Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Thanks Dad, Mom, and Jared for coming! Katelyn and Kylie were also excited that we graduated!

Samuel Parry was asked to sing in the convocation and asked me to play the piano for him. It turned out really good and I had fun doing it.


This is a picture of me after I recieved my diploma. Troy is behind me shaking hands with the academic vice president Henry J. Eyring, son of President Henry B. Eyring.

I am so grateful for this opportunity I have had to attend this school. I love it. I love the spirit that is here and that I was able to gain an education and also was able to gain more knowledge spiritually. I love that we started our classes with a prayer and that our teachers were encouraged to speak about the gospel in our classes. I love that we were required to take so many religion classes, I love the devotionals every tuesday. I love that in my Biology or Health Science classes I had so many spiritual experiences as my teachers talked about gospel principles. It all summed it up when at the end of my class this last semester (which was a really hard class) my teacher told us that after all he had taught us and after all we had learned in that class he wanted us to especially remember his testimony, he bore his testimony and then said that HS 365 or any other class especially the grade wasn't really that important in the eternal prespective but it was more of that we learned how to learn and study and we grew while we were experiencing these things. We have learned to become better and to serve others. Later that night I was reading the April Ensign and Elder Oaks said this, "The ultimate goal of an education is to make us better parents and servants in the kingdom. In the long run it is the growth, knowledge, and wisdom we achieve that enlarges our souls and prepares us for eternity, not the marks on college tanscripts. Education is a gift from God; it is a cornetstone of our religion when we use it to benefit others."



3 comments:

Hepworth Family said...

Congratulations on Graduating!

What an amazing support system you had in order to Graduate, be a wife, and be a mother to twins!

Mrs. Mandy said...

Horray for you guys! It was definitely worth it, wasn't it? You have a lot to be proud of!

Jen said...

Congratulations, Carrie and Troy! We are so proud of you guys!