Well, Valerie, thank you so much for being on it last. She said it this week. And we're so excited to have you, to learn more about you. We've all been kind of collaborating on all these questions

that we want to talk about. There's no way we'll get to all of them. But I'm going to kind of

turn the time over to Susan. And Susan, what are the juicy questions here you want to make

sure we get to talk about with Valerie.

I'm sorry that I'm the one who has to choose what the juicy questions are, but hopefully I'll make good choices. Hi, Valerie. Hi, Susan and Cynthia. I'm thrilled to be talking to you today.

I love talking to you too. Any chance I get is just a joy. So thanks for having me.

Well, I'm pretty sure that all of our listeners, and I know that all of your listeners, already know who you are. But could you give us the world's quickest snapshot

of your journey as a Latter-day Saint woman? You know, you realize you're asking a, that's a big

ask to give me a quick snapshot, right? Yeah, right, right. So let me give a, let's see how, how concise I can be,

which is not one of my spiritual gifts. Okay, so born and raised in Utah, born in Salt Lake City,

I'm one of six children. I left Utah after my husband and I got married. We met at BYU.

No, no, no, we did not mean at BYU. We met as missionaries, which is always a fun story.

So we were on the same mission.

And then...

What mission was that?

We were in the Oakland, California mission in the mid-90s.

And our first conversation was an argument, which was, you know, forecast for a fun

relationship to come like Like I was asking to, you know, I was pushing up against the patriarchy in the very first

conversation that I had with my husband.

Yes, Valerie.

Yeah, right?

Excellent.

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