Sunday is great!!

Since I've been in the over 30 ward they do this day conference during the summer involving Logan and Ogden, along with anyone else who wants to show up. There were some from Idaho and Salt Lake there too, mainly people who like the conferences and go to anyone they hear about. Well at these conferences they have different classes, some spiritual and some dating related. In the morning I went to this class on the temple, and it turned out to be the recently released Logan temple president that talked at it. While there he talked about a youth group from Idaho that came one time at 5 am to do baptisms, since they needed to get back in time for school. Well suddenly I wanted to go to the temple, especially since it had been closed for the last month. I decided the people who planned the conference should be happy I applied something to life. So I skipped the last talk last night and went to the temple before it was closed at 8 pm. Today when I was going to church I went by the temple and suddenly stopped to stare. Maybe I was the only one to see it, but it was totally glowing. It  reminded me of a former stake president in Roosevelt who was the Vernal temple president a few years ago. He said something along the lines of by being at the temple a lot it makes you more holy. At least he'd noticed that as the temple president for three years. This incident just reminded me of that, if your doing lots of spiritual stuff then you'll notice the difference.

Also today at church this girl talked who I didn't really know, and only a few weeks ago had a conversation with. Well she told about this relative who lived in Nauvoo as a teenager. He was quite friendly with Joseph Smith and one day this guy named William Law asked him to go work for him. This teenager had a bad feeling, but Joseph Smith told him it was a good idea to take the job. So he went and started working for William Law and he started hearing the adults talk in apostate ways. He always paid attention to the conversations and one night was asleep. (apparently he slept there) But he woke up and heard them talking about killing Joseph Smith, and they wanted him to help them do it too. He went over and told Joseph Smith what they had said, well Joseph Smith said 'Yes help them and load the gun or whatever they want, but don't worry if I'm suppose to live they won't succeed.' So he went back and the next day they wanted him to help them load the gun. He did it and was standing there when they tried to shoot Joseph Smith. Well the gun wouldn't work and the bullets wouldn't come out. (something like that) They were mad telling the teenager that he'd loaded it wrong. He said 'no I didn't do it wrong' and the guy turned and tried to shoot a post. Lo and behold all bullets shot totally normal as they should have previously. But it was a pretty cool story because it goes to show that no one dies by accident. Although we refer to them as car accident, bike accident or boating accident. It's a good thing to remember in life. Happy Sunday!

What happens when you meet apple phones virtual assistant named Siri!

My old phone died and I had to get a new phone. I didn't even think about it when buying it, but I got an apple phone that has Siri on it. Well I randomly started asking Siri all these random questions, and one of those was 'who is the oldest person in the world?' It was a person whose 125 in Japan I think it was, but they've only been the oldest person in the world for the last 2 1/2 weeks. Well I got Siri to look up who was the oldest person in the USA. That person is a lady in New York or Boston (somewhere like that) who is 113. I read on and they said that they will keep an eye on people's records through some alert. When they get alerted that someone is 110 then they'll look up info on them and try to talk to them. Well in the process of media attention they will ask them how they think that they have lived so long? I read about one person who said that they ate healthy food and kept it small on the unhealthy food. Their favorite food was fried chicken, but they kept it down on that throughout life. (but still ate it) Someone concluded it was having the next to perfect genes and only few get those genes to live past 100. Another lady said that God helped her live that long.

I found this interesting because the world is always trying to determine how something could have happened if it's out of the norm. But if you think about it the whole reason why someone would live past 100 is because God helps them live that long. It's true that eating unhealthy food could cause an early death. But most likely in those cases those people just get sick and stay sick until they're supposed to die. I've seen a lot of people who've had cancer and then survived through surgery or chemo. I knew a guy several years ago who had to do both chemo and surgery and is still alive. I don't think there are any near perfect genes out there. It's called God will let you live until your supposed to die, even if it's past 100.

I also found it interesting because they said in the USA there are 36 known people who are over 110.  There could be more but birth records weren't kept very well before 1933.

Also it was wierd to think of someone being born in 1900 and still being alive now. They literally were alive through several wars, the great depression, pioneer life, internet and now the internet being on a phone. That would be pretty wierd to be alive that long.

I did realize that if I lived to 118 then I'd live in three centuries, wouldn't that be cool? I'm pretty sure I wouldn't want to do that though because all the people I read about were alive but in assisted living centers or hospitals. But it would be cool to say you lived in three centuries, although this one would be the longest for me. (the 2000's) I'm pretty sure that won't happen though because I've eaten to much sugar in my life to get past maybe 80. :D