Our Love Story

I've been thinking about writing the story of how David and I met for a long time... actually since before we got married, but for some bizarre reason I never got around to doing it. I hope that I haven't forgotten the most important details of our relationship.

Let me start a few months before I met him because this does play a part in the story. It was towards the end of the fall semester 2005. The year's been good as far as school and work were concerned, but not as good as I wanted, especially in the "boys department". The year before, I dated Aric for a few weeks but apparently the impact had been greater than I realized. After stopping seeing each other I was left with a broken heart and a fear of trying. I didn't trust that I had anything to offer to any guy or that anyone would ever try to get close to me again. With that in mind, I heard a lot of talk at BYU about a challenge that the President of the Church of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints, Gordon B. Hinckley made to all the members. He promised that if one would read the Book of Mormon by the end of the year, he/she will receive the blessing of the Spirit and many other blessings. What I felt that I wanted and needed the most was to find a nice young man who would fall in love with me and who I would fall in love with, eventually getting married. So, with only a few weeks left until the end of the year I started listening to the book whenever I wasn't doing anything else. After putting quite a few hours into this activity I finally finished the book on December 31st at 10:06PM. I knew that I did my part. Now I could just wait for the promise to come true. And it started working... I started going out with different guys quite a bit. I was being liked by guys and I liked some back but not to the extent of possibly getting married. The winter semester kept me really busy. I applied and got accepted to go to France (Dunkirk) on an internship, I was doing well in school and I liked my computer lab assistant job. Everything was perfect, except I still hadn't met 'the one'. I eventually decided not to go to France because I needed to work full time during the summer so by the beginning of spring term I was being very busy working 40 hours a week. I was also getting tired and bored with doing only one thing all the time so I decided to look up folk dance classes. If I took one I could practice more, learn new stuff and have some fun. The only class that fit my work schedule was Beginning Irish taught by Jeanette Geslison. It was a class I had already attended before but since it was taught by someone different and I really didn't have any other class to choose from I decided to show up one day, about a week into the term. The students were already testing but I got to dance even though I couldn't remember everything very well. That day in May was the first time I met and danced with David. There were a couple more guys in the class but none as attractive as he was. Plus, I wasn't there for the guys. Jeanette said that she would approve me to stay in the class so I stayed and had fun. I would dance with David every class period and we would walk home together after class. I started to like him and I could tell that he liked me a little bit too. I remember that one time I invited him to the Krishna Temple festival and another time we went together to an Irish contest in Salt Lake. We had fun together and eventually our walks home became longer and longer and we also went on walks that were not after the Irish class; dates, sort of... We would talk about our life, our experiences, the things we like and the things we'd like to do.

The first time David held my hand was one day after Irish class. He was walking me to work, as he's done other times before and as we walked out of the RB, going up a long flight of stairs, he grabbed my hand. Neither one of us said anything about it. It was a little awkward and I was pretty shy and probably red in my cheeks but I didn't pull my hand away. After that, holding hands became natural and something we did all the time. Others started to notice us holding hands and my roommates kept asking me if he's kissed me already.

The kissing came a few weeks later. We went to Salt Lake and it was evening and we were walking at the Gateway. And I don't really remember why we went to Salt Lake or what we did. All I remember is that we sat on some rocks by a little river at the Gateway and he took my face and kissed me on the mouth. I was sooooooooo nervous, I was shaking really bad. The kiss was pretty short but I loved it. I was so happy and I knew then that we might end up married. I think this happened in July but I don't remember if it was before or after Independence Day. We spent Independence Day with David's family who were visiting Utah from Japan for the summer. I remember being nervous to meet them but it turned out fine. Unfortunately the only other time I met them that summer was when we took them to the airport. Oh, there's one detail that I just remembered about the kissing episode. One of my roommates was friends with one of David's roommates and would visit their apartment all the time. She knew that David and I were dating and asked me several times if he'd kissed me. I would keep telling her that he hadn't but that I really wanted him to. So, one day soon after we'd actually kissed, she asked me again and I triumphantly said 'yes'! :) To that she was like: 'Finally he did it. I told him that he should do it but he kept putting it aside saying that he wasn't sure if it was too early to do it." I was like: 'What?' We laughed and I was so thankful that she talked to David even though I felt a little embarrassed too.

