Friday, August 8, 2008

Hugh Hewitt on Missionary Service

Yesterday 8/7/08, I was listening to the Hugh Hewitt show. There was a quote from Sen. Barrack Obama on why he was running for President. Obama said he believed "America was not as great as it used to be". Obama wants to be the one to restore America to it's former greatness. It's hard to know what Obama meant by that statement. What was this hay day for America that has passed. He hardly ever gives an example of his views. Obama's and my ideas of what makes America great, have to be complete opposites. I only wonder what time was America great to Obama. Was America better back in the 1950's before the civil rights laws where passed. I would think he must have been thinking of Ronald Reagan's America, a "shinning city upon the hill". Chances are he doesn't look to Reagan as an example of American greatness. He might have been thinking of Clinton's 90's, but he spent the whole primary ripping on it's success.

Hugh Hewitt's response to this quote was to point out how America was still great. The first example he brought up was Mormon Missionary's. He went on to explain how earlier that day, he had met two LDS return Missionary's. He spoke in praise of how tens of thousands of Missionary's every year leave their homes. He was impressed that they choose to go help strangers around the world. He was obviously very impressed by these return Missionary's in their early 20's. I was impressed that his first example of why America is still great was, Mormon Missionary's. Hugh went on to give other examples, and they were all good too. I am thank full those two return Missionary's served a mission, and spoke of the experience to Hugh. Our Missionary's are truly our ambassador's to the world.

3 comments:

Michael said...

Yeah, the grass is always greener on the other side...in the other decade.

Kimberly said...

What are we going to do if Barrack is our next President? I can only imagine America's greatness going down the hole! I think it is so cool when non-mormons speak so highly of our religion and are impressed by our standards!! That is a really great story!

penni said...

Obama!! I can't believe what he gets away with. Isn't it interesting that his pole numbers are coming down and the media can't understand it. The scary thing is Hillary Clinton is working on being nominated in place of Obama because the Dems now know that Barack can't close the deal. It will be interesting. I really like Hugh Hewitt. Its nice to hear good things about Mormons once in a while. I hope the Dems go up in smoke. I pray that people will study this thing out before they go vote. I wish there was a litmus test to know the facts or something cause we be in big trouble if Obama is President heaven help us all