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Divorce

 Wow! The semester it is almost over, and It was so fast to me, I could never thank that I was able to write more than seven thousand and eight hundreds words in blogs during this semester, I mean, this is a lot, and I feel proud about that. There are sometimes that I am just walking through the campus and thinking how blessed I am to be here. I remember all the sacrifices we made to be at this place, and I just want to make everything worth. When I think about the Family Relations class, so many good memories come to my mind. Brother Michael William it is an excellent teacher, and he teaches with all his hart. This is one of the best qualities of a professor. He must love what he teaches, so the students will also love the subject that is being taught. This last week, while we are getting ready for the final exams, we learned a little bit more about divorce, and all the things that come along. It was interesting to learn that more than sixty two percent of the couples who divorce, reg
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Parenting

 After a great holiday, its amazing to get in class and learn more about parenting. This is a great subject for me because I had so many good examples in my life, and now I am preparing to become a father. I know that this will be a pretty hard task, and sometimes I am not sure if I am ready, but I know that Heavenly father knows what is better for us. We all say that we have the best parents in the world, this is like a cliché; especially in my country when you want to refer about your parents. However, I really think that I got this gift from God and really have the best parents in the whole word. I don’t think they are good because of any financial matter; I think this way because I saw the many sacrifices, they did to help me succeed in life. They worked a lot to help me and my brother to go to a good school and get a better education, they bought clothes, food, traveled with us, so we could be happy. I am pretty sure that my brother feels the same I feel. This gratitude feeling co
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Father

 Our subject for this week is amazing. We talked about Fathers and Finances, and I think both are really important in my life. I grew up in Sao Paulo, which is one of the biggest cities in the world, and we all hear all the time that we have a lot of opportunities down there, and that Sao Paulo is the right place to be successful, but I`ll try to tell my father history in order to show how this can be true. My father was born in 1958, and at that time, his father just left his mother, so the only family he had was his mother and older brother. They were really poor, so they all learned how to work with less than ten years old. My father told me few months ago, that it was hard to grow up without his father and getting the advices that a father should give to his children. However, he told me that his mother was fantastic. That she worked a lot to provide a better life for her children. My father studied a lot when he was young, so he was able to go to university and get a better job, h
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Communication In my Life

 Well, we are almost in the end of the semester, and It is great to see how the subjects flows every week during this class. This week I learned about communication, and you can think that this is something pretty easy, but there is a lot to learn about it. I learned that there are three types of communications, they are the following: Words, Tone, and Non-Verbal. I think these three principles applies in almost every culture, so when Brother Williams was talking about that, I just remember how it was in my country. First, I knew that there is a lot of power in a communication. If you speak with confidence, you can see many good opportunities coming to you. This is why sometimes being shy its not a good deal. I remember that I was getting ready to fill my mission papers, one Sunday the elder quorum president asked me if I could lecture for the quorum next Sunday. I got desperate, because I was really shy, so I went home think about what I should do. I thought about just don’t show up,
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Stress

 I liked this week subject a lot because we all have a lot to talk about stress. It was fun to learn how are brain works in a stressful moment, and how your whole body is addapted to suffer during those moments. I never saw a grizly bear in front of me, but for sure I went to some stressful situations in my life. To be honest, this week I am feeling like that, while I am writing this in a quiet place in the library, three girls just arrived behind me and started to talk abot the boys they are dating, and that made me stressful for a moment while I was traying to concentrate to write this blog. In my childhood I was a stresfull kid, I thing I got this from my mom, because she is stressful, but my father is just the opposite thing. I remember sometimes that I was in school playing soccer, and I used to get met really fast while playing, sometimes that stress led to some fights with my classmates that I regret a lot. While Brother William was explaning how our vision change during a str
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Marriage

  I have to tell you something, I`m just loving this class so for. To be honest at the beginning, I picked this class because a friend told me that it was easy to get a good grade, so a registered for this one, but later I figured out how this class was important to me and my family. In fact, I`m learning a lot of new things, and every day I am able to share something wife my wife at home. Talking about my wife, this week we learned about marriage and how sacred is this commitment with another person. Brother Williams made me think about how marriage in my country in our days is, and I know its not seen as something sacred anymore. People are just co-habitating with each other and they don`t want to make a real commitment. I have a cousin and his “wife’’ which is a perfect example of that. First, I want to say that they are one of the best people in the world, they love God, but they are not members of The Church of Jesus Christ of latter-day Saints. They are almost ten years togethe
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An Important Process

 The classes we had this week just made me remember about dating, engaging and my own wedding five years ago. First, it was super cool to learn about how everything is a big process; that sometimes if you don`t pay attention, you can’t see what is happening around you. I also think the same pattern happens when you are trying to see a miracle in your own life, I mean, if you are not with the Holy Ghost and paying attention, we will not be able to identify many miracles in your life. So, when talking about engaging, it is really important to follow some steps in order to have a happy marriage. The most important I think, it’s to know the person the best you can. Few months ago, I met a couple here in BYUI, they are also from Latin America, so we have a lot of things in common. They are married for only one year now, and they are having too many problems because they are now figuring out, that they didn’t know each other as they should. It is very sad when you see this happening right
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