My listing of 40 acres in Indian Valley expires Dec 31, and the owner has decided to let the listing expire, so I may drive their to get my sign. I also have several of the books to deliver still, so I may do that instead.
Yesterday was pretty low-key, but I did manage to help get the Christmas tree put away and the living room put back together. And I patched the hole Moose put in the carpet so long ago. That was a great accomplishment. 🙂
Jaidyn’s baby shower will be today. She is showing so much more than she was when she was here last month.
The downtime this week has been nice, but I’m looking forward to getting back to business starting Monday. I’ve been enjoying the last few weeks trying to prepare for the new year. I feel very optimistic about 2025. “Defy Gravity-25 in 25”.
Probably the greatest weight I feel on my shoulders right now, besides feeling sick from a cold, is checking on Ministering assignments at church. We’re supposed to have quarterly interviews, and this last quarter I did not do well with that.
Other than the feeling that I failed with that this time, I feel pretty good. We still need to sell the ***’s house, and I need to find out what’s next with the ***’s house, but all-in-all, the new year is starting out in a good place.
The place where I would now like to make the biggest life change is my health. I feel my body rapidly changing in the last year. My weight is hard on it, and I think my diet is hard on it too.
The new year seems to be the time to focus on health things. I may as well get on the wagon for that. I think I’ll start by doing a food log. I will take the next month to do nothing new with my diet or exercise except log it. This will create a habit in me that will train my mind to prepare me for the next steps.
Come Follow Me
We’re wrapping up the study of the Book of Mormon for the year, and will be starting the Doctrine & Covenant’s for 2025. As I contemplate the totality of the Book of Mormon the overriding thought or feeling is that I am part of a most peculiar church. Is there any other church in the world that believes in something so supernaturally miraculous? There probably is, but not one so established.
It’s easy to overlook the impact the Book of Mormon has made on my life. It would have been a very different life for me had I not been influenced by what I read in its pages. A mission, a marriage, raising our family, all profoundly influenced by this book. I wonder sometimes at the motivation I have felt to read in the Book of Mormon. Where I have witnessed other people’s complete disinterest, I have had put inside me at different times such a strong urge to become familiar with it’s contents. For the new year I think I would like to have that drive again. I would like to feel the awe and wonder of it like I have felt before.
It’s influence on me has been profound. I will do what I need to do to make my study of it a priority again this year.