The Grass Is Always Greener

Many of my closest friend, and even my brother, live in Logan, Utah as they attend Utah State University. This semester I have been busier than I was last semester, so I hadn’t been able to see my brother or my friends since winter break. A visit was long overdue, but I was having trouble finding time to drive to Logan. At 6:00 p.m. on Saturday night, my friend Caiden and I decided impulsively to go drive up to Logan for the night and to drive back tomorrow afternoon. This whirlwind of a trip had lots of potential in our minds and it was a risk we were willing to take. Unfortunately, the night did not play out as we fanaticized it could in our minds. When we arrived the friends that I was so excited to see already had set plans for the night that couldn’t really be shifted around too easily. The one thing that Caiden expressed he wanted to do, was to go into the hot tub. When we finally made it into the hot tub, the hot tub wasn’t very hot. To make matters worse, I was given

Here is a taste of what my weekend was like!! Enjoy!!

This past weekend was definitely one for the memory books. My friends, John and Caiden, decided to take me to Moab to go mountain biking for the first time. Being from Florida I had never been to Moab, never really spent too much time on a mountain, and hadn’t biked too much previously. John and Caiden, however, are avid mountain bikers and were so excited to share their passion with me. For those that are familiar with Moab mountain bike trails, we did the following trails: Bartlett Wash, Slickrock, Bull Run, Arch’s Corner, and Little Canyon. One of the biggest things I learned after reflecting on my first day biking, is that I was missing learning and fun by being too cautious. I made the goal the next day to give it my all, and if I got hurt then I got hurt. But if I decided that some parts of the trail were too hard and walked down most of it, then I was robbing myself of growth opportunities. I crashed many times and I did get beat up, scratched, and bruised. I loved eve

This week I learned in my Doctrine and Covenant class I learned something that has caused me a lot of reflection. We learned that Doctrine and Covenants Section 89, the Word of Wisdom, was not originally a commandment but a suggested health code. It wasn’t until the 1920’s till the Word of Wisdom was enforced as a commandment as we know it to be now. The part that fascinates me, however, is that during the abolition period in American history, the saints voted to repeal abolition and make alcohol legal again. Abiding by the Word of Wisdom is one of the biggest separators between Latter-Day Saints and the rest of the world, and one of the key principles is the consumption of alcohol. Growing up in a primarily non-religious community, I always wondered what life would be like if all my other friends lived the same standards we do.               Secondly, what is most surprising to me is that most saints went against prophetic counsel and voted in favor of alcohol even though

I had an interesting experience this past week. In my management communications class this past week, we were asked to produce a formal business proposal. The interesting this that I wanted to comment on isn’t the intricacies of our business proposal, but was the fact that we were able to complete this group project 100% without meeting in person. We were able to communicate via google hangouts and then have a live google doc that we could all edit simultaneously. This experience has caused me a lot of reflection. I personally had never used a google doc before and it was shocking to me how well it worked!! I can’t help but admire how fast technology has shaped the world as we know it. Our capabilities today are leaps and bound ahead of what they were when my parents went to school. In almost every industry, technology has shaped it to be near unrecognizable from what is used to be before the influence of computers and technology. Unfortunately, it can be all too easy to t

Last week I wrote about the special opportunity I had to film one of my best friends' proposals. This week; however, I had the opportunity this past week to attend the sealing and reception of another one of my good friends from my mission. He was married in the Bountiful, Utah temple. It was BEAUTIFUL! As I am sure many of you are aware, Utah is covered in snow, and this just added to the beauty of this temple. I had never been to the Bountiful temple so it was a pleasant discovery. I definitely support my friend’s decision to get married there. I am not familiar with many temples in Utah or very many across the world and would be very curious to hear what you think. What is your favorite LDS temple? (Please click on the link to answer) https://goo.gl/forms/SmPKLzH06IakMQJS2 As some of my closest friends are reaching these large milestones in their lives, I have really learned the effect that marriage has on your future. What I mean is that you have to be so careful