David Journal

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  • Identifying our weapons of rebellion

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    How do we identify our weapons of rebellion? In priesthood meeting Brother Chang brought up President Benson’s Beware of Pride and it made me think that if we actively look for any enmity in our heart—either toward God or others—we will find most if not all the weapons of rebellion that we are harboring.

  • The faulty implications of “after”

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    Laura really wanted to go to the Festival of Trees today (last day) and so we went this afternoon. Unfortunately after we arrived there I realized I didn’t have my wallet and we weren’t able to find another way to pay so we just had to go home. The greatest part of that is that…

  • Portraits of Christ

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    I volunteered at the Christmas Creche event that our stake puts on each year (this is the 3rd year). Most of the time I was in the room called Portraits of Christ which was full of paintings of Christ—mostly original works. It was beautiful but also fun to see the way people were moved by…

  • What changes are within our present capacity?

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    I feel like I am making pretty much every change that I can to improve my life and the home environment but I feel like we are presently stuck because nobody else is making the changes they are capable of so there’s little I can do to make things any better.

  • A chance to testify

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    Emma and I had to run some errands this evening and while we were out I realized that it was her week for a meal so we went to Olive Garden. I’ve been thinking over the last couple of days about various peaceful memories related to gospel-centered activities and music from my youth and while…

  • End of primary

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    We went with Emma tonight to her welcome to young women’s meeting. That’s our last child leaving primary in 4 weeks. It’s wild to think we finally made it to this point. It was fun to see her getting along with some of the other girls right from the beginning. I think this will be…

  • Horseshoe Christmas Party 2024

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    Today was the annual Christmas party in our street. It was fun putting out the luminarias on the sidewalk and I especially enjoyed having my house lights add to the Christmas feel of the street. During the party I spent a good deal of time talking to Owen Johnston and later Jared Marden and Nancy…

  • An interesting thought

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    I had this interesting thought in Sunday School today: Is my feeling of invisibility a weakness that the Lord can/will make strong?

  • Laser tag master

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    We went to play laser tag for the boys birthday today and I placed first individually in every game whether it was team or free for all. That’s never happened before. It was fun.

  • A much better day

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    Today was good. Not in some earthshaking way, just in a good solid day kind of way. I went to the temple, finished up the last things in making the outside lights tidy, and put the trailer away so that we will be able to make space for the van in the garage. I also…