David Journal

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  • Am I stuck in a rut?

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    I feel like a zombie sometimes lately—like I’m not making progress on any particular front but I also have no idea what, if anything, should change and I don’t even have any idea what you ask to learn more. I know I have maxed out my ability to commit to anything at the moment and…

  • Some of everything today

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    I started the morning with a trip to the temple then followed that up with doing the dishes, mowing the lawn, playing tennis with Noah, edging and weeding, and then seeing The Addams Family at Hale Center Theatre before closing the day with watching the first half of the BYU/K-State game. (Really late kickoff is…

  • Dare I hope?

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    Tonight while walking I found the third Harris/Walz sign in our neighborhood. We still only have 1 Trump sign. It made me begin to have some hope that people have been silently waking up. In fact, I dared to imagine Utah flipping blue in a rebuke of Trump after January 6th. That would be incredible…

  • A feeling in the air

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    I watched Unite for America tonight—a gathering for the Harris campaign where the many groups that held fundraising calls for the campaign earlier got together. It was hosted or MC’d by Oprah Winfrey but I was struck by the tenor of the gathering. It was joyful, earnest, inclusive, and tender. While there were comments about…

  • Walking a tightrope

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    I feel like I will be in constant tension for the next 50 days until the election wanting to keep focused on the race and on doing what I can to support Harris but also wanting to not get lost in a rabbit hole to the detriment of everything else I should be doing in…

  • Promises in Section 109

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    Now I need to evaluate how those promises apply to me.

  • More new hymns

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    I just stumbled upon news that 9 more hymns that will be part of the new hymnbook will be available within the next day. I’m excited. I spent the last 6 hours helping Emma with a school project. She needed to make a model of one of the seven ancient wonders of the world. In…

  • Level up

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    For several years I have made a point of studying each talk from General Conference before the next General Conference. I haven’t always succeeded but in those cases I have caught up after conference on top of trying to do the new talks. For the two or three most recent conferences I have added to…

  • Turning a page

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    Our prayers can be—and should be—living discussions with our Heavenly Father. Russell M. NelsonThink Celestial I can vouch for the truth of that statement. Today I was released along with the rest of the Sunday School Presidency. That is the only calling I have had during my six years in the ward. There have been…

  • A new approach to phones

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    Today I finally told Laura about the flip phone deal where we could get a year of service for what amounted to $10/month. We decided to get one for Emma since she often needs to tell us about having gone to a friend’s house.