Final weeks before school starts (part 1)

This past week has been great for me. Since I may have a global audience, I will be careful of the things that I say.
One reason that it has been great other-than the fun things that I have been able to do. I know that it is kind of lame, but I have expanded more into twitter. I have learned some things from running the twitter for my work at Fun Fine Art. Since I applied the things that I learned I doubled my followers for my  personal twitter. I am competing against myself with both twitters today. My companies twitter has passed my personal twitter, but I was ahead. I feel part of two communities with both of the twitters. I am in the community of artists, and I am in the community with the news reports. I have received great response. A twitter representing the spouses' of military personal expressed great excitement to get to know me and see the world events that I cover. Another guy asked me to give a report of the Turkish victims casualties and targets.
I wrote a short story, which was inspired by a conversation that I had with a grandmother named Joanna on the way back home from my second temple trip last week. She has a grandson that is named Trevor or Erik or something, but he was seemingly on track to a great journalist. As he lived in San Francisco, he was a victim of circumstance. Returning to his apartment, he found that his roommate was stabbed several times, and before long he was stabbed in the head by the attacker. I published the story on a website that began following me on twitter. The website is interesting, for it is named ymidoingthis.com. I put the link on the website. The story helps you see what the grandmother was telling me about. She was trying to record a voice record of the proceedings of his life; however, now he remembers very little of his life. Neither of the victims of the attacker in San Francisco died. The story reveals more about my habits and personality as a person too.

I will put what I wrote on this entry because I see that I can someday purchase my own blog as a book someday, and I would like the short story to be part of it. I also write a entry just before blog entry explaining how to run correctly. I will publish each document separately, so this entry will not be too long.

Final weeks before school starts (part 2)

brAn damej
sarE I cant spel or hav gud gramr/ I just want tu rIt this daun bfor mI memorE is gon agen/ this mIt be cammin sens U left tu get mI jrnelz/ I shud rEcord wat hapend so far just in cAs if hapends agen/
aliks yor wIf is comEg in sed A nurs/ U wr wAtEg awtsId for I hav bin in A tramatik aksident/ U wonted tu c me and haw I am/ the tramatik ekspErEns entAld grat brAn damej but I az I am aliks do not rEmembr wat hapend/ I dont no anythEg but I am aliks/ wen u cAm in I was comfaundd bI thI grat lav/ U askt haw I am/ I sa I am sarE but wE r gOEg tu have tu rediscaver evrEthEg agen/ I want U tu no tho/ I can c bI thI bEUtE I am mOst blest/ plEz intrOdus yorself tu me/ U cant rEsist follEg tu hug mE/ I c and fEl tErs fol ontu mI chest/ U sA I am ana yor best frend the grAtest frend that u evr had/ u askt the nurs if shE haz mI old cel fOn u shO mE wat it is and tel mE to rEd al the pOems en et wich I wrOt az u go fetch the childrin and al mI jrnalz/ I luk at mI fOn and dont undrstand wat the simbals r/ I ask the nurs tu rEd them tu mE/ Az shE rEds a fEu  tu me I rElIz mor wat it mEnz tu b mOst blest/ the nurs haz tu gO wrk but I askt hr tu eksplAn tu mE the alfabet bEcuz I can tak and hEr the saundz/ she goz thru it koiklE and nou I am rItEg this fineticlE/ mAB I shud luk at the pOemz that I wrOt tu lrn gramr wAtEg for mI best frend tu  rEturn with mI childrin and mI jrnelz
I am inspired to write this short story by a real life story told to me a few days ago, for  a grandson of a friend, who was a journalist, was stabbed in the head, and now remembers nothing.

