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Welcome to This is the Gospel and LDS Living Podcast where we feature real stories from real

people who are practicing and living their faith every day. I'm your host, Corinne Lay.

A few years ago, I got a phone call from my grandma who we call Nanny. And it was routine stuff.

She was telling me all the details for the upcoming family party. So I took notes. I wrote it all

down like a beautiful granddaughter and I hung up the phone. About five minutes later, the phone

rang again and it was Nanny. So I assumed she was calling because she had forgotten something.

And instead, she proceeded to tell me the exact same thing she had said five minutes earlier,

almost word for word. When I hung up the phone, I sort of laughed about it because in my family,

we have a tradition of finding the humor in just about everything, but it didn't take long for

the weight of that phone conversation to settle in. I realized that that was the harbinger of

a big shift in our family culture. Not long after that, Nanny was diagnosed with Alzheimer's and it

didn't take long for her short-term memory, her long-term memory and her ability to communicate

clearly to disintegrate. It was around this time that I also got my very first iPhone. I'm a

late adopter, so it took me a little while to get one. But when I did, I realized that it had this

app, the voice memo app, and all I would have to do is push a button and it would record anything.

So I started to record everything. I would take that iPhone and put it in the middle of the room

during family parties and push the record button just to try to capture whatever I could. I was looking

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