My voice teacher, who was also my high school music teacher and also my bishop, was such a great mentor for me. I felt like learning the control and the discipline of the music was probably one of the biggest influences in my life. And I loved my seminary class too. That’s where I learned the gospel. We had discussions at home, but I remember being in seminary for all four years. Moyle Brown was my voice teacher, and Frank Robertson was my seminary teacher. They were both great influences in my life. I remember a lot of the lessons and the circumstances from right when I was in seminary. I had to wait on a corner to ride with somebody else to seminary, because remember, we lived eight miles out of town. So, I’d ride with my dad going to work to the county line road where he’d drop me off. Then I’d ride with my neighbors to seminary. And it was dark most of the time.
My family. I was very close to LaMarr. I felt like we learned a lot of things together. And even though he was four years older, I was mature for my age, so we spent a lot of time together. Mostly I stayed within my family. But I did have some girlfriends. One of my friends was heavily involved in music with me all through high school. I played the piano in Sunday School and Mutual, and so did she, and we’d trade back and forth. So even though we were kind of in competition we were still good friends. Charlotte Myers was her name. She was the one who was playing for me when the page got backwards. We just love LeeRen and Beverly, Wendell and Jean, and LaMarr and Daleen. We haven’t had a lot of other friends. We had some good friends that we still communicate with, but our best friends have always been those brothers and sisters and their spouses. We have stayed close with Lary’s cousins as well. But we’ve pretty much stayed with the family, and we’ve enjoyed it a lot.
