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We are moving from our first home in Eagle Mountain back to Provo in one month! We have loved our time out here. We have enjoyed making little home improvements to our place over the 2 1/2 years we've lived here but know that Provo is where we are supposed to be. Here's pictures of our place, which has already sold. We will remember our time here fondly! When we moved here, there was a

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Right after I got married, I posted about "The Wedding Advice Nobody Gave Me" and mentioned how important I felt it was to prepare to be married in the temple by praying, reading scriptures every day, and even discussing these things with a fiancee. I still maintain that it's the best wedding advice-- and I will continue to give that advice to anyone wanting some!! But this week has caused some

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I returned last week from the MoTab's European tour-- the first tour outside of the country in 18 years! (except a quick stint in Canada in 2003). What an experience. I felt like the whole experience was a missionary trip to uplift the hearts and minds of those who have been experiencing terrorist attacks throughout the year. Although I enjoyed touring the historic cities, nothing paralleled the

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Close-up at the end of "Love One Another" on my first broadcast. I have been asked by a friend to share how I came to join the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. It's taken me a long time to put this post together. To get the full experience of this blog post, please watch the videos! I hope you'll enjoy listening to the songs. People often ask me, "What made you want to join the choir?"

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Today was the day my family joined me! So great to have them visiting for my second Carnegie Hall performance and to see some really neat things! We stopped by Grand Central Station to look around before heading to the Neue Galerie on 5th Avenue. We saw art by Gustav Klimt!! Namely his Woman In Gold painting. But I was taken back in time for a bit when we went there because of my time in

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This Tuesday was a completely free day for us to explore NYC! I had a blast. And for the record, it looks like most of the tours that the choir participates in have much less free time for sight seeing as I've had. So I feel so grateful that on this trip I can not only enjoy performing but also enjoy the wonderful areas that I find myself in. I am very excited to see Boston  once we get

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On Wednesday June 1, 2015 I set foot for the first time in Carnegie Hall for our sound check and performance. How grateful I am for the chance to perform there! The sound check helped us see how squished we would be on stage. Carnegie Hall does have a deep stage but it doesn't come close to the space we have at home in our spaces in Utah. I forget how spoiled we are. Our choreography for

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Saratoga Springs New York!! ...not to be confused with Saratoga Springs Utah where I work. Haha.  We spent a lot of time on the bus today: I sat by Lauren Tuft and we talked about our missions, life and choir the whole ride up! It was great!  Here is the performing venue. Perfect weather and beautiful serene setting.  On the bus rides they will play videos where

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On Sunday we got to sleep in and then attend lunch and Sacrament Meeting in our hotel. It was a very special spiritual experience. And hymn singing was the very best!  Around 2 pm we were given the freedom to roam the city and do as we pleased-- I ended up making a new set of friends! Headed up by Shipley Munson who grew up here in New York City, I walked across the Brooklyn Bridge! It

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First day in New York! Today we had a relaxing morning and time to get breakfast in Times Square, upon which Alison and I ran into George Cohan, famous composer of "Give my regards to Broadway". We left at 11:45 for Bethel Woods, the performance site which famously sits on the same grounds of the Woodstock music festival of 1969! Apparently it rained for 3 hours straight at one point of the

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This morning we had an early start. We left the hotel at 7:45 for DC. It was a beautiful day, and luckily overcast so I didn't get too hot! This lush little garden outside one of the art galleries captured my attention. I probably could've spent an hour there just writing thoughts in my journal but I decided it was better to meet up with friends and family! I was able to first meet up

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Last night after I blogged Alison and I went to the hotel pool to hang out with other choir buddies. We had fun!This morning we lazily got out of bed and went to breakfast in the hotel, another grand meal! We took buses over to the Strathmore Music Center, where we are spending the day performing a matinee and evening concert. Rich, Christian, Alison, Me! I can't make a silly face-- I end up