The summer was almost ending and a new semester was going to start soon. Another thing to remember happened at the beginning of October. It was Homecoming night and we went up on a hill by the Y Mountain to watch the fireworks. On the way to the car we decided to just walk around a little longer and look at the pretty houses that were up there since it was a very nice evening. It was during that walk that I knew that we were going to get married. I had no doubt in my mind and I kind of said it out loud at one point as we were looking at some house and I said something like 'I'd like OUR house to be...'. I quickly said something else hoping that he didn't get what I said the first time and I was lucky, as he didn't seem to have noticed and kept talking.

The semester was progressing. David and I had only one class together, clogging. Not my favorite but one of his. And he was doing pretty good in it too. I was doing allright but seeing him succeed so easily started getting to me and soon enough I became jealous of him. I couldn't stand it and would frequently get upset and even cry when he would tell me how do dance better and I didn't want to be around him in that class anymore. I eventually started getting upset and thinking over everything he did or said and I started considering him as a competitor. I loved dancing but he was the one succeeding and I was being slow at making progress. Plus, he was always such a show off! I decided I didn't want us to see each other for a while. I didn't know for how long or if I ever wanted to see him again but I stopped talking to him completely. I wasn't happy and I would watch him when he wasn't looking but I was scared and afraid. Everything was happening so quickly and I felt threatened and unimportant. After one of the happiest summers of my life I was deciding if I was ever going to see David again. All the letters and messages he sent apologizing and asking me what he could do to make things better, made me even more sad and confused. All this went on for about a month, until one night when, even though I was really tired, I decided to say hi to Chris Chan, one of my friends and a guy who liked me for sometime. He knew about David and he asked me why I was so determined to end the relationship. I realized right then that I was wrong; that my reasons were, most of them wrong and that I loved him and wanted to be with him. At the end of our next clogging class I went and sat across from David. Rosie, one of our classmates gave him an invitation to some activity and when she left I suggested if he would maybe like to take someone on a date for the event. We left together and decided to meet again later that evening. He came and we talked outside, in front of my apartment at the Avenues for hours but what made that evening perfect was our make-up kiss and hug. I wanted so desperately to kiss him and it was one of our most passionate kisses we've ever had. Of course that we got back together but even now, almost four years after David still reminds me of how much sadness I inflicted upon him and how he would cry himself to sleep many nights. He said that he knew that getting back together was the right thing to do but it wasn't easy for him to just forgive and forget.

After this incident things started looking much better and in November we started looking for engagement rings. Didn't buy one, as we wanted it to be a surprise for me but he still needed to know what I like and what my size was. At the end of December we went to Romania together. It was so much fun to spend Christmas with my family and have David there with us too. Little did I know that I was going to have the happiest Christmas of my life. After wrapping up the gifts David told everyone, except my dad to leave the living room. We left and a few minutes after my dad came out and told me to go in. I was so nervous. I went in and we sat on the couch and David asked me in Romanian: "Vrei sa te casatoresti cu mine?" - meaning 'will you marry me". I said "yes" and he slipped a beautiful ring on my finger. I was so happy. We kissed and then told everyone. My parents already knew, as he asked for their permission first, in Romanian still. Everything went well after that and we got married on March 3rd, 2007 at the Manti, UT temple. Our marriage wasn't easy for the first couple of years but I'll leave that for another story. Suffices to say that I love David with all my heart and I never regret the decision to marry him. He is the one man in this world who makes me happy and loves me. I know that we'll be together for the rest of our lives and that we are a 'match made in heaven'. :) I love you David, with all my heart!

2009 Family Letter that got lost among other documents

I misplaced this letter earlier but I still wanted to post it here since I love using this blog as a kind of journal. So, don't feel like you have to read it. :) It's all old stuff. :))

2009 - Life unveiled

Working for Western Nut Co.

At the Manheim Steamroller Concert

Limerick, Ireland

David's Graduation

Dahlee's Graduation

It's December, a time when many find themselves looking back at what the year had in store for them. With Christmas just around the corner and a new year waiting at the door, we realize that another year of our life has passed. With many events woven throughout the year, David and I don't need much time to remember the good and the unexpected that our little family experienced over the past 12 months.

After a fairly uneventful winter semester and two easy spring and summer terms spent mostly working and finishing up our degrees, both David and I graduated from Brigham Young University in August. David received a Bachelor of Science in Exercise Science and I earned a Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics.