Final weeks before school starts (part 3)

The Correct Way to Run

People do not often think of running correctly because it should be like walking, but most people have learned an odd philosophy about running. Running should be painlessly natural as walking, and it is. In middle school I remember writing an essay about how running is bad, and swimming is better. although, I am a big advocate of running for exercise now after running all throughout high school. I have learned how to explain the correct way to run simply, but the understanding only came from my experience on my running teams and a dear friend, researching it. He found a book explaining the pose method of running. I do not have any crazy name for the method because it is natural. The United States at least is getting this messed up.
There is a phase in the history of running that we are departing from. Over the past several years, 'more natural' running shoes has been coming out of the running shoe market. There is a philosophy with a few parts to it, which is not logistical. One of which is that our bodies are too weak to run without external support such as the following: ankle braces, stable shoes, and knee braces. The world often underestimates the human body. The human body can strong enough to handle running on any surface without these supports. Running shoes have little to do with running bad; however, it shows another part of the philosophy of running that is we are to land on the heel of our foot.
The simple explanation to how to show how to run correctly is comparing it to doing jump rope. I would encourage you to get up and 'jump rope-less.' I use to do that when I could not run outside. Jump as if you would do jump rope without the rope. You see and feel how you land on your feet. It is definitely not on your heel. It is springing. There is a spring all throughout our beautiful legs that absorbs the forces from the calf, to the quads and the hamstring, the largest combinations of muscles. It is natural and there is a natural momentum; however, if you purposely land on your heel.
Everything natural about the 'jump rope-less' is gone. You hit the ground and the momentum hit straight into the feet and is absorbed unnaturally. The forces cause pain. This is how shin splints are formed. Do 'jump rope-less' on your heels for a hour for a couple weeks or so and your shins will feel like it is being ripped of the bone because it is. This is the same thing with running. When you run and land on your heels, your momentum is not natural.
Another thing that one needs to learn is that, when the earth is to go backward, so the main thrust of your legs should be pushing us forward and the earth backward. Many people have an odd idea that we need to lengthen our stride by putting our feet further ahead of us. The way we are to push ourselves forward and the earth backward is by using our butt muscles. This make more sense as a mean to lengthen our stride. The hip flexor, the muscle that pulls up our leg for the top, is not that big compared to the butt. The thrust should be backward from the butt and not forward from the hip flexor.
One may wonder how this makes sense how can my feet push me forward from my butt, if my foot is landing in front of me. Well you need to realize that is not natural. The feet will soon naturally land beneath you or behind you. Do you see how that momentum will be better? Running is a controlled fall. Can you imagine how your momentum will be pushed if your feet pushes your forward from behind you? The momentum is much more efficient. The habit of having your feet land behind you is really difficult to obtain, but having your feet land closely below your torso. It allows looks funny to me when someone is running, and the butt is not pulling the leg back very far. The further back the leg and the more force behind you the longer the stride.
This is the way to run naturally and more easily. You don't need fancy supportive shoes with a big thing on your heel. I recommend running for twenty minutes a day until you strengthened your leg muscles sufficiently. Be warn. If you run this way, the correct way, your muscles will be extremely sore for the first week or so. It may be painful walking down stairs. You may feel like your grandparents walking down the stairs. That is why I recommend only twenty minutes a day at first week until you feel comfortable running longer. Consistency is important. I had a roommate that would workout a different part of his body each day of the week, and he was sore like the very beginning each week. Consistency will get the body to get over being sore, and build stronger muscles. You may be extremely sore because the average person at least in the United States has extremely weak legs. After my first season of cross country my legs like doubled the size. My calves, my thighs, and my butt were bigger. Don't be afraid of being sore. Think of it as a feeling of growing, becoming stronger, progressing. I promise you that it will only last for a week or so; then, you can run pain free. No shin splints.
Don't get frustrated if you get injuries. Just relax if you get a injury. Take a week or two off of running. Do something different. Often times the reason that we get injured is because of the shoes that we have. You may need new shoes.
I will review the simple steps that will lead you to run more naturally. Run by pushing yourself forward from your leg with the thrust going backward from your butt, landing of the part of the foot that you feel when you do the 'jump rope-less'. You can practice this by standing on one foot and see how it is to pull your leg back with your butt, seeing the form of running come naturally.

I could write more, but this is probably enough. Good Night. :)

After I write about my experience with integrity, I feel like being a movie critic.

