Lake Powell 2011

        Our friends, the Hunts, gave us the greatest opportunity a few weeks ago to accompany them to Lake Powell. That was a fun week. Every single day on the lake. 

So first of all was us driving up there. We had a lot of fun listening to 20th century old time radio tapes such as Who's on First and Orson Welles, "The War of the Worlds". We stopped at a diner to eat and while there we found some of the funniest books we've ever read. They had titles such as "How to cheer up the Crabby People in your life","The Outhouse Book", "How to Stay Humble when you're Smarter than everybody else", "Some things are worse than being older than Dirt", and "How to make people think you're Normal". Here's a picture of the Author's name.

After that we drove some more before I fell asleep. We got there early the next morning and got into bed. I would have slept til noon except for some reason me and the bed didn't get along to well. That was the only downside of the trip was a lack of really refreshing sleep. After that the days were almost exactly the same, which was wonderful. Boating, Tubing, Wakeboarding, Cliff Diving (only about 10 feet), and a trip to Rainbow Bridge. Here's some pictures.

Yay Sethie!

John Wakeboarding

These Fish were swimming next to the dock near Rainbow Bridge waiting to be fed.

Rainbow Bridge. Probably the largest single natural bridge in the world.

On our last day there a very special occurance happened. We had stopped at a hidden beach for lunch when a freak storm came out of nowhere. We were pretty sheltered in this cove thing but we were stuck there for a few hours because the waves were too big to leave as soon as we got into open water. Another family was near us also on the beach but more open to the wind. Their boat started to drift away and their dad jumped in the water to get it. He had no life jacket because it was in the boat. Darrel drove out there to get the boat but was inspired to go to the man first. It didn't look like it, but the man was drowning. He had cramped up and the waves weren't letting him go anywhere. We saved his life that day. It still amazes me that we saved a human life. We went home that night in much the same fashion that we left, but with thankful hearts to our God and Father.

Youth Conference 2011

I know this is a few weeks late but I just realized I hadn't done this yet.

        This Youth Conference (the second one I've attended) was a very enjoyable experience. The first was a Stake one we got rained out on so this was far better with just our ward. I would say more in detail but this is just an overview of the entire thing until I get the pictures.
AAAAAGH! Nevermind. I'll wait til the pictures arrive. They will show you instead of just telling you. Keep Posted!
-Coy

Holy Mother of Sweet Cupcakes...

This last week has been one of the longest of my life. And it was Glorious. Oh yes.......

     Anyway it was the 1st week of summer. I'm taking a summer College class, Communications 1010, with the first class last Monday. The teacher is really good in the sense that he knows what he's talking about, why he's talking about it, and if the students understand (yay). It's really interesting material also, and the textbook is well written. OTHER then school I also am just wrapping up my Eagle, which I really just need to send in. That will be good to finish. Also I got to go to Space Camp last Saturday for a friends birthday party, which is always fun. We actually got to finish a 5 hour misson which doesn't always happen. They're was plenty of shooting and Polar Bears which were amazing.

Current Interests:

Portal 2

Look Around You

Ponies in General

Fluttershy, for some reason.

It's Friday, Friday, gotta get down...

I FRICKEN HATE THAT SONG!

Oh well. Hello everybody. I haven't posted for a while because of a few giant things that took up most of my time. Namely, School, School, School, and Ponies (Don't ask). Fortunately, the first three things are ending next week and that's why I finally remembered to post this. School was great this year, one of the only times I've been able to say that. High School turned out to be quite a pleasant experience that was totally unexpected. I was able to do Debate, get my Drivers Licence, have Mr. Melville for Chemistry (way good teacher) and make some new friends. Also what ended recently was Special Needs Mutual, one of the greatest things I've ever done. The spirit there every Thursday was enough to recharge from the hard week behind me. I loved it and now wouldn't have missed it for the world, even though I had my doubts from before. If I could say one thing about it, it would be that my perspective has changed. Instead of terms such as 'Handicaped', 'Slow', or the absolutely dreadful "Retarded', I came to know them by another characteristic. "Gifted". These people are so amazingly innocent and special in a way we could never understand. I sometimes feel as if I envy them.

Here's the Pony thing if you were still thinking about it.
This is Official Content from the creators of the show.

When I was young...

