A Brief Testimony

This morning in my prayers, I felt prompted to ask for the opportunity to share the gospel. As I look back at the day, I see some opportunities that I missed, being in the midst of work and other things. So, while there is probably no one in the world that reads my blog, I've decided to bear my simple testimony of Joseph Smith and The Book of Mormon.

I find myself living in an age where it seems that religious people are ridiculed as being close-minded and judgmental. It is in this time where I draw great strength from the tireless testimonies of the ancient prophets of the Book of Mormon and modern prophets like Joseph Smith and Thomas Monson. A song that I really like goes like this:

In a day where people hunger

For our time when good men wander

A book is designed, to give help divine

For our day

It's a work and a wonder today.

It refers to The Book of Mormon, a second witness of Jesus Christ that stands next to the witness of the Apostles in Jerusalem. To me, it is an anchor in a world that is driven back and forth like dust before the wind. I am so grateful for its teachings and its witness.

I am also grateful for the man who spent his entire life wading through the consequences of standing firm to his conviction that he had translated The Book of Mormon by the power of God and that it was true. Joseph Smith was an honorable man, and I believe his testimony.

I love my Savior, Jesus Christ, and I anxiously await his return which will mend the broken-hearted at last. "Come, O, Thou King of Kings, we've waited long for thee" is my prayer in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

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How Many Teeth Does The Tooth Fairy Pick Up Each Night in Utah?

Somebody asked me a question about my Tooth Fairy post the other day that got me thinking. How many baby teeth are lost every day in Utah?

I began with Googling. Surely someone else has thought of this and run some numbers, right? Lo, there is a tooth fairy site that claims that the Tooth Fairy collects 300,000 teeth per night.

That's a lot; however, when I ran the numbers, it started to seem awfully low.

Let's assume that the Tooth Fairy collects all baby teeth regardless of quality and we assume that all children lose all their baby teeth. The world population of children sits at 2.2 billion, with 74.2 million of them in the United States. Of those, approximately 896,961 of them are in Utah. This means that somewhere around .04077% of the world's children are in Utah.

If we assume that kids in Utah lose teeth at the same rate as all other children in the world and that each day in the year is just as likely as the rest to lose a tooth, then we have that of the alleged …

Five Reasons Serving on the Athlos Board is Fun Right Now

About 18 months ago, a friend of mine, Bethany Zeyer, let me know about an open position on the Athlos Academy of Utah school board. I've always had a passion for education, and my kids' school seemed like a place where I could have a positive effect on the community.

Also, I'd just finished reading "The Smartest Kids in the World" by Amanda Ripley and, based on Amanda's advice, interviewed the school's director.

I was in the mood to contribute!

I applied and was accepted, and I've been serving on the board for a little over a year now.

Since then, I've learned a whole lot about how a school is run.

I've learned that someone needs to determine the school guidelines for pesticide usage.

And that someone needs to be thinking about the long-term future of the school, whether or not to increase grade capacity, whether or not to match the pay increases big school districts are giving, and most importantly, evaluate whether or not the school is achi…

Twas the Night Before Pi Day

Twas the Night Before Pi Day
by Joshua Cummings

Twas the night before Pi Day, when Archimedes, the muse,
Went to pay me a visit whilst I took a snooze.

I'd visions of carrot cake, candy, and cheese
When dashed open my window and entered a breeze
That stirred me to consciousness, albeit in time
To see my face plastered in pie of key lime.

And once I'd removed the fruit from my eyes
And put on my spectacles did I realize
That before me presented a most divine spectre
Who clearly possessed the Key Lime Projector.

"It's a fulcrum, you see!" he began to explain,
"All I use is this crank to cause the right strain,
"Then releasing its fetter it launches sky high
"The juiciest pie of key lime in your eye!"

I sat there immobile for what seemed a year,
As the spectre protested I his genius revere,
When clearly it came, the fine revelation,
Of his piety, honor, achievements, and station.
With his little old catapult, so lively and quick,
I knew in a moment that this must be …

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