The integrity of a person is his respect for life. It is seen shining from the presence of the person. When people face the real world, they have their integrity called into question during each moment. Integrity is extremely trick because it is on an individual and personal level to live the most correct way; however, there is one true way. It stands out from the world, and it is very private. A characteristic of integrity is that one is responsible for everything that he does, and one is responsible to do his best to fix his errors, enduring the consequences. It stands up for truth and what is right. There is more to it, but I can't think of more to write.

I don't watch much movies, but when I do I try to watch the best films. In the past few months I have only watch a few movies listed as followed: Arriety the Borrower, Captain America: The First Avenger, and Cirque De Soleil: Quidam.

I may be particularly tough on movies.

The Arriety movies was good, but I don't think that it was original enough for Studio Ghibli. The film is based on a book that is mostly unknown. I don't know. The Borrower's series was named one of the top ten most important children's novels of the last seventy years in 2007. I feel that it may be too old to make an animated film on, but the age may appeal to a wider audience. The animation standard was according to the normal Ghibli standard. The story though was weak, and the story is innocent. It lacks in just about everything as a story; action, romance, climax, purpose. There was a little suspense, but the story was too simple.
Out of 100 I give it a 77

I am surprised that Captain America beat Harry Potter. It shouldn't have; even though, I have not seen the final movie of the series of Harry Potter. I don't know, but don't ask me about what I think of the first half of the last book of the series' movie. The Captain America movie is a little random at the beginning and at the end; although, I did understand that is alluding to the assembly of the Avengers. The story is good, but it at times has a feel that one is watching someone playing a video game fast forwarded until the final boss.
Out of 100 I give it a 84

Now the show that I said that I was share how I enjoyed it. Quidam of the Cirque Du Soleil was exceptional. It puts America's Got Talent to shame. I would give America's Got Talent out of 100 a score in the sixties. The acts are fun, inspiring, and leading edge creative; always pushing the limit. I love how they make it seem the performer's act was ending, but they would continue and show even a greater depth to their skill. It also pushed the limit of morality. The performers look like the lust of the world but not at the same time. I definitely did not lust after the insanely ripped girls. The artistry is great. I recognized that Josh Groban sung one of the songs of the show on one of his CD's, and I recalled learning a song for the show as a concert band at Soquel High School. The story was simple yet profound.
Out of 100 I give it a 92

This weekend's entry is committing itself to a week day next week, for weekends are not for writing a blog

Yeah I am too busy to write on the weekends. Yesterday I did update the story summary of DNA turn on though, if you want to read that.

If you are curious about what I plan to write about. The topic will be about integrity.

The Core was incomplete

This past week in my life was good. I will write of the Core event that I attempted.
It was refreshing to stand on a starting line, since I ran track and cross country in high school. My record times were four minutes and forty seconds for the mile, and I almost ran a ten minute two mile. At the beginning of the core race, I was surprised how easy it was to find myself in second place. I know that many of my followers may be my friends from Facebook, and they read a view of the race already; however, I will express myself more fully. I was second place behind a good friend of mine Tommy Zaferes.
Last Sunday he won the Sandman Triathlon. He has always been an awesome athlete. He has train with our Olympians. I was not trained as him nor had the goals like him in completing the Core race. In second place I saw him swim in the ocean as if it was his personal swim pool. I swam with him when I was on a team, and he dove into the ocean like he use to into a normal pool. I could not do that though, for I only swam a couple times in training for the event.
I lived the race without a goal. I did not have a goal, so I did not finish the race. Living life's events without goals, we may not complete any great achievements. I finished the race in the middle of the second swim because I did not feel like swimming anymore. I trained swimming according to how I felt, so that is how I finished the race.
The lifeguard, escorting off the course, introduced me to the great care of our emergency servicemen. They were all realistic, and I was told that there is no shame in not finishing the race; however, I finished the race in the emergency room not because I needed it. I followed what they suggested. One of the couple times I swam in training was in the ocean, and I finished swimming with the same result as what the emergency servicemen saw. I shivered without control for a long time and that is all. I did not need their service, but it was protocol. The care was great. It was not freighting.

