David Journal

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  • Keeping honest people honest

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    Once again I discover that the kids have circumvented the guardrails of the Internet. They discovered that they can go see whatever they want by using proxy servers to bypass the restrictions I have in place on our network. It looks like tomorrow I will have to take time to recognize the router and make…

  • Teacher council for parents

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    Today in Sunday School Brother Tate demonstrated an example of how a teacher council for parents would begin if it were based on the question “how do we deal with or respond to children who choose to step away from the church?” He wasn’t trying to do a teacher council but his lesson was based…

  • My own Show Low

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    Laura and I went to the Manti temple this evening and we drove there by way of Nephi rather than Fairview. As we were driving through Fountain Green Laura was commenting on what a nice little town it seemed to be and I thought that it might be exactly the kind of place I could…

  • Ministering like sisters

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    I’m learning in the last couple of days about President Nelson’s perspective on the gifts that sisters bring to the Lord’s Kingdom and trying to glean what’s that I can improve and ways that I can learn to let them thrive in their gifts.

  • Reestablishing Normal

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    It’s hard to realize that I have gone a week without walking significantly. Of course there were good reasons with camping, Sunday, sickness, and recovery. I didn’t really have an excuse yesterday other than the fact that I was busy for much of the evening and only had time for a shorter walk to get…

  • Spiritual Sisu

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    The type of determination we need can be explained by borrowing a word from the Finnish language. That Finnish word is sisu. It has no good or complete translation in English. Sisu has been described as stoic determination, tenacity of purpose, resilience, and hardiness. Sisu expresses a characteristic that manifests itself in displaying grit, resolve, and courage in the face of…

  • Recovery

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    I was feeling better today and we retrieved the van. I think it needs tires rebalanced and/or an alignment. Tonight I read President Nelson’s youth devotional titled Hope of Israel. I calculated that when he invited youth from 12-18 to join the Lord’s youth battalion I had 3 children in that age range. Of those…

  • Unexpected sick day

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    We went up to Woods Cross for the Memorial Day breakfast. We got to meet up with Savannah and Aaron and enjoyed some time playing and talking in the park. I opened up Mom’s house so that Savannah could get her bridesmaid dress for her brother-in-law’s upcoming wedding. After we got home I started feeling…

  • Finding a place of retreat

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    I got up early this morning to drive the van key down to Robby Layton in Ephraim so he would be able to get the van off the mountain once he has guys available. Before I left I had a good prayer about establishing a place of retreat which I am calling our place of…

  • What a day!

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    I didn’t have the kind of prayer this morning that I had the previous two days because we were camping. It rained most of the night so we were up at 4AM to move everything into the van and the roads were so muddy when we tried to come home that the van slid into…