Small and Simple Things

Recently I have been working out with one of my roommates. He knows many different lifts and
exercises. One day, he introduced us to exercising with our scarves. At first we thought it was a joke, how could a scarf provide the resistance needed to make the exercise worth anything. The instructions were very simple, hold the scarf taut and then raise it above our heads and lower it keeping the tension on the scarf and our arms straight. Then, keeping the scarf taut still, do shoulder presses with the scarf, after which came putting it behind our back and working our triceps by raising our arms behind our back. We started in still seeing this as a joke, but by the time we finished we felt the burn.

Recognizing the Spirit

I am color blind, and so the first reaction I get from people when I tell them this is for them to look for something, and then ask me what color it is. When I get it right, their next question is normally, what type of colorblindness, so I say red/green colorblind, so they look for something that is either red or green around and once again ask me what color it is. This goes on for four or five items then finally they say, your not colorblind. Another typical question I get is, How does green (or red) look to you? I then have to explain to them, that I cannot explain how it looks to me. Try it yourself, How does green look to you? Describe the color green. You cannot come up with a description besides green, just as I can normally recognize green, you too can recognize green, but yet you cannot describe how it looks to someone else. You are focused to give examples of things that are green.

The Truth Shall Set You Free.

It was the year 1492, and a man named Columbus was out at sea, his desire to find a faster route to India for trade. Until this point in time, the only known ways were sailing around the continent of Africa or tranversing Europe and Asia, but Columbus had a new idea, sail across the Alantic Ocean, an idea many must have mocked him for. "There is no way you can make it!" some must have said "you will either meet your end while facing a sea monster or sailing off the edge of earth." Many held the belief at this time that the world was flat and could be sailed off of if one voyaged to far. Columbus was eager to show his criticizers wrong by making a successful voyage to and from India.

The Formulas in the Scriptures

When I was younger, I had no idea how to solve a rubik's cube. I would grab one of the many my family had for what ever reason, and play around with it, forget what I did with it and have to turn it over to my dad to solve. I would then get it back in my possession fiddle with it some more, and once again give it to my dad to solve. To me the rubik's cube posed an impossible conundrum of connecting the colors back together. This continued until one year I got a five by five by five rubik's cube for Christmas. I decided at that point I needed to learn how to solve it or else it would stay a jumbled mess. After watching a youtube video about a dozen time I had the steps down. That video taught me that there were a few simple steps that you take to solve it. These algorithms or formulas always do as you want and always solve the cube when applied correctly.

Charity Is Not Puffed Up

Before my mission, I loved Super Smash Brothers. My friends and I would play it all the time. Once Melee came out, I became a fan of Jigglypuff, and this continued over to Brawl. Brawl added final smashes to the game, powerful moves unique to the character. Jigglypuff being a small puff ball, got the final smash puff up which causes it to swell to colossal sizes pushing away all in the way of its growth spurt. Naturally, I would, on small stages, grab a smash ball, go to the center of the stage and unleash the final smash and watch as I engulfed the stage and my opponents go flying. What does this have to do with the gospel?

The Constant Companion

A young boy awakes one day to find a fairy near him; sent from the Great Deku Tree, Navi the Fairy was to help the child and act as a constant source of aid. Throughout his adventure in Hyrule, Link was always able to rely on Navi to direct him and help warn him of danger. This fairy companion even traveled with him through time, as he sought to protect the land of Hyrule from falling completely into the grip of the evil sorcerer Ganondorf. Navi proved to be an indispensable ally for the hero of time. Just as Link had Navi, we too can have an unfailing companion.