I had another thing that I wanted to write about. I wanted to write about the bad economy, but I am not of authority to. I just have a little knowledge of what is going on. My mother says that I think that I know everything. I attempted to write a simple thing about the economy, but I realized that I can't. I wanted to write of concerning the principle of self reliance, living within our means. I can't speak on these matters.

Here is my random NASA update. They have sent Juno to Jupiter on a five year trip to arrive there. The Earth seemed to have two moons at one time, and there is water on Mars.

Starting new things

This past week was awesome. I started some great things, and I have a few things that I would like to report on of current events. 


My job at Fun Fine Art is a success. I am working the production of the local artist's work. CC Joelle even let me start a twitter for the website. I hope to develop a dynamic community therein. The first tweet features a piece by Alphonse Mucha entitled Daydream. I don't particularly like his art because it is especially suggestive, but the fine art print featured from our collection is good at https://twitter.com/#!/FunFineArt. I did some research and put a link on another tweet, giving a quote about the man's legacy. That link shows the suggestive artwork of his that I found to not like.


 The NASA news for the week is the they are seeking to land of an asteroid; also, they are going to do research on Jupiter with spacecraft Juno.


If you are interested in what else I started, I started learning sign language! I met my best friend at my first introduction to the language, and we are at it again. Since I am going to be a special education teacher, I may need to know the silent communication.


Another thing that I started this week is prepare for a race that I am going to do this next Tuesday. I run most morning, but this race called the Core is a run swim run. I needed to get use to swimming again. I have not swim in many years. Thursday morning I went to swim in the ocean to see how it will be like, and after swimming a few laps of the coast. I felt that I should get out, a little cold. Getting out of the water felt weird, I was almost dizzy. I was shivering like crazy for a long time. It was a refreshing first swim. I will have to tell you about the race next week.


The same next Tuesday is supposed to be the date that our government needs to pay for it's bills. On my twitter of current events I have not been covering this because of the Obama drama. The politic of this is insane that I cannot cover it, so yeah. 


Oh yeah. Last Sunday I was preparing to host the Family Home Evening, an evening for the family to get together. The FHE was to introduce everyone that I can in the singles branch to the service opportunities of the LDS church online. I mainly checked my mormon.org account because my father was going to speak on the other internet opportunities, namely http://www.familysearch.org/eng/indexing/frameset_indexing.asp and new.familysearch.org. These websites have great and key opportunities to accomplish the work of Genealogy work. Checking my Mormon.org account, I had a suggestion to make the entries shorter, so I did that last Sunday. Simpler is better, so you can check it out. It is not as scary any more.

Time seems to be relative; for me, a week feels like a long time. I love it.

Hello
How is everyone?

I am as good as ever.

This past week was insane. The day that I wrote my last entry Norway was offended by a literal insane person. The aggressor is an individual, a lone wolf terrorist. He was an anti-islam insane guy, killing 77 people and wounding many others. His endeavor had two bombing even exploding a government building. The majority of the deaths was by the individual himself in a shooting at a youth camp. Receiving the news  of this and many other terrorist attacks around the world, I feel for them. My heart goes out to the victims, and I hope to offer some words of comfort.

This week I will put these word further in this entry instead of mine. Miracles come by the prayer of faith, and comfort comes of God; although, time may be relative. Truth is not. People may think it is, but that saying of 'Truth is relative' is an oxymoron. Truth is to unite us all.

God is a man of great mercy and justice. There are two parts of our souls given to us to take care each other with the most love that we can muster. God the Father created our spirits, and God the Son created our bodies and this earth. The spirit is eternal. They never are put to an end.

When our mortal bodies die and are taken from the spirit, God takes care of them with all our faithful beloved decease elders. The dead of this world join the spirits of our grand eternal family. The righteous children of God live the life of paradise in the spirit world. This life of paradise is not eternal nor eternal life; however, it is a state of rest, peace, and happiness with everyone.

