Love Temple Tuesdays 🥰.
Beautiful day. 🥰
Up over and over again through the night. Nothing major, just waking and falling asleep again many times. Similar to normal but more frequently.
Since I didn’t finish my journal until late, I didn’t end up getting up on time. I think I finally got up somewhere around 6:30 or 7 ish.
Did some morning routine stuff and then busted over to the gym and powered through a full-body mega workout–19 exercises, 57 sets, 570 reps (3 sets of 10 reps per exercise).
It was exhausting. 🙃
Doing a sort of circuit training, bang, bang, bang, generally four exercises per circuit, one to the next, to the next, to the next, and then repeat three times, generally not really taking a break because each exercise is a different muscle group.
Doing it that way, I think separate cardio is… unnecessary. 😆
I was regularly out of breath.
Showered while there and had brought my dress clothes inside, so I got dressed and drove over to the temple.
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It’s also fun to have multiple workers there recognize me and know me by name.
I think I mentioned that last week. 🙃
The baptismal coordinator sister, the confirmations brother, and the one of the initiatory brothers. 🥰
Today was another initiatory and baptisms day. I would love to do more, but it’s a small temple with relatively few patrons and workers.
For most of the baptismal session, I was the only non-temple-worker Melchizedek priesthood holder there, so I performed all the baptisms until it was my turn, and one of the temple workers changed to baptize me and then the older gentleman who then baptized his… I’m assuming wife?
Apparently, the Casper Temple got selected to do a pilot program of a new digital system, so today was the first day they were using the new system. There were a few little hiccups, but overall, it was really good. 😊
I think it’s a great improvement to the process. 😊
After the temple, I headed over to Walmart to buy some food for the drive home. I also bought some more pairs of sweatpants, same kind I bought last time, one of which now has a tooth hole in it. 🙃
Chatted with my friend Cory while I walked around Walmart for a bit.
Pondering Titus 1:15.
Used my blender to make myself two, very large fruit and vegetable smoothies on the way home.
Answered maybe two or three online auto repair questions, but spent most of the time just listening to some very informative YouTube videos that I appreciated very much about Old testament times and the symbolism in The temple and the parable of the 10 virgins and all sorts of other wonderful stuff.
One of the points in the video totally blew my mind.
It’s exciting for me to learn the things that I’m learning. 😊
Took a different way home today than I usually do, not going by Cascade falls, but just going into hot springs and then back to the property. It’s actually about a 3 mile longer drive, but I just had a feeling to not take the other way home. Don’t know why. Nothing special happened or didn’t happen that I’m aware of, so… 🤷.
Heather and Hans were home when I got back, and we chatted for a bit, and Hans went to the store to buy some stuff, and then we talked a little bit more, ate dinner that Heather made, super good food, and now it’s 9:06 p.m., and I’m closer to getting to bed on time than I think I ever have been.
I’m totally exhausted, so I’m really hoping to be able to fall asleep.
Gratitude:
- I’m grateful that I had the discipline to power through even when I was exhausted and wanted to call it a little early on my mega workout today. By the end, I was having to take breaks between circuit sets because I was out of breath from having worked so hard.
- I’m grateful that Planet Fitness has showers, so I can shower, change, and just drive right over to the temple.
- I’m grateful it was a cooler day today. I think the high was around 80, so even though it was hot inside the van without air conditioning, the smoothies helped keep me cool. 😊
- I’m grateful that the Planet Fitness parking lot has a row of trees on the south end of the parking lot that allow me to be able to park in the shade if I don’t mind walking the whole width of the parking lot, which I don’t.
- I’m grateful for yet another absolutely beautiful experience at the temple. I just love the light and the peace and the joy that I feel inside. One day, I hope to have a home that feels like a temple. There’s a lot more that I could do in my van to make it feel like a temple.
- I’m grateful for wonderful Temple workers. The smiles, the love… 🥰
- I’m grateful that I remembered that I have a functional blender. As I’m moving back toward my veganism, and also just trying to get back to eating really healthily in general, it was nice to be able to buy Frozen fruits and vegetables and whatnot that I could just blend up and drink on the way home.
- I’m grateful I was able to answer at least a couple of questions online. It’s not much, but a little here and a little there can add up.
- I’m grateful to have so many resources available for learning, so many people putting out such good content that’s meaningful for me. Such good stuff.
- I’m grateful to be free of all those things that I used to use to escape into, porn and sports news and regular news and TV and movies. I’m grateful that when I partake of the very best that I can find, all those other things that, to me at least, are less than the best, just… melt away and lose their appeal when once they were daily staples.
- I am very grateful for the gift of sobriety specifically in my pornography addiction. I feel the gift of God and his hand both in strength and in miracles that I cannot explain.
- I’m grateful for the gospel and the perspective that has changed my whole world. 🙏
- I’m grateful for the cooler weather. I think it’s going to get down into maybe the low 50s tonight? And the high tomorrow is going to be 59. 🥳
- I’m grateful to be feeling so much gratitude.
- I’m grateful to have the cares and concerns of yesterday just… melt away today.
- I’m grateful for peace. That is quickly becoming the climate and my soul peace, positivity, light, happiness, and even joy. Certainly, I’m having stormy days, like yesterday, but the overall climate in my soul has shifted miraculously. Thank you, Lord. 🥰
Success:
- Gave my sincere and worthy effort today. 😊
- I’m not where I want to be, but I’m good. 😊 And I’ll be good throughout the journey as it continues.
Improvement:
- Started to a little annoyed after 3 gas pumps in a row wouldn’t take my card. No need to get annoyed.
Hope today’s thought isn’t a repeat? 🤞
Thought of the Day:
When peace, like a river, attendeth my way, When sorrows like sea billows roll— Whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to say, “It is well, it is well with my soul.”
It is well with my soul;
It is well, it is well with my soul.
~ Horatio Spafford
Hand of God In My Life Today:
Peace, like a river, in my life today. 🥰
Loves and hugs to all. 🥰
Lift the world.
Bring it on.
~ stephen
Lift the World 