The years spent at BYU finally came to an end and with them the chance for a new life. The beginning of this new life, we decided, was going to be spent in Ireland, as David learned with much excitement and anticipation that he was accepted into the Master of Ethnochoreology offered at the University of Limerick. Ethnochoreology is the study of folk dance as it developed in each country throughout the world. David's desire to choreograph and teach has developed during the last few years at BYU, while David took many folk dance classes, taught some of them himself and choreographed for SPAC, the team we toured with the year before. We left for Ireland during the last week of August. We stayed in Limerick for two months, spent making phone calls to the US, using up most of our savings and being frustrated with a system that didn't work. After experiencing many things that went wrong, we felt strongly that the best thing to do was to return to Utah and start over. It was during this hard time that we strengthened each other. We were content to return to our friends in the States but we also knew that a part of us was going to break off and be scattered somewhere between Europe and America.

Back in Utah, we started looking for work and eventually found some seasonal jobs. I work for Western Nut Co. at University Mall and David works at the Borders bookstore helping with pretty much everything that goes on in the store. They are fun jobs that we enjoy and are happy to have but we continue looking for full-time work to be able to take care of ourselves when these jobs will be over.

At this time we're looking forward to celebrating Christmas and even if there won't be many gifts under our tree, we are happy to have each other, with our love and our hopes together, ready to accomplish many great things. We are hopeful for the New Year, to make more plans, be better and learn more, and most of all to spend many more great times together as a family. We hope to hear from all of you about what your 2009 brought to you and hope that it turned out to be an excellent year for you and your families.

Love, Dahlee and David Thomas

2009 Highlights

- February: Celine Dion awesome concert in Salt Lake

- May: trip to California for aunt Sherry's funeral

- August: graduation and Ireland

- October: returned to Utah

- December: work with Western Nut Co. and Borders, visit to the Hogle Zoo, beautiful Manheim Steamroller concert in Salt Lake City

4th of July

So, life is been interesting since we graduated. I'm working for a company called Western Standard, doing Romanian<>English translation and David still works at BYU because they let him work on campus. It's pretty complicated but it worked out for him and we're not complaining. Not too long ago we found out that David got accepted into the Ethnochoreology Graduate Program at the University of Limerick, Ireland and we've been getting ready to go there at the end of August. Keep your fingers crossed that we'll be able to go. Why I say that? Well, it's been quite an adventure trying to get student loans. Not only is it hard to obtain loans if one goes to school in the States but it's even harder if one wants to study abroad. So, right now we're in the process of applying to Stafford Loans and other loans to help pay for out plane tickets and at least the first month's rent. I will be looking for a job once we get there but for now we have to rely on loans.

What else happened since the end of April... Well, we graduated and walked on the 24th of April, went to California at the end of May for Aunt Sheri's funeral, celebrated my birthday in California, worked a lot, got some dental work done and my wisdom teeth out (which cost almost $2,000 - yeah, that's where my salary went!) and had fun at the Highland Games at Thanksgiving Point and celebrating 4th of July in Provo watching the Stadium of Fire and in Midway having hamburgers and corn on the cob. So... a pretty busy summer so far. I only got to go to the pool twice this summer and I really want to go, but I went to the gym more and actually lost 10 lbs. since February. I'm pretty proud of this particular accomplishment. A couple other things we did were spending time with our friends Carl and Karina, going to baby Adam's blessing in Payson (Eni and Aric's baby boy), celebrating Romanian and Catholic Easter with Romanian friends and having a cool Romanian barbecue in the Rock Canyon Park in Provo. Oh, one other thing I'm happy about is my green bell pepper plants that I've been taking care since they were little babies and who are now all grown and are producing very tasty green peppers. :)

I'll give you a little more details on some of the stuff that we did. I told you that we went to aunt Sheri's funeral. Aunt Sheri is David's aunt and his mom's sister. She was very young and has three kids. She was engaged to be married and died in a car crash in California. Charity, David's sister was in the car when it happened but she was very lucky to only break her arm and get some scratches and bruises. Of course that is not lucky but it's better than dying... So, we went to the funeral and it was really sad but it was good to meet and see family that we only get to see once every couple of years.

