Jed? (by Drew)

It was early Friday morning, I checked my email (hotmail) and when I closed my account I was sent to the MSN page. As I typed in espn.com and began to navigate away from MSN.com my eyes briefly glanced at the flashing banner in the middle of the screen. There he was...my childhood nemesis, my brother Jed, staring me in the face and asking me if my job is prestigious. I read the article and discovered that 61% of Americans believe that being a firefighter is a prestigious job. I called Jed to ask him why he was modeling for such a statistically inaccurate article, and he told me that his Department (Orem) had burned down a house for training and some sort of photography team had snapped some shots. They then asked Jed to take some extras because he was no doubt the cutest, and the only one without a mustache, and so he was the model for the glamour shot above.

As we talked about his new found modeling career, he interrupted me and asked where lawyers were on the list...I checked the article again and discovered a link to a parallel article discussing the least prestigious jobs...and sure enough there was a picture of yours truly...that's not true, but needless to say, lawyers didn't quite make the list. Yet again my older brother wins.

President Hinckley

I'm sure all of you have heard the news that President Hinckley died last night. For us who don't live in Utah had to hear it from our families back at home. After hearing about his death Drew and I searched the Internet for some more information, both wishing we were in Utah knowing that every news station would be talking about President Hinckley. Then today I opened the Internet expecting to see the news of President Hinckley's passing, headlined on every web site but there was nothing. If only the world knew what a loss we experienced last night.

I don't remember a time not seeing him at conference. Since Pres. Benson and Pres. Hunter were both sick for some of their time, Pres. Hinckley is really the only prophet I remember. He was sustained when I was 12 and has been the face of the church for so long. While he will be missed I know that he is in a better place and look forward to sustaining Pres. Monson as the new Prophet of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.