Journal keeping

This is the last Sunday of the year 2012. This morning I was looking at my journal online, and I just felt so happy that I finally was able to keep a "regular" journal. My very first entry on my journal was way back August 2011 and the second entry didn't happen until a year later, November 2012. Since, I started entered college I have always been struggling to keep a journal. I tried and started a lot of times but it was just so hard to keep up at the beginning. Until I saw one of Garry's gift to me when we were just dating, a journal.

Garry wrote this letter at the very first page of the book.

I wrote this letter at the very last page of the book upon receiving it.

Since, we both had hard times keeping a journal of us in this book, this journal now contains Keahi's records of his FIRSTS.

Aside from Keahi's journal that I keep, I also have my own personal journal online at ldsjournal.com . This is a journal that I really keep regularly. Times had come where I never had an entry for a day, and what I will do is to record 2 entries for the next day. It was fun, to be able to keep a record of your life.

Here's a book preview of my journal online at ldsjournal.com . I can't wait for the hard copy to be printed :)

I also have video journals that I do not do regularly but only when I need to record things that I'd rather do in speaking instead of writing. I send them all on my email, and store them on one folder. I also have my blog that I make sure is synchronized on my facebook because that is the only way my mom could see it :)

This is what is going to be written at the back of my journal once it is ready to be printed:

"Your story should be written now while it is fresh and while the true details are available.

A journal is the literature of superiority. Each individual can become superior in his own humble life.

What could you do better for your children and your children’s children than to record the story of your life, your triumphs over adversity, your recovery after a fall, your progress when all seemed black, your rejoicing when you had finally achieved?

Some of what you write may be humdrum dates and places, but there will also be rich passages that will be quoted by your posterity.

Get a notebook, a journal that will last through all time, and maybe the angels may quote from it for eternity. Begin today and write in it your goings and comings, your deepest thoughts, your achievements and your failures, your associations and your triumphs, your impressions and your testimonies. Remember, the Savior chastised those who failed to record important events."

-Spencer W. Kimball