Baptism

Baptism has only started to improve my life. It has already influenced some of the decisions that I’ve been making. It has already given me hope for the future. My parents haven’t taken my baptism whole hardily. I know that they may not believe in my decision or what I have chosen to be part of this religion, I know that one day I’ll be able to meet with them and everything will work out. I know this though the baptism of the dead. Eventually someone or even me will be able to get baptized in there name if they choose not to be baptized while on earth. Jesus Christ answers all of our prayers as long as your sincere as Nephi was in 2 Nephi 3-4. I pray for things to work out and I know that they will as long as I live righteously.

I want to expand on how this affects my life. Everyone who chooses to be baptized chooses to live a certain way. The reason I chose to get baptized was in part because of how everyone around me lives. I came here and I wasn’t perfect. No one is but as I came here my perspective changed. Being around people who strive to do the right thing helps me to do the same. It keeps me out of trouble and away from the things that I shouldn’t be doing. What I love most about being here is that I have so many friends who support and care for me. What was really cool is a conversation that I had with Rhyan. Rhyan has given me so much advice. He is my other brother as we say from another mother. What I am trying to say is when we sat down to talk about myself getting baptized, he was skeptical. He asked why am I getting baptized and is it for the right reasons? I told him that day all the reasons for making the decision to make a covenant with Jesus Christ. As I told him the story what he realized is that some of the advice that he’s give me was coming out of my mouth. There I think he and I realized that in part of how Christ does works through us, Rhyan did some of that through me and that is part of my testimony.

Sports

Sports have grown and is a major part in the lives of Americans. Wether they engage in sports to be active or for entertainment. Regardless there is major influence that comes from the athletes who aren’t just on a national stage but on an international stage. Associations like the NBA and NFL, where there is a lot of player diversity, athletes come form around the world to compete. They are a big part of what they younger generation looks at. Although drug testing may violate civil rights I argue that the effects of drug testing outweigh the rights of an individual. The reasons why the effects out weigh a person rights is it protects the athletes and the fans, keeps the integrity of the sport, and it eliminates drug abuse among athletes as well as the fan base that look up to them.

Spring Break

Oh yes! It's that time of the year. The days are longer and the sun is shining. So it's time for spring break. Too bad we don't have one. Yes the life of living at BYU. I love this school so much and I do see a reason that there is no spring break but come on it's college. My spring break dream for this year is to drive to California and just relax for a week. It doesn't make a difference to me that we don't have a spring break because of the fact that we are competing throughout this whole semester. I love California so much and I've only been there three times now. Every time was an experience worth having. This is why I think we should have spring break or at least a four day weekend. It gives us times as students to catch up on work, gives us time to relax and the availability to rejuvenate to finish the semester. Spring break is a must.

March Madness

Awe the time of the year were basketball is taken serious. The NBA is in the final stretch of the season and well of course the race to a NCAA championship is underway. Its great! Three weeks of nothing but basketball. It the time when people actually care about college basketball. It's what we call bracket season. Selection sunday when we find out who make the NCAA tournament and then monday as the brackets are printed off. Office pools, friendly competitions, or maybe just for yourself to see if you can predict a champion. I love this season but I usually follow sports. What I find amusing is that people who don't care just get into this time to watch sports and they talk about who's better not know one statistic about a player, club, or coach. I thinks it's okay to talk as long as you know what's going on but when people are rambling because of what they heard it takes away form the sport.

Trillion Dollar Debt!

Why are we in a recession? It because of credit! Credit debt is in the trillions. It increases so much that every minute the total rises by thousands. So why the recession. In our great depression that we fell into was because of credit. People were borrowing money and they weren't able to pay it back. You know the term "History repeats itself." Well it looks like it's happening again. Many people have substantial credit card debt and are unable to pay it off. The reason we slipped into this recession was because of the housing situation. When people were borrowing money from banks and were unable to pay it back. Foreclosures occurred and with the delicate balance that we have. It left the economy unstable. How do we get out of this recession. Is it trough our leaders, president, governors, local politicians? Simple, we create jobs and then spark the economy but first and foremost we have to get out of this war. Recession, yea, but we put ourselves in that situation.

Video Games: Good or Bad?

The world as we see it is changing. Video games are becoming more integrated in our lives as we integrate technology more and more. When people think of video games the first thing that come to their mind is a waste of time. In some cases this may be true but what people don't realize is that the gaming world isn't all that bad. Video gaming may be considered a hobby. That is people do it for fun or even professionally. It may be considered bad at this point because there are people who spend 8 to 10 hours on a couch playing this games. It leads to overweigh and health problems. The other had that encompasses gaming are instructional games. Little kids use games that help them learn rather then waste time. Games like these or gaming in moderation is very useful in the health of a person in a society where technology is taking over.

