Who are we?

Since on facebook we sometimes only post quick cheerful statements, I thought I'd post something that shows that life also has difficulties.
 "Each of us is intimately aware of our own struggles with temptation, pain, and sadness."-Elder Richard G. Scott.
I recognize that we are in a "carnal and fallen state" -Mosiah 27:25Something that helps me when I feel down is to remember who I am. So I compiled some quotes about who we are, sometimes dependent on what we choose:"We are the offspring of God" Acts 17:29"Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High" Psalms 82:6"Begotten sons and daughters unto God" D&C 76:24"The people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand" Psalms 95:7"I am a son of God, in the similitude of his Only Begotten" Moses 1:13Sometimes who we are depends on our choices.  These quotes are by President Uchtdorf, a leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He talks a lot about people's potential."You are my hands""A VIP to our Heavenly Father""Disciple of Jesus Christ""Healer of Souls""Heir of Eternal Life"Click here for a super inspiring video!

Helping Obesity with Government

A couple weeks ago I went to a presentation by Jessica Berg, a law professor from Case Western Reserve University, who talked about legislating obesity, meaning how government policies can help reduce obesity.  Some of the ideas they talked about were having kids run at school more, healthy lunch programs, suggestions of downsizing meals, printing the number of calories bigger, making stairs look more attractive and such.  I think it's a good intention, but I do think you're assuming that some central authority knows what each individual needs better than the individual knows.  A term that I learned in American Heritage, a class I TA for, is spontaneous order.  The idea of 'spontaneous order' was used a lot by the free market economist F. Hayek.  That is the idea that having many individuals make their own decisions is best since the individuals know their own circumstances.  It's hard for me to believe that possibly expensive government regulations will know how to help people better than people know for themselves how to plan according to their own needs.  But let me know what you think!  I'd love to see your comments : )

First Blog

Hello very small number of people who happen to click on the link I posted on Facebook!
So I have been inspired to create a blog since for my church calling, and for just being a disciple of Christ, I have been invited to share the gospel online.  But these posts will just be my own thoughts and feelings and hopefully won't confuse anybody that reads them.  I got a twitter and pinterest but nobody follows me, so I figure if nobody will follow me anyway I might as well create a blog that lets me format just how I want to and blab more : )
Since I currently am an economics major and I love economics, I will probably post about economics in addition to sharing my testimony about the Gospel of Jesus Christ which is so important to me.  I have been inspired to blog by my friends Brett, Gary, and Jason who also have blogs.
I'm going to use pictures from pixabay.com (shutterstock) and from lds.org in hopes that I don't violate copyright laws.  If I do anything illegal, offensive, or unbearably boring on my blog, please let me know and I'll try to improve : )
The econ graph shows increasing willingness to supply when the price is high or decreasing willingness to pay when the price is high, depending on which side of the graph we're looking from.  The First Vision picture by Del Parson is just my favorite Church picture, depicting Joseph Smith receiving an answer to his question about which church to join from Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ.