Audiobook

Today I downloaded Audible. Amazon has been trying to get me to start listening to audiobooks for over a year, so I finally decided to try it out. However, a free month subscription with free audiobooks helped to make that decision.

So far I am enjoying the ability to listen to a book while I do other things--this is a very nifty thing to me.

I have always considered myself a very good reader, and my grades since 2nd grade have reflected as such. One activity I've always seemed to have issues with is listening. Not only listening, but listening, paying attention, and then recalling what I had listened to. Having downloaded Audible (and listening to a book as I type), I do believe listening to audiobooks may help me to improve on my listening skills. 

What I am currently listening to:

"The Good Girl" by Mary Kubica

How far I am:

Almost to chapter 4.

Worth it?

So far...most definitely worth it.

Hopefully, Amazon will let me keep all the free books I downloaded when I cancel my subscription at the end of the free trial. So far, I seem to really be enjoying this, and I recommend others to try an audiobook. One thing must be known, though--real books have a certain air to them that can never be replaced. 

Audiobooks are great (as far as I can tell so far), but I hope no one ever forgets how amazing real books are. I hope no one ever forgets the smell and feel of printed books. It's not always just the story that brings the book to life; sometimes, the physicality of a book is what really takes the words off the pages and floats them through the air.

Mormons and Polygamy: Why They Did It

There I was just minding my own business, sitting on my bed, as my fiancé watches a documentary--most likely a "Vice" documentary-- on God knows what. So I'm just sitting there when I hear, "So, according to Joseph Smith, the more wives you had, the better Heaven would be."

Now, maybe I could have said things sweeter, but my fury was ablaze. 

Gloriously irate, I plop my iPad down and say (in a very stern, 'don't you dare interrupt me ' tone), "that is ENTIRELY untrue. You wanna know why Mormons had several wives? Because women's husband were going off to the war and dying. Women were not allowed to own land or any property at this time. There weren't many men who hadn't gone to war, and most of those few were already married. So the women married men who were already married, not to have sexual relations--almost none of them did have any sexual relations with these men--but to ensure they and their children had homes and land to survive on. That is why polygamy was legal in the Church."

Too many people only look at our actions and not at our hearts. Polygamy was never meant to let men fool around with as many women as they could marry. And, most certainly, Joseph Smith NEVER said to have as many wives as possible to have a better Heaven. Everything we believe in is always scrutinized at the most elementary of levels. 

Please, stop looking like fools. 

Never has any missionary said, "That's a dumb question."

Ask questions. I'm a new convert to the Church (baptized September 7, 2013) and, although I am inactive at the moment, I constantly ask questions about why things were done they way they were. I surely don't have all the answers, and I never will, but I do know that everything has has a purpose--just as you and I do.