Results not typical

I rarely, if ever, pay attention to ads on television. There was some ad on there for a new diet drug, and the experience this person had with the drug. I noticed in the bottom of the screen, the words in a clearish-white color, "Results not typical." I was humored.

Righting Wrongs and Wronging Rights

On Wednesday, our pragram went on a two day tour to see how instruments were made and all of the processes involved with it. I arrived early on the day, placed my bag in a seat, then actually felt like being social and outside as well, so I talked to some people outside of the bus while waiting till the last second to leave.

I got on the bus and noticed that my bag had been moved. One of the girls in our group decided she wanted her own seat, recognized that that was my bag, and we're close enough as friends that she put my bag in some other seat, and spread out to make sure no one would sit with her, so she could have those two seats on the tour bus to herself.

I didn't know who's bag sitting next to mine where the girl had put it, but I wasn't going to have that, you don't just start throwing people's things around just because you want your way, when rightfully, it shouldn't be yours. So in a manner very uncharistic of me, I told her that, no she can't just move my stuff on a whim, and moved her stuff into the compartment above and sat down right next to her.

The gentleman whose seat my bag was carelessly thrown into then entered on the bus and sat down. This guy is easily the social misfit of the group. Most of the time he seems like he's starved for attention and will follow you around at exceptionally close distances, and most people will probably consider him to be a very creepy guy with no social grace. He would have enjoyed having somebody to talk to for the trip, and in all honesty, I wouldn't have minded. There are some people in the program who are absolutely disrespectful to him, which is sad. Admittedly, I've had those thoughts before, but I try not to voice them. But there was a chance for me to sit down and chat with him, and just let him enjoy the time, instead of just staring out the window or elsewhere.

Instead I chose the option to right a wrong, and wronged a right that I had an oppurtunity to do. Usually I'm in the position and nature where I'll do something right giving the oppurtunity, but I won't correct the wrongs that happen around me or to me. So it's interesting for me to be on the side of righting wrongs and wronging rights, instead of righting rights and wronging wrongs. Now if I could just make sure I could right everything, but I'm only human.

Religious Discussions

Religious discussions with people of other faiths are always fun. One of the reasons is that they find all sorts of interesting questions that you never really ask yourself. I was working on projects with somebody else from my program for several hours and we were able to talk about different religions and our own beliefs. Well she had bought this pamphlet that explained different religions and wanted to know exactly how accurate it was.

Obviously it wasn't all that accurate(like we believe the Holy Spirit in made of liquidy moisture), and the stuff they did get right obviously consisted of all the meat and none of the milk. So this makes things interesting in trying to explain about my beliefs to her when she getting on the hard stuff and nothing to back it up. Naturally this led to the phenomenon that we called Kolobing in our mission. It's always annoying when people share nothing of the fundamentals and all of the deep stuff, because then you have to show people how to understand it all. Yet here I find myself doing the same thing I didn't like others doing. Oh well.

Anyway, back to a couple of her questions. I had explained briefly about ward and branches, and how you have singles ward and branches nicknamed meatmarkets. I had also discussed a little bit about the spirit world. Later on, we were talking about how families are eternal and the relationship between husband and wife. Well, she asked what about people who haven't gotten married in this life. In answer to her own question she said spirit world meatmarkets. I will now forever use that whenever that question comes up, whether it's right or not.

Another part of our discussions, I had mentioned that we believe that God has a physically body, to which she asked where does God live. It's interesting the simpleness of some questions and how difficult the answers can be at times. It was a lot of fun.

While most of the discussion was probably somewhat on overload, unclear, no order, etc., the thing I hope I left her with was that I know that I'm following God's plan for me, and I have that surety of knowing what I need to know through the Spirit by prayer and study, and that she can do the same thing for herself. That this is something that I'm doing because I know it's what I should be doing and it isn't just the tradition of my parents that I'm following in or the dental plan(according to one convert I know would jokingly say was the reason he joined the LDS church). If I showed her that, I feel that that would take precedence over my blunders of going Kolobing.

Roommates, roommates, and roommates

So it's now the first of the month and the rent is due. My roommate started out with twice as much money as I had, and squandered all of his money in half the time on guns, booze, and expensive food. So I called the manager yesterday, and even if I pay my half, I still get penalized because it's not paid in full. I will not cover for my roommate on the basis that I will never ever see that money again. This creates problems.

There's one guy moving out of our apartment complex and his roommate would need a roommate and I could possibly move in with him, since he's at least responsible and will pay his half of the bills. I can't move out of my apartment unless roomie moves out to get the security deposit back. Not sure what roomie plans yet, but really he has no reason for being here since he dropped out of school within two weeks and has no job. But I don't think his parents will ever be willing to bail him out.

So if I pay my half, and eventually we get evicted because of roomie, I see nothing of my security deposit, if I move out, I don't get any security deposit, roomie will eventually get evicted, and I still don't get back my security deposit. At this point, I'm half tempted on not even paying my part of rent, get us both evicted, then move in with the guy who's going to be out of a roommate soon.

Fun, fun, fun.