Student Success Statement By Theodore Roosevelt 

" In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing."  

  

Do you ever have those times where you have to make a difficult decision between the right or what you think is right. Imagine you are at the store and you are really craving some Ferraro Chocolate. Trust me I've been in this situation. Imagine making the decision of buying the chocolate or buying what your mother told you to buy for example bananas. You might spend 30 minutes thinking about how to buy both of the items of just buy the chocolate and tell your mom there was no bananas. Even though you will pay her back for the chocolate it is not the right thing to do because what if she really needed the bananas to make that cake for this one occasion. This is where this statement applies and will apply for any other situation between right or wrong. Sometimes my temptations win over what is right and that brings me no good so every time I'm in this issue I think about how there is always a tomorrow and I can get what I want the next day if I do get a tomorrow. There is no right in trying to steal something because you can't get it the right way. Why steal what you want and feel bitter than buy it with integrity and make it taste twice as better than it was.  

                                                " I WON'T CHEAT" 
                             
                            It doesn't, matter if you cheat on a test or if you cheat on a game, cheating is cheating and it is not right. Many people get away with cheating and think it is ok to do it again, but eventually it will catch up to you and the consequences will be bigger. It is rather true when you cheat you are cheating yourself, because in a test and in a game you are being tested for what you know so what if you are thought better than you are. People will expect you to be better and that won't be good because you hardly know what you did. That is if you want to do the right thing you should not cheat and do your best. 

  The Sting of a Scorpion

                                                                              -Elder Patrick Kearon

In this short memory of Patrick Kearon he talks about a time when he disobeyed his parents on a trip to the Arabian Peninsula.  His mother had told him to always wear shoes when he was going to walk around in the desert sand, but that one time he decided to be rebellious and lazy that he wore his sandals to walk around instead. He was later stung by a scorpion and had to suffer the pain for more than two hours until they got to the hospital. Patrick was fortunate enough that his parents were nearby to carry him and take him to the hospital. But if he had been further away he would of had to suffer more pain and the consequences would of been more severe. This story that Patrick told us teaches us all that Choosing the wrong and being disobedient leads to more than just pain. It affects the people around you when you decide to do bad choices. Older people have already passed through teen years and pressure so they know what they are telling you when they say “do this” and “don’t do this.”