Happiness can never be restored to a wicked person, so in the spirit world they are naturally miserable as they were in mortality. This miserable state is when they suffer the pains of Hell, for this time is for them to suffer for their sins in Hell. They suffer according to great justice and mercy of God until the resurrection.

Since Jesus Christ broke the bonds of death, every beloved child of Heavenly Father will receive a body of flesh and bone as the father has one. This is the resurrection to receive an immortal body.

The bible talks of bodies Celestial, Terrestrial, and Telestial. These words represent three kingdoms of glory. According to the great mercy and justice of God, these kingdoms satisfy the desires of every man.

The kingdom of God, where the Father and the Son live, is the Celestial Kingdom. The other two kingdoms of glory are live without God.

The Terrestrial kingdom is for the many righteous, but they don't want to be completely humble to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Jesus will visit this kingdom occasionally.

The Telestial Kingdom is for the wicked.

There is a fourth kingdom called outer darkness, where Satan and his followers, are sent to, but the vast majority of mortal being cannot be considered candidates. This kingdom is reserved for those who deny the Holy Ghost, and that sin is impossible for a most high percentage of the beloved children of God.

These glories are granted according to the great mercy and justice of God at judgement according to our works and desires. There glories are eternal. The life of the Celestial Kingdom is Eternal Life, a life where an eternal marriage and posterity is thy blessing.

Christ has suffered that pains of Hell that we may receive the mercy of God. We can all be forgiven through the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It is all according to our works and desires. Let us work out our salvation and seek the desire to be completely humble to the Gospel, so we may all be united with God and our family in eternal life, a bless of fullness of joy, the greatest gift that God can give.

I hope these words are comforting.

I write these things in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen

Spiritual Thought of the Week: Trust God

This past week an experience that I had inspires me to write concerning the hard task to trust someone. I want to speak concerning trusting God more specifically. My first two entries had spiritual thoughts, so I want to add the spiritual thought of this week now.
Trust is often a thing that determines the depth of a relationship. In a mortal relationship, it is often a blessing upon righteousness, respect, honesty, and purity within a bond. Appealing to the trust of a person bring an openness from the person. This can be most comforting to both ends of the union. Living according to the way that will bring greater trust into a relationship brings a greater embrace of between each other. As I said righteousness, respect, honesty, and purity can develop the bonds that you desire with you loved ones.
A person with all of these attributes is God. He is a person of flesh and bone as we are; however, everything about them is perfect. God the Father, the father of our spirits, loves us a lot. He desires the best for us unto the blessing of living with him with all his blessings. He developed a plan to make his desires happen. Before God created this world, he gather all this children, discussing everything concerning his plan. In heaven, where we abode before our live on Earth, the knowledge of wickedness was most limited, but we need to learn of wickedness, live life, and make choses for ourselves without the knowing God and everything. We need to find what we truly want from live, chasing after it whether it is a live of a complete embrace, a partial embrace, or a very limited embrace of God's desires. Our Father is a man of Justice. He does not allow any degree of sin abide in his presence, so we have a long way to be sinless.
When our Heavenly Father presented this beautiful plan of happiness, he organized everything with his perfect wisdom. He knows everything, for the author of the plan of our redemption from sin is himself. He wrote this plan to be very person and most lovingly to try to give us the best opportunity come to find our own greatness in him. Making the chose to try our best concerning God's will blesses us with the mercy of God from the mediator, the man that makes everything happen. Without this mercy all our lives would be lost. The man that makes everything happen even the creation of the Earth that we inhabit is the Son of God. We are to do everything in the his name of Jesus Christ according to his perfect will as his father, for this is how were earn his mercy, trusting his perfect will. God has the way that will lead to a truly blessed life. He backs his promises with his infinite power, and all his words will be fulfilled in our lives. It takes a lot of trust to live according to his word. His word comes from, a man, Jesus Christ and his chosen prophets; although, it is natural to seek and trust God. The opposition in life makes everything hard for us.
The leader of this opposition is Satan. I have faced his opposition as I am a missionary. We see his work limiting the embrace of God by making life as difficult as possible to receive the word of God. A few weeks ago I tried to meet with a sister that she may receive the word of God and the blessing of the way by learning and living according to the wisdom of God. Everything seemed to be going wrong. It was raining. She was grounded. We also even got into a car accident, but we trusted God's protection and the car was lead to not be damaged. The following week she became badly ill. Her phone was messed up, and she was busy with family stuff. All of this was to limit her from receiving the word of God and the blessing of embracing and trusting God. Over these past months, trying to meet with her, I learned to never give up, for God loves her. He wants her to receive all the blessing that he has for her. We have to work out the salvation of mortal family.

