A New Blog!

So, I haven't blogged in a bit. Mostly cause I went on a trip Thursday till Tuesday. Also cause I haven't had a whole lot I feel like posting on the internet for whomever to read. Stephanie wants me to blog about Mcflurries, but I've never had one. Now I'm telling her to move to Utah this summer.

Anywho, I had a really great trip. Here's more info then most of you pry care about what I did.

Tuesday spent the day in Salt Lake at Temple Square and such. I walked up to the park where Brigham Young is buried but the gate was locked shut. That's quite the climb up the hill (especially since I didn't know exactly where I was going and had to roam a bit), so not being able to get in was disappointing. I did go with my friend Brian to see the Tabernacle Choir's rehearsal and really enjoyed that.

Saturday I went to lunch with an old companion and his fiance (Elder Wong. Read a previous blog). It was so much fun. We went to a Chinese Restaurant ("What made you pick this place Gleason??"). Every time I'm around him I just laugh pretty much the whole time. He's so funny.

Sunday it snowed a lot and I went to Ian's ward and then had dinner at a friend of my mom's. A good day. He gave me and JJ a copy of the new MoTab CD (which is awesome by the way!) cause he's in the choir. Monday I went and watched frisbee take place, then went to Denny's with Justin and Jennifer. I think one of my favorite parts of the weekend was kicking it with those 2. Me and JJ ate at J-Dogs That night I went with Brian to see my mission President. He's one of those people that just makes you feel good being around him.

Tuesday I went to Lunch with JJ and Carly, then to the airport. My flight was 2 hours delayed, so I spent a good amount of time getting to know the B terminal in Salt Lake.

Now I have a really soar throat thing going on. It's not like a normal soar throat, just the back of my throat. Either its all dry and irritated from the dry air/plane, or I think something's wrong with my tonsils. But who wants to go to a doctor complaining about something you don't even know how to explain ("well It SEEMS... but I'm no doctor"). So here's hoping it just magically gets better.

During my trip I spent a lot of time reading President Bush's book. Now, I've been a fan of the former President, but who expected a book by him to be that engaging? I didn't. But it is.

So, there's all about my trip. I'm going to bed. Here's some of the lyrics to my favorite song on that CD though.

Oh when shall I see Jesus, And reign with Him above,
And shall hear the trumpet sound in the morning?
And from the flowing fountain Drink everlasting love,
And shall hear the trumpet sound in the morning?

But now I am a soldier, My Captain's gone before;
And I hear the trumpet sound in that morning
He's given me my orders, And bids me ne'er give o'er;
Til I hear the Trumpet sount in the Morning.

When shall I be delivered From this vain world of sin,
And shall hear the trumpet sound in the morning?
And with my blessed Jesus Drink endless pleasures in,
And shall hear the trumpet sound in the morning?

Oh Shout, With glory!
I shall mount above the skies,
When I hear the trumpet sound in the morning!

I don't really have anything to blog about right now

But I'm sitting here so I'll type.

As most of you being my facebook friends can tell I've been on a Chirchill kick of late. Why? I don't know really. Perhaps cause he saved the world for Democracy. Perhaps because everything he ever said was right and turned out exactly way he said it would happen. Churchill had been among the first to recognise the growing threat of Hitler long before the outset of the Second World War, and his warnings went mostly ignored. He was absolutely opposed to appeasment which just made the Nazis stronger("You were given the choice between war and dishonour. You chose dishonour, and you will have war." Maybe Chamberlian thought he was improving Britian's image abroad). He also had a speech impediment when he was young, and failed out of a speech class. Ironic cause he was one of the best public speakers of his time.

I love wikipedia. I typed this up earlier, looked up Churchill to get the war quote, and a couple hours later, I'm just stopping reading.

Anywho, I'm going to bed.

Churchill

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Yep, it's a blog

I haven't had a whole lot new to blog about the last couple weeks. I had what I think was some strain of the flu the last couple days. I got home Saturday night and broke out into a wicked fever. My whole body got cold and shivering pretty violently, and at the same time my head heated quite a bit.

Right now I'm listenning to Firework by Katy Perry. Weird? Yes. Right before the song started (it's on Youtube. I wanted to see if the music video was as trippy as California gurlz. Which was really weird btw. If you haven't seen it, it's worth the watch. She gets flipped off by a gummy bear and it blurs it out. 2 questions on that. 1. Why would a gummy bear flip her off? we dunno. 2. Gummy bears don't have fingers, so they pretty much blurred out a gummy bear's paw. But it all adds up when Snoop Dog enters). Anywho, there was a commercial for bing that had a guy calling a girl asking her to a dance. I have no idea what it had to do with bing, but it was funny. It reminded me of what I must sound like on the phone with a girl. Yeah, this video's a bit weird too.

I recently saw the movie Forever Strong for the first time. I was pleasently surprised by how good it actually was. Especially the main kid's acting. Quite convincing. I mean, towards the beginning you really do hate that guy, but towards the end when he turns it around, you believe it. If that makes any sense. Plus the movie has Gary Cole who played Bob Russell on the West Wing. So it also has that going for it.

I've really been loving the movie Angels and Demons lately. Since the first time I saw it it was one of my favorites. I tend to like movies where there's problems being solved and thinking and such. Like the Da Vinci Code or National Treasure movies. But Angels and Demons is quite great. The plot's exciting. It basically takes place at the Vatican as a new Pope is being chosen then there's a bomb threat and the Cardinals that make up the Preferiti that are the most likely to succeed the Pope are kidnapped. The acting's great cause Tom Hanks tends to always be pretty great. As well as Ewan McGregor. Plus I'm pretty sure the bad guy is one of the most hard-core, awesome bad guys there are in movies. And the script's awesome as well.

"May god forgive you for what you've done."
"Father, if God has issues, they won't be with what I've done. They will be with what I'm about to do."

"...but science and religion are not enemies! There are simply some things that science is just too young to understand. So the church pleads: "stop", "slow down", "think", "wait"... and for this - they call us backward. But who is more ignorant: the man who cannot define lightning, or the man who does not respect its natural awesome power?"

Parley P. Pratt

"He has organzed the Kingdom of God.- We will extend it's dominion.
He has restored the fulness of the Gospel.- We will spread it abroad.
He has laid the foundation of the temple.- We will bring up the top stone with shouting.
He has kindled the fire.- We will fan the flame.
He has kindled up the dawn of a day of glory.- We will bring it to its meridian splendour.
He was a 'little one' and became a thousand. We are a small one, and will become a strong nation
In short, he quarried the stone from the mountain; We will cause it to become a great mountain and fill the whole Earth."

On Joseph Smith

President Hinckley

"Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we believe. And the only real wealth, for any of us, lies in our faith."