🏔️Lincoln🏔️

Disciple of Christ🌱
Father of 👧🏼👧🏼👶🏼OD🤓
🎵Jazzman for life 🤙🏼 Cougar for eternity

“Learn to love to do what you have to do”
JGB💙

[🏔️Lincoln🏔️ @lincbang6]

@BrandSanderson @BradReneer Just finished the Mistborn trilogy and started Alloy of Law. Here are my cinematic takes on the characters:
Kelsier - blonde Tom Hiddleston from Henry V

[Kirk Rollins @nicoraytruth]

A church can keep every distinctive it has and still stop being itself, if it only keeps them as decoration.

What is the doctrine that built the Nauvoo temple?

Was it be nice? Was it be a good neighbor? Was it keep your yard clean, be quiet in your calling, and never give offense?

Nobody crosses a continent for that. Nobody dies at Haun’s Mill for that. Women did not break their china into the plaster at Kirtland so the walls would catch the light, for that. The Saints did not finish Nauvoo knowing they were about to walk away from it, for that. You do not quarry granite out of a canyon for forty years to house a moral suggestion.

What is in the walls at Nauvoo, and in the walls of every temple standing today?

That you were there before. That there was a council before the world was, and you stood in it, and you chose. That you are the begotten spirit child of heavenly parents, not a soul conjured out of nothing at conception, but literal offspring, of the same kind as your Father.

That the plates were real. That the hill is on a map, and you can drive to it, and a farm boy carried something heavy down it. Not a myth that means something. An event that happened.

That exaltation is not a warmer word for heaven. Heaven is a destination. Exaltation is an inheritance and a continuation. That same sociality which exists among us here, kept and enlarged, eternal increase, the continuation of the seeds forever. A resurrection that restores every limb and joint to its proper and perfect frame, so that the woman you knew is the woman you meet, and not a symbol of her.

That the Saints are an actual covenant people gathered out, not a friendly marketing brand or glorified self improvement program.

That is the doctrine that built temples.

Nobody builds a temple to be nice.

[Kirk Rollins @nicoraytruth]

https://t.co/G9aItPBdoI

[🏔️Lincoln🏔️ @lincbang6]

@Post_Thirty So untrue. I am more put together WITH my 4 kids at age 31. My wife and I have built our own little empire of awesomeness (and they are stinkin cute too) my parents did the same thing and all of us are so tight and happy and closest thing to perfection this world could ever know.

[🏔️Lincoln🏔️ @lincbang6]

@JakeAndBenKSL
Hey, the $250 ROC pass covers all sports. The $75 pass is all sports minus basketball and football. It doesn’t cost any more money to go see Olympic sports…it’s all included in the $250. You’re 10 minutes saying rich kids are benefitting from this is inaccurate.

[🏔️Lincoln🏔️ @lincbang6]

@thebookofmormon “When I see many of my brethren truly penitent, and coming to the Lord their God, then is my soul filled with JOY; then do I REMEMBER what the Lord has done for ME, yea, even that he hath heard my prayer; yea, then do I remember his merciful arm which he extended towards me.”

[🏔️Lincoln🏔️ @lincbang6]

@BYUCougars @BYU_CE @byusoccer_w @BYUwvolleyball @BYUmvolleyball Pretty awesome. BYU CE includes online high school, Flex GE, and lots of great programs that people will now google about.

What are your other favorite BYU things that got passed over for BYU CE?
1. The MARB
2. BYU Creamery

[Stephen Snyder @ASCENDING_AZ]

This morning the Big 12 named its Athlete of the Year.

In three seasons of BYU membership, no Cougar from any sport had ever won it. Not a quarterback, not a runner, not a golfer, not a volleyball player. Nobody.

Now one has — and the résumé that got him there is almost silly:
• Led the ENTIRE NATION in scoring at 25.5 points per game
• 894 points — the THIRD-MOST by a freshman in the history of Division I basketball
• Broke BYU's freshman scoring record with 43 points against Utah
• Then set the Big 12 Tournament freshman scoring record with 40 against Kansas State
• Posted a 30-point, 10-rebound, 10-assist triple-double — one of only TWO in the history of the conference
• First freshman with 30-plus points in an NCAA Tournament debut since Stephen Curry in 2007
• Scored in double figures in all 35 games; twenty-eight 20-point games; eight 30-point games
• Julius Erving Award as the nation's best small forward
• Consensus first-team All-American
• Big 12 Player of the Year AND Freshman of the Year
• No. 1 overall pick in the 2026 NBA Draft

He beat out a terrific field for this award, including a Utah offensive lineman who went ninth overall in the NFL Draft. Sixteen media members, one from each school, cast the votes.

And in Las Vegas this month, he picked up exactly where he left off. Twenty-seven points against the Jazz in his debut — a game-high, nineteen of them before halftime, in a head-to-head with the No. 2 pick. Then twenty-three against the Kings with seven rebounds, three steals and two blocks.

