livin the bible life

Today I am feeling pretty spiritual! I had a really good week of classes and heard some really great stuff at church today. This week in my Book of Mormon class my teacher explained an analogy to us that I really liked. If you can picture yourself standing at the end of a long garden furrow with two bags of seeds, one in each hand. One bag has seeds that will bring fruit and the other bag is full of weed seeds. As you go through life, (walk down the furrow) every single action you make, word you say, and deed that you do, indicates you dropping a seed into the ground. By the time you get to the end of the row you will reap whatever you have sown. Just some food for thought.

In my same class my teacher touched on another topic that I found to be really neat. If you have a flashlight in broad daylight and turn it on, you won't be able to easily recognize what your flashlight illuminates. But if you use it late at night when its dark, everything that the flashlight illuminates is easily recognizable. So the point of that is that the light shines the brightest, when it is the darkest. At the deep moments in our life, that is when the gospel shines the brightest. But we have to realize that is wasn't the gospel (the flashlight) that changed, it was the world around us (daytime vs. nighttime).


Lastly, today I heard a talk about gratitude. There was a story in the talk about two little girls in a Concentration Camp who slept in a crowded tent that was filled with lice and fleas and the only thing they had was a Bible, and each other. One day they knelt down together and thanked the Lord for all of the things they had been blessed with. I realized that with as much as I have been given, I could thank my father in heaven until the day that I die for all my blessings. I am so thankful for my family, my friends, my freedom, and the education that I am blessed to receive. I can always find something to be grateful for.


I heard this song in one of my classes this week, its kind of tacky looking but listen to the words! Blast from 1999..... WOOO!!

obviously

This is what I saw out of my window a few months ago

This is what I see now... also example #2 of why Winter is my least favorite season.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day

I don't think I've ever really celebrated this day appropriately.

It's just a day off of school.

However I did discover something really incredible, the Cookie Monster from Brick Oven Pizza.

Also, Bri has laryngitis. I have been getting into cycling and I think it's really fun. The end.

wesley's birthday poem

To my dear brother Wes-uh-lee
Equal to superman, you are to me.
Seventeen you are this day,
I hope you don’t encounter any hay.
Especially that awful kind “alfalfa”,
Wait..... did someone just say ALPHA?
Unto a church steeple you have grown,
proving to me that time has flown.
I hope you have a nice v-ball season,
why not... I don’t see any reason.
For 3 years you’ve been blessed with braces,
attracting many young women’s faces.
I can’t wait to soon see those pearly whites,
they won’t compare to even bright lights.
Always I have so much fun with you,
even at Lake Powell with the nasty poo.
Remember when we were swimming and saw that tree?
I’m really glad you were next to me!
Then I could have used some Taco Bell,
don’t mistake that with Taco, Del!
Soon you will be out on a mission,
meanwhile, you had better go fishin’!
While you are gone I will build a fire,
and it will smell bad, as I burn a tire.
Then we will cook our fresh meat,
while Dad takes a look at our feet!
Back to your birthday I need to get,
did you once again ask for a new pet?
Never, I know for you are loyal to Nora.
Perhaps you wanted a trip to Bora-Bora.
Well I can tell you what you are getting from me,
an awesome donation of my photogra-phee.
I know you’ve always wanted a photo shoot,
if you were Dad you would get a new boot.
You are so handsome, funny, and also great,
I’ll probably make that my status update.
I hope you know I love you a lot
And now this poem will end with a dot .

a few of my favorites from 2010

nothing worse than being cold

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water. ~Carl Reine

Another winter is upon us and it is my second one here in Provo, Utah. Winter, being last on my list of favorite seasons, is especially harsh in this frigid ice sink. Every day I feel like I am risking my life when I walk on ice-coated sidewalks to campus. Who's idea was it to build BYU in an area with such glacial conditions? I mean honestly, is it really necessary for a busy college student with an endless list of responsibilities to have to worry about finding a pair of snowshoes and a team of dogs to pull them to campus? Which brings me to my next inquiry with the founding brethren of the sacred Y... why the hill? No matter where you live there is no way to avoid it! Its a permanent "welcome to campus" gift that I get at least once a day. Serving as a friendly reminder that we really are achieving "higher education", as if carrying around a 20 pound backpack wasn't doing the job. Despite these things, its hard to complain about BYU. Once I get to the top of that awful hill and get into a nice warm building and sit in a padded chair for an hour long lecture, I count myself as being pretty lucky. Just the other night my roommate and I were listing out the reasons we are so thankful that we have BYU and that we are going to school here. After my rant on the founders I guess it would be good to include a few of the good things, just in case this little blurb ends up in the Book of Life. Financially, there is no better place to be going to school and the students here grow just as much spiritually as we do academically each semester. Everyone here is perfect. You really can't go wrong when it comes to making friends. We have really pretty seasons... besides winter. The moral of the story is if you ever build a university, do it somewhere warm and flat. The end.

new favorite song!