It's my Birthday!!

I was born 23 years ago today!! Gordan B. Hinckley had the same birthday and me along with many other people. Jimmer is getting drafter on my birthday, and it is the hottest day of the year today.

I am A Mormon!!

Most people around the world view Mormons as some kind of colt that has weird beliefs and does weird rituals. Many say that Mormons don't believe in Christ and have horns. Many believe that Mormons don't deserve to be recognized. I am writing this blog post for those of you who lack faith, understanding, knowledge or confidence in the beliefs of the Mormons.


The Mormon church is actually called "The Church Of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints". So those people who say that we don't believe in Christ, I say please stop being ignorant and learn our beliefs. Our church is named after Christ. As stated in our first Article of Faith, " We ^abelieve in ^bGod, the Eternal Father, and in His ^cSon, Jesus Christ, and in the ^dHoly Ghost." Christ is the center of our belief. We believe in the Atonement of Christ. We believe that through His Atonement we may be saved from our sins. We believe that God sent us His Son to do mighty works, so that we could return to live with God. We believe god to be our Heavenly Father. We believe God, Christ, and the Holy Ghost to be three separate beings, but one in purpose.

Many people call us Mormons because we believe that God preserved and eventually gave to us another set of scripture that is separate from the Bible, called "The Book of Mormon". The Book of Mormon is very similar to the Bible, but it is the story of God's children who lived on the American continents. As stated in John, there were other sheep who were not of the fold in Jerusalem and the area that Christ preached. We believe that The Book of Mormon is the history of some of the other sheep that Christ spoke about. We believe that God and Christ directed and taught these people, just like they did with those spoken of in the Bible.

I testify that The Book of Mormon is true doctrine revealed to God's prophets by God, and given to us in this day to give us more guidance and help to follow the Gospel of Christ.


The Book of Mormon was revealed to a man by the name of Joseph Smith in the 1800's. Joseph was a farm boy who lived in New York. He was from a very religious family and visited many churches searching for the truth. He found good in all the different churches, but found that they all contradicted each other. While reading the Bible he had many questions about what was taught in the Bible and wanted answers. One day he read in the book of James, chapter 1, verse 5, which reads: "If any of you lack ^bwisdom, let him ask of God, that ^cgiveth to all men liberally, and ^dupbraideth not; and it shall be given him." Joseph read this and felt the need to pray to God for help. On a Spring morning he went to a grove of trees out by his house. He found a place where he could kneel down, being all alone, and he began to pray to his God. He gave the following account of his experience:

"After I had retired to the place where I had previously designed to go, having looked around me, and finding myself alone, I kneeled down and began to offer up the desires of my heart to God. I had scarcely done so, when immediately I was ^aseized upon by some power which entirely overcame me, and had such an astonishing influence over me as to bind my tongue so that I could not speak. Thick ^bdarkness gathered around me, and it seemed to me for a time as if I were doomed to sudden destruction. But, exerting all my powers to ^acall upon God to deliver me out of the power of this enemy which had seized upon me, and at the very moment when I was ready to sink into ^bdespair and abandon myself to destruction—not to an imaginary ruin, but to the power of some actual being from the unseen world, who had such marvelous power as I had never before felt in any being—just at this moment of great alarm, I saw a pillar of ^clight exactly over my head, above the brightness of the ^dsun, which descended gradually until it fell upon me. It no sooner appeared than I found myself ^adelivered from the enemy which held me bound. When the light rested upon me I ^bsaw two ^cPersonages, whose brightness and ^dglory defy all description, ^estanding above me in the air. One of them spake unto me, calling me by name and said, pointing to the other—This is My ^fBeloved ^gSon. Hear Him!"

I know that this happened. i know God lives and I believe in Christ. He is my Savior, my Redeemer, my Brother, and my Friend!


If you want to find out more about the Mormons visit the following sights:
www.mormon.org
www.lds.org

Pizza Pie Cafe

Unfortunately I don't have pictures to prove it, but Pizza Pie Cafe is great!! Bianca and I went on a date the other day to eat and play. It was my first time at PPC and let me tell you the second we walked in I knew I was doomed. I walked over to the Pizza table and gazed over the selection of all you can eat pizza choices. I saw out of the corner of my eye the desert pizzas and I went bonkers. So I immediately snatched up 6 pieces of pizza and went back to the table. Within minutes I was back to get another 6 pieces. We were there for about 15 minutes and Bianca had a salad and some pizza and I had 17 pieces of pizza, 6 of those being desert pizzas.

If you are looking for a good pizza place to eat that is not really that expensive, I would highly recommend PPC, because it was delicious, cheap and really hard to stop eating. I want more of it everyday.