Texting Updates

Okay so this post is a little similar to the last one... oh well :).

The Church has announced a new temple in Payson! It's so exciting. (Hopefully it will help make the Provo teemple a little less busy.)

My religion professor today said she received the announcement via a text message. Apparently there is a number you can text to receive announcements of big Church news and events. How neat is that?

If anyone knows that number, let me know!

Travel Time

It's track season again....which means traveling almost every weekend from Jan to May. My husband and I are both on the BYU track team and so we travel to track meets on weekends, which means we have to travel on a lot of Sundays. Right now it's Sunday morning and we are stuck waiting in the Las Vegas airport and we won't be able to make it to church in time.

Unfortunately, we miss church more often than we would like to. When we are traveling we love taking advantage of all the resources mormon.org and lds.org offer. We watch the Mormon Messages, Church commercials, and listen or watch Conference talks and devotionals. The Church has revamped these sites and they offer many wonderful sources to access talks, music, and articles. It is amazing the access we have to almost anything we want. It is so fun to search by topic, speaker, or year. There are thousands of articles available.

We are so grateful the Church as provided this invaluable tool!

Expelled

My husband and I watched this movie this past week. It is a documentary film about the science vs. religion debate. Ben Stein is the director/main character. In the film he chronicles his journey of trying to discover the truth of how Darwinism and its proponents suppresses the ideas of Creation and Intelligent Design. Stein interviewed several professors who have lost their jobs and have been shuned in academia because of their research in the arena of Intelligent Design.

This was a fantastic film! It was eye-opening and inspiring. This film serves as a great example of how the media can be used to expose the public to issues such as this that need to be addressed. Unfortunately, because this film is so controversial, it was shut down and canceled from movie theaters days after it was released. It is near impossible to find, but can be viewed in 10 video segments on YouTube. I definitely recommend watching it!

Beer commericals...

Disgust me! There is a new commercial and I am not even sure which brand it is for, but it shocked me. When people become addicted to alcohol they are not able to maintain healthy relationships. The beer producers and advertisers know this, and rather than hiding it, they promote it in a comical way in their commercials. They try to show that it's okay that alcohol takes over your life and that it is funny.

The newest commercial I have seen of this depicts a couple sitting in a nice restaurant. The girl tells her boyfriend for the first time that she loves him. When the male tries to reciprocate, he stumbles over the word "love." He cannot form the word with his mouth. However, when a waitress walks by and asks him if he would like a beer, the man exclaims, "I'd love one," then when he goes back to talking with his girlfriend, he cannot get the word love out again.

My husband and I just moved into a new apartment and the internet has been sketchy. Sometimes it will connect and sometimes it won't. When it does connect it is so slow that it takes about 10 minutes to open a new page. We've been frustrated because we haven't been able to check our email.
It's funny how dependent we are on computers and the internet. It's amazing to think how much technology has transformed our lives and it's hard to imagine life without it.