Week 1

What did you learn from this week’s readings and videos? 

In class this week we watched several videos. I loved the video of President Hinckley's address to BYU-Idaho students in 2002. It was just what I needed to hear as I start my first year of college. 

He said, "Now be faithful. Be true. Go forward. Be ambitious. Don’t short circuits yourself. Don’t stop now. Keep going. Keep going. Educate your minds. And your spirits and never lose sight of the fact that you’re a child of God with a divine destiny and capable of doing great and good and wonderful things. Don’t sell yourself short. Don’t cheapen yourselves, you know who you are. You that you are a child of God and that your Heavenly Father expects something great and noble and good of each of you. The lord bless you my dear young friends. As I look into your faces I see the future. Keep the faith. You’ll marry. You’ll have children. You’ll have grandchildren. You go out and do the work of this world. Maintain your integrity. Be honest. Be good. Be decent. Be prayerful and the God of Heaven will smile upon you and bless you and give happiness into your hearts and a sense of peace in your lives. Now I wish for you nothing but the best. I uh, so choice and so wonderful in the future so great that you can’t afford to betray yourselves in any way and to do anything less and that to which each of you is capable of accomplishing. You don’t have to be a genius. You don’t have to be a straight a student. You just have to do you’re very best with all the capability that you have, you have to do your very best and somehow if you do that, God will open the way before you and the sun will shine and your lives will be fruitful and you’ll accomplish great good in the world in which you take apart couldn’t wish for you anything. As I look into your faces this day, heaven smile upon you. You’re just simple kids you’re not geniuses, I know that. But the work of the world isn’t done by geniuses. Is done by ordinary people who’ve learned to work in an extraordinary way."

President Hinckley said at the close of his address that each day we should look in the mirror and say I can do the right thing today. I put that on my mirror in my bathroom, so I can remember this each day. 

What are you looking forward to learning and experiencing?

I am looking forward to learning more about myself and what I direction I want to go in in my education this semester.

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