Lecturer | Linguist | language researcher | PhD Candidate in Complex Systems
Yesterday I had the opportunity to help the mission with transfers. We left at 4:00am to go pickup a sister that was starting her mission and bring down an elder serving in her area. We left the city and were
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Some thoughts on faith from my scripture study today. Faith = trust in things we cannot quantify immediatly or in other words, things not seen. Faith is a proactive principle( 2 Nephi 2:14, Alma 32:28 ) it is impossible to
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Usually, I like to wake up early around 5:30 am, and start my day. That is my preferred schedule if I can get to bed early enough. This morning I woke up to this beautiful scene. It’s not unusual to
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There was an article in the National Review that caught my eye today. It was about how the media covered the different riots this summer and how they treated capitol rioters in January. We hold concepts in our brain through
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For those not of my faith, seminary is a four-year program for high school-aged youth. Every weekday during the school year the youth attend a one-hour class about the scriptures. Every year they rotate the topics. They rotate between Old
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I keep seeing this photo go around social media and people defending it as if it was logical. It is not a logical argument to make for reasons I will explain. In writing this article, I am not advocating one
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Now that Joe Biden is now the President of the United States I think it is appropriate to reflect back on the last four years. It was a bumpy ride. One that I would not like to live again. For
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One of my all-time favorite pieces of political writing is Martin Luther King’s letter from Birmingham jail. The truth in that letter is second only to the declaration of independence in my mind. In fact, they both espouse the same
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On January 1st I made the decision to get off of soda of every kind. I drank two sodas a day for a couple of years. I went completely cold turkey. I have pretty strong will power when I put
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Claude-Frédéric Bastiat was a French economist and writer who lived in the 19th century. He wrote extensively on the philosophy of liberty. As I have been re-reading his book The Law four quotes have stood out to me. Bastiat passed
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