Thank you for your time in reading this. I feel that I can write a lot more, but it is plenty long already. I did not even get to write of the experience that inspired me to write this.

I write these things in the name of Jesus Christ Amen.

I am free for the Summer; no more of my Chemistry Summer class

I am free for the summer now, but I will not waste my time blogging more. I am waiting to help a friend, writing an essay, so I thought to relax and write an entry to my blog.
This week so far has been good. I don't feel as solid for the final of my chemistry class than the other tests, but that is okay.
I have seen more freedom and connection in the use of my blog. Writing my sci fi story, I felt restricted because it may be a hassle to give people the link or try to share it with them through Google docs. I can just refer them to my blog.
I am kind of tired of hackers. The world seems to be freaking out about hacking; although, it has always been a problem. I see the thing that made the topic popular for news organizations to actually care to report on this stuff is the hacking of the online Playstation community. This past week I exclaimed on my twitter that I am tired of hearing about Murdoch. I received like more than a hundred tweets in the morning of Tuesday, and I do not follow these news organizations to hear every little detail about what happens in legal trials like Casey Anthony. Everyone seems to be getting hacked. Even today I received a scare that I was being hacked. I don't think so though, but I feel that my friend was hacked.
A friend from Jamaica, where I served a mission for a couple years, greeted me, and referred me to a video. It suppose to be defaming me. It had comments from all my friends from Facebook, talking about it. The video had a link to update an Adobe. Trying to see the video, downloading this update, I saw that the link had a virus. I can put the link on here, but the update problem has a virus on it, and I have no idea what the video is.

http://79.115.1.33/100000988967113

I talked to a friend that I suppose saw the video, for she commented on the video; however, she did not see the video or comment on it. After some conversation, I was lead to actually chat to my friend, telling him that he may be hacked. He went off line for a while, and I saw him come on again. I said "hello," insisting a response.
"it look so i am going to change it" was what he responded with.
I sent an email to my friend that seems to be hacked, and a team that I found online from Facebook to report hackers to is highnoon-support@happylatte.com. They seem to be on it.
I was thinking of writing a brief summary of the hacking scene that I have seen, but I had to write about it after my experience today.

Following up on the NASA reporting as last time this past week Atlantis return for its mission.http://ti.me/ooVdTX Before it returned I was surprised to hear that the next direction of space exploration, saying that it is up to capitalism now. There is now a race to the moon. I asked my parents if they would be interested in going to the moon on vacation, and my mother said that she would rather walk down to the beach, but I would like to go.

yet another awesome week in the life of alexnhicken

This past week was crazy. There is still great violence all over the world. Last Thursday I organized my twitter better. My first twitter is a mess of all the current events that I feel are important to retweet. The way that I organized it was by the following different areas of the world: the Middle East, South America, North America, Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Pacific. One may think that it is crazy to make new email addresses to organize my twitter, but it is an unacknowledged service to support the need to know the calamities of the world. I receive hundreds of texts a day, and I retweet the meaningful ones. A final twitter that I made was named alexnhumanity to reinforce the retweets that I felt meaningful relating to humanity.

I posted a couple other sites that I am apart of or are mine. I have two project websites that are mine: Exsiar and DNA turn on.

Exsiar was an attempt to make a manga or a Japanese comic book of my Cross Country and Track experience. It is a nonfiction though, and it takes an extremely amount of effort to recall all the facts needed to have an accurate story. I wrote one chapter, which I still have, and I may post the rest of the drawings.

