From the Tacketts

I have read all the really beautiful and real posts on your blog for Lili and Dean. I am so happy to write a love letter to the most special people we have met since we moved here. We love how they love each other, and how proud and loving they are when they talk about their family. We love how they seem to know our needs and address them. We are continually in awe of each of them as we peel layer after layer and still see who they are, Loving, honest, spiritual, happy, giving, humble people who just quietly serve. They are the most Christlike people we have met in a long time. No thats not true they are the most Christ like people we have met, EVER. We are happy, proud and humbled to call them friend.
Love, Larry and Linda

From Kelly (a.k.a. Dr. G.)

Dears Dean and Lili,

I don't know that my limited vocabulary possesses the words that I need to express how I feel about you. Suffice it to say that I am eternally grateful to Heavenly Father for bringing you into our lives. What a blessing you have been to us!!! I love you lots. Congratulations on 40 years!!!! WOW!! Watch out eternity!! Here you come!!

Your Brother in the Gospel (and elsewhere),
-Kelly aka DR. G.

From Bradd and Ann Brown

Dean and Lili,

Friday the 13th?

Somehow I'm not surprised. I know Lili was behind that!

I could write for quite a while but somehow I know it would all boil down to a couple of thoughts that I have when thinking about Dean and Lili. Relationships in the church are always meaningful, helpful and enjoyable. Friends in the Gospel help buoy each other up. Real friends can be trusted and counted on in times of trial. When I think of these qualities in friends, I think of Dean and Lili. The Lord has told us many times in scripture and through Prophets, the importance of having faith, hope, and charity to be more like Christlike. When I think of these qualities, I think of Dean and Lili. Just knowing that you two are always there for me is and always has been a great comfort to Ann and I. If I were ask who comes to mind when thinking of people who represent the greatest of examples of Christ, You two are at the top of my list.
Ann I love you two and are grateful to have you as true friends.

Your friends,
Bradd and Ann

Mission Poems

Almost every missionary sends a letter home at some point or another from the MTC or the Field expressing gratitude to their parents for being good ones. They realize they are homesick. They realize that not everyone had it so good...I sent mine home during the MTC. You can click on the pages or any photo in this blog to enlarge it. It was so nice to have their teachings and examples guiding me on my mission, to come home to their loving arms and to know that I am part of one awesome eternal family with a heritage of faithful men and women, chiefly, Mommy and Daddy.