Homecoming Talk
Hey everyone! My name is Corinne, and I recently returned from serving as a missionary in the Kentucky Louisville Mission for these past 18 months. The decision to serve came when I was about 15. My family decided to go on a church history tour that year, which included a stop at the Hill Cumorah site. There were two sister missionaries, one of whom was wearing a pair of cowgirl boots. Me being me, of course, went up to the one sister to compliment her boots, and she proceeded to tell me the story behind them. She was a convert to the church. A friend of hers had introduced her to missionaries, and she wanted to be baptized, but her family was against it. They told her that if she was baptized, she would be disowned. She made the decision to be baptized and was cut off from her family. She went to stay with the friend’s family on their farm, where they were all boys. The first piece of girl’s clothing she received was that same pair of cowgirl boots. Those boots represented a lot of di...