09.07--
WEDNESDAY

   Tomorrow I have to be ready at 10 til 9 to be picked up at 9 to go to the Bates City RLDS Church to mop the floor.

Possibly tomorrow in the afternoon, Troy is taking me and Jo's sister to Mardell's so that the three of us can spend our 25.00 Gift cards.

I'm watching a YouTube video at the library where people are eating very high-priced food, $1,000 cheese, $100,000 ice cream, etc.  This is nothing compared to what food in heaven's going to be like, though.

I read through a ranking of 40 Star Wars characters on my phone.  Paul Ludy came into the library.  We said hi, see you at 9.

I'm on my front porch waiting for Pastor Pete to take me to his church.  He, Rick and I need to talk about the cat, Galadriel.  Steve claims Rick told Fred it was his cat and Steve thinks I brought her from Rick's the night Galadriel followed me to Rick's and I took her back to the corner and I followed her home.  Steve doesn't remember back to where the cat was around many days before I started feeding her, and for many more days before the incident where she followed me to Rick's.  So Steve believes the cat belongs to Rick.  He wants me to take it back to Rick's.  So Pete, Rick and I need to talk about the cat.

With God, all things are possible.

I came home from the library and watched Dan Bongino, ate homemade macaroni and cheese with sea salt in it, and some other things, and took my pills.

I came home because I wanted to play Minecraft.

We are going to Mardel Friday after Troy's doctor appointment, Jo's sister told me.  We'll go to Mardel and Wendy's Friday afternoon.

I walked home from the library.  Gordon and Della took me there.

I never ended up playing Minecraft today.

Bobbie recommended Pumpkin Fudge.

What are You doing, O Lord?
What's going on?
I don't know what's going on in my life.
Why am I here?

Me, Beverly, Beverly's sister, Cindy, Jo's Sister, Rick and I are at Wendy's.  A man named
Randy helped pay the tax on my fries.  Most of us had frosties.  So did I.  Mm those fries are so good!Last Edit: Oct 3, 2022 at 2:52am by BrentKoivopolo888

09/09--
FRIDAY

DUE DATES

The Edge of The Divine   9/17
Beowulf                         9/17
Heaven Eyes                  9/17
Richard Proenneke's
Diary                             9/17
Reagan's Diary               9/17
HOLDS
Morning is a Long Time
Coming                      PENDING
The Force Awakens 
Audio                          Available

FINES 
0.

ACQUISITIONS

*Rewire Your Heart: Replace Your Desire For Sin with Desire for God, David Bowden

*All Things Reconsidered: How Rethinking What we Know Helps Us Know What We Believe, Knox McCoy

*I Could
I might
I can
I should
I will!
NINE TRAITS OF THE OUTWARDLY FOCUSED CHRISTIAN, THOM S. RAINER

* The Next Jihad 
Stop the Next Christian Genocide In Africa, Rev. Johnnie Moore and Rabbi Abraham Cooper

*Oportunidades y Retos GLOBALES, John Stott

*DIARY 57 of Brent Lee Sohlden Koivopolo V.

All these I bought at Mardel, with two candies to fill out the whole 25.00 (and 13 ¢, paid for by a kind woman when she heard about my deficiency.)

This morning Pastor Pete picked me up and we went to Blue Springs to take apart and pick up a large trampoline with an outer net.  Troy came and helped us take it apart, then Troy took me and picked up Jo's sister and we went out to Wendy's (a different one, by Bear Cafe), then went to Mardel, where I got some real bargains on some good books.  Troy got a Study Bible and Jo's sister got some stuff.


THE STORY OF MY LIFE


CONT'D FROM DIARY 18, ENTRY FOR 02/12/2022 AD

Q. 004 Fill in the blanks:

A: My mother was born in Olive Hill, Kentucky in the year 1951 AD, on April 17 of that year.  Her parents' names were Kenneth Dyer and Wilma (Jones) Dyer.  My mother Edith Mae Dyer grew up in two places: Olive Hill, Kentucky and Columbus, Ohio and had a half sister named Carol, an older sister named Wanda, and two younger brothers named Doug and Barry.  Doug went by Doug but his actual name was Kenneth.

Q. 005 What is the earliest childhood memory about my mother?

A: Riding on a long bus ride with her.  Seeing a Burger King over the freeway. Eating a pb&j sandwich and drinking a warm can of Coke on the bus ride with mom.

Q. 006 Fill in the blanks:


A: My father was born in Flint, Michigan, in the year 1959, on March 2 of that year.  His parents' names were Marjorie May (Lehman) Sohlden and Toivo Wilfred (Wil) Sohlden.  Dad grew up in various places, mostly Flint and Flint Township, and was one of 4 children, Mark Edward, Linda Ann (deceased), and Carol Marie (Sohlden) Soper. My Grandma Marge was born in 1932.  My Grandpa Wil was born in 1927.

