I am still Alive - Nick/Ty07/18/2012

Ciao, hermano mio.

On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 9:19 AM, Tyrel Hansen <tyreljh@gmail.com> wrote:

Top of the mornin' to ya laddie!

My thought of the day is this:  We all want to be happy, but we are all have different things that make us happy.  How then can we claim that this gospel is for everyone and will make them happy when what makes each of us happy is inconsistent?  Riddle me that Batman.  I've been thinking a fair amount about this and will share my thoughts next week if you share yours.

So this weekend I did a triathlon down in Falmouth, which is in Cape Cod, which has the reputation for being beautiful and the vacation destination for Massachusetts.  And I can confirm through my own experience that it is beautiful.  I swam 1/3 of a mile in a nice warm ocean, I biked 12 miles on nice rolling hills next to beautiful houses and green trees, and then I ran along the beach for 3 miles.  It was really amazing and beautiful.  I wasn't sure how well I would do but I finished number 299/900 and I didn't really train for it.  So it was great.  I am happy with the result.  I want to improve it though and run 2-3 triathlons every summer for the next 10 years and then make a blanket out of the runners bibs.  Maybe I won't do that.  My coworker called me vain when I told him about it.  I don't think it's vain, I think it's simply a good way to keep in shape.

I'm at work now so I gotta go, but I just wanted to say hiya.  I know the gospel is true because my momma told me so.  And my papa and my Father also.  So I'm glad to have a little bro out there sharing it with the world.  Stay safe and stay happy.  

Life is good.  

-Tyrel

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Nicholas Hansen <hansen.nicholas@myldsmail.net> wrote:

Good loaded question, Robin.  I think that to some extent we make the gospel personal to ourselves.  If we treat it as just this perfect formula I do not really know that it will make us happy, live better.  We have to put it into our own lives, tie it in to the important things we have.  To family, to beliefs, to friends, even to work.  When we tie it in this way, the gospel is part of our lives.  Many times we treat the church as a separate category.  There is family, church, work, fun.  But truthfully it should be church to some extent should be tied into all of it.  I like saying gospel better, because as the conference talk said we can be active in the church without being active in the gospel.  That is my slightly undeveloped theory that came to mind.  And in the cyber here some pretty sweet music just turned on.  No words, just this cool beat.  I am digging it. 

 

Seems like you had quite the time with that triathlon.  The song is only getting better.  I think that would be my ideal triathlon.  That length.  The song just started with words, and lost some of its value.  It is in English.  That is a fairly ambitious goal, but it is a good idea.  And well, I need to write to the whole family now.  So, in the words of Star Fox, "Sorry to jet, but I{m in a hurry."