I talked with my mom recently about the education system, and she tole me that I need to put this down. All I said was what I thought was wrong. It started with her saying that she was wondering if I was going to love college or not. I told her that I wasn't specifically excited or looking forward to that. She asked why and that started a very interesting conversation that will be put down here. Basically we discussed what flaws were eminent it the education system of the day. We discussed mostly college to begin, saying that we agreed it's priorties have changed. Anyone that's gone to school currently or recently knows that it's more like a franchise earning money then launching them at the professors expecting them to get an education then. I big thing that was wrong with education is that the entire system was based on forcing everybody to be the same. The standardized testing and current curriculum forces all students to conform to the same standards. It's very true. If you don't manage to graduate, you're marked for life. It doesn't matter how 'well' you did according to your 'grades' (which can be very innacurate because of teaching style and human error) as long as your resume says you made it, it doesn't matter what you graduated in for most jobs they hire you anyway. The pretext is that you can't be a prductive member of society, a good worker, or much better than a bum if you don't get through college. Education has become so far blown out of proportion that most of it will never be used once aquired. I basic education I agree is mandatory, but we don't need most of what we learn during 12 years of 7 hours a day. My first solution was that the teachers make the curriculem. While this has many gaping flaws, I have an example of this working. The best teachers are the ones that like what they teach and enjoy teaching. They also need to understand what they're teaching. My Chemistry teacher currently is the best teacher I've ever had. Mostly, it's because of the way the science CRT is constructed. While the math and language arts are memorizing rules and regurgitating information, the Science one is mostly just knowing enough to decipher an answer out of a paragraph of given material. This gives my teacher the unique position of being able to teach mostly anything he wanted as long as he got those few basic points. He spent the entire year teaching us wonderful stuff that was straight from what he had learned and truely wanted to tell us. It was what I view as the perfect class, but most teachers are restricted to a standardized test that limits their abilities and time to what 'the State' expects them to teach. My second solution, was reform it to something related to the Boy Scout system. For consistancy, I will refer them straight to the Scout reference. There would be a set of required merit badges for the students to earn. The end of the school year would be the deadline, with a final test as the last signature for the award. Then the rest of their time would be for the earning of whatever merit badges or extra-curricular things availible. The less motivated students could do just the minimum if they so chose with the accelerated students doing whatever else pleased them. This could even reduce the school year by half or some-such achievement. Just enough structure to maintain the order expected but enought freedom to advance at all their own pace. I see this in a much better and desirible light then the current education system. Comment and tell me what you think. (Also I'm planning to write either a suspence novel or a book on phiolosophy. Tell me what you think there too.)

Everything Funny I've seen in about the last Month.

IMPORTANT: My Mom goated me into this. It's a good Idea however. I'll probaly do one of these every few months. Take them one at a time and you'll get more funnies out of them. I need to say this for copyright laws, I'm just saying that none of this is mine and it totally awesome. Well,with Much Ado about Nothing, here goes.

MANLIEST THING EVER
 These Guys must have drunk Powerthirst

KID HISTORY
Purely a stroke of Genius.
Episode 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80entLldZOg
Episode 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXChsJCHNVM
Episode 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD2RO0Cws1Q
Episode 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVlaZfLlWQc

LOOK AROUND YOU
The Educational Videos that should have been made. This is a Link to their Youtube Channel, so watch all their videos on it because they are probably the funniest things I've ever seen.
http://www.youtube.com/user/JackofAllHades#p/u

HOW IT SHOULD HAVE ENDED (HISHE)
These guy's just make animated videos of movies and say how they should have ended. Watch all the ones of things you've seen. SO HILARIOUS!
http://www.youtube.com/user/HISHEdotcom

NEWEST PONY EPISODE
This should help explain the above link. PURE AMAZINGNESS!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lhXnuNP8g4

WOOSTER AND JEEVES
Some of the best books ever written. Jeeves, the origional gentleman's gentleman. Bertie Wooster, the absent minded English Gentleman. Look it up (all stories in the series are by P.G. Wodehouse). These are in my top 3 books of 'best ever written'.

MUSIC VIDEOS
A variety of stuff that I've seen recently
Complete History of the Soviet Union through the eyes of a humble worker to the tune of Tetris

TRON Rap

What is Love?

She's a Lady

Not Telling! Just Click to find out!

PICTURES
Lots and Lots o' them.

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

 







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I'll take an Apple. AND EAT IT! (Mmm. Juicy!)

GASP! yay!



What IS Love?



I love to see the Temple...

