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We moved to a one bedroom apartment in the Woodlands. We had heard good things about that place and since we had visited just once and gone to the aquarium and the space center, that was the extent of our knowledge. I started looking for jobs. ...

Greg and I had gotten married in July and we moved into the Wymount apartments. We got super lucky and scored a one bedroom apartment with a study which was less expensive than a two bedroom but was bigger than a one and they are very hard to come ...

So I was serving in Annemasse. Brother Rangel the elder got baptized the first week that I was there. His daughter was coming to live with them soon and was ready to hear the gospel. Sr. Martin left and Sr. Morrell and Sr. Hofheins came to be with ...

I started in Lyon with Sr. Kathlee Byrne. We lived with Sr. Jamie Coon and Sr. Marion Lockhart. On one of the first days, we were going up an escalator going out of the metro. Kathleen started running and she fell on the escalator flat on her face ...

I moved to Regency and started over with new roommates. I ended up knowing my room roomate Whitney Noland from a communications class we had had together the year before. We did a group project together. We also lived with Holly Larsen who later m ...

I had been preparing for a mission since around age 17 when I had received my patriarchal blessing. There were lots of things in it that seemed to me to guide me towards a mission to fulfill some of my life missions.  At the end of my junior ...

My parents built the back house because we really needed the extra space. America went to BYU the fall before the house was finished. The house was finished in December so she never got to have her own room. Our parents said that the oldest would ...

I applied for housing before I applied to get into the school, mostly because I was told Heritage Halls fills up first and I needed to be in the cheapest on campus housing possible. I wanted to live with Julia Oliphant and Michelle Beard. I had be ...

I moved back to Regency in time for Spring term but I was just looking for a job and working. I got back to school on the greyhound bus. Lots of my mission friends showed up at the bus depot to pick me up. I lived with Liz Haake, Nicole Jeffreys, ...

Mikenze Bott, Megan Strong, Heidi Thorne and I decided to live together again for the 2001-2002 school year. We went looking for housing in the spring of 2001 and got a ticket signing our contracts at the Elms apartments which is south of campus b ...

Grandma Peterson’s Granola 8 cups rolled oats 6 cups rolled wheat 2 cups untoasted wheat germ 2-3 cups shredded coconut 2 cups bran 2 tsp salt 1 ½ c brown sugar 1 c dry non-fat milk ½ c honey 1 c cooking oil ...

Learn from the Past Sara Nelson is where I got my first name. She crossed the plains with much hardship as a teenager and started to raise a family in Utah. She had young kids when her husband got called on a mission. It was planting season an ...

I went to pre-school at Gibson preschool that was held in a local RLDS church. There is a park right behind it that we went to sometimes. It was close to Mrs. Sigler's house, our long suffering piano teacher.  Some of the other kids I knew fr ...

Greg and I started dating on Labor Day of 2005. I went to Thanksgiving with his family in Arizona.  He came to my parents house for New Year's. We went to see the new Joseph Smith movie which was playing at the Liberty Jail. On the way home, ...

Describe your home(s) and surroundings during early childhood. I was born in the MCI hospital in Independence, Missouri, March 18, 1982. My mom is Sheralyn Strong from Richland, Washington and my dad is Cornelius Randall (Randy) Peterson from ...