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Herein I intend to keep track of events and fun things happening on my very first Mormon Tabernacle Choir Tour! It's been great so far-- I could not ask for a better group of 600+ people to travel with! First, Ryan dropped me and Mindy off at the airport, where we were greeted by many kind people who told us where to go! Ryan will meet me in New York next week! I walked around the airport

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"Congratulations on your engagement!" is commonly followed by tidbits of very well meaning advice. "Make sure you get high quality photography. Pictures last forever!""Has your mom given you the talk? ..." (I won't elaborate)"Are you buying or renting a place? Come live by us!""Never go to bed angry.""Make sure you have dinner cooking every night when he comes home."If you are reading this

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Why have I been MIA on the blog lately? Well... I will give you a picture and let you guess why. (WARNING: this post is replete with references to Nacho Libre. If you've not seen the movie, some of this may not make sense) :)A. You became a nun! That is incorrect. I already did the Mormon version of nunnery a few years ago, and don't plan on being a nun anytime soon. B. You have been

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There are 4 wedding announcements on my fridge. And there are several more announcements I've forgotten to put on the fridge. My younger brother and younger sister are both getting married in the next 40 days. Tis the season! This happens about every year (minus my two siblings getting married)... It's not unusual to see good friends getting married. Even outside my Mormon bubble, two

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This doesn't sound like a very happy post... well, you're right, it's not a happy thing to talk about death. But at my funeral, I was thinking about this... I would like there to be mostly music. Maybe brief little snippets of talking, but mostly singing and playing. I've begun to compile a list of what I want performed at my funeral, and here are the first two. Behold, a Royal Army I used to

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Fooled ya! Not getting married. Not even going to a wedding. I did attend a beautiful reception for some co-workers a few weeks back, but nope. No ma-wage for moi. I just like that song. It's 12:45 AM and my mind is so busy, I can't sleep. I ate a huge freshly-baked cinnamon roll and drank a large Dr. Pepper with my friend Emily tonight (and really, her name is Emily, I'm not saying that I had

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I felt inspired to take this class, and therefore thought that I would learn how to become a seminary teacher, and this would be a path my life could take. While I have decided that being a Seminary Teacher is not the career path for me, what I have come away with is a breadth and depth of knowledge about the gospel, with a more firm resolve to immerse myself in the scriptures, and turn others

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Dear Readers of my Blog, Some of the things I share in this post are very, very personal to me. I feel a need to share them right now, but please know that I am opening up some thoughts and feelings that I've never shared before. Thank you for taking time to read.  This weekend was my very first time singing in General Conference for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. At this

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Looking backward on 2013, I have learned so much. Last year my New Year's Resolution was to "Pray Always." I think I did a decent job. Something I've noticed about people who are led by God... their lives are not predictable. They are happy, but not necessarily following a prescribed plan that they made up in 1st grade, or even in high school. When you turn your life over to God, He can make

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I don't know how to announce something like this. Pregnant girls use ultra-sound pictures, engaged couples show pictures of the ring... So here it is? Coming April 2014: Your favorite blogger will don the brightly-colored muumuu, and sing lots of songs about Jesus, with THIS choir! www.mormontabernaclechoir.org More details coming soon... I start choir school in January!

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It's often been said, "Be careful what you wish for... you just might get it!" Have you ever wished for something, or prayed for something, and not quite known what to do when that wish or dream actually came true? ("Your dream stinks, I was talkin' to her.") At the beginning of November I went to a large church meeting that addressed single adults. A church leader talked about our

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Back in July before I came back to Utah, I was reading David A. Bednar's book, Act In Doctrine. I had just finished a segment about the character of Christ, and how the Savior "turned outward" in service, even when he was in intense pain and could have been preoccupied with his own mission (it's a great book and you should read it!). As I boarded the plane bound for Salt Lake City, I put the

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Meet Janice Kapp Perry: Mormon music composer extraordinaire. She has written some of the most well-loved children's songs that I grew up with, including: I Love to See the Temple (this was, ironically, the very first song I ever sang in voice lessons with Erin Guinup) Love is Spoken Here A Child's Prayer I Belong to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints I'm Trying to be Like Jesus

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