Today I had a very interesting and insightful talk with my home teachers. We talked about cloning and some of the spiritual ramifications of it. It was really interesting to talk about. There are so many things that we don't know about in this life. When thinking about how cloned animals are alive and thus must have spirits, I thought to my self that there may be some sort of binding contract or law that Heavenly Father follows that any new life that comes into the world must be given a spirit. I am not sure that this is true, but it makes sense to me. But, it is something that I may pray about more and see how I feel about it.
I also mentioned to Spencer and Casey a great article that I had read by Spencer W. Kimball. In it he quotes Brigham Young a lot and talks about ordinances that we have not yet received. It also talks about matter and intelligences and lots of other deep doctrine. Click here for the article
from lds.org.
Sunday, January 27, 2008
Monday, December 17, 2007
The best entertainment in the world
I have been at my parents house in Washington for a few days now. I have to say that I have found the best and most addicting form of entertainment; watching my nephew Tanner toodle around. He is so funny! He dances to the music that plays from the Christmas decorations, he waddles clumsily around falling down often, he jabbers is gobledy gook, pushes a chair around the kitchen in circles, and a million other things that just make me laugh. I seriously can't get enough! He is the cutest little boy I have ever seen (that is until I have my own). His exploration of the new things around him is some of the happiest stuff in the world. And, when he is having a rough time I can hand him to his parents and don't have to deal with all that other heartache. It's the best of both worlds.
Sunday, December 16, 2007
Staying in Utah...................................For Now
Well, it has been a long time since I blogged. But for those of you who know me, Whitney and I have been trying to decide whether to take a job at USAA in San Antonio. We have decided not to take the job and we are going to stay in Utah for the time being. This makes Whit very happy, and I feel good about it too.
It is a little scary to have only one opportunity and not take it. I am sure that some of you can understand what I am talking about. I am turning down a sure thing that would provide for my family. But, we feel like it is the right thing to do. The Lord will provide another opportunity. And it will be a better opportunity.
I have two last topics to talk about. First, the Nintendo Wii is the bomb. I love to play with my family. It is such a blast to have everyone around enjoying a game. It is great to be able to play with Whit, who normally can't compete in video games with me, and with others of my family.
Second, BYU basketball. I can't believe that they won their game last night against Pepperdine. They had 29 turnovers and they still won by 20. That is just sick and ridiculous. I sure hope that they start to play a little cleaner. Also, I still think the Jonathan Tavernari shoots too much. I do like him to shoot and stretch the defense, but he shoots when he isn't open. Also, he only takes fade away jumpers and 3 pointers. His defense is pretty crappy too. If he would improve this stuff it would help the team a lot. Anyway, that finishes my little rant for now.
It is a little scary to have only one opportunity and not take it. I am sure that some of you can understand what I am talking about. I am turning down a sure thing that would provide for my family. But, we feel like it is the right thing to do. The Lord will provide another opportunity. And it will be a better opportunity.
I have two last topics to talk about. First, the Nintendo Wii is the bomb. I love to play with my family. It is such a blast to have everyone around enjoying a game. It is great to be able to play with Whit, who normally can't compete in video games with me, and with others of my family.
Second, BYU basketball. I can't believe that they won their game last night against Pepperdine. They had 29 turnovers and they still won by 20. That is just sick and ridiculous. I sure hope that they start to play a little cleaner. Also, I still think the Jonathan Tavernari shoots too much. I do like him to shoot and stretch the defense, but he shoots when he isn't open. Also, he only takes fade away jumpers and 3 pointers. His defense is pretty crappy too. If he would improve this stuff it would help the team a lot. Anyway, that finishes my little rant for now.
Monday, November 12, 2007
A long but good day
Today was a really long but good day. I was up late last night talking to Whitney about our family matters. So I slept in a little bit and didn't have time to read my scriptures in the morning. I went to work at the BYU bindery and cut all of the media guides for Men's Basketball. I also spent some time setting up the program for the Men's basketball game this Wed. It is against Idaho State University.
I then went to class and after talking to my group about our business plan, I worked on the database for Ortho Development. I actually spent a long time working on this database today. I am having a particular problem getting the MS Access forms to pull the description into a text box after the user selects the item they want. It has frustrated me quite a bit. I have tried to look up some help but have not got it to work yet. If you read this and know an answer, please leave me a comment.
