Book of Mormon

So. Remember that part in Tangled when all the villains are singing about their dreams? Well, I have a dream:
Religion classes being held every. Day.
Two days of the week isn't enough! Professor Merril is the best teacher I've ever had! He's forthright, humorous (when appropriate), and knows anything you could ever hope to know about the scriptures! We just had a really intense class today; and I don't mean it in the slang sense of the word. I mean it quite literally. When Nephi's writing what's going to happen in the next handful of decades (chapters 11-14, for those who want to know. It's the vision scene), and you're reading it and looking even deeper into it, and then bringing in stuff from Revelations and conference talks...it's intense. And so exciting! Which may not be the normal reaction (fear's probably more par for the course), but think about it! I had no idea we had been told so much about the latter days! There were a bunch of conference talks from the 80's that Professor Merril quoted today, and it's really so interesting! How the world and the church will soon be physically seperated; things will be even worse in the coming days than all the mobs and persecutions of the early days of the church (ah!); and there was something about atomic holocausts...Professor Merril wished us luck. He said he'll probably be gone by then.
I think I'll be declaring a major in Ancient Near Eastern Studies next semester. I want to study the scriptures, learn as much as I can! I'm not sure whether I'll be going on the New Testement/Greek track or Old Testement/Hebrew track, but I don't think I have to decide right then. And then I'll get a job and start saving up for the Jerusalem Center. I heard a figure somewhere around $10,000.00, so I'll need to work as much as I can.
This is just so exciting! Professor Merril had mentioned a professor who retired last year or the year before, who taught a class on the Book of Revlelations: Revelations for the whole semester! But he said there's no class on that now: it all depends on when they have a professor who's willing to jump into it and teach it. They don't have Joseph Smith History classes for now, either (though I think I'll be taking Professor Merril's class on Isaiah next year). Anyway, this professor is the one who wrote the book Opening the 7 Seals, for those of you who know what that is. I remember reading it and thinking 'well this is obvious' and stopping after the first chapter...but apparently this professor is one of the best the church has, expertise-wise, on Revelations! So I'm going to have to get back to that book...
But since the class isn't offered now, Professor Merril said the best I could do was take a New Testement class from a professor who spends three-to-four weeks on Revelations; there are some who do and some who don't.
Ah! I'm just so excited right now! I can't wait to see what's to come! Probably a little morbid and fatalistic of me, but at least I'm not the only one. Professor Merril feels the same way, and there were a few murmurs of agreement when he asked "isn't this exciting?"
So...yup. I just wanted to shout my enthusiasm to the entire world. If you think I'm crazy(-er), feel free to call me and I'll recite the lecture to you. And probably send you a photocopy of my notes. :)