Jill McCauley was in a car crash when she was 18, driving home from her first year of college.

She suffered a spinal cord injury that left her a quadriplegic.

Over the last 25 years, Jill has had a journey filled with many lessons,

but the greatest lesson has been to understand that she is not her disability. Her

greatest identity is as a child of God. She joins me now from her home in Washington. Jill, welcome

to the Church News podcast. Thank you so much. I'm very honored to be here.

We met on the floor of the Marriott Center at BYU after Sister Kristen M. Yee, who is the

second counselor in the Relief Society General Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of

Latter-day Saints, shared some of your story at BYUu Education Week.

And so I knew I had to come find you and I rest right over and

introduced myself. Can you tell me first about meeting Sister Yee and how that came about?

Thank you so much for asking about it. It was a remarkable experience for me. I was honored to be

there that day when she spoke about a little of my story. I initially met Kristen M. Ye when she came to

the Seattle area to speak at a single adult conference that I was attending. And she had been

presenting all day. And then she spoke again in the evening. And after her message, I had the opportunity to get to meet her for a second.

And it was really special.

She came down, you know, I'm a little bit shorter than everyone because of my wheelchair.

And she bent over and she looked me in my eye.

And she just, I felt so much love.

She communicated just the love of Jesus Christ to me.

It was a beautiful, really warming, heartfelt experience.

And I didn't get to say all I wanted to that day, but I went home and I felt prompted to write her a letter.

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