The Barbecue with the Romanian and friends was really cool though. We had a wonderful time with Cristina and Brandon, Amy and Jeanene, Viorica, familia Geambasu, Maria-Taylor and bebe Luca, Eni-Aric-baby Adam and Aren, Eni's parents si Gaby creata. Fratele Geambasu cooked mici and sora Viorica brought branza si rosii, while Eni and het family brought some very tasty chicken drumsticks and cake. It was real fun especially watching the boys playing Bocci and enjoying each others company.

This is our summer so far. I'll try to post more in the future, once we get to Ireland. I'll also post a few pictures of the events I talked about above. Love and hugs to everyone!

Dahlee and David's Graduation Ceremony

Dahlee and David are finally graduating from Brigham Young University! Dahlee is graduating with a BA in Linguistics and David with a BS in Exercise Science.

If you'd like to come to the Graduation Ceremony, you'll find below the information you need.

The ceremonies will take place at the following times and locations, on the 24th
of April 2009:

- Dahlee's ceremony is at 8:00AM
- David's ceremony is at 2:00PM

- Dahlee's is at the Marriott Center, Provo, UT
- David's is in the Smith Fieldhouse, BYU Campus, Provo, UT

We hope that many will be there to celebrate with us.

Christmas Newsletter - 2008

Happy Holidays!

It was the day before Christmas. My family traveled, like every year, to the small village where my grandparents were spending their holidays. After five long hours the train finally stopped in Arpash, where my grandpa was waiting for us with a carriage pulled by his brown horse. It was getting dark and we decided that we needed to hurry. Poienita [Poyeneetza], the village of our destination, was 8 km away and because of the thick snow that kept falling throughout the week, we knew that it was going to take us longer than usual to get there. The carriage started to move slowly in the snow and our excitement grew with every step that the horse made. We were almost there and were going to have so much fun playing in the snow with our old friends! After about 20 minutes we arrived at a small hill. From far away the hill didn’t look like much of a challenge, but close up we noticed that the hill was icy and maybe a little too steep for the one horse that we had. When the horse started to struggle up the hill, we decided to get off the carriage to lighten its weight. Grandpa tried everything he knew to get the horse climb the hill but with no success. By now it was dark outside and we were still about half way to the village. After a while, a gypsy man who saw us struggling came to offer his help. My dad and the man pushed the carriage and grandpa helped the horse up the hill and they eventually succeeded in getting to the top. We kids got back on the carriage and grandpa walked in front leading the horse by its bridle. The horse was visibly cold very tired so my parents chose to walk behind the carriage. We were in the middle of some fields now and getting close to the village. Because my sisters and I weren’t moving much, we became very cold. I was holding Mira and I can still remember that my hands got so cold that I wasn’t able to feel them much anymore. I was crying and wishing we were home, back in Bucharest, in our warm apartment. We didn’t even have a Christmas tree here, in the village and probably Santa didn’t even know that we were here. The night was still and cold. The snow was glittering in the light of the moon and it was quiet. Only the wheels of the carriage sounded in the night. My parents were left behind and I was worried now that they might get lost and maybe eaten by some animal! The forest wasn’t too far away and I remembered stories that my mom and grandpa told us about wolves and bears that lived around here. And we kept going. After a long drive we got to the house. Grandma, who had been worried sick, hugged us and helped us in. She soon put some food on the table and we had a few goodies that she had prepared for the occasion. The house was nice and warm and smelled like cake and cabbage rolls. I love cabbage rolls, I thought. I was safe now. After we ate a little bit, grandma said that it’s time for us to go carol our next door neighbor, Tantee Jenica. I was embarrassed to sing and didn’t want to go out in the cold again but we didn’t have much of a choice. When Tantee Jenica opened the door and we started singing, I felt warm inside and I was happy. I loved Christmas Carols! Tantee Jenica sang with us and then invited us in and served us with really good cake. Later that evening, when we got home, my mom told me something amazing. She said that when they were walking in the silent night, they heard something like a choir singing in the distance. They couldn’t tell what song it was but they said that it was beautiful. Grandpa said that it was some choir from a close by church but my mom knew that they were choirs of Angels singing praises from the skies. I didn’t hear them because I was too busy and concentrated on my own suffering but as my mom talked, somehow I knew that she was right and I really wished that I heard them too. Christmas is a time of remembrance, a time for love, a time for giving and a time for family… Let us all give a little bit more of ourselves this Christmas season and maybe, if we sit still and listen, we might hear the beautiful choirs of Angels this Christmas Eve. Merry Christmas!

