(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) l-r Melak Rashid, Fatima Alsafar, Diyar Almsalookhi and Waled Abdel Azziz at "A Shepherd's Gathering" welcoming holiday party, December 15, 2017 for Utah's refugee families. The party is sponsored by the Utah Refugee Center, The Granite Education Foundation and The Refugee & Immigrant Center-Asian Association of Utah.
Holly Richardson graduated as a Registered Nurse at age 19 and two years later, married a boy she met in her BYU LDS ward. A year later, their first was born and after that, their family took the path less traveled. She and her husband adopted children from all over the world and now, three of their "little kids" are seniors in high school. Time fl