D. Gardner

For some reason I only saved this and didn’t publish it last week.

As has been stated, this VP debate was watched by a bunch of people.

Here is my two cents

While I believe I am farily liberal in my beliefs. However,  I was a bit taken back by the stance Joe biden and I am assuming Barak Obama have on same sex/gay marriage.  It sounds like to me they believe “partners” should have all the rights of the traditional marriage.

The break up of the traditional family is the most damaging problem in America and the world.Traditional Family being defined as;  a Man and Woman being married,  staying true to marriage vows, bringing children into this family environment,  the mother staying home to raise the children, the man leaving the home each day to provide for the family, they rearing the children to be productive citizens in society.

I have been attempting for a week now to write about something I realized in Sunday school last week.  What I realized is that the troubles the world are experiencing are the result of moral decay of society.  Hurricanes, typhoons, earthquakes, wars, tsunamis, terrorist activity, and market instability all due to moral decline.   As the events of this week transpired, mostly market unrest. The basic cause of this is moral decline.  While I don’t think I am a prophet, I due believe I can have a voice in warning people to pay attentions to the signs.

In  last weeks Sunday school the topic discussed was  chapters 8-11 of 3rd Nephi.  It was brought up that all the calamity that befell the Nephites that had been prophesied by Samuel the Lamanite(check out Helman 14).

The instructor leading the discussion asked how does this relate to our day?  I realized that the world is now facing problems, like the peoples of old, that are a result of people disregarding the commandments.  I believe many have seen this and already realized it before.

However, I want to right this as a testament to my posterity that I recognized the signs of the times.

I think I am going to start a category called signs of the times and as I observe things that I believe are signs of the times I will add them to my blog.

I started my mission almost 20 years ago.  Today I got an e-mail from my first mission president that had a link to the newest mission presidents blog.  So I have included that in my cool links.  He’s already got a couple great pictures on his blog.

I should find one of my mission pictures to scan.

Another day spent hacking up WordPress.  Slowly but surely I am getting deeper into the guts of word press.  It really is able to do a bunch of cool stuff.  And it is getting more and more like a web site management tool and less and less just a blog.  It really does make it easier to setup and mange websites.

Just testing one of the new plugins I installed

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