This started on a mini keyboard in an apartment in Ravenna, Ohio. It was month 14 of an 18 month mission for the Church of Jesus of Christ of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. And I was EXHAUSTED. But also still full of inspiration from all these good things I was doing and learning....and living. I had felt so impacted by being at the Kirtland Visitor's Center, learning of people who had lived there almost 200 years ago and their testimonies about being healed physically, emotionally, seeing the Savior, and learning about a restored gospel of Jesus Christ. It was amazing. I felt so unable to communicate a lot of how I was feeling of my mission - sad or happy feelings, and music was such a conduit to my soul so I could share with people. So I walked over to our little tiny keyboard and plunked a few notes. I plunked a few more and this melody and story slowly came to mind. I imagined Sister Whitney, one of the historical people from that time, was singing, and that a chorus of current-day missionaries would join her on the chorus lines and intros. I finally had communicated some positive things about what I had learned and gained while I was here!!! I held a couple of choir practices for any Sisters who wanted to learn and learn it we did :). We sang it at our farewell mission conference for the rest of the 100+ missionaries, sang it for all of our parents when they came to pick us up in an intimate setting in one of the historic homes that people used to live in and our directors lived in while we were there, and then sang it several years later when I decided to make a music video with it and my former mission buddies who served with me. It felt special to record this for me. It will always be testimony of what happened there, how it impacted me, and how I will always try to remember my Savior and his miracles. I went back to my mission a year and a half later... walked into the visitor's center and said who I was. They said, "Wait, are you the one who wrote the Stoney Brook song?" What??? I hadn't recorded it yet at that time but I had left behind some sheet music of the song...sisters said they still sang the song - almost like a mission pop song now!!!!