David Journal

Tag: personal quest

  • Another prayer upgrade

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    In reading President Nelson’s article from January 2021 I realized one tweak I need to make in my prayers. I have gotten much better about speaking and exploring the things I’m concerned about but I am not always taking time to listen closely after I finish talking. I’m going to try being better at listening…

  • Home from vacation

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    We had a nice, leisurely morning and then a pleasant, unhurried drive home. In the way I got to talk to Laura about scheming get what she wants in life (as in, she should be scheming rather than just accepting what comes her way). We had as pleasant visit with Savannah before she had to…

  • Vacay day 2

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    The second day was a good compliment to the first. We enjoyed our shows but when I tried talking to Laura about vision she is still stuck on this idea that we don’t have enough that she can afford to have a vision and she cant countenance the idea that she could add anything to…

  • Time for vacation

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    I worked really hard today to get things buttoned up at work before I take the next two days off. That meant staying an extra half hour but I think things are in a good place. I’m looking forward to the next couple of days away with Laura.

  • Retaining ground

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    I feel like right now I am having to fight to reestablish the good routines and patterns that I had been building/maintaining a couple of months ago. My evening schedule has been shot and until yesterday we had gone more than a week (maybe more than two) without couple scripture study. Hopefully we’ll get that…

  • Almost perfect, but not quite

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    Camping can’t be perfect the first time we get there (some kind of natural law) so during the night I thought that we didn’t have a good way to cook eggs in the morning and decided that we should probably go home before breakfast. Only later did I realize that we had entirely forgotten to…

  • A possible “place of resort”

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    I said I wanted a place of resort where the whole family could gather – the place we found tonight, perhaps a tenth of a mile south of Red Creek Flat could quite possibly qualify. It is very accessible while still being acceptably secluded. I absolutely intend to come back here often.

  • Time to do less

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    I wanted to talk to Carl to pick his lawyer brain for a minute and “Sunday afternoon” was his availability. That showed me how much I have packed in to most Sundays. We have: I didn’t get to call Carl until 9PM At least I know I’m not bored and surfing YouTube but I definitely…

  • Church camps everywhere

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    I am getting more and more excited for our camp at Old Pinery. Today we made reservations for the challenge course, the zip line, and the axe and knife throwing. I also decided to take a couple of hours off work so that we could go up earlier. I also discovered that Camp Haven—that I…

  • Organic ministering

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    I reached out to Owen Johnston today. I have no ministering assignment with him but his family has disappeared for some time and I just felt that they needed to know they are remembered and missed. Separately while I was out walking I got a text from Brother Hoopes asking if I could come over…