Class Connection

Yesterday both my Writing Class and Humanities Class talked about similar things. In writing we listened to music and how it was trying to portray the four seasons and we analyzed if it did a good job. Then fifteen minutes later I was in my humanities class listen to music and seeing if we could get what the artist was trying to portray. If was nice to have been doing it a class before.

Elder Eyring's A Child of God Talk

Elder Eyring's talk did a really good job of catching the students attention and teaching us something the all of us are trying to get which is good grades. I really enjoyed how he used a military story to get people listening to the rest of the talk. Most of us are fascinated with war stories so when people start telling about them we usually wake up and pay attention. It was also great that right from the end of the story he went into the point of his talk. That way those that might stop listening after the story is over at least know what he's going to speak on and either continue to pay attention or go back to sleep cause they don't care.
Of course what his topic was on I don't know why they wouldn't pay attention. He told us to to be successful in school and get good grades. That's something all of us here at BYU want to get and do better at.
I also how with each characteristic of someone that does well in school and life he said, the first characteristic and then the second characteristic and so on. That helps those of us like myself that have a hard time figuring out when they've moved on from one item to the next. It helped me keep on track of what he was talking about and if he'd gone onto a new topic.
What was even cooler about the characteristics was where he went after naming his characteristic. He went straight into the Gospel and how the different topics he was talking about tied into it. That was impressive to show how school and the Gospel really are tied into each other. It was a great talk for anyone who wants to keep getting good grades.