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At BYU there is definitely a different spirit here. Mostly everyone here is LDS. We pray in every class, there are devotionals every Tuesday, and lots and lots of church activities. But I think something that is vey special is our professors bring up the gospel in their lectures. They manage to teach and connect to the gospel to our lives and studies.

At the beginning of our lecture on Monday (sorry this has taken so long but I've been really sick and I'm currently drinking emergen-c and airborne) our professor told us to take out a piece of paper and number it one to twenty. He began to explain to us that we were going to take a personality test. We continue to answer questions based on words and pictures that most describe us. At the end we are given a color that describes our personality. Mine was blue. Blue describes the creative and emotional people like me. (Hopefully I describe this correctly but its all just from memory). My close second color was Orange which are you free spirit attention loving people. Then Green is very logical and they use reasoning.  And then gold is the person who has to know everything and what's going on. These weren't that important except for the fact that it exposed that we are all different. (I may have mixed up the colors but that's not important to what I'm talking about).

Our professor than began to talk about how when we know someone's type we can't predict what choices they are going to make or how they are going to react because there are always lurking variables (I'll throw a little stats lingo in there) but if we know how a persons mind works we are better fit to love them. We can love them in a way that they can understand, in a way that is comfortable for them. Our professor then went to talk about his wife how she is the type of person who always has to have her house perfect with everything in the right spot before she goes to bed and she has to plan far in advance what she is doing for the week. My professor is blue (not literally) so he is very outgoing and loving. He decided that he was going to take his wife to dinner in San Fran. (They live here in Utah). So he gets her and when he gets to the airport she was freaking out because she didn't know what was going on nor did she know if she was going to be ready.

Our professor told this story to illustrate how he tried to show his love for his wife in a way that he would want to have dinner. But she was very different from him and he should have done something that she would have liked and would have been something that she would have been comfortable with and would have loved.

He then goes to talk about the Savior. Our Savior knows how to love us exactly how we need it. And we know that we are to love one another as he loves us. This means we need to love others the way they need to be loved in a way they can understand. Often times we get caught up in the "Golden Rule" treat others like you want to be treated and yes this is often applied to kindness but we need to treat others and love others in a way that makes sense to them. Love them in the best way possible for them.

We learn a lot here a BYU, way more than I would have ever learned than anywhere else.
That's it for now! I'm trying to blog more but college kinda gets in the way... Oh well!

This picture is in honor of being a blue person!
And BYU football!