Elder Patrick Kearon is the Man

Who's the man today you ask? If you either read the title, or guessed Elder Patrick Kearon, you win! I didn't really know who this guy was before priesthood session but I just loved his talk. Competed for my favorite of the session against Elder Uctdorf's Pride talk. He's a member of the first quorum of the 70, and showed that he's a great speaker. Oh right! The well developed paragraph!

During Preisthood session of General Conference, Elder Patrick Kearon gave a talk to an audience of specifically male Christians. Elder Kearon spoke of choices that we know are wrong, but out of either laziness or rebelliousness, choose to do. He was speaking to a very specific audience with this lesson and because of this, makes some very specific choices to make sure that the audience he was speaking to was addressed. Kearon began his talk with a story of a camping trip which he traveled on with his family. As he was addressing an audience of men, most could easily picture a camping trip and were able to connect with him. After a simple, yet effective, exposition he proceeds to tell the purpose of his story: when he failed to listen to his parents and put on shoes, he was hurt very badly. Men are notorious for getting hurt out of laziness or carelessness. When Elder Kearon brings up his own situation, it brings forth our own similar experiences in which we learned to listen to the wisdom of our parents. With such a specific audience of males, Elder Kearon is able to quickly connect with his audience through his story. By recognizing the specific audience and situation in which he is speaking, Elder Kearon writes an effective and powerful talk.

Well there we go. There's my rhetorical analysis.... Whew... Looks really long from all the way down here. I doubt its even a page double spaced on Microsoft Word though... This will probably double as my essay that I turn in one of these days. In fact, I intend it too! I'll just edit it a little and maybe make it two paragraphs, but otherwise it looks pretty decent.