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Some years ago, I playfully made up a little saying for occasions such as today.

It goes like this. I hope those on the stand understand how long we can stand to sit.

To sit. This morning that little phrase reminded me Garrett, just remember

you're the last thing between these wonderful graduates and their graduation celebrations.

In his poem for Quartets, T.S. Elliot voices a memorable thought.

Quote, we shall not cease from exploration,

and the end of all our exploring

will be to arrive where we started

and know the place for the first time, through the unknown remembered

gate, heard, half heard, in the stillness between two waves of the sea, close quote.

As a memorable fixed point in time and space,

BYU commencement can be a spiritual benchmark.

Commencement invites us to look back in gratitude and appreciation.

It also invites us to look forward in anticipation and exploration.

Today, as I return to a university campus I have loved for many years,

I invite you to return with me to three BYU freshman experiences which to this day

invite me to become my best BYU gospel self. First, BYU freshman experience. When I was a new

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