28 March 2019

So I have to share the fact. We got an air conditioner where I am staying. It helps so much. I don’t feel sweaty and sticky all the time. It’s a very small A/C unit but it helps a lot. My body is not constantly fighting to stay cool. My body doesn’t spend a lot of time outside, and because of my stroke, I have a very confused internal thermostat. It wasn’t the cheapest, but not to expensive. I have rarely wanted to cry about something like this, but my body can function. A/C is a modern miracle. 

Now one other thing I just found out. I forgot to pay for my phone during the first part of March. So I had to scramble and make sure I pay March. April can wait a few days. 

The Lord has blessed me. Some times His blessings come because we listen along time before and get ready. The Lord wants to bless us. Are we ready?

25 March 2019....ai

Running type exercise. *Legs exercise. *

Right now in trying to sit up more straight. It it is interesting because I am discovering muscles I forgot I have and it hurts at times. 

Write every morning. 

Not bad. 

Floss teeth 

Meh. I need to do better so it doesn’t hurt as bad and so I will still have teeth. 

Volunteer

Sure. 

Budget

Ok.  

No robbing/borrowing from savings 

Nope. 

No Facebook until after budgeting is done *daily*

Sure. 

Spend time in nature 

Somewhat. 

Read Book of Mormon daily *Read New Testament daily*

90% of the time. 100%, 90% of the time is still an A. 

So, I’m in Brazil. It is a different world. 

One thing I have decided I need to get is an A/C. There are the small units like in LDS Bishops office. Not huge but big enough for the house I am staying. It’s a new thing around here. I noticed them on display at a couple of stores the other day. 

My body really needs it. It has a very hard time dealing with the heat. So, I had to rob my savings account to help fund that. A fan just doesn’t cut it. I’m not twenty anymore plus I had a stroke In case you hadn’t heard. My body doesn’t regulate hot and cold like it used to. I sound like I’m old or something. So overall my body is a mess and the heat here doesn’t help at all. 

I am so tired. I am not sure the best way to proceed. 

24 March 2019....hmm

So I have been thinking and studying about Christ’s teaching. He never told anyone to abandon the law of Moses. “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.”Matthew 5:17

The law of the gospel that Christ gave ask people to do more than was expected of them. To go beyond logic and reason. “And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain.” Matthew 5:41

You need to have logic and reason, the Law of Moses. Christ says you must to go beyond logic and reason. The law of the gospel, the realm of love. 

He realizes that we need logic and reason. Still they can only take us so far. We must go beyond logic or reason or whatever, into the realm of love. 

The apostle Paul taught this beautifully, but oil and water, the law of Moses and the law of the gospel, are not the easiest to mix together. 

In many ways water and oil can be used by themselves and can do wonders. Combined so much more. If we want to understand the law of the New Testament we must understand the law of the Old Testament. 

Is our love logical. Is our logic about loving. 

18 March 2019.....here i am

Running type exercise. *Legs exercise. *

I think I will give myself more standing time right now. 

Write every morning. 

Traveling can make writing hard. 

Floss teeth 

Meh. Really got to quit being lazy. 

Volunteer

I guess. 

Budget

Not bad not the best. 

No robbing/borrowing from savings 

So far so good. 

No Facebook until after budgeting is done *daily*

Meh. 

Spend time in nature 

Somewhat. 

Read Book of Mormon daily *Read New Testament daily*

Doing.

So I am in Brazil again to see my fiancée. 

I still don’t like certain things like how hot and sticky it is all the time. We have a fan, but I have been looking into getting some kind of air conditioning so I can function. I have been inside most of the time for the past 6 years. Sure, I go outside. But after I go out I go back inside pretty quickly. So air conditioning has become a necessity for me. 

I bruised my hand I’m not sure exactly how but near my finger I’ve been watching the colors change around it. 

I’ve decided that on this trip I can only go out twice a week, and one of those times will be when I go to church. I get tired to easily. I will go out and sit but me trying to drive my chair on cobblestone streets is a joke. If we had a car, it wouldn’t be bad to drive around. We don’t have a car. We get an Uber, still some of the cars that come to get us may not hold my wheelchair. Everything has been good so far. 

