Its been forever since I've written anything, I know and there is so much to tell but I have decided, although I did not create this blog purely to preach, that I would start with today, mostly because of how absolutely spectacular it really has been!!! I've been so busy this past little while what with school and work and things, I feel a lot like the only time I can slow down and think is at church, although this week that defiantly was not true. We had stake conference this week and boy how I love my stake presidency!!! But they were, in my opinion, not the best part of this particular conference. Although each one of them was highly insightful and a learned a lot, the best part of this conference was the beautiful couple, newly converted, who bore their testimony. Neither of them spoke for more then 10 minutes, but they expressed a kind of hope and comfort I have not seen in so long. The wife was my favorite, telling about her desperateness in life and how just in a moment, that was all turned around by this, the gospel of Christ. After her, everything just followed the spirit that she brought and completely went with exactly what she had talked about. Pres Top, my stake president, finished off this perfect conference by talking about light. More specifically, the light of Christ. How light is essential to both emotional and physical life. He talked about spiritual light blockers in our lives, things such as Facebook, dishonesty, and pride where the ones that he mentioned that stuck out most to me. In my scripture study when I got home I read the account in 3 Nephi 8 of the days after Christ was crucified, and there was complete darkness. They could not even light fires for the darkness would consume them. It amazed me, this is the kind of opressive darkness that President Top had talked about, not only is Christ all spiritual light, He is the provider of all physical light as well, He lights the sun, He lights the moon, He lights the stars. Satan is just the opposite, he is in darkness, he is the prince of darkness. This also is both physically and emotionally. This was an incredible talk!!!! I have felt the truth of it all day long, and I have had almost nothing else in my mind!
Okay, on to lighter subjects :). The semester has started and man!!! I love college so much more then I ever liked high school but man, sometimes I can't help but wish I was back there, it was so easy for me not to study, or even pay attention really, and still get quite good grades. College i feel completely the opposite and i obviously never tought myself good study habits but hey, as long as I get through right?! But really I love it!!! I'm taking a biology class that I'm almost sure is going to kill me, but that's only for my lack of caring for the subject, but that would be why I took it before Trevor left on his mission. He is amazing at Biology, he's in a class that most people don't take for just a generals biology class. He's pretty much the smartest person I know when it comes to that stuff so hopefully I'll do okay. I know I'm going to love my US History class, it's the second half to the class that I took last semester and I have found an odd passion for history that I never knew i had :). That's what happens when your professor is good at his job!! The rest of my classes so far are just kind of there because they have to be, but you never know, I may end up loving another subject that I had no clue I loved!!!
Well that's all for now, I have to try harder to get my posts up when I think of them!!
