so another challenge

i have given myself another challenge. i write it here, i dont know why but i am.

last year president hinkley challenged us to read the book of mormon before the end of the year. I read it twice by the deadline. one of those times i used the actual book. the other time i used a website called www.readthescriptures.com and they would email me my reading assignment every day.
the latter way worked well; i got through the book of mormon in about a month.
well after that i read the pearl of great price that way and that was lovely. but then i hit a wall. i didn't know what to read after that. i tried the doctrine and covenants and i just couldn't get into it. i know that sounds awful, but i think it's something that needs to be taken with a church history course. it doesn't do well just by itelf, or it didn't for me.
i did the gospel doctrine reading assignments for a while, but then i just kinda stopped caring. i wouldn't catch up and i just discontinued the sendings. (see previous posting on gospel opinion class)
so i didn't read for a while, and it's been bugging me a bit. i read every night with my rylan. we're doing the pearl of great price together and that's cool.
but tonight i just really felt the need to read. i saw a quote somewhere in another blog service in an lds community there, that said 'do you know jesus christ?' and it made me think... there's knowing about jesus christ and then there's knowing jesus christ.
so i started reading again tonight. thinking that if this book is the most perfect book on the face of the earth, translated once by divine guidance, and we've been promised that this book is relevant to our day, that it will help us draw closer to god and jesus christ than any other book, then i should read it again.
so i started reading it again tonight, but i have done somethign different than i have done so far. i am keeping a scripture journal. it's just little notes of things i come across while i read; jot them down and all of that.
i hope by doing this i will gain a better understading of the gospel. i want to be one of those gospel scholars, who just know their stuff, but also who just glow. the glow isn't just understanding the material, it's a deeper udnerstanding, a deeper testimony of it. it's the spirit working there. and that's what i want.
i may put some it online here too, i'm not sure how to do that seperately. but i might. or i just might label it as a scripture note session and if you want to check it you can. and if you want to comment on it, then go crazy.

on another note.. yesterday eylan, sara, tom and i all went to check out a a maple syrup operation at a local farm. very cool stuff.
boys are out camping.
and allt his week ihave been working on a denim quilt. i started it monday out of old jeans and my friend Bob's ol flannel shirts. i finsihed the top wednesday. took yesterday off. and today i added the borders and bought the batting, backing and safety pins to baste the whole things together. it woudl be fab if it would be able to be done by sunday but i dont know about that. but who knows. the entire t ime i quilted, i watched the lord of the rings trilogy, extended edition. very cool.
i shall have to post a picture of the quilt up here when it's all done.