Now, I have one major problem when I come here. I like the food, maybe to much at times. I want to constantly eat, because I like Brazilian food. That said, i also like to fit into my clothes and wheelchair. Clothes I could buy more. A new wheelchair probably not. I don’t have nearly as much incidental movements as most people. Therefore it is less likely that I will burn the calories. So I drink a lot of water, because I need to stay hydrated from the heat, but also helps me not want to eat as much. Is it the perfect plan, no. It’s better than any other I have. If you think I might die send me a message of some kind, I get texts. Facebook messenger works. Email works.  Say what you want, just remember I may or may not use your advice. Not because it’s not good advice, but I’m a big boy and can choose some things for myself. 

So a few weeks ago I had a person disagree with me.  Some accusations were made about me and I decided to respond. I welcome any opinions that anyone wants to share. I don’t believe I am infallible, but I do know I can, and usually am, right more than I am wrong. If people think I need to rethink the way I think about myself, let me know. 

My friend is in quotes. 

“Except that you go off topic regularly and then harangue others when they post similarities to topic about going off topic”

I don’t go off topic. Hardly ever. Aggressive? Very debatable. 

“And you berate people about living in their own world and alternate reality when they express a differing opinion, and support said opinion.”

Really I try never to berate people. I would appreciate any examples you can share. 

“If others don’t agree with you, using your own stream of logic, you verbally assault them.”

Rebut, maybe. Assault, never I would hope. 

“You post about Christian ideas and love, but have no care for others who don’t act they way you desire. Instead you wish punishment upon them.”  

Examples please. I don’t want this to happen, but if it is help me correct it. When have I wished punishment?  If that is a reference to me informing about illegal immigration, your complaint there is laughable. 

“ You express a bitterness to those who are different from you while claiming to be inclusive, tolerable, and open minded.” 

Examples please. 

“During the past few years your postings have been all but that.” 

Examples. 

“It is disheartening that someone I thought was open and loving as Christ’s example, seems to instead be intolerable and anti-inclusive.” 

Examples?

“I am not God. It is not my place to decide who deserves help and care, but to follow the example of compassion and help when asked.”

Not sure what to make of this last part. If you don’t like what I post, no one i is forcing you to read anything I post. 

So I would say you see my ideas as wrong minded. That’s fine. I can live with that. 

If you would like to give me examples then I can understand better what you mean. 

For the most part everything I share on Facebook is related, albeit loosely at times. 

I don’t mind having different ideas than you about common goals. But if you have different goals entirely I’m sure I probably won’t agree with you. But I might be surprised by something you have to say. 

If you want to respond back that is totally up to you.

So I never received any response. If you want more context. Look at my Facebook. 

11 March 2019

Running type exercise. *Legs exercise. *

I think more standing and stretching is the right idea. 

Write every morning. 

Ok. 

Floss teeth 

Meh. 

Volunteer

Sure. 

Budget

Not the best. 

No robbing/borrowing from savings 

So far so good. 

No Facebook until after budgeting is done *daily*

Nope. 

Spend time in nature 

Somewhat. I go outside. 

Read Book of Mormon daily *Read New Testament daily*

Doing.

I just don’t want to write anything. I want to watch “Big Bang Theory” but I can’t find full episodes and I watched everything one CBS Allacess. Only the current season is available there. 

So, it is the beginning of daylight savings time. I hate daylight savings. It’s dark in the morning. I go to bed early so I don’t need the light to be at the end of the day. Honestly I don’t know how it helps anyone. The sun is later in the day, we still expect everyone to get up and be places early. We use more lights and heat. Daylight savings is a scam. Businesses want it so people will go out and shop more. Power companies can sell more electricity for lighting and heating. I definitely want to live somewhere that doesn’t have daylight savings. 

One of the best sayings about daylight savings is this and it is said to come from American Indians, “Only whiteman can cut two inches off one side of blanket, sew it on other side, and say you have a longer blanket.”  Basically daylight savings is an idea who’s time has past. It is a scam.  

I may need to look at how I try to do things. I need to not be so tired. That is not easy for me. But I may have to try doing a lot less.