Hi, I'm Tracy Kennick-Lapray. I live in Southeast Texas, and I'm married to Chad. We have four beautiful children and one due in just a couple of weeks. I started writing for a local newspaper in Price, Utah, many, many years ago. And I worked for a local television station. It was a cable television station; it was called TCI Cablevision, and I remember I would say, "Hi, I'm Tracy Kennick for TCI Cablevision, your local information station." And I thought I was really big time. And I remember getting to Beaumont, Texas, and the first day on the air was my birthday and I was so sad. And I went to work and they put me on the air the first day and I did a horrible job. Terrible job. Some lady called and said, "Who is this girl? She's terrible. Get her off the air." And I cried and I called my mom and I said, "I want to come home; this isn't where I'm supposed to be." And she said, "Just stick it out. Stay a couple months, get some experience, and then you can come home." And that was over 12 years ago. I truly, truly believe God doesn't give you more than you can handle. So every day I say, "Tracy, He knows you can handle it; you can do it." And it helps you keep things in perspective, not take yourself too seriously, not worry about what the world thinks, because you know that there's a higher power and that's what you're working toward. My family is everything. They're everything. And when I first went into broadcast news I thought I wanted to be a big-time news anchor, work for Entertainment Tonight or CNN. And then I realized what was really important. I started having children and they are my life. I mean, they are who I am.

And they teach me so much.

They teach you not to think about yourself so much. And you become much less selfish because you love them more than you love yourself. I am a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and I'm very proud of that. I think the roles of an LDS woman have changed over the years. But they come in many shapes, many forms, and the one thing that they all have in common is that we're all trying to make it back to God. If you have a Christlike love in your heart and you're trying to follow the Christlike principles that we've been taught, then you're a good Mormon woman.