Daily "Overheard at BYU" Quote

In a sacrament meeting talk today: "If we can't be a good example, we can at least be a horrible warning."

Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.

Ok, I've thought about this a lot: Human Organization. I find it seriously SO fascinating that we are as organized as we are. It's weird because I swear my brain works way different then everyone elses' around me. I seriously am just amazed when i go to the grocery store, or an airport, or the post office...idk...everything is in motion so fast around us, yet it's so organized...it's awesome!

Daily Dose of "Overheard"

During theatre class a student was doing a short skit where she said a prayer out loud to find something she had lost. As she finished the prayer the entire class repeated "Amen". It was hard to be a good audience as she continued once we realized the severity of our habit!

Never mistake motion for action.

Holy crap! So, my mission President called this morning...there's nothing like waking up to the sound of his voice. Even though he is like the nicest guy on earth, for some reason his voice still intimidates me...even though he's not my mission president anymore either. Man, I miss the guy...even though I swear he hated me lol. Well that was a good alarm this morning...anyways, so i haven't written in here for a few days. I get lazy, even though I am already super lazy all day...so I'm like...lazy within my laziness.Oh man, I CANNOT wait to get out to San Diego! The beach...is calling my name. So, here's what I plan on. Every morning going running down to the beach with my sister (it's about 1.5 miles from my house), and then sit there and admire it...

maybe run along the beach, and then run back home for approximately a 4 mile run every morning...that should get me in shape. Then, I REALLY want to go to the San Diego temple like every morning...that would be the ultimate boost to the day! I put pictures of the temple, and the celestial room in the temple on this post, so you can see why I would want to go there daily. Maybe, while I do a session, my sister could do baptisms or something, idk...maybe I will meet my future wife in an endowment session! Are you allowed to ask girls on dates in the celestial room?...hmmm...I won't try it unless I see other people doing it lol. Anyways...then I will go to work (which I still don't have a job yet) then, I will come home and maybe do some P90X, and then rest on the beach for an hour maybe...yup...it's gonna be pretty nice. I'm excited. Plus, I am pretty excited to just meet new people...nobody knows who I am or my past, or anything about me, so all they will see is the current RM me! Plus...a singles ward...sick. I really want a gf like ASAP after watching (500) days of Summer yesterday...I love that movie. OK, well I'm going to go. I have to go to the Neurosurgeon today! FUN!

Photo Shoot!

Today, I took my little brothers down to our neighborhood park and did a little photo shoot...I know, it sounds stupid, but I was so bored, so here's a some of the pictures:

Daily "Overheard at BYU" Quote

Quote 1:

A girl talking to a guy about what shirt to wear for a date to Jump On It:

"Well which one's easiest to take off???"

Quote 2:

dude 1: "so where'd you take her to eat?"

dude 2: "temple cafeteria."

dude 1: "dude, it was a second date!"

dude 2: "yeah! i know! but it was celestial! and she pounded the food!"

dude 1: "so she's endowed?"

dude 2: "yeah man, so she gets temple humor too!"

dude 1 and dude 2 in unison: "BONUS!!!" (double fist bump)

No outward motion or change, when normal, in man's external body can take place unless provoked by an inward impulse.

Today, after much fighting with my little brothers, I finally took them down to our community pool. I just laid on a chair and rested while they were swimming. It would have been an amazing day, had it not been for 1,000 mph wind! It was about 75 degrees outside, but felt like 50. Anyways, I was thinking about all the stuff going on right now in my life, when suddenly I saw a bird up in the sky. Obviously, the wind is a lot more strong higher up in the sky. I watched the bird flapping and flailing for about 15 minutes, while not moving at all. The wind had picked up so much, and was not letting up for awhile. I noticed a couple of other birds surrounding him, and after a few minutes they gave up and dove down to the ground. Finally, the bird made it! The wind let up and he was on his way. I couldn't believe that he had pushed on for so long. It was 15 minutes of physical, mental, and emotional drainage, with no let up in the resistance. Besides the resistance itself, the surrounding birds gave up after only a few minutes, which would have made it easy for him to give up too. I started thinking about how much I myself just give up after taking so much resistance, even though eventually "the wind will die down". I was thinking even more about how the rate of how fast I give up is accelerated by how many of those around me give up. We are always stronger than the struggle at hand if we just push through it. Although, it goes without saying, that failures naturally come with struggles. If we just push through the struggles of life without failing during them and come out on the other side, what did we learn? If, when we fall, we lay there and wait for someone else to pick us up, will we ever learn how to get back up on our own? I believe that failures can teach us more than successes ever can. A success is made up of "picking ourselves back up" multiple times. In order for us to have to pick ourselves up, we need to fall. Although the success may be the end result, which feels great, the failures that got us to that success are what matter most. So, after thinking about all of that, I look forward to resistance. I look forward to not being able to fall, but the opportunity to pick myself back up from the fall, which I have had plenty of chances to in the past. Here's to opposition!

Progress grows out of motion.

Well, I'm starting a blog...obviously. I don't know if anyone will ever even read this, but since I'm on the computer so much, I figured I could blog, and it would be kind of like keeping a journal (which I always WANT to do, but never do). I really want to write more about the funny stuff that happens in my life, and every once in awhile, maybe I'll write about more serious stuff. So, this morning, I woke up to my little brothers rummaging through my drawers in my room. Of course I freaked out because I went to bed at like 3, and they were going through my stuff at like 730! Anyway, I woke up a few hours later, and they were outside having a garage sale, selling all of my stuff! The best part though was that they had Justin Bieber BLASTING in the front yard...luckily I don't know too many people in my neighborhood haha. I knew they weren't going to sell any of my juck, so I didn't say anything to them. They ended up making 4 dollars! They were out there for 3 hours, and made 4 dollars! They didn't even sell anything...people just gave them money because they felt bad for them I guess. Well, that was pretty much the extent of this morning. Also, I saw Iron Man 2 last night with Caroline, and it was SICK! I was surprised because normally sequels to movies suck. Well...that completes my first post. Wow...i still can't believe that I'm BLOGGING! haha...I used to make fun of people for this...but, like I said, this isn't for other people, it's for me to keep up with my life, and to keep sane, and be able to look back at things that happened and laugh! Also, I took this picture yesterday that I was pretty proud of: