Yikes! Time flies!

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So this week I've quickly learned that it's hard work to keep a blog going.  It's not that the technical process is that hard.  It's making the TIME to create the entries that is hard.  If you look a the dates of my entries you can see this.  It's been 10 days since I did an entry!  Clearly I need to work on my time management if I want to keep this blog going.

So this week's General Studies course lesson was on "work" which followed up nicely with last week's lesson on self-reliance.  During the lesson I learned a new way of studying called SQ3R that I had never heard of or thought about.  I highly recommend looking into it. :)

In our Book of Mormon course we studied the books of Enos, Jarom, Omni, Words of Mormon and the beginning of Mosiah.  Of course in those books are, technically, also the books of Amaron, Chemish, Abinadom, and Amaleki as well (if you can call a few verses a book).  But so much is packed into those books!

During our Gathering meeting on Thursday we were presented with the concept of "clustering" as a study skill.  I look forward to using that this week.  But, more importantly we went over Jarom 1:7-9 and how the Nephites had fortified themselves against the Lamanites.  This was a fascinating discussion as we took the preparations they did and then thought about how they applied to our own lives.  The list was pretty cool:

• Kings and leaders had faith - Lean on the faith of the prophet and our local leaders
• They taught the people - We need to teach each other
• Fortified cities - family home evening, family prayer, home teaching, visiting teaching
• The people multiplied and spread out - missionary work and spreading the gospel
• Prepared temporally by collecting things of wealth - Food storage, emergency funds, etc
• Made weapons of war - strengthen our testimonies and faith