Meet Hilary Dilmore

Relief Society Spotlight:

Hilary Dilmore

Although Hilary is relatively new to our ward, she won’t be with us for long. She is getting married July 23^rd in the Provo City Center Temple! She met her fiancé, Angel Saña, coming to the United States from the Dominican Republic on LDSPlanet. So, congratulate her the next time you see her and get to know this amazing sister before your opportunity is gone.

 Small-Town Girl

Hilary was born in Brigham City and spent her entire childhood in Corinne, a small town six miles outside Brigham City, population 685. Hilary loved growing up in a small town and said she didn’t just grow up in a family, she grew up in the neighborhood. The children in the town were always outside playing in the woods and down by the river. The parents and the children felt safe and didn’t worry about them, which made for a very social and interactive childhood.

Hilary was third in a family of six children, with two brothers and three sisters, most of whom still live in Utah, but one sister is Germany. Hilary lived with her there for two-and-a-half years. She currently has seven nephews and three nieces.

Hilary has fond memories of camping when she was younger, and remembers that something always seemed to go wrong, but these experiences created great memories. Once, when camping in Mexico, their boat filled up with water and the ended up spending the night on the beach. Another time, the trailer behind their vehicle lost a wheel and they looked on in astonishment as it passed up their car on the road and rolled into a gas station. 

Another family vacation took them to Yellowstone. This was a memorable experience for many reasons. When Hilary’s grandparents were newlyweds, they spent their honeymoon there. Now, at 87, with her husband deceased the year before, Hilary’s grandmother requested that they go one more time to commemorate.

Although things weren’t always easy at home and they faced many family struggles, Hilary’s dad was a great example to her. Her father was abused as a child by his father and had a difficult relationship with him. But Hilary remembers that when she was a teenager, her grandpa called her dad and said that he had nowhere to go and needed someone to pick him up. He ended up spending the last eight years of his life living with them. Her dad’s forgiveness and capacity to love impressed Hilary and had a great influence on her.

Changes Ahead!

               Hilary has many exciting adventures ahead. In addition to getting married in a little over a month, she plans to enroll in the Pathways program this fall to begin studying financial planning and management. Hilary is interested in this field because she wants to better understand money and know what she needs to do to plan for her own future.

               Hilary stays busy working two different jobs (one full-time and one part-time) at two daycares and planning for her upcoming nuptials. She and her fiancé are both introverts and like to spend their discretionary time hanging out at home or driving or biking up the canyon or spending time in parks and nature. She was in the choir in high school and enjoys singing, but mostly just sings on her own and this point in life. She has a love of all kinds of music and her radio often lands on pop music. She is an avid reader of all genres, but likes Fantasy and SciFi in particular. Although she doesn’t go out to eat often, she chooses Italian when she does. She likes to bake and cook and her specialty is cheesecake.

One of Hilary’s best traits is that she is a good listener. In fact, if she could go to lunch and listen to anyone, she would like to visit with William the Conqueror. She loves that part of European history and would want to hear the story of his warpath from him.

Stalwart and True

               Hilary felt that her testimony was truly strengthened and solidified on her mission. She remembers one experience in the MTC in particular. She was teaching one of the investigators, testified, felt the spirit, and knew the gospel was true. She served in the Arizona, Phoenix mission. Her mission president, President Gill, had a tremendous impact on her. She appreciated his knowledge of the gospel and his focus on the development of the missionaries rather than on numbers. She knew he wanted them to strive to be the best that they could be and felt his love and concern for them. Although her mission was a great experience, the heat was a challenge. The first six months she was there in Phoenix, she experienced 110 degree plus weather on a regular basis.

               One of her favorite mission experiences was teaching an investigator in Flagstaff. She had just recently been transferred into a threesome and because the other two sisters knew the investigator and her concerns and it was her first visit with the investigator, she let them conduct and dominate the discussion. At one point, though, the investigator made a comment and Hilary felt impressed that she needed to say something in response. Several weeks later, the investigator came up to her and told her that her comment had really made an impression. Hilary, who had been sitting quietly, bore an amazing testimony that had a strong impact on the investigatory. The investigator’s remark then had a strong impact on Hilary and she knew that she was making a difference as an instrument in the Lord’s hands.

               Hilary’s favorite hymn is Be Still My Soul and she loves to hear President Eyring speak. She appreciates the emotion that she feels from him and the spirit that he brings through his talks. Hilary believes that a good rule of thumb to remember is that: 

“You are no further ahead or further behind than Heavenly Father knew you would be right now.”