July 29, 2005
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“. . . I don’t want to tango with you, I’d rather tangle with him. I think i’m gonna bash his head in . . .”
There is a protected post today. So I’m behind in my entries . . . Wednesday I got a haircut:
Before: . . . . . . . . . . . After:
I’m not thrilled with it. The front is cut too straight across. Oh well. At least I have a sexy tan.
And I’m certainly looking more and more like a missionary. I mean- compare it to my old lazy days:
In any event, I hate getting my haircut. Hate it. I hate going to the barber shop because they always do a crappy job, like this haircut. Looks like a robot cut my hair. A $10 robot though. I hate going to the beauty salon just as much though. My hair always looks great- but I have to drop $50. Not to mention I feel like I’m getting way too close to my feminine side. Hence the butcharshop- I mean barbershop haircut.That night I got to play Apples to Apples with Megan and Taylor. Then we watched About a Boy. Great game, good movie. I liked it a lot. One more movie off my list. I really want to see Sky High (I know I know) too by the way.
Yesterday night I got to go to Great America with Megan and her siblings for an hour after work. It was nice to fly superman at night as always.
Tonight I am going to Michelle Bond’s wedding reception. Exciting.
Edit (11:30):
The wedding reception was beautiful. The best I’ve been to. I will miss Michelle so much! I love the Bonds! I am so happy for them now. Is it bad that I was thinking of my future wedding already?
“You’re trying to find a reason for the way you feel. Tonight you’re mind is lined with layers of lead. Have you heard one thing that I’ve said?” (Stroke 9).
Comments (4)
Dude I know this may seem quite ramdnom, But I honsetly need some help in understanding something. And if you’d liek, you can make it breif. Before I say something stupid, can I ask You where you’ll be missionarying?
I like the new ‘do’- it’s sharp! and I’m glad you finally watched About a Boy-it’s one of my faves! yay!
Would yuou try to get people away from their own religion, or just help people without a religion?
I think this quote illustrates the philosophy that I would use to answer your question:
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete,” (Buckminster Fuller).
I will be building on what people already have, not tearing down. To the person who has no religion, I would hope to add the LDS religion. To the person who is a practicing Lutheran who believes in the Bible, I would be hope to add the Book of Mormon. My purpose is in no way to fight what exists, it is to present additions to what exists. We believe that all religions have elements of truth and goodness. We come to add more truths and goodness.
Our founder, Joseph Smith, said, “Have the Presbyterians any truth? Yes. Have the Baptists, Methodists, &c,, any truth? Yes. They all have a little truth mixed with error. We should gather all the good and true principles in the world and treasure them up, or we shall not come out true ‘Mormons.’”
Another early Church leader, Orson F. Whitney said, “There is some truth in all religions, in heathendom as well as in Christendom. . . And it is the truth in those systems that perpetuates them, not the errors with which the truth is mixed. There are millions of good, honest people all over the world, in all the churches, but they have not the fulness of the Gospel. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is its one depository. This is the claim we make. This is the ‘Mormon’ attitude.”
A prophet, John Taylor similarly stated, “Although I was going to say I am not a Universalist, . . . I am, and I am also a Presbyterian, and a Roman Catholic, and a Methodist, in short, I believe in every true principle that is imbibed by any person or sect, and reject the false. If there is any truth in heaven, earth, or hell, I want to embrace it, I care not what shape it comes in to me, who brings it, or who believes in it, whether it is popular or unpopular. Truth, eternal truth, I wish to float in and enjoy.”