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Thank you my beloved student. slash podcasts.

Thank you my beloved students and faculty for such a warm welcome home.

We are so happy to be here. And I want you to know you're not fooling me. I know who you came

here to hear. And guess what? That's who I came to hear too. So I'll be brief quickly and I'll enjoy hearing.

It's such a thrill for Elder Holland and I to be back on this beautiful campus that we love so much. We spent 15 wonderful years of our life here.

That sounds like a lifetime, but some of us are slower getting through school than others.

Most tender of all for me through those years is the fact that we raised our wonderful children on this

campus. The old president's home across from the Mesa Building is the only real childhood home they knew for nearly a decade.

I'm so grateful for all the wonderful experiences we had during those years, no wonderful memories we had.

It was so handy for me to have 30,000 students as babysitters on my speed dial.

We know young friends that these college years could be very very difficult

demanding and stressful for you. You have so many expectations placed upon you, many expectations you put on yourself,

and some of the days are spent trying to meet those expectations could be painful. They can be

lonely and very frightening. When these days come I ask you to remember this one truth and a

promise from your Heavenly Father that I have held on to desperately even

when my own life has been in jeopardy. God whispering to each of you to all of us as children has

said this. I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace

and not of evil to give you an expected end and or a joyful end the one he wants

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