Thursday was BYU Commencement. Here is a link to the article about it in the Church News. Elder Nelson was the keynote speaker. Dennis and I met Joy Marker at the Marrior Center. We let the kids off the hook for this part of it because it was so long. This year 2,194 students graduated. It was a neat experience to see them all walk in. On Friday, our whole family went to a catered reception for the executive MPA graduates and their families in the Tanner building on the BYU campus. Afterwards we walked over to the Marriot Center and Dennis was officially presented his diploma with just the other Management graduates who were receiving Bachelors, Masters and Doctorate degrees. It was a long afternoon but it was so great to be able to see Dennis participate in these ceremonies. It's a big deal and it should be!! So happy with all that Dennis as been able to accomplish. He is pretty great!
I titled this email Endings and Beginnings. They said at his graduation that the ceremony is called a commencement not a finale. It marks the end of one thing and the beginning of something new. We've been able to experience a little of that newness already with Dennis' new position at work, who knows what else is out there though. I thought it was interesting that the theme of going from doing something to becoming something was mentioned several times. Maybe that's just the message I needed to hear though.
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