A Flood

Too many words. Not enough time to write them all.

Here's what's new in my life:

1. New Calling! Two new callings, in fact. I've been called as the Compassionate Service Leader & a co-chair of the Service committee in my ward. Somebody apparently has been reading my blog or is just very in tune with the Spirit because my callings were extended right after I wrote my last entry. Either way, I'm so stinkin' excited for both of them. Here is why...

"Service changes people. It refines, purifies, gives a finer perspective, and brings out the best in each one of us. It gets us looking outward instead of inward. It prompts us to consider others’ needs ahead of our own...We come to know people by serving them—their circumstances, their challenges, their hopes and aspirations...service channels our desires and energies into righteous activity. Every son and daughter of God is a storehouse—even a powerhouse—of desires and energies, which may be used for good or evil. This great potential needs to be harnessed to bring blessings to others...charitable service helps us do as the Savior did, for was not His whole ministry one of reaching out and helping, lifting and blessing, loving and caring?...As we immerse ourselves in the service of others, we find our spiritual selves and come unto Him." -Elder Derek A. Cuthbert

2. My Crusade: otherwise known as doing whatever it takes to get all of the explicit romance novels removed from the BYU Library. As the Library holds to the following policy ("[The BYU Library] reserves the right to exclude or limit the use of materials seen as distasteful or otherwise contrary to the norms and values of the university’s sponsor, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints."), I feel it my duty to bring to the attention of the appropriate administrators the at least 20 sexually explicit novels that do not fit these standards, and have begun the massive undertaking of dissecting these novels for purpose of giving specific evidence of their inappropriateness. I have in the last week completed my assessment and filed re-evaluation forms for 4 novels. For each of these novels I have attached 3-5 pages of direct examples of explicit content. It is appalling. I get nauseated just thinking about how this filth does not represent the standards of BYU or the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and its mere presence in our library suggests it does. I must, however, pause & say on behalf of the university & the administrators over this specific section of the library that I am certain that they could not have been aware of the degree of pornographic material in these novels as they do not read the genre themselves. I will say here & now though, that I do feel called to this work & I will stop at nothing (within legality) to have them removed from the library premises. Petitions, mass complaints, a visit to the library administrative staff or President Samuelson himself...whatever it takes, these materials will be removed one way or another. They are absolutely & inexcusably below par.

Rats, that's all I have time for tonight. I must get to bed now

....To be continued...