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When I was a child,
we'd go hiking all the time as a family and wear lederhosen.
That's the German short overalls with big edelweiss here.
My father was in the marines for 20 years,
and that was one of two things I also wanted to do in my life,
as well as make the U.S. ski team. I was able to do both
and, fortunately, at the same time.
They expect you to go to events,
and I was very excited to go to events.
So I would take leave and go to world championships.
And I came back one time, and my commanding officer called me
in and said, "Harvey, did you win?"
And I said, "Sir, no sir." And he said,
"That's it. No missing anything marine for any ski vacations."
Here I was at the world champ- ionships, representing the U.S.
I love my family. And I love my kids.
The center of my family is what I have with my wife.
The fact that I could've grown up in the United States
and in the circumstances I was under,
and she grew up behind the Iron Curtain in East Germany,
and we ended up finding each other—
our life is a romance story. It makes me so happy,
the happiest, and ... it's her fault.
When we investigated and eventually joined the Church,
our lives were wonderful.
We were doing well; we were healthy.
It could've been one of those things—being compelled,
being humbled, hitting rock- bottom, and then
searching for anything, then finding the gospel.
And we actually found the gospel
from a very comfortable, pleasant position.
I didn't have the perspective I have now.
That perspective is what
gives a person patience and inner peace.
My name's Ian Harvey.
I'm a marine, an Olympian, a father,
and I'm a Mormon.