Today I got the most remarkable experience of being able to participate in Babtisms for the Dead at the Salt Lake City Temple, the most iconic temple ever to be built. The trials the remarkable builders of this remarkable structure had to go through made our lives seem downright easy. Sometimes I wish I was with them... Their trials were mostly of the physical labor type, while ours are mostly of the slow creeping temptation that steadily eases you into a false state of mind. The Temple trip was one I had been put in charge of, and had been planning for the last few months. It really helped me put everything into perspective, and I realized that I missed when the Temple took several hours. It didn't give me as much time to think. Anyway, there was a different feeling while I was in the Temple. It was peaceful. It seemed to let m leave my problems behind and see what is still good with my life. Which I hadn't thought about for a while. I saw that the good outweighed the bad 10 to 1 when I stepped back and took it all into perspective. I love to visit the Temple when I can. It truely is our place for heaven on Earth today. I felt the effort it took those pioneers put into Their Temple, through the 40 years of construction it took, even uprooting the foundations and starting again near the beginning. You could see the carving of each piece of wood, each brush stroke on the oxen under the font, the love the pioneers had for what they did. It was an experience I will never forget, and am glad I could have it.
-Coy Christensen

If Dr. Seuss Wrote the Book of Mormon

Nephi: Of goodly parents I was born

I’ve never drunk, I’ve never sworn

This is Lehi, he’s my dad

Laman, Lemuel, they are bad

And who is this? Why this is Sam.



Sam: Yes, this is Sam; Sam I am

Laman: That Sam I am, that Sam I am

I do not like that Sam I am


Sam: In a tent, my father dwelt

Laman: And it’s so hot, I think I’ll melt
Lemuel: Our father’s brain is out of whack

Laman: Yeah, it’s too hot, I’m going back

Lehi: Then go and get the plates, my dear

Laman: On second thought, I’m staying here

Nephi: You said you’d leave and go away

Now all you want to do is stay?

Lemuel: That Nephi always gets his way


Laman: Here we are in this damp cave

Sam: We would not be here if you’d behave

Nephi: I will go and I will do

There’s the angel, that’s my cue

Laban’s had too much to drink

Now he’ll lose his head, I think


Nephi: Look what I found, a brother from the quorum

Sam: We will take him home, we will call him Zoram


Laman: Our gold and silver we have spent

I do not like it in this tent

Lemuel: I cannot read the Liahona

I must have drunk too much Corona


Laman: We hate it here, we have no lives

Lehi: Then go back to the city and get some wives


Lehi: A tree, a tree, I see a tree!!

The fruit is white, the fruit is free!

A floating building, could it be?

Why do they laugh and stare at me?

Laman, Lemuel, come and see!


Laman: We will not eat your precious fruit

Lemuel: We will not wear a tie and suit

Laman: We will not help you build your boat

Lemuel: We do not think that it will float

Laman: No not this boat, it will not float

Not even in a shallow moat

I do not care what Nephi wrote

Lemuel: We will not eat your fruit I say

Laman: We will not eat it on a tray

Lemuel: And we won’t eat it in a tent

Not even if your clothes you rent

Laman: We’d rather have a can of spam

L&L: We will not eat it, Sam I am


Sam: You do not like it, so you say

Try it, try it, and you may

Try it and you may I say


Laman: Sam, if you will let us be,

We will try it, you will see


L&L: Say, we like this fruit of life

Sorry that we caused such strife

You’ve saved us from an awful jam

Thank you, thank you, Sam I am!

(I didn't write this, but I thank whoever did!)

1st on Facebook

Hello everybody!

Just so you know this is the first post I'm making that my blog is posting on Facebook. Kinda Cool. I think of it as just another way to get what I have to say ourt to people. I porbably won't check Facebook too often, I would just update when I have a new post up. That's all for now.

Now for some scary adorableness. To have it explained, see my 2 previous posts.

Whoa dang...

So much has been happening (and is still happening) that I haven't thought about the blog until a few minutes ago. Yesterday and the day before I was at State in Debate. As you may know I hate to brag (it nearly killed me when Mom put up a sign telling the world about it on the front door) but for my journal's sake I won 3 of 5 rounds at State; as a Sophomore; first year debating. I must have picked up a bug at Weber State because I woke up sick today. Besides that, the 3rd quarter of school is almost over in perfect timing with finishing the online math course I started last year, wrapping up my Eagle Project, getting my Drivers Licence, waiting for Munchkin Zombies to come out next month, and keeping up n my new favorite show-that's-being-currently-made. Which might I add, is one of my best enjoyments as of now.

IT'S AMAZING! THE SHOW IS SO WELL DONE!
I AM NOT CRAZY OR MAKING THIS UP! PLEASE WATCH!
By the way, if you haven't yet, go see my last post.
If you watch all the videos, even the one at the bottom, then I think it's fine to skip ahead to THIS episode (awesome!).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-5JBrMIHx4

There's no way you couldn't at least LIKE this show by now because

                             

HOW COULD YOU?