I again felt that feeling of, like, we’re not going to accept you if you become Mormon. I thought that was worst news that I would ever get from my parents. My mom’s like, “You know that I was Mormon, and it’s a really good church. If that’s something you want to do, go for it, but know that you’re still a Navajo woman, and you’re Navajo first before you’re anything. So, pray and see if this is for you.”
And the same thing the missionaries said to me too. They were like, “If this is something that is for you and you think this is good for you, pray on it.”
And that’s been the biggest work ever since then, is “pray on it.” [Laughs.]
And so, I prayed on it, and I talked to my parents about it. I even got one of my grandfathers to say it was okay for me to do, and he said, “That’s fine.” You know, in Navajo it’s [speaks Navajo], which means, “That’s all right, my child, my baby,” you know, you have my blessing.