Despite having an upset stomach the entire time and leaving earlier than planned, I still got some good info to take home that I think will better my life.
My favorite lesson from the day was about keeping a journal that you can tie into personal scripture study. The idea is to record your own history so that you can remember spiritual as well as everyday experiences and be able to learn your life lessons. The scriptures we read now were nothing more at the time they were written than a journal of everyday experiences. It was suggested in the lecture that our journals will become our personal Scripture to help guide us through our life mission. I LOVE this idea! I've heard it before but it has really sunk in now. I have always loved keeping a journal. They are my most cherished possessions. A priceless record. I've always felt they are the reason I have been able avoid making mistakes over and over again. It is because I've recorded how I felt in times of good choices and in times of bad choices.
The speaker gave us the concept of keeping a "3 words a day" journal. Crazy I know! But the idea is that you can spend a few minutes each day recording your memories in just 3 words that only you know what they mean. Then later, write in the details. For example I can write my experience yesterday as "BYU Stomach Flu". I've never had the flu at BYU before so I will always know what time I'm talking about.
Another 3 word example is "Girls Camp Bandits". This is a story of a day of decision for me of a time I made the good choice to go to girls camp (when I really didn't want to). I believe this decision put me on the right path for the rest of my life. I can then write the 3 words in the margin of my scriptures Alma 7:19 and have a personal story to give the verse meaning to me. Anyway, maybe you get the point or maybe you don't. But it was such a great idea to get your journaling done each day and being able to apply it to scripture study that I had to share it!
I really do love to journal and I think that blogging one way I can remember life as I know it today. President Spencer W. Kimball said: “I urge all of the people of this church to give serious attention to their family histories, to encourage their parents and grandparents to write their journals, and let no family go into eternity without having left their memoirs for their children, their grandchildren, and their posterity.
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