Q. 007 What is your earliest childhood memory of your father?


A: My earliest childhood memory of my father is him teaching me how to read and singing lullabyes to me. He would bribe me with trips to ShowBiz Pizza (Now Chuck E Cheeze) to teach me how to read.  He sang

Go to sleep
Go to sleep
Go to sleep little angel

Go to sleep
Go to sleep
Go to sleep my love

Go to sleep little one
Sent from Heaven above
Go to sleep little one
The one that I love

Once while Dad was singing to me I said "That's enough, Daddy".

Q. 008 What noises did you hear when you woke up in the morning? Go into as much details as you can?

A: My phone rang.  It was Pastor Pete.  He wanted me to help him pick up a trampoline.  I said, sure. (though I'm not sure if I said it in those words, but the general equivolent.)

Q. 009 Top 10 Time! Imagine your childhood bedroom. List ten objects you remember from the room, and describe what they meant to you.

A: 1.  My Ninja Turtles.

I had an extensive collection of Ninja Turtle Toys standing up on my top two shelves in my room at my Dad's house.  I liked looking at them.  They were colorful and unique.

2. My Disney Adventure Magazine stack.

I had an accumulated stack of every single Disney Adventure Magazine for a couple or a few years.  I took pride in that collection.  It was in the bedroom of my Mom's trailer in Lot 30 of Myrtle Grove Trailer Prk.  I lost it when Mom threw everything in her trailer away during her mental breakdown.

3. My M.U.S.C.L.E. figurines.

 
I thought they were unique and I loved playing with them. My favorite one was the blue tubular/human spring one.

4. My TV in my bedroom on Livingston Street.

It's where I discovered Cartoon Network for the first time.

5. My old journals.  

I'm still waiting to get them back.

6. My LEGO's

I loved putting unique LEGO characters I created on adventures.

7. My books.

Mostly fiction. I was mostly into fiction up until age 20 or so, when I switched to mostly nonfiction by making the decision to get a nonfiction book on climbing Mount Everest, 'Into Thin Air' instead of a fiction book by an author I liked, Tom Clancy.

8. My blue checked comforter. 

Man that thing was comfortable.

9. My POG's.  

I loved playing the Milkcap flip game with Grandma and friends and schoolkids.

10. My Grandma's family Bible.  I read about the first 40 chapters of Genesis straight through when I was in Jr. High School.


I returned to Christ last night, asking Christ to change my Momentum and Inertia, last night.

I'm going to focus on reading and finishing two books,

Rewire Your Heart: Replace Your Desire For Sin with Desire For God

and

How To Win Friend and Influence People.

According to a STRONG Vision I had in bed around 11:20 PM at night, I am NOT supposed to vote in the Midterm 2022 elections.

  An angel visited me in the bathroom.

I streamed myself doing all my dishes and watching Michael Hur videos and sleeping from 9PM to 11:20 PM.  I have been streaming for 4 hours and 44 minutes.

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09/11--
LORD'S DAY-SUNDAY-SABAOTH

Isaiah 14 IV

How To Win Friends And Influence People, pp. 19-28.

I learned not to be critical of people generally from being criticized very harshly myself and my philosophy is to look for the good in people.  But I have failed at these precepts majorly in the past.

Isaiah Chapter 14 is about the Restoration of Isreal and, I think, the Short Season at the end of the chapter.

I think the book, Rewire Your Heart: Replace Your Desire For Sin With Desire for God, is going to change my whole life, not to mention Dale Carnegie's book.  I have those two books, as well as this Diary (56) and the IV Bible with me on the front porch as I wait for Gordon and Della to come pick me up for Church.  There is a potluck lunch today.

Once I stop merely saying 'no' to sin and start also saying 'yes' to Jesus (which the book will teach me how to do practically) I will achieve the victory, but in the end, we all only do what we want to do.  How bad do I want to quit the two bad things I do?  How much more do I actually love God more than my sins? I'll find out soon enough, O Lord.

Last night I had 250 Casey's App points which I redeemed on the App for 1.00 Casey's Cash.  Lacking 78 ¢ for an X-Tra large pop, I called Rick who was working on his mail at 2 AM and asked him if he had $0.78.  He looked and said he had a dollar and as I left to pick it up I locked myself of my apartment again.  I called Rick and asked him if he had the keys to the church and he said yes.  I walked to Rick's house, gave him the dress shirt I had borrowed from him back, and Rick drove me to Pastor Pete's church, where he let me in and I got the spare keys, and then Rick took me to Casey's where I got an X-tra Large Dr. Pepper, then home.  I have my spare keys in my pocket to give back to Pastor Pete hopefully sometime today.

Tomorrow Della and Gordon should pick up my blue bike in their (just got in the car) truck when its done in the shop, which may take all day.  Plus tomorrow I may have to go to the Office of Disability Determinations or Tuesday, I'm not sure which.

                                      8:52 AM

@ Church

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