29 November 2019

1 November 2019

This morning there was another amazing segment on Latter-day Saints channel. A general officer of the church interviewed a few young women about repentance for their "We will stand" series. One comment about pride impressed me. The content for the Latter-day Saints channel is a mess. It is practically impossible to recall the segments. On the app, I saw that the segment is called "We will stand: repentance." I wanted to quote the young woman's comment, and I am going to have to summarize it. She said that man's pride makes repentance difficult because we feel an entitlement to be who we want to be. The sister explained it much better than my summary. We need to trust God. Give our will to him. This is repentance to change, bringing our lives closer to his. His ways are preventive, stable, wise, omniscient, joyous, communicative, charitable, selfless, and loving. If you want to have the life of Godliness, learn of the restored gospel in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The process of repentance has the following steps: recognize, feel Godly sorrow, confess, forsake, and make restitution. A main point of discussion of the Latter-day Saints Channel segment is that repentance is not the confronting of judgment of God on all mankind. It is a rewarding and uplifting experience, a change of perspective. God embraces more than condemns. If you come to him in prayer, Heavenly Father will express to you what true love is.

Today at work, I reviewed my quality control reports with my project manager, getting good feedback. For an odd reason the third level mullions have been left incomplete. It is probably because management did not provide all the material, not fully understanding that part of the building. I am making instruction for the completion of that location. 

I am falling behind again, but I am publishing. Today is Sunday, and I am writing about last Friday. I realized that Wordpress gives only a few gigabytes of memory for a free website, so I have to catch up quickly.

This evening I got a great haircut. The barber was chill, and she actually listened. I think that her approach was good. She asked me how I wanted my sides done, and I said that I wanted it faded. She then clarified what type of fade. I did not want a hipster abrupt fade. I wanted a longer fade. She knew how to do the top well too. I gave her a thirty percent tip. She is a type of barber that I would want to go back to.

2 November 2019

I was assigned to follow the 6 am endowment session this morning. Since there was only six men in attendance, I did not need to follow. I went to the initiatory. I found that an ordinance worker was a no-show, missing his assignment at the name booth, so it was good that I was there to take his assignment.

I served a couple times in the initiatory, and my performance was off because I am usually told to serve in anointing, but I was asked to serve in the washing and clothing booth. I felt bad about my performance, but I shouldn't.

My service felt more comfortable, since my hand eczema is gone. 

I played Final Fantasy XIV with Trevor in the afternoon. I am a level 5 Pugilist, and he is a level 5 gladiator. We helped each other with our level 5 quests. I had a quest to collect Gil for the guild trainer, and I was running everywhere. Trevor pointed out that they are located on a map, which was useful until the icons disappeared on the map. Trevor had to look up the locations on the Internet. A guy stopped me named Little Minx. He was inviting me to join a free company. He was a level 55 dragoon. He was very helpful and patient. He added me as a friend and gave me a minion. I got a picture of it. 

My evening was distracted. I tried to write in my journal. I asked Josh if we are going to have a movie night. He revealed that he had to work last night, messing up his day. 

Facebook videos messed up my evening. I got a picture to show my new haircut and the pizza that I ate last night. I was trying to go to sleep on time, but the Facebook videos distracted me for 3 hours. I wrote the following caption for my new Facebook profile picture:

"This vegan pizza is a piece of work. There is no cheese on it. It has bell pepper, artichoke, garlic cloves, and broccoli. The baked vegetables without flavor enhancing seasoning like oil or salt on the tomato sauce is not normal, but the bold flavors are very natural. I think that eating this should be like eating a restaurant's food challenge, where they offer it for free if you eat all of it, taking a picture of you to paste on the wall. I bet that most people could not eat this. 

I had this picture taken for a new current picture, showing my new fresh haircut, the best that I ever had. The faded cut is all that I hoped, but no other barber was bold enough to do it. 

The pizza was incredible. I never imagined that a pizza could be used as a detox."

