Great First week!

         So I think i am really going to like this class. it has been so much fun already. i think something that i think is so cool is there is no busy work. its not a class that makes you do things just for the sake of giving us something to do. the homework that we have is research about the world around us. its about finding trends and finding the affects of the lives we are choosing to live. I really loved when we were learning about the trends that our society is facing. the decline in children, the increase of selfishness. it makes me sad too. because i think about why heavenly Father sent us down here. it was to make it back to him. it was to do what we should to live the gospel and part of living the gospel is raising children in a stable family.
           But when i look around me, or talk to my friends, or watch TV shows, its all about living young for as long as we can. about being whoever we want to be without thinking of anyone else. its about getting a job and being rich and famous, or about sticking it to the man and being a bum your whole life. Girls who want to be moms are looked down on because they are "throwing away" their education. its amazing to look at how many of these trends are going to cause the downfall of our society. Marriages are falling apart, or not happening at all. when i tell people i wont live with someone before i am married, they look at me like im crazy because how can you marry someone if you dont know what it is like to live with them?? the Horror right?
           I mean all the morals that built our amazing nation is falling to the wayside. and to be honest i had no idea the degree and the speed of this decline. until this class. until this week. I think that learning these things are so important because we need to know whats going on. we might be one person, but that one person can tell someone or can show through example and then another person follows, and so it continues. there are so many people in this world. what can one person do? what can i do? but then i think about it, why not try and make a difference?? what is the point of learning all of this, if it isn't going to affect me or the way i am living?
         The learning Model that BYUI is based on, is clear that the education we receive here is not just for a piece of paper saying we finished. it is to make sure that we are changed after we leave this place. that we are educated. that we are smarter, wiser, more Christ like. so that is what i am going to try to become. i am going to learn all that i can in this class. i am going to make sure that the decisions i make and why i make them is loud and clear. so everyone knows that i am not part of the trend. i am not a follower of the world. I am a follower of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and the plan he has for me.

cant wait to start blogging!

So i just wanted to send out a post letting y'all know how excited i am to start blogging! i have never done this before so be patient with me. i am not all that good at it. and i am sure there will be things that are completely wrong on this but i am learning (: i am excited to start this class and to use this blog to put down all my feelings and revelations that i came across while learning more about the families that surround me.