The Explorer

He gathers his belongings,
He will not return for sometime, if ever
He's setting out on a journey,
to forge a path that has never before been explored.

We may not think of ourselves as
one fo the many great explorers,
like, Columbus or Magellan, but
We are all explorers in this life,
Our path has never before been explored.

Each day is a new trail,
a new path to forge,
a new road to explore.

Rain

I get excited everytime I see the dark clouds roll across the valley.
I love how the soft pitter patter changes into the loud thuds of the gigantic drops.
As I child I looked forward to the days when it would rain. I loved singing songs like Rain, rain, go away, come again another day or It's raining, it's pouring. I loved singing these songs, but never wishing for a moment for the rain to cease and come again another day. I remember pressing my ear to the wall so I could hear the pouring rain. I loved the pitter patter of the rain on the windows of the house. Whenever it would rain all of the neighborhood kids running through the rain filled gutters up and down the street I lived. I still look for the dark luminous clouds to roll in and for the rain to wash the earth clean again.

The Light

I was sitting deep within the dark cave of a mountain this afternoon and for whatever reason we turned off the light we had been using to guide our path through the cave. I couldn't see anything in front of me. I had the choice to back further into the cold dark cave or to find my way out. I chose to go back the way I had come on my hands and knees so that I would again be reunited with the light. I forged ahead going back the way I had come back towards the entrance of the cave. Life is like being in a cave. It's dark and sometimes we don't know where to go. We can either plunge further into the darkness and despair or we can get down on our hands and knees and pray to our Heavenly Father to find the light and find our direction. We are not truely in the dark, there is always a way out, all we have to do is put our faith in the Lord and He will direct us.

Looking Back

A friend asked the other day if I remembered what I had been doing exactly a year ago. I thought about it and I realized I was doing the same thing. I was getting ready for finals week and moving out of my apartment. I suddenly realized that in five months I will be packing my bags again, only this time I would not be coming back to Rexburg and to BYU-Idaho for a couple of years because I have decided to serve a full time mission. I then thought about what I would be doing a year from now. I would be somewhere preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ. This will be one of the greatest and most important things I will have ever done. I'm looking forward to one year from now, when I will be serving the Lord and devoting all of my time to proclaiming his gospel.

Denver

Two weeks ago I went to Denver for a field trip for one of my Horticulture classes. Our first stop on our way there was in Fort Collins, Colorado at the Anheuser Busch factory (Budweiser). Why they took a bunch a mormon kids from BYU-Idaho to tour a beer factory, I don't know, but it was interesting. They were so kind after to the tour as to offer us free samples of their products, no none of us took advantage of the free beer. I don't really understand why people like beer, it smells like fermented bananas, but whatever.