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Porter Chelson

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Email: porter.chelson@gmail.com
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Faith
Control Your Thoughts and You Control Your Destiny says Devotional Speaker
By Porter Chelson
April 04, 2016
Jeffery Bunker, associate executive director of Student Academic and Advisement Services, delivered the Devotional address Tuesday in the Marriott Center. Bunker talked about how our destiny, as grand as it may be, begins with the tiniest of individual thoughts and how today is the day to start to change your thoughts – and your life – forever.
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#BYUDevo: Elder Packer Gives Advice on Navigating Life
By Porter Chelson
January 25, 2016
Elder Allan F. Packer of the Quorum of the Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints delivered the Devotional address. Packer shared lessons he has learned that can help us navigate our way through life.

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#BYUDEVO: Choosing Faith in Troubled Times
By Porter Chelson
January 13, 2016
While faith in God is waning throughout society, everyone must choose whether faith as an enduring place in our own lives, said Elder Larry Y. Wilson, of the Quorum of the Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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#BYUDevo: Cybersecurity and Spiritual Safety
By Porter Chelson
December 07, 2015
Professor Bonnie Brinton Anderson delivered the devotional address Tuesday afternoon. She gave five tips on how to improve computer security behavior, and how those tips parallel the ways we can improve our spiritual behavior.

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Character
Former US Congressman Jim Matheson encourages political participation at BYU Forum
By Porter Chelson
November 16, 2015
Former U.S. Congressman Jim Matheson spoke at the BYU Forum on Tuesday afternoon at the Marriott Center. Matheson taught that democracy is best served when people are engaged in the political process.

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#BYUDevo: "Peace I Leave with You"
By Porter Chelson
November 09, 2015
Leslee Thorne-Murphy spoke at the Devotional on Tuesday afternoon in the Marriott Center.  She taught that Christ's peace will not eliminate adversity in their lives but can help them carry on.

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#BYUDevo: Adversity increases our capacity to be like Christ
By Porter Chelson
October 12, 2015
Sterling Hilton, Department Chair of Educational Leadership and Foundations in the McKay School of Education, delivered the Devotional address Tuesday in the Marriott Center.

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Intellect
Success is ability to change circumstances says Baroness Nicholson at BYU Forum
By Porter Chelson
September 21, 2015
Baroness Emma Nicholson of Winterbourne spoke to the BYU campus community Tuesday at a Forum address. Sharing highlights from her own life journey, she emphasized that success in life should be measured by how we manage within the circumstances we find ourselves in and how we can change them. 

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Stand Up For Fairness says Elder Rasband at this Week's Devotional
By Porter Chelson
September 14, 2015
Elder Ronald A. Rasband, senior president of the Quorums of the Seventy, spoke at the campus Devotional Tuesday morning, delivered a message about the importance of religious freedom and fairness.

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