First Attempts!

Glen Beck on Gordon B. Hinckley

On a lighter note...

I just wanted to add this for those of you who have not seen it or heard of Glen Beck.

He is a pretty interesting person. Isaac and I enjoy listening to his pod casts and watching his show, but this broadcast that he did on Monday was, I think, one of his best.

Hope you enjoy. First I hope it works!!!

The BofM Challenge!

So, my friend from Germany sent me this message. Some of you may have got one I don't know. I thought it was interesting so I thought I would post it here instead of sending it through the email.


"As most of you know, our beloved prophet, Gordon B. Hinckley passed away at the age of 97. His funeral will be on Saturday, February 2nd.

I was thinking of how I could honor his legacy and I came up with an idea. My friend and I have created a challenge for those willing to accept it: Read the Book of Mormon in 97 days. We are trying to get everyone to start on the same day. Here are the details:


Goto www.hinckleychallenge.com and create an account (free, of course).
On Feb 4, 2008 (the Monday following the funeral) have an FHE lesson on the Book of Mormon and begin your reading.
Each day you read, record what page number you are on by going to www.hinckleychallenge.com .


We would like this challenge to be heard all around the world! Please forward this message to everyone you know. We would love to see over 1 million pages of the Book of Mormon read by the time this challenge has ended.

Do you want to show your support? Do you want to follow the prophet? Do you want to get rid of all of your excuses for not reading and become a warrior? Then join me in this challenge!!!

We are going to spread this throughout the news media (TV and radio) and we've already contacted Fox news, KSL, CBS, and ABC. But we cannot get the word out to everyone without your help! Please forward this on to EVERYONE in your address book. Time is of the essence!! This will be the one forwarded message that everyone will be happy to get :).

--Join by clicking here --

-Jake Andersen

P.S. You can always see an updated list of those who have accepted the challenge by clicking here (www.hinckleychallenge.com/warriors.php)

Snow Day!

Wow, it finally stopped snowing and is melting a little bit. I can't believe how much it snowed. I couldn't sleept last night. It was really light outside so I looked out the window about 2am and the snow was coming down pretty hard. It snowed so much over the night that Isaac got stuck in the parking lot in 4-wheel drive. He and Dan had to shovel their way out. They finally made it to school for their 8am class and then the vet school ended up closing with the rest of WSU. I can't believe how much snow we have. It feels like we are in Utah again.

I finished a horrible test so we went outside to have some fun and go sledding. It was a workout to walk through all of the snow. It was very cold too, but we had a lot of fun. Kaycee and I played in the snow and watched the guys sled down the huge hill on the northeast side of the apartments. Kaycee's little hands were frozen from building the snowman and fort, so we came in earlier than everyone else. BUT, she had a blast.