The DNA turn on project is a sci-fi novel summary that I am writing. I have the whole series written out, and I am summarizing it for now, and I am going to expound on it as time goes on.

I have a couple other websites that I am somewhat involved in that I will post. The first is funfineart.com, and the second is weekly updated two year missionary service of my little brother Trevor Hicken in Bolivia at elderhicken.tumblr.com

This past week was crazy in the world. There is still great violence in Egypt, Syria, Libya, Afganistan, Yemen, Ireland, Turkey, and much more.

The Embassies of France and the United States were invaded at Syria by activists on Monday.

There was a three explosion terrorist attack in Mumbia, India. There was about a hundred injured and seventeen killed. This happen last Wednesday. The terrorist group was suspected to be from Pakistan namely Lashkar-e-Taiba, and a terrorist group named Deccan Mujahideen seems to claim the attack. I asked my father why, and I still don't understand why people would do terrorist attacks. It must be mainly for carnal desires. That is a simple way to explain it. For more reading one may go to http://mumbai-terrorist-attack.blogspot.com/


Today is a big day. There are many things that I can write of that are meaningful of today, but the one that I want to point out is the work of NASA. I seems that I reported on their work last time, so here is a follow up achievement of NASA. They sent a probe traveling for four years to orbit an asteroid called Vesta, and the probe finally made it there today!


Some more great news is the rebels against the Libyan Government to overthrow the evil regime have the upper hand against Gaddafi. Yesterday my country of the United States received the rebel's government as a success, recognizing it.


Earthquakes, volcano eruptions, and violence abound in these day, for they are the signs of the times. 


In my days this past week was awesome. I was able to go to a baptism last Wednesday for a young girl, taking upon herself the covenants of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. This covenant is important to receive the blessings of God as I said before. The promise of receiving salvation is upon faithfully observing to keep the commands of these covenants. A covenant is a mutual promise or deal. The covenants are to be taken upon ourselves with great reverence, for it is with God. We promise to trust his perfect wisdom and live by it, and God promises great blesses. The most important of which is the true hope to abide in the presence of our Heavenly Father for eternity, for this true hope is a knowledge that the grace of God will grant us salvation upon our best efforts as we serve him according to his expectation. A most important blessing that we can have in mortality is the second half of the ordinance of baptism. 


The scripture of John 3:5 says we need to be baptized by water and the spirit. The baptism of Spirit is more mysterious to the world than the baptism by water. The new testament spoke of a baptism of John the Baptist and one of Jesus similarly to the scripture water and spirit respectively. After Jesus Christ was crucified, the disciples were left to run his church. His disciples were given the authority to baptize people to the blessings of the spirit. Acts 8:14-17 speaks of them performing the ordinance that I saw performed last Wednesday by the same authority, completing the baptism of this young woman. We call this the Gift of the Holy Ghost. 


The Gift of the Holy Ghost is also known as the comforter. For those who have received the Gift of the Holy Ghost they can see its blessings abundantly in comfort, guidance, learning, and many other ways. This past week the blessings of the Gift of the Holy Ghost was impressive. I usually don't receive this type of bold guidance. Searching for a job, I was lead to go to my community college's website with job opportunities. As I browsed the opportunities, I recognized the feeling explained in the scriptures as a feeling of the spirit in the scripture of Luke 24:32, saying, which helped the disciples of Christ recognize Christ following his resurrection, for they asked "Did not our heart burn within us?" I felt this burning within my heart, and I knew this job opportunity with funfineart was lead by God. The opportunity so far seems to be good. The artist called me, and I seem to have to job at this moment. 


The Gospel of Jesus Christ has been restored to the Earth. God needed to call a latter-day heritage of the prophets, for the truthfulness in the Gospel with lost as the Dark Age was approaching the inhabitants of the Earth as earlier than 476 AD. Our Heavenly Father has fulfilled his promise to do so according to the prophecies, and we live today with a modern prophet, doing the same work as all the true prophets of the past. His name is Thomas Monson.

I so testify in my written word in the name of Jesus Christ.