Services and the Atonement

WoW Race Change

In World of Warcraft there are a bunch of wonderful services which any player can take advantage of fully. Some of these services include character transfers, name changes, race changes, faction change, character customization, etc..... You might be wondering why a player would like these changes and what makes them so great? Well my friends I want to share with you one reason why I love it a lot. Lets say you are a level (lvl) 85 Holy Paladin and you are PvPing (Player Vs Player) and you are one day tired of losing all the time to the Horde, wouldn't it be nice to change your faction and your race because of the mistake you made in picking the wrong faction? Because of these special services that Blizzard provides many players can make the changes that they need to or more importantly want to make.

Now what if I told you there was service that made it so WE (we meaning mankind or people) could repent of our sins and be forgiven, making it so we changed our old ways and made a new us, how would that make you feel? This change that I am referring to is the Atonement of Jesus Christ.

Revelation And WoW Blue Posts

The Interwebs

Anyone can determine that communication is a big thing in the world today, especially with the internet. It allows many people to come together, build communities, and share facts and opinions. As a hardcore WoW player, one of my favorite pastimes was reading what other players had to say and discuss. This lead me to YouTube videos, popular WoW websites, and of course the forums. With all these sources I could see how other players played their class and how I could in turn improve my game play.

Blue Posts

Out of all that I would read, probably the most interesting (besides players trolling the BDF forums) would have to be blue posts. You see when a WoW game developer or Blizz employee posts, the script of their post is blue. \a lot of these blue posts would deal with new patch notes, additional content, and occasional responses to questions posted by players. They were all really interesting to me because they spoke of things to shortly come to pass in the game's world.

So if there were people on the earth today (IRL), that could tell us of things to come, and and how we can prepare for these things, do you think that you would be interested in listening to them?...I sure would!

Purpose to Life (Part1) What's my purpose in life?

What is the meaning to life? I am pretty sure that if you were to ask a lot of people, they would tell you it is to live and to die. Others might tell you its to be tried and tested and then go live with God and I am sure that other people would tell you that there is no purpose to life in general-- that we are just here for kicks and giggles. My friends if you want the true meaning to life, then pay close attention to the words that I am about to speak because they will tell you what life is all about. In the Book of Mormon there is a missionary by the name of Amulek, and this is what he says about life in Alma 34:32-33:
32. For behold, this ^alife is the time for men to ^bprepare to meet God; yea, behold the day of ^cthis life is the day for men to perform their ^dlabors...

Be prepared for the unexpected

Today I want to share with you a couple of stories. One of which is a real life situation and then the other is in the World of Warcraft. I'll start with the Real life situation and then go to the WoW story. There once was a missionary who went to Wal-Mart one day to go buy some things. Well as the two Elders (Elders is a title meaning teacher, which is a shorter name for missionaries.) Anyways as the two elders were going up to the counter to pay for the items. elder B swiped his card and then heard this beeeeeeeeeeeepppppppppppppp. With a shocked look elder B swipes the card again and tried entering in a pin number, when he entered in the pin he heard this beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeppppppppppppp. Well what happened? elder B asked, elder F said "well elder looks like you ran out of money." With that Said elder B went to a back up card and was able to pay for his things. Now I want to share a WoW story with you. When I was playing on my Holy Paladin I was running around one day looking for something to do...

Enduring to the end

Imagine yourself in a very intense raid right now and you and your raid group keeps dieing. There comes a point in time where you are thinking "Ok its time for me to quit this raid and go do something else." What do you do? Do you leave the raid and go do something else or do you give this boss fight one more go around?
Well if you are like me my response would be like Leeroy Jenkins, "Lets do this chumps!" Ok so you give this raid boss one more shot and you guys finally down the boss! (Down meaning beat.) So stop yourself and think this over... you beat this boss that has some really epic loot and an awesome mount out of it, how do you think you would feel? If you are like me or any WoW Player you would be really excited knowing that you were able to down one of the hardest bosses in all of WoW! You might be thinking "wow that was a very enduring task that you had to go through." If that is the response you gave then yes! You are right. When it comes to a raid you have to be able to endure the long gruesome hours of trying to defeat bosses as well as working with quite a bit of people all at the same time.

Today I want to talk about something that is probably one of the hardest things that we could ever do in this life and that is what Christ and all of the prophets have talked about and that is enduring to the end...

Taking a break from WoW=Keeping Sabbath Day Holy

So there was a time in my life when I used to play World of Warcraft a lot.(and when I say a lot I mean a lot.) So one day as I was playing WoW I chose to stop playing and go do something different. I told my friend Jake what I was going to do and he agreed that it was time to take a break from WoW for a while. So Jake and I decided to stop playing WoW for about two years. During that time I did quite a few things. I did some traveling,  played some other games, as well as going out and hanging with friends. I have often times looked back and said to myself, the break was well needed. Now I wont lie to ya, Jake and I did go back to World Of Warcraft after the two year break, but let me tell you something that I was able to learn. Not only was a break needed, but I was able to learn that taking a break from things can be well needed...

WoW Armor & the Armor of God

Paladin WoW Armor

Think of yourself for a moment as one of the greatest adventurers in the Land of Azeroth, or Kalimdor. Your questing and fighting off waves of enemies that want you dead. So what would you take into battle? I think a lot of us here would take into battle a couple of items. One of those items would be your trusty Armor, the second I think is a no brainer, and that is your handy dandy weapons. With these two items combating the waves of enemies would pretty easy right? In World of Warcraft you have many Armor pieces that go onto your character to make him/her stronger, so that way you do not get owned by your enemies.   In WoW your armor includes a few of the following. Head,Chest,Leg,Boots,Hands,Wrist,Belt, and shield. Your weapons on the other hand are too much to list, just know that there are quite a bit of weapons to wield that will help you own some enemies faces. So when you have these weapons and armor on you, you become a beast.

You are probably wondering ok so I know a little bit more about World of Warcraft, and how important the armor is...

Horrible Haircuts and Agency

Troll Haircut

One of the greatest additions that World of Warcraft has come up with was the addition of in-game haircuts. They really add character to your toon! And you're not stuck with he same haircut you picked when rolling a belf pally, thinking that long flowing hair was cool... not that I ever did that. I heard a story once about a barber that I wanted to relate. And no this is not just a troll.

There was once a barber who was cutting a man's hair (for all intensive purposes lets say he was the blood elf paladin mentioned before). The story goes on and they, like many barbers and their customers, get into a conversation...