I went to my VBA class and learned how to use excel to automate IE to navigate and get the data from a secure web page. This information will be very useful for my final project. I am making an excel application that will take my financial data and turn it into a useful budgeting data.
I went shopping with Whit today as well. We got some flat ware from Dillards. She also got some paint and other craft things. She is so good at doing all crafty things. She paints, sews, scapbooks, crochets, decorates, does digital photo editing, and is in general outstanding at everything she does.
Heroes was good tonight. I wouldn't say that it was the best episode ever, but it was nice to learn what had happened in the time between the first and second seasons. I can't wait to see what they do next. I am happy that they have finally built some tension into the show.
I then went to class and after talking to my group about our business plan, I worked on the database for Ortho Development. I actually spent a long time working on this database today. I am having a particular problem getting the MS Access forms to pull the description into a text box after the user selects the item they want. It has frustrated me quite a bit. I have tried to look up some help but have not got it to work yet. If you read this and know an answer, please leave me a comment.
I went to my VBA class and learned how to use excel to automate IE to navigate and get the data from a secure web page. This information will be very useful for my final project. I am making an excel application that will take my financial data and turn it into a useful budgeting data.
I went shopping with Whit today as well. We got some flat ware from Dillards. She also got some paint and other craft things. She is so good at doing all crafty things. She paints, sews, scapbooks, crochets, decorates, does digital photo editing, and is in general outstanding at everything she does.
Heroes was good tonight. I wouldn't say that it was the best episode ever, but it was nice to learn what had happened in the time between the first and second seasons. I can't wait to see what they do next. I am happy that they have finally built some tension into the show.
Sunday, November 11, 2007
My First Post
This is my first attempt at creating a public blog. My intention is for this to be a general blog about my life. I think that I will post some of my daily goings on as well as knowledge that I have learned including the following subjects:
For my first post I will talk about my day today. Church starts at 8:00 am. Whitney unfortunately has been sick for the last few days and was unable to attend with me. This was much to her dismay as it was the primary program today. We only have 5 children of primary age in our ward. I always enjoy seeing and hearing the primary children sing the primary songs and give their talks. The parents of the children were called up to sing I am a Child of God with their children. One family is from France and another is from Argentina. Each family sang a verse in their native language. It was very beautiful. The children's talks were fun and the second counselor, who is deaf, gave a very good talk as well. I also enjoyed mouthing the words to the songs as they were sung. It was a very good program and reminded me of how much I love children and their simple faith and testimonies.
The rest of the day has been very lazy. I took a 2 1/2 hour nap. I also checked the sports scores and the ads on the internet. I looked through a lot of the Black Friday ads. I was surprised at the prices a a number of items. There are a lot of TVs on sale and I can't believe the prices! 50'' LCD HD TV for $1000! And there are tons of other TVs at great prices too. I saw computer monitors as well. There were also two graphics cards, one 256MB and the other 512MB and they were $50 and $100 respectively. They are essentially the same model but with the upgraded MBs.
There were so many other great deals. To see the website I went to click here.
I think that is all for now. Happy reading.
- technology
- sports-the foremost being basketball and football(both college and pro)
- spiritual matters
- movies
- TV shows
- other topics as they come up
For my first post I will talk about my day today. Church starts at 8:00 am. Whitney unfortunately has been sick for the last few days and was unable to attend with me. This was much to her dismay as it was the primary program today. We only have 5 children of primary age in our ward. I always enjoy seeing and hearing the primary children sing the primary songs and give their talks. The parents of the children were called up to sing I am a Child of God with their children. One family is from France and another is from Argentina. Each family sang a verse in their native language. It was very beautiful. The children's talks were fun and the second counselor, who is deaf, gave a very good talk as well. I also enjoyed mouthing the words to the songs as they were sung. It was a very good program and reminded me of how much I love children and their simple faith and testimonies.
The rest of the day has been very lazy. I took a 2 1/2 hour nap. I also checked the sports scores and the ads on the internet. I looked through a lot of the Black Friday ads. I was surprised at the prices a a number of items. There are a lot of TVs on sale and I can't believe the prices! 50'' LCD HD TV for $1000! And there are tons of other TVs at great prices too. I saw computer monitors as well. There were also two graphics cards, one 256MB and the other 512MB and they were $50 and $100 respectively. They are essentially the same model but with the upgraded MBs.
There were so many other great deals. To see the website I went to click here.
I think that is all for now. Happy reading.
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