5 November 2019

I have been reading Moroni chapter 7 for the past few days. The emphasis on learning good and bad was impressed on my mind. It seem that knowing good and bad is a lot more hard than the normal average person would expect. The last general conference also had an emphasis on learning good and bad. I believe that it is a sign of the times. Many people are trying to be good without God, but all good things come from God. One cannot be a free agent. If one does not love God, the individual loves Satan or at least sympatizes with his ways most of the time. Man needs to seek the knowledge of good and evil, not letting the evil consume them, but hearken to the goodness of God. Let us not be discouraged, but learn of the nature of God. Seek after a relationship with him and apply his will, and you will find joy.
Eclad visited today. They gave me a lot of quality control work to do. I started my QC walk already. If the Eclad visit consumes the rest of my week, I could complete my weekly report.
The networking that my project manager suggested had a fifty percent success rate. One replied with a product that we could use, but the other did not. It seems that my research was not in vain.

6 November 2019

Today I dug into things. I dug into an article that my older brother wrote, wanting feedback on this evening, and I dug into a quality control item, which seemed to be impossible to resolve yesterday. Eclad wanted me to give a draft of the report responding to the remaining items. He wanted the draft to make sure that I am addressing everything effectively. 

My coworker, Jeff Nyleen, who is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, drove me home today from work. He said that he likes to talk to me because he doesn't have many people to talk to about spiritual things. I told him about the article that my brother wants feedback on. The title asks "Is there evidence for the resurrection of Jesus Christ?" We spoke about seeking for evidences of spiritual things, and whether they truly help in conversion. The only evidence cited in the Book of Mormon is the testimony of the witnesses who saw and lifted the gold plates. Everything else about the Book of Mormon is learned by the process of faith. Jeff made a point about knowledge making faith void, and I said that I think that faith is better than knowledge because faith is obtained by communication from God through revelation. It is not a mere belief. Knowledge can be forgotten in the mortal mind, but faith and spiritual relations with God abides with man. 

I also spoke to Jeff about what I wrote yesterday how I think that it is weird that people try to be good without God, concluding that they must be with Satan, if they don't love God. He said that if they don't believe in God, they don't believe in Satan. I see good people that don't go around preaching doubt. I have found that if I bring up religion, many people will get defensive, talking about how religion offended them. They may even say that people's faith is unrealistic. How can man be good without God, yet not love Satan? Would all good people embrace God, if they knew the truth? All good things come from God, yet their goodness forsakes God. Can good people forsake God without embracing Satan? How can someone stand on the tightrope? Can one not have a master, or must man chose God or mammon? Scripture does say that God will spit out lukewarm soup. The good man without God will not be forced to be with God in eternity. 

There are many Kingdoms of God. Heavenly Father only abides in one of the three main ones. Jesus Christ can visit the second Kingdom, but he lives in the highest Kingdom. The third Kingdom can be the people who do not want to abide in God's presence. 

When I got home, talking with Trevor, my little brother, I heard his excitement about going into business for social media, editing or something with me, since Thomas wanted me to give feedback to him on his blog post. Trevor mentioned that Jesse Kaupert asked me for blog consulting. He said that we should do a podcast, but I am too busy and kind of forsook podcasts. I considered ideas like this about a month ago, but I was too mentally exhausted this evening to get into it. 

I gave a lot of good feedback to Thomas. Listening to it at first, I could not think of much feedback, but when I dug into it. I found a lot to work on. I said that one sentence needs to be reworded because it doesn't make much sense, and that comment made Thomas laugh because it was a direct quotation from a book.

7 November 2019

I started writing journal entries on my old Android phone because I like handwriting rather that a touchscreen keyboard. Although I have many email addresses, I got a new email address because I email my journal entries to myself. I am trying my.com email. I like the security of it not having a password. Logging in is verified by a personal phone device. One flaw in the email app that I just found out is that it does not automatically save my drafts... This is my fourth attempt to write this entry. 
My conversation with Jeff, when he drove me home, we spoke about knowledge and faith. I said that faith is better than knowledge. Secular knowledge is obtain by physical exercises. Faith is a form of knowledge; however, knowledge is obtained is based on current experience and work. Working knowledge doesn't last years. Maybe months at most.
I caught up on quality control, walking levels 11, 12, & 13 today.
My self-reliance has helped Lucas because his car broke down, requesting money for a car part.
Today we picked up the church keys for Jasmine and Lucas’ baby shower.

