Work Wisdom

The bit of the wisdomm that I got from the talk by President Hinckley was that, just as his Model T's lights ran only when the motor was at a fast clip, so too do we have to keep moving if we want to have light in our life. The light that he refers to I take to mean the Light of Christ. In order to have Christ in our lives we need to go out of our way to do so. That means that I must read my scriptures and ponder them in order to have that light in my life.

I do not have any great lessons that I have learned from hard work. I have had several hard jobs over the summer and I have hated them terribly. In school I've never had to try very hard, and certainly never taken any lessons in regards to the importance of hard work in that respect.

Education in Zion

The exhibit that most interested me was a very small one. It was one of the papyrus scrolls that Joseph Smith translated and got the Book of Abraham from. It didn't have very much information about the scroll itself; the display was just a description really. I think that when I have more time I will post about that scroll.

The rest of the exhibit was sort of interesting, just not anything that I care too much about. I guess that I've always had the mindset that the church cares quite a bit about education so there was nothing too mind blowing about there being a focus on 'education in Zion'.

Homecoming

I choose to go to the barbeque thingie mainly due to the fact that there is free food. It was really just a big pep rally. They had hamburgers and hotdogs. I wanted a hamburger but I ended up in the wrong line so ended up getting a hotdog, some chips and water. At the barbeque the Cougarettes, kind of a drill team with girls, performed and so did the band, performing something or another. All in all not too impressive, but at least the food was alright.

Conference Correction

The talk that I choose to write about for the blog assignment was Dallin H Oaks talk given on the Saturday morning session. Why Dallin H Oaks talk you might ask. Well, I hadn't looked at the blackboard before conference so I didn't know what to listen for. When I found out what the assignment was I asked my roommate what talk would be useable and he suggested this one. So I listened to it again on lds.org and here are my impressions/responses to the blog assignment:

The talk given was on the sacrament, its importance and what we can do to better honour and remember the atonement. This is a subject that is fairly important to me (as a holder of the priesthood) and I am a priest so, at least at home, I am expected to bless and sometimes pass the sacrament. As such, I really took this talk to heart. Even when I am blessing or passing the sacrament I sometimes am distracted from the true purpose of the sacrament. I was impressed by Dallin H. Oaks insistence on maintaining the sacredness of the sacrament (bit of a tongue-twister), through hymns, and behaviour, and I feel that is something that I have be mindful of.

Dallin H Oaks counsel is of particular gravity. The sacrament is an integral part of the gospel of Jesus Christ, and needs to be treated with due respect, in sacredness and holiness. This is sometimes hard to do. We (all members of the church) need to heed Oaks advice in this respect.

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I was impressed by the size and dignity of the Hinckley Center. It was a really great tribute to President Hinckley. What really stood out to me was how nicely decorated it was, there was also a really good 'feel' to the place. As for 'once a cougar, always a cougar', as a BYU student I have a really unique opportunity to learn in a spiritual environment. The high school that I went to had only two or three members of the church at it at any one time. That's out of a total population of 2,300! Being able to go to a University like BYU is a great opportunity for me to connect my education with my spiritual development. Instead of my spiritual development continuing despite my education, they can develop in tandem.