Thanksgiving Daily

With the Thanksgiving holiday season right around the corner, I wanted to write this post and tell you all the things I am thankful for.







I am thankful for my Father in Heaven, and all his love and patience he has for me everyday. I am thankful for my savior Jesus Christ, and his sacrifice that allows me to change and progress and become better everyday.

I am thankful for my wonderful family, for all there love and support and the things they have done for me in my life thus far, and the things they continue to do for me.

I am thankful for the people here in northern California, and the wonderful things I have learned from them, and the ways they have let me serve them the past 18 months, I will always love these people so much.

May we each look around us and see the things that we are so blessed with. Even in the hard times and the trials of this life we have so much to be thankful for, may we each count our many blessings, and return thanks to our Father in Heaven for all the things he has given us to be happy in this life.

please take the time and leave a comment with the things that you are thankful for, Let us share with one another our many blessings, that we all may rejoice together.

Defense wins championships!!

                                                   

        As many of you know, I love basketball.  I have played it ever since I can remember, it has always been a part of my life.  From Rec. basketball, to AAU, to highschool, to just watching my Lakers play on the T.V.  I have thought alot about the game of basketball and tried to see how it applies to the Gospel, so hear it goes. 

       In the sports world you hear the cliche alot that "defense wins championships"  and that good defense leads to good offense.  Many people say "well that is true but if you can't score a point you can't win"  that as well is true, you need to have a good balanced attack.  But like in the picture above, if you are able to get the other team to make turnovers it leads to easy lay-ups on the other end.  No matter how bad of an offense you have, lay-ups should be a guarantee.  It is all set up by the defense.  Too many times in basketball though, people get in the mind set of, we will save our energy on defense so that we will have more energy on offense, or we will just out shoot them.  Many times my highschool team just tried to get into a shoot out, and we played casual on defense.  While this worked sometimes, most of the time we were playing from behind, and it usually ended in defeat.  Another important thing to remember in the game of basketball is that it is a team sport and no one man can do it on his own.  He must rely on his teamates to help him out when he needs them.  All of this requires practice and development of different fundamentals, basketball is game of many elements, on defense you need to be able to develop good communication, court position, good defensive stance, hand placement, boxing out, and many other things.  Without all of these key elements you won't be effective.  Now to compare it to the gospel