More milestones in David's life.
In the summer of 2015 after coming back from China's trip and while Abbey and the kids are in China. Da decided to take David to BYU Provo to visit the campus and visit old friends. Unexpectedly David end up falling in love with the atmostsphere, the weather, the campus, and the students are BYU Provo, just in one week's time. So over the next year and a half he studied really hard at Montgomery College to bring up his GPA to apply to BYU Provo. With much diligent study, college professor referrals, and help from Abbey on his application letter, on October 14, 2016 he received an email from BYU that he was accepted to the Provo camp and to start the Winter 2017 semester. He was stoked! He's never left home before but we assure his mom that he will be in good hands with a good enviroment and study well at Provo. We are proud of how far he's come along.
After fighting against Da for so many years, one day David asks Da to give him a haircut. That is very unusual since Da's always been giving David a hard time for his unmanaged and uncut hair and refusing haircuts offered by Da for years. Then finally one day, he asked Da. It didn't take Da long to cut his hair but he look like a totally different person after the haircut.
11/13/16 3:30 PM here, David sits in the room where Patriarch Brent Pratt gave him his Patriarchal Blessing in Potomac MD. As he was being blessed, Abbey and I were honored to sit with him in the same room and we definitely felt the Spirit and goosebumps on our skin that blessing for meant for him.
We are so grateful to see how much he has grown since he joined the church in March 2010. We went through his rebellious years and we recovered from his bike accident. We witness how Heavenly Father helped him all these years to realize the important things in life: family, gospel, services, happiness in life. We are proud of David. May the Lord continue watching over him as he continues his journey in Utah and beyond to become a great future leader.
