She has been in demand as a speaker for women's groups throughout the United States and Canada and has spoken at Education Weeks for over twenty-five years, as well as "Know Your Religion" programs.

She has served in all the Church auxiliaries and was a member of the Primary General Board. She currently serves with her husband as a member of the Young Single Adult Coordinating Council for the Bonneville Region in the Salt Lake Area. She fulfilled two missions to the Netherlands, once when her father was mission president and later when her husband presided over that mission. In addition, she and her husband recently served a third mission in Asia as area welfare-humanitarian administrators, based in Hong Kong.

She and her husband, Hendricus (Hank), are the parents of eight living children and the grandparents of thirty-six.