This post is a little late, I know, but busy weekend. For my religious commentary of the week, I would like to relate the actions of the apostles to two separate scriptures in the Book of Mormon. For synopsis, As the apostles go around on their several missions after Christ's death, they strive to do the work of the Lord and to teach people of Christ. For those relatively knowledgeable of the Latter Day Saint church (Mormons), this is basically what many of our youth do. We become missionaries that strive to serve the Lord and the people we teach. However, I have noticed that missionaries tend to vary in success, and sometimes its because of attitude. Looking at the Apostles of Christ during their respective ministries, they can be described as striving to do what God commands with utter faith, similar to Nephi in 1st Nephi 3:7. These people are hard working and striving for what is right. This, I believe wholeheartedly, is how a missionary should serve. They should be humble to the lord and have mind only for God's will. They should seek to serve those they teach as if they were lesser, and I am glad to say most missionaries I have met act like this. This is an ideal way to serve, as both Nephi and the Apostles at the time after Jesus served in this way. However, it is not always the way people act. Fun little thing. Don't get 1st Nephi 3:7 and 3rd Nephi 3:7 mixed up, especially on how you act. 3rd Nephi 3:7 is Giddianhi inviting the Nephites to join him in sin and as robbers. Giddianhi in this is prideful, boastful, tyrannical and overall a jerk. What I would really like to talk about is that I have met and heard of missionaries who have served like Nephi and the Apostles from Jerusalem, and I have met missionaries who have served like Giddianhi was acting then. And I testify to you, no matter what you are doing, whether you are serving a mission as a Mormon, or trying to make a business deal or anything, acting like Giddianhi will cause you to fail. If you want to teach or convince anyone of whatever you are doing, you must set and if necessary teach by example. Teach like how Nephi and the Apostles would teach. Do not be lost in pridefulness, especially if you plan to serve a mission, I have seen people fall away from the Gospel, people in my family included, because people have been prideful like Giddianhi as opposed to loving and understanding. I testify that if you should be Christlike, whether Mormon or not, when interacting with people, you will find more respect and success in your actions than if you should follow the alternative.
Anyway, serious message now being given, time for some more lighthearted news! I hope you all had a wonderful Valentines Day, or a quiet and chocolate filled Singles-Awareness Day. My valentines day was significantly more eventful than any other in my life. As in, I actually did a thing :D woo! Went on a nice date with a gorgeous girl and it was amazing. We gave gifts, and I am amazed by what she gave me. She made me a crochet Walrus. Now for those who know me personally, I love Walruses, and have 3 stuffed animal ones (make excellent teddy bears and neck pillows). But she made me a walrus. He is small and adorable, and ready for battle. Thus, Walter the Battle Walrus will join me on adventures if I should do another thing, and hopefully stories will be posted on the blog.
In other news, my submersion into DnD is only becoming more and more serious, as now I am in 3 campaigns. 2 are pathfinder campaigns (one I am a Walrus-humanoid fighter with a *bad* Russian accent) and one where I am a frog rogue. Needless to say I love being a frog :D. We had frog shenanigans in our past meeting for the Frog Campaign, which tend to go along the lines of "Hey Froggy make a stealth check" *Rolls Obscenely high since 13 base stealth* "Alright you are not invisible and on your party members back, go adventure around to route out a gang." Fun times.
However, my last campaign isn't exactly DnD, but actually another Table Top called "Call of Cthulhu," where you adventure and investigate to do something related to the Lovecraftian mythos. Combat in this game is highly unadvised not because it isn't easily possible, but because you will get destroyed by the monsters. However, my fun in that campaign comes in when the Keeper (person running the thing) introduces the "cannon sock", a peice of a sock that can change a joking and sarcastic comment like "I will attack the monster.... Joking not going to" into "Wait, I HAVE to now? oh crap." Thus far, we have made my friend's male character fall in love secretly with my character (also male). The catch is that I had a bad role, and thus have the exact minimum you can have in a stat in appearance, meaning I am the ugliest living thing ever. So ugly I have become exotic and thus have a secret admirer. Fun times.
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