(written on the 3rd)
It was a spiritually renewing day today, and I’m grateful.
So many days in a row of significant struggle. I’m grateful for the peace in the Temple. 🥰
I woke up later than I probably should have. I think it was maybe somewhere around 7:15 or 7:30. I haven’t been very good at all over the last week or so with my dailies, even some of the easiest have been slipping, and I wasn’t great today, either.
Headed over the to the gym to do a mega workout, but I just… didn’t have it in me, and that’s an understatement 😅. I stretched. I answered some online questions. I did a grand total of one exercise 😅, enjoyed 10 minutes on the hydro massage bed, and left. 🙃
Headed over to Walmart to do my shopping because I was going to be driving to Cheyenne immediately after going to the temple.
Then it was on to the temple. 🥰
I participated in an endowment session and then baptisms. With school having started up again, the numbers of youth coming to do baptisms has been few. I’ll likely start going to the earlier baptismal session, as there are more patrons at the earlier session generally.
Of course, there aren’t that many more temple visits to Casper, anyway, before the traveling starts in earnest.
The temple was such a needed reprieve after the craziness of these last couple of weeks.
🙏
After my visit to the temple, I called some local AutoZone’s to see if any of them had a CV axle that one of the brothers at church needs for his car, but nobody had it in stock, so I pointed rover’s nose East and began the long drive to Cheyenne.
Gratefully, the drive went by rather quickly, and gratefully because the baptismal session was relatively small, I was able to get all the way to the Bank by 4:00, which turned out to be perfect because it took me until just a couple minutes before closing to be able to get all of the statements printed out that I needed to complete my records–at least to complete the records with that particular bank.
I’m still missing other records that I’ll need to get squared away for at least one other account.
From there, I got gas and headed on the long drive back home. Chatted with my mom along the way for a bit, chatted with Heather for a little bit, and made it back somewhere around I think 8:45ish.
Long day. Productive day.
Chatted with Heather and Hans a bit and ate dinner with them before calling it a night.
Gratitude to My Father:
- Grateful for HydroMassage beds and whoever invented them. 🙂
- Grateful to be able to feel the peace and light of the Temple and the wonderful workers and other patrons who serve there.
- Grateful that the banker woman was patient with me with all the stuff that I needed to do that took a good long time–and lots of paper. 🙃
- I’m grateful that I have kept a journal, as it was my journal records that allowed me to go back and figure out why it was that the bankers couldn’t find my statements for one of my accounts way back when. I had written specifically in my journal where we found the files on their system, so I was able to explain to the banker today how to resolve the problem of not being able to find my account statements.
- Grateful that the drives didn’t drag on and on but went by decently quickly.
- Grateful that I didn’t hit any deer and that there weren’t a large number of them by the road on the way back from Cheyenne.
- Grateful to Heather for making dinner.
Reflections on Where I Can Improve:
- I let myself get sucked into working while driving. 😕
- Aaaaaand… I saw that football season started, and happened to hear/see that my favorite teams won, and I let myself get sucked into sports stuff for a bit. Gratefully, I found myself losing interest relatively quickly. 🙏 I’ll likely find myself interested several times over the next few months… Or maybe New Zealand will help me forget. 🤞
Loves 😊
Lift the world.
Bring it on.
~ stephen
Lift the World 