I guess that’s as close as I come to my Sherlock Holmes name of “Dr. I want to discover change when everyone else says there is none present nor possible. Personally and professionally I am a detective of change. Personally, I advocate it, seek after it, and, basically, am in awe of it. Professionally I try to facilitate it and study it, and I love to participate in it. Actually, I’m just plain wild about change! I’m professionally committed to it-and personally enamored by it. Please don’t change your desire for change.Please don’t change your desire to keep improving.Please don’t change your courage to do so many seemingly impossible things.Please don’t change your love of the Lord.Even when I hear distress stories about roommates and family members, the distress flows from wanting to have connections with each other that just aren’t happening. Please don’t change how much you want to help each other.Please don’t change that light in your eyes.You are amazing-not perfect, but amazing. Please don’t change being a cut above any other student body in the land.Please don’t change your goodness-your deep core goodness.So even though I want to offer you some ideas about change today, there are many things I hope you will never change. Teaching is a privilege anywhere, but to teach at BYU with you as students who are filled with light and the love of learning and of your fellowmen-well, it just doesn’t get much better than that for me as a professor. It struck me that the Lord’s prophet is counting on you. President Hinckley is the prophet of the Lord. It seemed that he was surveying and studying each student. He turned right around and looked at our BYU combined choir-for the longest time. During the Saturday afternoon general conference session, I was moved as I watched President Hinckley during one of the congregational hymns.
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