touched by a testimony

fast and testimony meeting always has its interesting moments in my ward. this Sunday was no different. although i could talk about some of the characters and what they had to say, what stood out most to me came from a five year old boy. his dad was assisting him by whispering in his ear, but i know what this little boy had to say really came from his heart. he expressed gratitude for a prophet and said "he is always great for us." he testified of the truth of the scriptures and said "you should believe them." these cute statements are so true and have really made me think. i was able to attend the first presidency Christmas devotional. i too am grateful for a living prophet. he is great for us! he speaks for our Lord, and what could be greater for us than to receive a message from God? the scriptures are true, the events mentioned are reality. this also takes me back to my last post...in the forgotten carols it is mentioned that this tradition of Christmas would have us believe that a baby was born of a virgin, angels came from heaven to announce his birth, this babe would be the Savior of mankind. the scriptures are full of miraculous events that impact thousands and others that change the life of one soul. the stories of the scriptures may seem fantastical, however, when we really believe them...learn for ourselves that they are true, we also realize that these types of miracles can and do take place in our own lives. accepting the miracles from God's words, and more importantly the central message of our Redeemer Jesus Christ, will open our eyes to miracles around us and the most important miracle is the change that takes place in our own souls. so the prophet is great for us and we should believe the scriptures!

the forgotten carols

My family went to The Forgotten Carols on Friday. This is the second time I have seen it and there were parts that I enjoyed even more this time and other things that had a really strong impact on me that didn't before. I was thinking about why this was. The last time I went, even though it was only one year ago, I was in a different stage of life and had a different mindset. In the past year I have made life changing decisions and  found myself facing challenges I never imagined would be mine. The story and the lyrics touched me in a different way. I find it so interesting how media may not change, but its effect on us will. As I went to The Forgotten Carols with another year full of experiences, joys, and trials, the same message influenced me much differently than before. 

Billboards

I did some driving this last week to go visit my family for Thanksgiving and my mom's birthday. My husband was actually behind the wheel and I was in the passenger seat. I was looking at all the billboards and realized how much information is crammed on those things. It is nearly impossible to read all the information on all the billboards! Especially if you are the driver and need to be watching the road. If advertisers want people to pay attention to their billboards they need to have the most outrageous or the simplest to catch the eye of travelers. Try reading all the billboards between Provo and Salt Lake...I just don't think it is possible at freeway speeds.

flow

I think it is so funny how quickly we can become addicted to a new game on our phones or ipods. This last week my mom introduced my husband to the Flow. It is a really simple game of connecting colored dots to their pairs on a grid system. It gets pretty difficult as more is added to the board. This will probably be the big thing for my husband to play on his phone until he finds a new game or passes all the levels. My point is that I find it a little bit funny that we connect ourselves so much to this hand held devices. Even when we run out of levels or get bored of a certain game, we don't put them down...no, we find a new game.

taken 2

i went to Taken 2 last night and it was intense! i feel like it was even more fast paced and dramatic than the first one. there were some really disturbing things that the "bad guys" were doing...it made me a little bit sick to my stomach. anyway, here is the trailer that i watched before. i thought it was really interesting how the music at the end is very different from the chaotic clips being shown. it almost makes it more intense.

hobbit airline safely video

I was recently introduced to this video...it is a legit air line safety video creatively done to keep passengers interested. I think it is genius that they were able to use something big coming out in the media as part of their presentation because no one really actually watches those boring/annoying things. Now people are watching this safety video even when they aren't flying...clever. 

i need my phone...

so i never thought that i was so needy when it came to my phone. i have been trying to not rely on it so much for basically no good reason. i turned it off one night and i was still pulling it out of my pocket every 10 minutest to check the time...then remembered it was off. even when i am not expecting a text, i find myself frequently seeing if i might have received one and didn't  notice. i feel like my phone has a little bit of control over me...and i don't like it.