"...Push The Pedal Down, Watch The World Around Fly By Us..."

Back to the blog… I am getting better at the times between postings and trying to write on a more regular basis. Since we have moved I have been swamped with the smallest and mundane things trying to get our home and office up and running. The aggregate effect has been days were I am been kept busy with a laundry list that is getting shorter as the days goes by. I am close to having things the way that I want and need them to be. Today was a good day, we basically have the home office set up, the network established and tomorrow I will learn how to use the main computer I have to act as a server for the other computers on the network. Yippee… exciting stuff…

I wanted to comment on the change I made to the appearance of the blog. I feel that the differences between the old template and the new one are symbolic of the outlook I have as I write and the tone that most of my entries take. The previous look of black background and white lettering was somewhat bleak. The new look of white background with grey writing lends itself to a more optimistic outlook. It is void of any real color so as not to be overly exciting and take away from what I might write, but nonetheless it is a good change. As I wrote previously I have felt that this new change and move has been somewhat of a rebirth for me and I wanted to convey that in my writing. I am sure that the some of the same tones will persist but I generally should be more hopeful in my pining.

Business has been interesting. I feel an excitement for the future and the time is split between dreaming of the riches that could be at my fingertips and the thought of ruin. I have a number of different “irons in the fire” that could be very fruitful. I have started more to understand the need that one has to surround himself with other people with similar goals and desires so that everyone can work together to reach their goals. This has helped to force out the negative thoughts and concentrate on having worthy motivations to what I am trying to accomplish. I have also started looking more at my own personal righteousness and how it plays such a role in the way that the Lord is willing to bless me. I have been given the chance to be apart of the lives of some very incredible people and I feel the Lord’s hand guiding me to empower them with some of the knowledge that I have that can bless their lives and the lives of their families. I can see how it is not always spiritual knowledge that the Lord wants His children to impart one to another and in so doing His love is shown just as if it were spiritual knowledge. I marvel at how blessed I have been throughout the past while that Amie and I have been married. Not to discount the absence that some of the most prized gospel blessing have had in my life, I still feel that the Lord has looked out for me.

On that front, I have no news to report about being rebaptized. Bishop Enger called me and said that Marla had sent him her letter and that he had all the necessary letters to get things submitted to the First Presidency. Unfortunately with us moving it puts everything in the hands of a new Bishop. I have been to church the past two weeks and have yet to meet our new bishop. Our new ward is monstrous, filling up half of the cultural hall as well as the chapel. This past Sunday I was able to get the number of the executive secretary so I should be able to get an appointment soon. Oh yeah, Stake Conference is this weekend as well which should add a nice delay. This has taken so long that I sometimes feel like giving up and just not dealing with it. I won’t go into it again about the trials associated with the type of lifestyle where you go to church as if you were an active member but aren’t. Not to mention last weeks lesson was about Agency and Consequences… sheesh, all right I GET IT…

Tomorrow I will be sending off the Marla the dates I am hoping to have the girls until the end of the year. I really hope that there isn’t any conflict with what I am hoping to do. I don’t think their should be but there is a pretty extended period in the month of December so I guess I will see.

It is very late and I am without words…Tchau..