Mormon

How did the son of a bingo parlor owner turn in to a casino mogul who is credited with bringing Las Vegas in to the new frontier, coincidently the name of a casino he owned? Mr. Steve Wynn has a vision for beautiful things, he always wanted for people to say that place is beautiful in and out. I’ve read 4 bios and watched 3 pieces on him and the statement above is probably the most accurate, besides the fact that it is a business and he makes a lot of money, he wants people to enjoy his casinos…

Edwin Catmull’s entire life has been based around his love for animation. As a little kid, Ed would wait for Walt Disney to come appear on Sundays on his black and white 12” television. He called it the, “Disney Magic”. Walt Disney was on of Catmull’s boyhood idols. The other idol that he had as a child was Albert Einstein. He explained, in his autobiography, the reason he probably looked up to these two men. He felt that they both represented creativity, just in different ways. Disney…

In his book “The Deadly Wandering” Matt Richtel tells the true story of a young Mormon man by the name of Reggie Shaw, who causes a terrible accident that leaves two scientists dead in 2006. The sad part about this story/book is that the accident was actually caused by Reggie texting and driving. Richtel also mentions some scientific studies on human attention while driving. In Chapter nineteen, Richtel talks about Reggie, after the accident had already happened. He mentions that his former high…

345). They studied psychology students at a Mormon university and found that there was a noteworthy change in the students’ worldview from theism to naturalism over the course of their four years in college (Johnson, 2011, p. 345). This change was caused by how the information was being taught and…

There many ways to tell what God is like, I believe that each of us will have our own opinions of how we portray God. I portray God in many different ways but my favorites are how powerful, forgiving, and unconditionally loving He is. I think about how powerful God is I am awestruck. In the book of Job it talks about how glorious God's voice is and how we cannot put words towards the greatness that his power is (Job 37:5 New International Version.) Throughout our lives we are faced with…

About a week ago Brother Caudle asked, and I use that term loosely because there really was no asking involved, me to give my Talk today on how the song that we just sang affected my life and how I am preparing to serve a mission. To be prepared for your mission you must have the simple things down. Things such as having a testimony of the church, which is the simplest thing yet also the most powerful and important. I feel this is one of the most major connections we can have to God so that…

Elder Danisa did not remain the way I described him throughout his mission. He taught me things about my behavior that I changed and we taught him things that he eventually changed, like being nice to both men and women. I noticed that I thought I was better than were the locals because of my American heritage before my incident with Elder Danisa. Even though Elder Streadbeck told me that my people, Black Americans, were great in their own right, I started to notice that other people were great.…

The definition of the situation is a way of identify the situation, uses reason and science to figure out social problems and allows one to understand your life circumstances to help understand the issue or problem and interpret it in a moral context. Some examples of understanding the situation from our everyday lives are things like gun control and the sides of argument about guns, immigration with looking at the perspectives of people coming into the country and the people who oppose people…

you would send your daughter to get married to a man she has never even met! You could even look in the bible to see non “traditional marriages”. King Solomonn for example was said to have 700 wives and on top of that 300 concubines. Even American mormons practiced polygamy before the federal government put a stop to it. The western world loves to see the Roman world as something akin to a golden age. Hence where the word romanticize comes from. Yet at 2 of the Roman empires were known to have a…

I knew that I had the truth and that he and his companion had brought the truth to me! Why would he, the messenger of God, tell me to stay with my mother, who denied me baptism? Russ, my missionary, turned to the Bible and read in Exodus 20:12 if I recall rightly, Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. I submitted without further resistance. Not only had he used the scriptures to cool the passion in my heart, but also he…