School is going to be a great missionary opportunity, I think!

Tonight's class was kind of cool....

So we have to do these intense readings (at least for me they are intense, I have to read them several times to even get a little bit of what they are saying...but I'm kind of illiterate when it comes to the workings of the government...its too complicated for me!)  Anyways, we then come to class and we discuss what we got out of the readings. And we do that the entire 2.5 hours of class.

This was our first "discussion" class.  We talked about a lot of topics, but one that stood out to me was "how do you define corruption?"  One of the teacher's suggestions was "well, the question of right and wrong all depends on what society says" .  Wow....that sounds like a recipe for disaster in a society....yet too me, the answer is simple.  If someone is not living with integrity with the powers they have been given, they are being corrupt (acting corruptly?)  The class and the teacher brought up the question though of, How do you decide what is corrupt and what is not corrupt?  Hmm...Good question.  I raised my hand and, in a manner of speaking, said that I believe the problem is that this country has gotten so concerned with political correctness that we don't live by the same values anymore--that if you take a group of people, no one is going to decide what is right or what is wrong and enforce that on the entire group, because what if someone else believes differently?  The Christians believe in the 10 commandments, the Buddhists believe in the Golden Rule.....but we've left God completely out of our government, and if you take God out of it, you introduce only man-made alternatives that are so changeable and dependent on no foundation. Society isn't going to be a good determinant of what is right and wrong, especially as we come nearer and nearer to the Second Coming.

I wasn't that forward about God in my class, but when I tried to say it in a more simple and un-offensive way, a couple of students agreed with me and the teacher just said "well, its not always that black and white, but huh....interesting thought"  I felt the Spirit testify, and I hope the class felt it too--it seemed like there were some people who were affected by it, but maybe that was all in my head :)  I also felt reminded about how it is good to stand up for correct principles, and it strengthened my own beliefs in the importance of living according to the principles that Jesus Christ set forth long ago, no matter how many lies Satan tries to tell people who either believe in the Savior or who never had that same upbringing. Truth is truth, no matter the situation.