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This devotional address entitled, Discovering God's Plan for You, was given on March 11th of

2025 by Kalani Sataki, then head football coach at BYU.

Thank you. Thank you for beautiful music, and thank you for everyone being here. The team, staff,

family and friends, you're all my friends, so it all works out. So I am so honored to be speaking

to you today for this devotional. And I want to say welcome all of BYU, including Idaho, Hawaii, BYU pathway worldwide.

And of course, everyone here today.

Looking around, I can't believe that I was a freshman here at BYU 30 years ago.

I really don't feel like I'm that old, but I am, and that's okay.

I learned a thing here too, you know, just along the way and a few things here along the way.

And there are a few things that I want to share with you that I learned at BYU, but not necessarily in the classroom.

You can learn it the hard way through experience.

And these were true back in my day and still hold true today.

I hope you don't mind if I share a few of them to start out my talk.

First, the stairs that connect the RB to upper campus are actually worse than it looks.

Yes.

I'm still hopeful they'll become escalators one day

and if you had to walk up these stairs to make it here today I hope it's worth it guys

and number two just save yourself all the trouble of trying to be creative with parking on campus and buy a

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