Celebrating adoption: 'Letting love lead'

What started as a quest for his mother's biological medical history in 1990 has now, almost 20 years later, become a major part of Troy Dunn's life, he said at the LDS Family Services-sponsored Families Supporting Adoption National Conference.

Dunn, who has become known as "The Locator" from hosting a television show that reunites loved ones, spoke of the lessons he has learned while working in his profession — specifically about adoption.

For Dunn, a Mormon bishop, adoption is a large part of his life.

"My love for adoption goes back to childhood," he said. "It is a topic that is very close to my heart and very close to my life."

With a brother and mother who were adopted, Dunn recognizes the blessings that come from adoption. He shared the process that his family went through as they prayed and waited patiently for many years to bring his younger brother home.

"My mom introduced the beautiful concept of adoption in a very simple manner," Dunn said. "She said, 'There is something that is called prayer trading, and we're going to trade prayers with somebody. Somewhere out there is a girl praying for a good family for her baby. We are going to pray for a good tummy with a baby in it, and we are going to answer each others' prayers.' "

From that point on, adoption — or as they named it, prayer trading — became a part of the Dunn family's life.

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