Final Summer League line: 25.0 points, 7.0 rebounds, 2.5 steals, 1.5 blocks. He shot 8-for-9 at the rim. His 25.0 per game is the HIGHEST AVERAGE BY A NO. 1 PICK IN LAS VEGAS SUMMER LEAGUE HISTORY — and Washington shut him down after two games because there was nothing left to prove.

But here is the part I keep thinking about, and it has nothing to do with basketball.

Midseason, on a national FS1 broadcast, the announcing crew shared something he had told them off camera: that his favorite thing outside of basketball was going to class — and that his favorite class at BYU was Book of Mormon, taught by professor Tyler Griffin.

He asked them to say the professor's name.

Now understand who said it. This young man is CATHOLIC. He attended a Catholic high school in Massachusetts. He never joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, never said he would, and nobody asked him to.

His father emigrated from the Republic of Congo by way of France; his mother came from Jamaica; he grew up in Brockton, Massachusetts.

He simply took somebody else's scripture seriously, said so in public, and gave the credit to his teacher.

And then there is the detail that made me want to write this at all.

Griffin taught an early-morning class. Basketball teams get home from road games at absurd hours, and a player in that situation has a school-excused absence and a Zoom recording waiting for him. Every excuse is already signed.

He came to class anyway. On one occasion he walked in on two or three hours of sleep, excused, with the recording available.

His professor's words: "He could've watched the Zoom recording, but he came anyway."

The No. 1 pick in the NBA Draft could have watched the recording.

I have thought about that sentence for a while now.

Character is not what a man does in the arena with nineteen thousand people watching and a national broadcast tracking every possession. Character is what he does at eight in the morning on three hours of sleep, when the absence is already excused, when the recording is right there, and when literally nobody would ever have known the difference.

He also spent his one season in Provo starting a foundation for young people, and when a teammate's season ended with a torn ACL in February, he stopped being a freshman phenom and started carrying a team.

His own assessment of that stretch: "it made me better."

Congratulations, AJ Dybantsa — Big 12 Athlete of the Year, and the first Cougar ever to hold it.

Provo got him for one season. It is going to talk about him for fifty years, and not mostly because of the scoring record.

I build with that same standard here in Arizona. The work nobody is watching — the vehicle inspected at 5 a.m., the checklist run when no one would know if you skipped it — is the work that decides everything.

@ASCENDING_AZ | https://t.co/0e2vGHo7mW
@BYUMBB / @byumbb · @Big12Conference · @WashWizards · @NBA · @NBASummerLeague
#HearHim #GoCougs #BYU #BYUBasketball #Big12 #NBA #Wizards #SummerLeague

[🏔️Lincoln🏔️ @lincbang6]

@FiredUpCoug @ctpaulson Having moved from Utah to Eastern Nevada, I had no idea how much I loved early bright mornings all year long (because this is what happens when you live on the east edge of a time zone)

[🏔️Lincoln🏔️ @lincbang6]

@FiredUpCoug Let me know! My whole family does an annual game testing thing for Christmas, we’d love to add you to our rotation!

[🏔️Lincoln🏔️ @lincbang6]

@CJRealHoops2 Albania 2014-2016
Hit at least 15-30 doors a day.

[🏔️Lincoln🏔️ @lincbang6]

@FreddyLA7 Explore the Rocky Mountains from Banff in Canada, Yellowstone, down to Mesa Verde in Colorado, Moab and Zions, and then finish in Yosemite and the Redwoods. Some of these places are only accessible in the summer and are far better than humid, big cities. Also, Maine or OR coast

[1776 Live @250YearsAgoLive]

Thomas Paine publishes an open letter in the Pennsylvania Evening Post, under the name “Republicus,” which advocates for the name “United States of America” for the new nation now emerging.

This is the first time such a term has been used.

[🏔️Lincoln🏔️ @lincbang6]

@EricCMeadows We are in Elko!

[The Colonel @colby_colonel]

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[🏔️Lincoln🏔️ @lincbang6]

@LDS_Dems We literally are the Church of Jesus Christ. Nuff said.

We are him. He literally leads his church that he calls in his name. “Calumny may defame, but the church or god will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent!”

[🏔️Lincoln🏔️ @lincbang6]

Which of these nationally recognized Utah-based logos would look best on a BYU jersey?
@Mitch_Harper @BYUfootball #byusport @BYUSportsNation @SportyMcSports @CriddleBenjamin @GBSHansO @rakoto10 @Spencer_Linton @jaromjordan @LockedOnCougars @JakeHatch

[🏔️Lincoln🏔️ @lincbang6]

Awesome branding

[Houston Rockets @HoustonRockets]

Evolving into our next chapter.

[Houston Rockets @HoustonRockets]

One giant leap for new threads.

[🏔️Lincoln🏔️ @lincbang6]

@RyanQualtrics @utahmammoth Is the Growth and Renovation Grant still available for to grow hockey in communities? Elko NV may be interested! Just 3 hrs from the Delta Center!

[🏔️Lincoln🏔️ @lincbang6]

@Seeking72 Mosiah is amazing. King Benjamin, Abinadi, Alma. Limhi’s people. Fantastic stories and doctrine