Prophet

I'm sitting at my desk, listening to pretty songs and feeling melancholy.

I just heard that Gordon B. Hinckley, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and prophet, seer and revelator, has passed away. My heart hurt to hear the news.

He was a truly great man, who loved serving the Lord and loved serving His children. He was old and had lived a good life, so it's not a bad thing for him to go. I will miss him, though.

I know that he was a prophet of the Lord. Though I never personally met him (but I had seen him in real life), he affected my life in a wonderful, positive way. I remember seeing him after the Birmingham temple was dedicated and we sang the hymn, "We Thank Thee, O God, For a Prophet." I remember seeing him at my freshman orientation at BYU. I remember seeing him at a devotional the Halloween before last. He was wearing a tie with pumpkins on it and joked about it. Every one of those times I saw him, I received a testimony in my heart that he truly was a prophet. That he received revelation from the Lord to guide us. I am so grateful that I could know that and I am so grateful that I was alive while he was the prophet.

Analysis

Not much has been going on lately with me. I haven't posted in awhile because I'm lazy, not because I've been so incredibly busy.

Classes are going pretty okay. I feel slightly overwhelmed in my Early Modern English class; most of the people in there know so much more than me. We've had to do these stylistic analyses of Othello and mine are so bare bones. I'm just not good at analyzing things. Especially compared to these incredible things other people in my class come up with. Whenever I sit down to look at the scenes, my mind goes blank. Then there are the study questions for the chapters in the book. I hate those. Again, more analyzing. Seriously, can't anything in that class be multiple choice or something? That's what I'm good at.

Argh. I wish school were over and done with.

Funnest

thing ever!

Well, at least it's a pretty darn entertaining thing to spend 10 minutes on.

(Hah! I ended a sentence with a preposition! Take that high school English teachers!)





I am such a nerd.

My sister recently did something fun on her blog. I tried it and it turned out quite funny the first time, but the second time wasn't as interesting unless I modified the rules a little.

Go to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first article on the page will be your band name.

Then
http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four words of the last quote on the page will be the name of your album.

And lastly
http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/?
The third picture is your album cover.

Now put them together!

So I did. I present to you Wagah's debut album, One is to Remain Alive. Note that I used the last five words for the album name. Just makes it work better.

Fun

Did you ever realize that iPod backwards is "pod!" ? Fun, huh?