Better today. Not great, but definitely better. 🙏 I slept in again a bit, I think until maybe 8:30 or 9:00? I don't remember exactly. I started writing my journal entry for yesterday pretty quickly after getting up, and it took me... a long time to finish. 🙃 Lots of things I wanted to write … Continue reading 2026-07-24 (Friday) — Just Three More to Go 🙏

(written on the 24th) It's been a challenging day. Slept in again, and I was grateful that we both got rain, and that at the same time, it didn't appear to have destroyed all my hard work on the trench. 🙏 The fact that I left the concrete cylinder in the trench blocking the path … Continue reading 2026-07-23 (Thursday) — Better To Let Go?

I actually had a good night's sleep. 😊 That was quite a welcome experience. 🙏 I don't usually do terribly in the amount of sleep that I get, but I don't generally do well either, I don't think? Anyway, I think between the decent amount of sleep and having taken it easy yesterday, I was … Continue reading 2026-07-22 (Wednesday) — Am I Doing It Right?

Okay, you can do this Stephen. 😅 I guess I had no idea how much was taken out of me physically with the hard push Saturday and yesterday, working out in the heat, the exhaustion, the dehydration, the lack of sleep. I had grand plans for today, but I just... couldn't. I was going to … Continue reading 2026-07-21 (Tuesday) — Flagged

(written on the 20th and 21st) I'm exhausted right now. I really don't want to write an entry, but if I don't, then I'm going to get even further behind, and I'm already 3 days behind. 😕 Exhausted. I got up at 6:00 something, don't remember exactly when, and I got going pretty quickly on … Continue reading 2026-07-20 (Monday) — Scrapped for $360!

(written on the 21st from nodes taken previously) 😕 I'm a bit disappointed. No, I don't feel like my talk went well. I was just too tired. I rambled and couldn't pull my thoughts together or make meaningful connections, and I couldn't remember basic things I normally remember. 😞 I was in a foggy Haze. … Continue reading 2026-07-19 (Sunday) — A Harder One

I re-listened to a talk I gave last July (13th), in preparation for my talk... later today (it's just after 1:15 a.m. 🙃). If any are interested, here's last year's. 🤍 Lift the world. Bring it on. ~ stephen

(written on July 21st from nodes taken previously) Wow, busy day today, and not what I expected. I've been planning to spend a good chunk of the day preparing for the message I was going to share in sacrament meeting tomorrow, but... things didn't work out that way. It shortly after I got up, I … Continue reading 2026-07-18 (Saturday) — Weightier Matters Undone

(written on the 17th and 19th-21st 😅 from notes) It's coming up on midnight, and I'm fading quickly. 🥱 It's been quite the productive day today for all of us here, but I just don't think I'm going to try and push through and write a journal entry tonight. I had plenty of time to … Continue reading 2026-07-17 (Friday) — Productivity To 11 🙏

(written on the 17th) It seemed to get hot pretty early inside the van this morning, which helped to wake me up (that bright summer sun rising early in the morning). The noise certainly helped as well 😅 (apparently, I accidentally shredded one of my headphone cords? so I only had one headphone pumping rainstorm … Continue reading 2026-07-16 (Thursday) — Climate Change 🙃