and it goes on

My internet is still down so I will continue...

One of the things I've done a bit at the Church magazines is write "reviews" if you will, of talks by General Authorities. I covered the CES fireside by Elder Tingey (he's my vote for Q12), the BYU devotional by Pres. Eyring, and an LDSBC devotional by Elder Pace. So a couple things. I've really enjoyed this because I really get to dive into their messages, audience, and get to pick out the best quotes and points, and I personally get a lot more from them than I might normally. So that's cool. But at the same time, I kinda feel I little weird, somewhat editing what they say. I am not under any obligation to present the info in the same order they gave it. So I pick what I think is the most important and I put that first. It's kinda weird to me, because what's saying that the next person is going to give those points the same importance...does this make sense?

Also, I've found that sometimes if I don't want to put a certain emphasis on something, I'll change the wording or the order to make to eliminate it. For example, in Elder Pace's article (to cover this I only had this kinda lame sumup so that was weird anyways) he said a lot about how we have to withstand the "Persecution" from the world. Maybe I'm just sheltered, but I don't really feel like we are being persecuted. Yea, people might write or say stuff against Mormons. Yea people don't understand our beliefs and create opinions etc that don't correctly reflect what we do...but, well, I'm not sure if that is persecution. This is probably just me, but when I think persecution, I think..no one will accept me for being Mormon, that I have to hide it ... or die. My life is threatened, I'm hurt, you know, the whole Beauty and the Beast scene with flames and attackers joining together against you... I just think that we have to fight for our beliefs just as much as the next person.

So I tried not to put too much of an emphasis on the idea that members are being persecuted for their beliefs. And...I wonder if that is bad. I'm supposed to be unbiased aren't I? If you want....look at both and tell me what you think. Here's a link to my writeup....nvm....why doesnt this let you link to a document?