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DIARY 32-BRENT'S PURPLE PAISLEY DIARY
10/11-
SABAOTH-LORD’S DAY
BRENT SOHLDEN’S JOURNAL
BOOK I
PURPLE
Dear Lord, thank you for this journal which I prayed for. Guide me in what I select to put in here. I dedicate this work to You, Yahweh my friend, Jesus Christ my Savior. Praise be to your Holy name forever more. Amen.
In my endeavor to be professional in every aspect of my life, I will be, with God’s guidance, selecting from my old journals, kept in notebooks, good parts and otherwise keepable parts. At the end of this project I will use this volume as my regular journal as I used my notebooks, only I will always write it out somewhere else first and transfer it as Joy taught me rather than writing it directly in here.
Thank you so much for this journal, writing and testimony project that you gave me Lord. By faith I know You are with me in this endeavor. Praise You!
Thank you for the books, stuff, food, lights, water and electricity and heat in this household and for Dad's willingness to roof this house and clean out my refrigerator. Bless the holy name of God!
As Caleb , I must face the Anakim in my Mount Ephraim. For now this house is my inheritance and it is my job to turn this mess into a huge success. I don’t desire to go into detail about the current situation for it is had in other records.
Brent Lee Sohlden Koivopolo
Dear Lord, please help me to write neatly, in Christ’s name I pray, Amen.
(Editor’s note: While the third entry of my journal (written 10/14/2009 with later retrospective revisions) is not particularly edifying, it is all I have left of a year of a new beginning for me, when I first started living on my own. It does not set the tone for the rest of my journal. B.L.S.)
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10/13-
WEEK 45, DAY 6-DAY 3 OF THE WEEK-TUESDAY
I have noticed some good changes to my diet today.
For breakfast I had one packet of oatmeal and some milk.
For lunch I had a pb sandwich and some koolaid.
for a snack, an apple.
Funny how I haven’t learned how to eat right until I have reached the near end of my money and food supply. Perhaps that was necessary to teach me.
Actually, I have been making baby steps, a gradual series of good decisions concerning food for the past week or so. I love You, Lord! Lead me on to a place where the river runs into your keeping, O Jesus my Father and my Rock!
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10/14-
WEEK 45, DAY 7- DAY 4 OF THE WEEK-WEDNESDAY
At this point I had just started being a bachelor, or living as one, in a house I am renting from my father. My house was a disaster area from top to bottom. On this particular day I got up at 2a.m., awaking from a vivid dream, and attempted to read a bunch of books and the 1966 version of the Book of Mormon. I was also writing in a separate journal from the one I am taking this from, which I have since thrown away (Later I wrote observations from the Book of Mormon in yet another notebook, which I have also gotten rid of.) I attempted to read Scriptures from Ancient America by Roy A. Cheville, but have since lost it.
Around 6a.m. or 6:30 I tried reading the Book of Mormon in bed but fell fast asleep until 8a.m.
At 11:00 I ate lunch, then I made another attempt to read I Nephi Chapter 1, but became unbearably tired and cold and took a nap until 2p.m.
Later at 2:23 I studied I Nephi. I also made the scriptural observations I mentioned earlier. At or around 5p.m., after washing the dishes, I went to Lonnie Brown’s church on the corner of Pasadena and Lavelle, called Kingdom of Heaven Ministries, and continued to go to for a while on Wednesdays, before discontinuing my visits.
I was anointed and “administered to” by a lesser authority. A man with the appellation of “elder” did the anointing. A woman laid her hand on my head and prayed silently, her lips moving. Then a minister pronounced me “healed in the name of Jesus”.
I got home at 9:30p.m. Though I was taking the time to actually cook my food, that did not continue for long.
After finishing the dishes later between 2:38 and 4:15 a.m. I typed people’s journals on my laptop, listened to music and went to bed.
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11/01-
LORD’S DAY-SABAOTH
Thank you so much O Lord YHWH! You have given me so much! Thank you for Dad’s help and the opportunities to visit and help out my Grandma Sohlden! You Lord are just so awesome!
