very touching. To say there was not a dry eye in the house would be an understatement. We all intellectually understood that Katelyn was gone but seeing the final frame with her birth and death dates on it, well, that was just difficult.
And, yes, I know....guns don't kill people, people kill people. But when guns are involved it just makes it more difficult. One of the things we all did was try to find the positive in this extremely negative situation. The positive is the love of a Heavenly Father and the gift of the Holy Ghost. We just need to learn to listen to those promptings and then maybe things like this would not happen as much. None of us know if Katelyn had time to react, time when she knew she needed to stop the game and get out of the room, but we all know what it feels like to have the comfort the Holy Ghost can provide. It affirms to me that I need to invest more energy into listening to those promptings, no matter how small and act upon what I know to be right.
And Katelyn will be missed but she will live on here on earth as well as in the Celestial Kingdom beyond the veil. She lives because she touched a lot of people here on Island and in other places too. She lives because there are many people that will remember her with a smile. More than that a person can not ask I think.
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