First Week Back at BYU

My first day with my new ward in Provo was very enjoyable. I am a part of the 241st Young Single Adult Ward in Provo, Utah. My stake president and bishop issued the following five-fold challenge:

• Pray on my knees every morning and night.
• Read the scriptures--especially the Book of Mormon--every day.
• Study, ponder, and follow the updated Strength of Youth pamphlet.--https://www.lds.org/bc/content/shared/content/english/pdf/ForTheStrengthOfYouth-eng.pdf?lang=eng
• Always renew my temple recommend (expiration date Mar 2014).
• Act and not be acted upon. Please see the April 2012 Ensign article by Elder David A. Bednar via this link: http://www.lds.org/liahona/2012/04/the-atonement-and-the-journey-of-mortality?lang=eng&media=audio

I fully believe that any individual who joins me in this challenge will become, as Elder Bednar says, "bad to good" or "good to better."

Another spiritual experience I had over the weekend was discovering an article created by Elder Clayton Christensen of the Seventy. http://www.claytonchristensen.com/pdf/Why_I_Belong_and_Why_I_Believe.pdf

Elder Christensen is not only a leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but he is also the Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He is highly innovative regarding disruptive and sustaining technologies. In fact, he is the authour of the insightful book entitled, The Innovator's Dilemma--When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail. This book enables the reader to understand why companies go from the top of the pile to the bottom of the pile.

Overall, I had an incredible first week back at BYU accompanied by a highly motivational weekend!