Shelby Stroud’s seashell portraits require her to collect thousands of shells by hand. Then it takes hundreds of hours to array them just right. But as each little shell takes its place, the practice becomes a spiritual one for Shelby—offering healing and hope that “by small and simple things are great things brought to pass.”

Meredith Campbell says she may have cried the varnish off her first violin because she hated practicing so much. But all that practicing paid off. Now millions are touched by the music she plays as concertmaster of the Orchestra at Temple Square—a role that fulfills a promise made to her years ago.