Happy Easter!

We believe that through the ^aAtonement of Christ, all ^bmankind may be ^csaved, by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the Gospel.  - Third Article of Faith

Crazy Week, More Pictures

So, another crazy week.  I'm finally home from Nauvoo and the Midwest.  I'm starting to realize just how busy life is going to become, and just how simple I had it on the mission.  I only worried about one thing all day: helping people come unto Christ.  Now I'll soon have school, work, Church callings, girls and dating, among other things to make me worry and almost lose my mind.

I read this scripture from the Book of Mormon in Alma 7 this week and thought I'd share it with all of you, however few you may be.

11And he shall go forth, suffering pains and ^aafflictions and ^btemptations of every kind; and this that the word might be fulfilled which saith he will ^ctake upon him the pains and the sicknesses of his people.

12And he will take upon him ^adeath, that he may ^bloose the bands of death which bind his people; and he will take upon him their infirmities, that his bowels may be filled with mercy, according to the flesh, that he may know according to the flesh how to ^csuccor his people according to their infirmities.


13Now the Spirit ^aknoweth all things; nevertheless the Son of God suffereth according to the ^bflesh that he might ^ctake upon him the sins of his people, that he might blot out their transgressions according to the power of his deliverance; and now behold, this is the testimony which is in me.

And here's some more pictures from the rest of our trip!

Nauvoo Pics... Part 2!

So, I don't want you to get all the fun all at once.  Here's some more pictures from my trip to Nauvoo.

The Nauvoo House

Welcome to Old Nauvoo!

As promised, here's some more pictures from my trip.  Enjoy!

St. Louis and Nauvoo

I'm on vacation this week visiting some cool places in the Eastern United States.  Check out these awesome pictures and videos from St. Louis!

Latter-day Saints should join the ACLU?

There was really brief story on the news recently quoting the president of the University of Utah, I believe, stating that in his opinion members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints should join the American Civil Liberties Union because members of the Church should be large supporters of freedom and rights.

The Most Complicated Bell Schedule in the World!

If it's the second Tuesday in March, what classes should you go to?  What about the fourth Friday in October?  Well, if you need this calendar to figure it out, maybe your system is just too complicated.

Snow in April!

My backyard when I woke up this morning

Yesterday, it was 75 degrees during the middle of the day, which I thought was insane.  I wake up this morning and there's just snow everywhere!  I love Utah.  Only here could you get this kind of weather.  It's something about being a desert, or at least near one, having the driest air on earth, and being at this high elevation.  (I realize that there are many places in the world with much higher elevation.  I've been to some of them.)  I really don't mind it.  I kind of like having a surprise like this every once in a while.

The kind of surprise I don't enjoy having is waking up and my phone displaying an error saying "Unregistered SIM" and realizing that I can't make or receive calls anywhere at all.  Yes, I realize it's a Tracfone and not the best thing in the world, but when your parents are paying for it and you have no source of income yet, you just don't complain.

Last of all, the laptop that everyone in the family uses crashed hardcore the other day.  Windows can't load.  It looks like at least some of the disk sectors where Windows is stored were corrupted somehow.  So, Windows is corrupted.  Something I already knew.  But, it's hard to remove everything on at entire hard drive without anything but a external USB hard drive to go to.  It's a process that's been going for two days now.  It's a fun little conference project.

I highly doubt that anyone would be interested in even reading this blog.  They're just the boring ramblings of some poor college student in the middle of the United States.  Then again, I suppose most TV shows nowadays are essentially what I would see if there was a webcam following an average random person around all day, with the boring parts transitioned right out of the whole thing.  So, whatever floats your boat, I guess.  If read about someone's everyday problems is your cup of tea, then go right ahead.  (Except for the tea part.  Don't drink it.)