8 November 2019

A couple days ago Trevor mentioned doing a podcast, and I looked into recording options. Since he is in Utah, we discussed recording our phone calls. I downloaded a couple popular apps. I have mentioned previous iOS apps are more corporate, requiring expensive subscriptions. I found one free app that is a little finicky. We will see how it works.
At work whenever I thought of starting a Hicken Media Company. My heart burned with the spirit. This podcast will be our first project. We should probably publish weekly. I want to make our work professional, where we could make money.
Getting back into media, I received a prompting from the spirit to check the news after work, but I didn't hearken to it until after couple slightly distracted hours. I finished the weekly quality control report. The internal quality control report will be huge.
Jeff drove me home again.
Currently we are finishing up setting up the baby shower for Jasmine and Lucas, When Lucas arrived, he reminded me that I will stand in the circle during the baby blessing. I have never been invited to join in a baby blessing. A man, checking on the building, said that it looks like a wedding.

11 November 2019

Today was my first day, using the Friended app on a week day. I think that the social network is designed very well. I had to archive the app into a subfolder, turning off notifications, because I knew that would check in on my friends. I checked out if there are other good social networks like Slowly and Friended, downloading Animo, Yubo, and ​ MeWe. Yubo and MeWe doesn't have much going for it. Animo is not intuitively social as Slowly and Friended. I think that the controversial design of the social network, making it on to the LewLater podcast, is evident of its good design. I am making friends of similar interests, and we support each other in our personal efforts.
My bike ride to work was extra miserable this morning because my back wheel felt like it had a tack in it. It probably did because it is flat now.
I completed my internal quality control report today. It is 81 pages long. I hope that the foreman are using it.
During a Multnomah Village fair, I met the River West Village charity. It took months to get trained, but I did it tonight. The values of the charity define the work, which I think, is an effective use of values. The charity's goal is to help senior people help live in their homes as long as possible by helping with simple requests.

29 November 2019

I have been very busy the past few weeks. The last time that I wrote in my journal is November 11th. My little brother and I started a podcast, and he described me as a very straight forward person. He also said that I like to explore and dabble in random things. 

My recent dabble that I concluded on Wednesday was social networking. I was inspired to join the social network "Friended" because LewLater introduced it. I had high regard for the design of the social network until people started asking me for money. Some people were very closed and some people were open. People often said that it takes a time to open up to people. I said to one person that working with closed people is exhausting.

Today is the day after Thanksgiving. I joined a charity called River West Village. I believe that I wrote about the charity already. The goal is to help senior people live in their homes as long as possible by performing requests. I did my first request today. A lady wanted help pulling flowers, which would die in the winter. She actually did a good amount of work with me. After pulling out the flowers out of the pots, I cut back her Iris bed while she finished raking the leaves. The Iris bed was a good amount of work. I cut it down to the roots it was interesting to see how thick they were.

In the afternoon, I played Pokémon with Trevor. I caught my first Dynamax Pokémon. I have a team of turtle, frog, and baby Pokémon. Turtles and frogs were my favorite animals. They are my preference over baby Pokémon. I had a team of baby Pokémon when I played Moon version. I liked the challenge. It was a little annoying to stop them evolving after each level, but it was very fun.

I was able to help people on Friended. One person wanted help designing a t-shirt logo. The girl said that she would get the shirt made for a good friend, who would feel support mentally by the gift. I made an image that she asked me to do, sending her the digital file at the end of lunch. She did order the shirt, and I helped her find printing opportunities.

Another guy was stressing out because he did not handle an opportunity well, losing it. He let me talk him through it. I don't know if my help helped him in the long-term, but I comforted him.