Study Music
The phrase hit me like a ton of bricks. Music?! Are you kidding me?! I want to like something cool! Like rock climbing! Or.. Or.. Hiking! Or anything! Anything but music! People don't socialize through music! I need socializing! I don't even like playing the cello!
The idea of having fun with the cello, or with music in general was completely foreign to me.
I might be getting ahead of myself. Let me backtrack a little bit.
I got home from my mission Dec. 2011, and attended BYU-Idaho that January. My quest had begun, and i was on the prowl to find out what I was passionate about.
I ignored the prompting (which i don't ever recommend) to take Organ Lessons, but decided to follow the prompting to take a horticulture class! I really enjoyed the horticulture class! I joked with my friends that i was studying "Herbology" like in Harry Potter. The next semester i felt impressed to take Flower Arranging, and Group Guitar Lessons. I took both, but not without some internal resistance: Why am i getting all these promptings to take music classes! Ugh!
With the semester over i found myself back in Utah at a CES fireside in the Bountiful Regional Center. I remember absolutely nothing from the fireside about the speaker or what she/he said, but i remember how that meeting ended. I felt a burning fire come down from Heaven that seemed like it might consume me, and i felt the peace accompanying it, and in my mind i heard the words "Study Music".
Dread. Horror. Fear.
Those were the only words that can express my feelings on the matter of that prompting. So I asked for a second witness. I said like Peter of old, "'Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee.' Give me a second witness." The meeting then ended and I turned to my right and saw someone i recognized from High School sitting on my row just 2 seats away. As i went to say hi and we talked he told me that he was going to school at BYU-Idaho (check) and he was studying Music (double check).
Then I had the aforementioned murmuring, and then cried the rest of the night deciding then and there that i'd change my major to music.
Part 3 is on it's way!
The phrase hit me like a ton of bricks. Music?! Are you kidding me?! I want to like something cool! Like rock climbing! Or.. Or.. Hiking! Or anything! Anything but music! People don't socialize through music! I need socializing! I don't even like playing the cello!
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| You know those people who played stringed instruments all through school Yeah. That was me. |
The idea of having fun with the cello, or with music in general was completely foreign to me.
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| Steven Sharp Nelson showing me how to have fun with the cello. |
I might be getting ahead of myself. Let me backtrack a little bit.
I got home from my mission Dec. 2011, and attended BYU-Idaho that January. My quest had begun, and i was on the prowl to find out what I was passionate about.
I ignored the prompting (which i don't ever recommend) to take Organ Lessons, but decided to follow the prompting to take a horticulture class! I really enjoyed the horticulture class! I joked with my friends that i was studying "Herbology" like in Harry Potter. The next semester i felt impressed to take Flower Arranging, and Group Guitar Lessons. I took both, but not without some internal resistance: Why am i getting all these promptings to take music classes! Ugh!
With the semester over i found myself back in Utah at a CES fireside in the Bountiful Regional Center. I remember absolutely nothing from the fireside about the speaker or what she/he said, but i remember how that meeting ended. I felt a burning fire come down from Heaven that seemed like it might consume me, and i felt the peace accompanying it, and in my mind i heard the words "Study Music".
Dread. Horror. Fear.
Those were the only words that can express my feelings on the matter of that prompting. So I asked for a second witness. I said like Peter of old, "'Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee.' Give me a second witness." The meeting then ended and I turned to my right and saw someone i recognized from High School sitting on my row just 2 seats away. As i went to say hi and we talked he told me that he was going to school at BYU-Idaho (check) and he was studying Music (double check).
Then I had the aforementioned murmuring, and then cried the rest of the night deciding then and there that i'd change my major to music.
Part 3 is on it's way!
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