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Our Love for Folk Dance

As part of the international folk dance program at BYU David and I both had the great chance to be on SPAC, the team that travels within Utah at the end of every winter semester. We learned many dances from America, Mexico, Israel, Ireland, Ukraine and Hungary. We danced for thousands of elementary school children and traveled all the way to the border with Idaho for some concerts. In June we were privileged to go to Nauvoo, IL for two weeks, where we got better acquainted with the local history and culture and performed every evening on an outdoor stage very close to the Mississippi River. We visited Carthage Jail, and other sites in Illinois and Iowa. In Missouri we visited the Saint Louis Arch which is an impressive piece of architecture. It was a great experience. We had a lot of fun spending time with great friends and sharing our talents and love for folk dance. David decided that he loves folk dance so much that he would love to combine this love with his love for teaching by becoming a folk dance college teacher. He is currently applying to graduate programs offered in several places around the US and Europe. We hope that he will be accepted in the best one that there is. Wish him luck!

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Only One Semester Left!

Last fall semester was a challenging but good one for both of us. It was good because we learned many interesting things for our careers, but it was challenging also because we had difficult major classes. We succeeded however in passing all the exams and in getting good grades. Dahlee finished all her Linguistics major classes and has only one General Ed English class left, which she will be taking online next semester. David took some more classes for his Exercise Science major and is also getting very close to graduating. In fact., both of us are going to graduate in April 2009. What an exciting day that will be, when we will both receive our diplomas, the fruits of our long years of studying and sacrifices. We are happy to have gotten this far and anxious to graduate and move to a different stage in our lives. Dahlee, just like David, is applying to graduate programs in Applied Linguistics and is trying to get accepted into the online Academic Advisement Graduate Program at Kansas University . She would love to become a certified academic adviser and hopefully continue on to graduate school in the field.

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Work is great at the Open Access Computer Lab

One activity that takes most of our time when we’re not in school or doing homework is our work. We still work on the BYU campus, as Lab Assistants for the computer labs. Dahlee works for the Open Access Computer Labs and David for the Humanities Computer Labs. We like our jobs very much. Dahlee’s job is to supervise lab assistants, take care of problems in the labs, answer lab assistants’ questions and help patrons in the lab. David is a lab attendant and he has to help students and faculty with their problems in using the computer. We’ve been working at these places for more than three years now and so we have a good hang of how to do our jobs. As a result, David is always the one asked to update the computers and make them work for both students and faculty, while Dahlee gets a chance twice a month to participate in full staff meetings where together with other supervisors and with the managers discusses ways to improve the organization. As a result for our efforts and dedication we put into our jobs, we received raises at the end of the semester and the appreciation of our colleagues and managers.

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2008 Timeline

· From January until April we attended winter semester at BYU, which we finished successfully.

· In May we toured Utah and danced for elementary school kids.

· In June we went to Nauvoo, IL

· From mid-June until September, we worked full-time at the computer labs on the BYU campus.

· At the end of August we took a short vacation to Las Vegas, NV where we had a great time together.

· From September until December we attended fall semester at BYU and were successful in passing all our classes.

· At the beginning of November, Dahlee went to a Translators Association conference in Orlando, FL and learned a lot about how to be a better translator. She does translations from Spanish into English as a freelancer.

· We spent Thanksgiving with Patrick, Daniel and their family, and the day after, with our friends Carl and Karina.

· We are now getting ready for Christmas by decorating our house and packing presents.

“Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes lying in a manger”

Last Semester!

School has started about 7 weeks ago and we are now almost half way through. It feels good knowing that I'll be finishing all my major classes this semester. It's been a long journey at BYU but its almost over and I'm looking with much anticipation to the graduation day in April. David will be graduating at the same time so it will be fun to do that together. The experience at BYU was great. I had a wonderful time learning a lot of new and interesting things. I discovered more about myself and about life in general. My major in Linguistics made me really happy and learning how to teach English as a second language was a very rewarding experience. My work as a lab assistant in the Open Access Computer Labs has been a great experience and I enjoyed every minute of it. I loved working with other students, learning about computers and just helping students in the labs. It was the best job I've ever had and it taught me humility but also to be happy with who I am and to always strive to be better. As much as I want school to be over, I know that I'll miss being a student and I'll look for every opportunity I'll have to learn more in the future.

