Special Connection

Mileen is here doing BYU study abroad.  She came to the temple yesterday to do baptisms. As Jim was stamping her cards he noticed the submitter's name was someone we knew in Utah.  We talked to her afterward and found she is the daughter of Paige Marriott who went to school with our kids.  Her uncles and aunt were all in the same musical activities our children were in at Olympus High.

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But the sweetest connection was when I realized she was the excellent violinist we heard at church last Sunday when Jim talked and that she was playing on her aunt Georgia's violin. Georgia was a good friend of our daughter, Becky, and was killed in a tragic accident in college.  Mileen was only 5 at the time, inherited the violin and started taking lessons.  It brought tears to both of us as we both remembered and appreciated Georgia's life and legacy.