I have trusted Thee and shall forever trust Thee! O Lord I long to return again to Zion singing a new song of everlasting joy!
O Lord turn the heart of my father and deliver me from those who seek my hurt! They continually lie in wait! I am as in the midst of a lions’ den alway.
O Lord Thou art merciful, and the truth is in You! You are my strength from day to day!
Praise Your Holy Name forever and ever. Amen.
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11/19-
WEEK 50, DAY 5-THURSDAY
You, O Lord, are perfect in all your ways, I give you all of my praise! You are awesome, O Lord my Rock, My Shield and My Strength and Song! Praise you. In Christ’s name,
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This is not a dated journal or philosophy. This is my heart poured out in words that I do not want to keep in. I feel if I don't write what's on my heart I'll never express it adequately hereafter. Or it may be just an excuse to write, which is something I like to do. Whatever the case, I need to express myself and if I don't I might lose the chance.
I love my Dad. I want him to come to the Gospel. As well as my sister and my stepmother. Okay it says in the book of Mormon let all your thoughts be unto God, so I'm typing to the Lord.
O Lord, shall my father indeed rejoin the Church? The Gospel is so plain, and brings such happiness, even though it is not an easy thing to please the Lord. It takes work.
I am interested in truth, not as the world seeks worldly truth, but the reality of an everlasting God and His worldview, and the truth that leads to God, not false truth which pleases men or relativism which says there is no such thing as absolute truth. Christ is truth.
The search for truth takes work and a sanctified life. You cannot search for truth whilst your life is a river of filth. You must allow Christ to transform your life a little at a time. I admit that my house is messy. I came to it and it was a lot messier when I got here. I have gotten rid of lots of things that did pollute this house, but there is still much work to do. I have heard that it would be meet for me to figure out what pleases Christ and do it. My biggest problems are prioritizing and laziness. I need You O Lord God to transform my life from the mess that it is in to the intentional life I know You have for me O God. And soon.
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05/23-
WEEK 27, DAY 3-DAY 2 OF THE WEEK-MONDAY [MONDAY, MAY 23, 2011]
I was referred to a Work Training Program called F.W.O.G.C. Inc. And on May 23, 2011 my Grandma Sohlden died. Grandma was in a semi-coma. Dad and I sang hymns to her and I held her hand. Her Chaplain Jackie from the United Brethren church led us in prayer then the Lord’s Prayer. We all, Grandma included, held hands during the prayer. I told Grandma I loved her. She passed on to the eternal world at 6:20p.m. and was pronounced dead at 7:47p.m. Before she died I told her we’d meet in Zion. After her death Dad and I continued to sing hymns to her. Also after her death I gave her a final kiss on the cheek, and another kiss on the cheek and on the forehead and a final hug.
All arrangements were finalized in a timely and prompt manner, with no contention. Many relatives came to visit; many others were informed by phone. Mark was informed by internet.
At around 9p.m. two men came to take her body away. Dad and I left Merilyn’s and arrived home to my house after 10p.m. (PAGE +83+)
Grandma was later cremated, and buried at Crestwood Cemetery with her husband Wil, who died in 2003, shortly before Destiny became a Believer.
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05/24-
WEEK 27, DAY 4-DAY 3 OF THE WEEK-TUESDAY
I had called Grandma on the phone a few days before May 24. I told her I love her a million times a million. She told me she loves me a million times a million, a trillion times a trillion. I cried so much that day.
About two weeks before May 21, 2011, I gave Jolissa some Restoration Magazines to borrow. She returned them a few days later and said she liked them. On April 18, 2011 I had given Jolissa a Book of Mormon.
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06/01-
WEEK 28, DAY 5-DAY 4 OF THE WEEK-WEDNESDAY
Between October 14, 2009 and May 23, 2011 I got a dog named Red. He’s a Golden Retriever/Irish Setter mix. I got him in 2009.
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06/02-
WEEK 28, DAY 6-THURSDAY
The night before June 2 I had a beautiful dream where it seemed like holy men gave me good advice.
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