2007 - A year of joy!

December 2007

Dear family and friends,

2007 is been a full year for us. We’ve been going to school full time at BYU and we also worked on campus while also being on a folk dance team. Here is a short review of our year. We hope that you’ll enjoy hearing from us.

In March David and Daliana decided to unite their lives and got married in Manti, Utah. They were happy to see so many family and friends who came to celebrate with them and they would like to thank everyone who sent presents for being so nice and thoughtful.

Daliana is a senior in College. She just decided to change her major to Humanities with a French language emphasis. Besides her major, Dali is working on a World Dance minor and a TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) minor. As a result, she still has a few more semesters to go until she graduates. Dali still works at the Open Access Computer Lab on campus and starting January she became a Shift Supervisor. She enjoys her job very much.

David is a senior in college as well, majoring in Exercise Science and planning to go to Medical School afterwards. He is working on a World Dance minor as well. David works as a Lab Attendant in the MAC/PC Humanities Computer Lab and as a web programmer in the Humanities Department. In May 2007 David went on a one-month folk dance tour to all the Elementary Schools in the Utah Valley. He enjoyed his experience very much and is excited to be doing it again next year. He thinks that this time it will be an even better experience because he will get to do it with Daliana.

Together, Dali and David went on a trip to California where they had a wonderful time with their grandparents and other family members, and before that they went to the Arches National Park and other National Parks in Southern Utah.

As you can see, we had a great year. We hope that you and your family had a prosperous year as well.

Marry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Love,

David and Daliana Johansen

Folk Dance

One of the things David and I love is folk dancing. We both started folk dance at BYU and made it to different teams. David was even on the back-up team (or SPAC) this year!

Anyway, like I said, we love dancing so we decided to be counselors for the folk dance camp this year. That was a great thing and we had a lot of fun with the kids. I had a group of 6 girls between 10 and 13 and David had a group of 6 boys between 9 and 18. It was a lot of fun to take care of the kids and to help them learn the dances and enjoy the camp. We did everything together. David had to teach the boys a couple dances and that was a good experience for him. We learned Irish dances, African, Hawaiian and Polynesian dances and also a mixture of dances from all over the world including my and David's most favorite, Israeli folk dances.

Now, that the camp is over and we both got back to our jobs (we both work in computer labs on campus), we decided that we wanted some folk dance in our life so, I became a TA for the international folk dance class and David TA-s for the clogging class. We both have a lot of fun TA-ing even if it's hard sometimes to teach dances. It's a very rewarding activity too because we get to learn from the teachers how we can become better teachers and dancers and in the same time we help students get better and learn the dances faster.

Because I want to get better at dancing, I decided to take an Irish Dance class at the Power Academy of Irish Dance. It's a class where I can learn proper technique and become stronger and more true to the Irish dance style. I like the class because it gives me the chance to practice and learn new things and it's also fun and entertaining. All the students are friendly and the teacher, Aubrey, is really nice and a great dancer.

I love being a TA and I love folk dance. Oh, I forgot to mention this: It's because of folk dance that I met David. We were in a dance class together when we first met last year. But that's going to be another story...

Hello world!

Well, I'm new to this but I'm excited to share a bit of our life with you.

I'm Daliana, a senior at Brigham Young University, Utah. I'm a French Studies major and I have three minors: World Dance, Computers and the Humanities (CHum) and TESOL (Teaching English as a second language). I'll probably graduate in a year and might go to grad school to become a certified TESOL teacher. I love to dance, to travel and also to have fun. I love foreign languages like French and Spanish and other cultures too.

On March 3, 2007 I married David Johansen. He is a student at BYU as well, studying Exercise Science and planning to go to Med School. He loves Mac Computers, folk dance (clogging and Israeli in particular) and watching movies. He also plays computer games sometimes.

So, this is our little life in a nut shell. We love it. We live in Provo for now but would love to travel and live around the world. I was born in Bucharest, Romania and came to the United States on December 31st, 2002 to study at BYU and David, who was born in Provo, Utah has lived in Germany, Korea and Japan and visited many other countries. He's also been a missionary in the Philippines and speaks a language called Visayan (Cebuano).