A View from my heart #4 - Guns Germs and Steel

Well, I didn't get to see Sense and Sensibility. I went to go and rent it 3 times but it was nver in stock!! It really makes me want to see it more though because it's probably a really good movie to be out so often.

What I did watch was a show on PBS called Guns, Germs, and Steel, which is a show about why the Indians were taken over by the Europeans. There were some things that I liked and some things that I didn't like. A thing I liked was that it talked about that people in places like New Guniea where they don't have a lot of technology or anything are really just as smart as the people back in civilization, they just haven't had the opportunity to learn the things we have. This is really true I think, I mean arean't we all children of God? Every once in a while a really smart person comes along, but it seems like most people are at about the same level of smartness.

A really sad thing was at the end they talked about all of these little children in Africa who were dying of malaria, because they live in big cities or something and they didn't before. It makes me glad that people are trying to work on things like this, helping people instead of trying to tear them down with inappropriate movies and media.

One thing I didn't like was that they talked about the Americas being taken over by people from Europe and that it was because of disease and technology, when really we know that it was becasue the people were wicked and there needed to be righteous people in the land (2 Nephi 1:9-11). All and all I thought it was a pretty good show and I was glad they were trying to help some people.

That's all for this week! Mom and Dad have surprised Stephen and I with a trip around Utah to see Church History sites! I thought it would be so exciting especially with Pioneer Day being so close.