Winning

There is not better feeling in the world when you come up with a victory but do you get recognition for it? There is more then one way to achieve victory. There is the physical victory, mental, and spiritual victory. The one I want to talk about is the physical. The other two to come in a later blog. This weekend the men's track team won conference. It was a great win this year and it adds to our winning reputation. Everyone performed well. On the other hand there was another battle for conference in another sport. They didn't win. Who's going to get recognition? Although basketball lost there more likely to have bigger news then the track team. Excuse me track teams. The track teams are so oblivious to anyones minds that it almost doesn't exist on campus and what people fail to realize is that track is the most winningest sport on campus and constant as far as the mountain west. Sports is politics and well basketball and football are just two powerful

Relationships

Why is trying to have a relationship with someone so hard. We have the awkward three second meet at a party or the infamous introduction form a friend. Then your new prospect and yourself have a few conversation over text and you move on to the long conversations on the phone or hanging out. At this point you know a little about the person and wanting to know more. Usually at this point a relationship can go two ways. Way one is you two go on to become boyfriend/girlfriend or friend. Opposed to all other statics BYU my be the only place where a girl might want to marry you in the first 10 minutes of your relationship but that's not the point. My question to ever person of the opposite sex is why do you dream of the perfect man to be with. Then say all the attributes that you want in a man. Look around the room and never realize that the person your looking for is in front of you the whole time but you look past that person because of maybe one thing. All I say is that no one person is an exact match and you look at couples who portray this perfect relationship and that's what you want but believe this no one person is perfect and that couple works to be that way and that is marriage. One chance is a model to go with and if that person screws up that chance then move on. A quote I love is "Love is putting your heart out to a person and then trusting that they won't break it." Unknown. Setting yourself of for failure is the way to grow because you never know if that person you overlook in a room is the person you could have eternal joy with.

Free Coke?

I did something a few days ago I never thought of doing. I brought a person at a restaurant their meal. It was really cool because I gave the waiter my card and told him not to only pay for mine but for the guest that was eating across the room for my. The waiter initial reaction was "What?" I replied "You heard me." He didn't quite understand why I would be paying for someone's meal. After he came back the expression on his face was the same. It was one of those faces like this person is weird and why would he be spending money on someone he doesn't know. I felt good the rest of the day. I spent money on someone I didn't know and wether or not I changed his day for the better it did mine. Something as simple as giving something to a person or smiling a person that you walk by could change their day for the better. Everything could be going wrong and that smile was the one thing that went right for them that day. This gesture is one thing I may attempt to do more often

The video game world

The video gaming is nothing short of art. If you think about it the work a game maker puts into a game. All of the hours that he or she puts into making it a image of what they see. There are some positive and some negative effects of video games. One of the positives is it's inexpensive fun. Although the game system or the game itself maybe expensive it's a really great investment to hours of family fun, fun with friends, or enjoyed by yourself. New systems like the Wii also have new innovative ways to have fun with exercise to eliminate gaining weight or being over weight. Some negative effects would be problems with young children transferring violence over. Positives can out weigh the negatives.

Airports

We've all traveled through the air and put up with the new policies that these airlines come up with. I remember when I was six years old and in an airplane. They gave us can sodas, blankets, pillows; they even let us see the cockpit. Now there are all these new regulations. You can't even bring a bag without paying some kind of bag fee except for southwest. They say its do t0 the economy. Airlines do what ever they want to do to make their profit. Today it's not up to the customers needs or satisfaction. The airlines dictate what goes on because they own the skies and customers can't just go out and purchase a plane; so what happens, we put up with new effects. Fights are not comfortable anymore but we have no choice to put up with it and with the added effect of security doesn't help with the problem; certain things aren't allowed in bags and have to be stowed in the plane underneath. It's ridiculous and will not change.

Choosing a Major

These days choosing a major can be very difficult. It seems like college students choose their major based on the lifestyle they want to live rather then what they love to do. I'm happen to be one of the few who select their major based on what I love. I am going into exercise science because I've been an athlete my whole life. I love to know what the body does and how it works. I will major in exercise science to go onto physical therapy. I choose exercise science because I will still be able to be around sports way after I'm not able to compete in them. I say choose your major based on what you love not just your lifestyle because in the long run you really will love the job that you in and able to retire happy even if it's just a few bucks short of what you wanted cause your not going to be able to bring luxury into the next life.

Pro Athletes Should be Punished!

Nothing like changing a dirty diaper or holding your child's hand for their first steps. Well it seems that these days pro athletes are the one's who diapers have to be changed or hands held. It's amazing what pro athletes get away with these days. Scandals, crime, and controversies. Do athletes deserve to get away with things or be made an example of? The answer is yes, made an example of, but do it to everyone so its fair. Athletics these days are looking more and more like politics. Some may say it is politics. Today some athletes who do get into trouble are usually let free off of some punishment that's equivalent to a slap on the wrist. Then ones that are sent to jail usually because there not a big star. The point is it should an equal punishment and if they make a bad decision then they should pay for it.

Mac vs. Pc

What's the difference between a Macbook and a PC? Is one better than the other? The two systems are very different from each other and one is definitely better than the other. I believe that Mac's are so much better not only for a student but as well as for a professional lifestyle. The different operating system on a mac allows it not to have damaging viruses that PC obtain. A disadvantage that PC's have is that it's always being upgraded. A new set of PC's that come out on the market do every six months or so leaving the one you bought out of date or slower. A Mac's processor and software are about two generations ahead of PC's so money can be saved instead of purchasing upgrades to stay current. Mac's running system is a little hard to navigate at first but once you get up to speed it's easier to use than a PC. Overall Mac's are just the elite brand of the computer world.