Reflecting on the Past Week

Whoa....... I have never seen so many colleges in that amount of time. In just a single week my entire class traveled to the three main colleges in the state of Utah. BYU (eh), UVU (eh eh), and U of U (WHOOO!).
Day 1: Haha as you can tell I really like U of U. However, that being said I did enjoy BYU; we got to tour campus and see all the different buildings and where certain classes were being held. Then we got to go to the devotional that morning and it was an amazing devotional. After that we had lunch and then toured campus some more and that's when we walked into their library. Now I've seen some pretty amazing libraries and BYU's was amazing! I loved it! Just the feel and seeing rows after rows of books! It was just awesome. After touring we met up at the Hinckly center and then went home.




Day 2: UVU was the second campus we went to, and this place was pretty amazing too. The coolest thing about this campus is that its all connected either over ground or under ground. So we got there and we walked up to their student area and we took a tour of their whole campus. It was an amazing thing to see so many students all inside and reading as compared to BYU's huge outside campus.






Day 3: U OF U!!! YES! Now this was a real treat to come to the U. Even though it was freezing and kind of snowing outside, it was truly a beautiful campus. The campus is bigger than BYU's, and the library was much better. Now I thought that BYU's library was big, and it is, but the U's had so much more to offer. Windows to draw and show diagrams on, little private office rooms for study groups, amazingly comfortable chairs, and the best library access system to get the books for you. The U was truly the coolest college that we visited this week!
Now while on these tours I realized quite a bit I realized that my future totally depends on what I do as a student, son, brother, friend, Mormon, and snowboarder. My college life will revolve around each of these aspects and what I do to show others that these are the things that I focus on in my life. I also realized that I was born to become a history lover, snowboard (of course), and to share my religion with others in this life and the life to come. While I was coming to that realization I found that a few things were holding me back from actually doing that. I realized that sometimes I am holding myself back from excelling or doing an awesome trick, another thing I realized was that there have been people in my life who have held me back for whatever reason, but they are usually no longer around me once I realize what they are doing to me. By realizing all these things I have now come to know that I can do great things. And no one but myself can hold me back from that potential that God has given to me.

Mormon Snowboarding

By using my talent as a Snowboarder I can share my views wherever I go, and whenever I am snowboarding. This will help many people see my views and standards even better while snowboarding. Jeremy Jones (shown below) is an example of a Mormon snowboarder. He uses his talents amazingly to broadcast his presence across the snowboarding world. He is just like the guy I want to become, strong, showing his religion, and always being happy and cheerful. I hope that by doing this I can help spread the gospel on the earth and through the web.

Sharing Gospel Doctrine

"Every disciple of Christ will be most good by adopting  a demeanor worthy of a follower of the Savior."
If we have this demeanor in our lives while we are posting on the internet, then we will soon have many people coming to us and realizing that our church is good. If we make our posts like a disciple of Christ then we will spread the gospel so much faster. Without us trying to help spread the gospel we will not become disciples of Christ.
"As you know, the new media has already profoundly impacted the old world of newspapers and other traditional media. Once upon a time, as a Church leader I might give a newspaper interview, then wait a day or two for it to appear somewhere deep inside the newspaper. Then that newspaper was thrown away, and whatever impact it might have had dissipated rather quickly." This shows how our technology has changed for the better and sometimes for the worse. But by now sharing what the apostles and prophets say we can we can instantaneously share what they say as they are practically saying it.

My Perfect Day

Well as you can obviously see from my blog I love snowboarding. Now we're not talking "oh I go snowboarding a couple times a month," No. We're talking like hard-core, dedicated snowboarding. Like always thinking about snowboarding and never letting a day go by without snowboarding for at least 8 hours, or at least (when I'm at school) thinking about it.
See what most people think about snowboarding is that its a quick sport, most of the time sitting on your butt, or even that its a disgrace to the skiing community. But that's not even close to what its really about. Its about being out there, living in the moment, being with your friends, having a good time, and defiantly not sitting on your butt. If everyone knew that was what snowboarding is really about, then there would be more of us (snowboarders).
Anyways back to my perfect day, haha well it'd probably start around 6:30 a.m. with me waking up, getting my gear all ready, and eating a really high calorie breakfast (snowboarding takes a lot out of you). Up around 7:30 or 8:00 is when I start getting all my gear and meeting my "crew" (group of snowboard buds) at my driveway. My "crew" consists of 3 to 4 people: Issac: Main bud, main motivator of the group, usually the one who pushes me to do the stupid stuff so he can see what it looks like. Colton: Trail blazer, guy who knows all the in's and out's of the resort, crazy man, always there to help start you out with a laugh. Garrett: My little bro. haha this kid is also the only skier that we allow in our group, pretty much the medicine man, trails behind to pick up any slackers that we may have. So there's the "crew" so on our way to the local resort (Sundance) we joke and kid and talk about what runs we're going to hit. 9:00 sharp. Hit. The. Slopes. That simple, immediately we start with some black diamonds and get a lot of mountaineering put in. So for about 3 to 4 hours we just shred and shred and shred and then shred some more. Around 1:00 p.m. we meet up (if we get split up) and eat lunch. At this time we're pretty worn out, but then Colton is always there to make us laugh and get us ready for the day once again. 2:00 p.m. we head back out for some more shredding, only this time we're hitting the park. And this is where Garrett usually comes in to help. Haha we're so busy on trying to see whose trick looks the best that we don't even care if we crash and cut ourselves, but luckily Garrett is there to help keep us within our bounds. so up to about 4:30 we snowboard. Then its about and hour drive back to home, and by then most of us are asleep or totally wacked out. And that is my vision of a perfect day. No amazing trips to Europe. No crazy wishful things. Just me and my buds having an awesome time just doing what we have and always will love doing. Snowboarding.