First Link Year Recap 9/24-9/27

First off sorry about the uncreative title. Figured I should make the title easily recognizable for Link Year grading purposes. Anyways...onward and upward we shall go. So I will start off with a quick recap of each day and then progress from there because progressing is useful if you are trying to get something done. Usually at least.

The first day of the week was Monday (Surprise surprise) and we had a thing called Mystery Monday. Basically the point of this is to make Mondays more exciting since they are the most dreaded day of the week. They succeeded in this by taking us Roller skating/blading at some place that I have forgotten the name of. But naturally this place had a rink where we could...well I'll leave that up to you to guess what we did at this rink. So once we finished doing this thing at the rink that I am leaving you to guess about we went back to the campus to chill for the rest of the day. The first Mystery Monday was a success with fun skating and roller blading. That sorta rhymed, unintentionally of course.

The next day was Tuesday (See a pattern here yet? It's called, "the days of the week") and this day was our first official day of Link Year with a professor. Don Ford was the professor and he spoke about settings goals for your life, both short term and long term. He also said something that I thought was really interesting. It was that only 1/2% of people between age 18 to 23 have a biblical worldview. I did not research his statement yet, but I would believe it's at least close to that number. The definition of a biblical worldview that he told us was that you had to believe absolute truth exists, the bible is inerrant, satan is real, you can't earn your way to God, Jesus lived a sinless life, and God is the creator and still reigns today. After hearing this I felt truly blessed to have so many friends around me who believe all these things.

On Wednesday (See former paragraph about the pattern) we had Jay Holden come and talk to us about our strengths. Last week we took this really cool test that showed our top 5 strengths and we even got a book about it to study our strengths even more. The best part was we got this huge spreadsheet type thing with everyone in the classes top 5 strengths shown. It's great to see that because now we know how to compliment each other and how to interact even better with everyone here. Great stuff right there.

Finally I have come to today. Yes indeed. The last day of the week with a professor to speak wisdom to us. Thankfully this day ended with a bang. No doubt in my mind that Darrell Shemwell was my favorite speaker we have had so far! He was pretty great. It didn't hurt that he mentioned two of my favorite theologians (Jonathan Edwards and Charles Spurgeon) and gave us a bunch of sweet reference books to look at the original Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic text in the bible. This is fantastic news. Also we get Wayne Grudem's Systematic Theology book. The full version, not just the condensed version. This is pretty dang amazing. Sweetness.

So this is going to be my closing paragraph. Where I am supposed to wrap up everything in a nice little bow and send it to friends and family for Christmas. But...as some of you know, I have never been that great at wrapping presents. Bags with tissue paper are my best friends. Anyways I should probably get back to the topic at hand. Which is closing this post up. Here we go now. I learned a lot this week but I am just going to point out five main things that I learned.
1) Goal setting is pretty great, but I should never factor God out of my plans because He has His own plan for my life.
2) How crazy it is to think that only around 1/2% of people in that age range I mentioned earlier have a biblical worldview. Makes me want to go make sure people around me know the bible more.
3) Strengths are great things and we should focus on using our strengths more often than/then we do.
4) I need to take advantage of the time here at Link Year to polish off my rough spots.
5) Logos bible study software is awesome looking and I want to get it now!

Anyways I know that I said the previous paragraph was going to be my closing paragraph, but I decided to rebel against myself. Which is always an interesting fight. So here it is, my first Link Year recap. Hope you enjoyed the ride, exit to your left please and move along. Pick up any trash you left to be considerate for those who come after you. Thank you and goodbye.