Karen Foutz - ONE percent Better

 Karen will be teaching a class with the topic of "One Percent Better."  The objective of the class is  that
every effort to change we make—no matter how tiny it seems to us—just might make the biggest difference in our lives.  "My name is Karen Foutz, and I live in the Valley View Ward. My sweet husband, Kelsey, died five years ago in January. I have lived in the same house in El Monte for fifty years, and during that time, I lived in four wards and two stakes. I am retired from El Monte High School, where I was the Music Department Secretary (Band Mom) and then the manager of the Student Store. At both of those jobs, I became known as "Mom." All of my seven children graduated from El Monte HS, and the last three got to have their mom at school. Those seven children have long since married wonderful people and have produced twenty-two grandchildren. Two of those are currently serving missions in Utah. Elder Foutz and Sister Foutz are cousins. Those amazing grandchildren range in age from twenty-three to six years old. I am still teaching early morning Seminary. I also get to teach a Primary class, and I am a BYU-I Pathways student studying Family History Research. I joined the church when I was sixteen years old, along with my sister and my mother; my dad was already a member. We lived in Hawaii at the time because my father was in the U.S. Navy, and that is where he was stationed. When people ask me where I am from, I say Hawaii because we lived the longest when I was a child, but I was born in Brooklyn, New York. I testify that the Plan of Salvation is real, and our Savior, Jesus Christ, makes it work for us. He does that because He is real, and He knows us, and He loves us."