Getting married was-- is-- a big deal, and was a big deal for me. So when those words were spoken by the minister, it just really kind of hit me that those words are, til death do you part. And so for me, I just couldn't imagine. Here you spend your whole life with someone building this relationship. And then after death, that's it. You aren't husband and wife anymore. That's what the words say. And so when the missionaries told me that I could be married forever, time and all eternity, that was totally new to me. And I thought, well, surely that's the truth. That's it. So that totally made sense to me. And I wanted that. I wanted to be married forever, for time and all eternity. I really did. And when the missionaries told me I could, that was incredible.

Debbie Jo and her husband, Doug, live in Charlottesville, Virginia, with their three children. Doug and Debbie Jo were baptized into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in June 2002.