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OK, everyone, we have made a google sheet for tracking goals (usage described below). If you would like to join in using the sheet, please PM me for a link - because everyone who has the link can edit, we don't want the link public. This means your use will be anonymous - you can enter your goals under your ThirdHour.org userId, and no one will know more than that, not even me (I'm the owner of the sheet, so it's on my google drive). (e.g. right now, the users are me, Anonymous Squirrel, and Anonymous Manatee - you'll see my name, but no one else's.) Usage: 1) The first tab is "Weight Tracking" - if you want to use this, put your name in the first column, and put your weight change under each week as either a positive or negative number (or zero). You can leave cells blank (e.g. for weeks prior to starting your participation). The "Net" column will automatically sum up the cells in your row so you can see your net change. As you scroll about, the header row and the first two columns will remain visible so that you can always see where you are and your net change. Some names from this thread have been added, along with some fake names / data for testing. 2) The remaining tabs will be one per user so that each user can track their own goals their way. To add a tab with 52 weeks already added to the header, click the down-triangle at the right side of the "Template-DuplicateMe" tab and choose "Duplicate" from the popup menu. This will create a "Copy of Template-DuplicateMe" tab. Click its down-triangle icon, choose Rename..., and name your sheet - preferably with your userId so we don't get confused. Then add your goal(s) or habit(s) to track. If you want to track at intervals other than weekly, feel free to adjust the column headers or number of columns. HINT: To add lots of columns (e.g. if you wanted daily), select several columns (click the header of the first, shift+click the header of the last), click the down-triangle that appears when you hover over one of the columns, and choose "Insert n left" or "Insert n right" (where n will be the number of columns you selected). To delete, select the column(s) of interest, click that down-triangle and choose the delete option. If you feel like you need to, you could make more than one tab (e.g. one for daily tracking and a second for weekly tracking). You could also add a blank tab using the "+" icon ("Add Sheet") in the lower left corner, and design the rows / columns however you wish. Just be sure to rename your tab. Tabs can be dragged around, and it may be helpful if you were to drag your tab into alphabetical order so that once there are lots of us, it's easier to find tabs. By way of example, my tab has my current goal from this thread of doing the exercise routine SpiritDragon helped me come up with 3 days per week, so I put a - for each day before I started, a Y for each day I did it, and an N for each day I didn't do it (none yet ). So for Week 2, I put "- - Y" (because I started on Saturday) and for Week 3, I have "Y Y" (because only Tuesday and Thursday are passed). The point being, you can track in whatever way works for you. Week 1 is the first week that had any days in January in it. Thus, today is in Week 3. 3) If you need help doing something, feel free to ask (and I'll see if I can figure it out).

I can't believe you people have managed three pages all about @MormonGator's tattoos.

Just for the record, I have absolutely no intention of changing my diet at the moment - I'm changing enough other stuff that it'll have to wait. However, thanks (probably) to you people yammering on about eating better, today I walked right past the ice cream at two different grocery stores without buying any, and came home with carrots and celery instead. I am now having carrots and celery with my turkey & chicken sandwich. Just to ensure this doesn't have a positive effect on my health, I did (as I always do) put salt on my celery. I'm only sharing this with you all to apply peer pressure - it seemed only fair to return the favor.

If it's a google sheet, and you create it, it will live on your google drive. I suppose it could be downloaded as a file, I dunno, never tried that. If so, then yeah, you could make it and hand it off to me and I could put it on my google drive. If it's an MS Excel spreadsheet, it's just a file stored on the google drive and there is no way, that I know of, for anyone to open and edit in google's drive app - unless google sheets will open an Excel spreadsheet. Never tried that either. (I'm a database programmer - we skip right over spreadsheets and use databases, hence I have no experience with what the sheets app / google drive will / will not do.)

I just edited my post. I set up a sheet as a sample. Not sure how to change owners of a google sheet. If you do a regular spreadsheet like Excel, then everyone has to download / upload (and have Excel). Anywho, I'm game, if desired.

Take care of yourself and your other needs - we can wait! We'll encourage each other in the meantime. We could do this in google sheets. Not sure how to design it - rows and columns - but it could be done. If anyone wants this, I can host it - I'm sure there's room in my google drive. Maybe: Person | Goal 1 | Week 1 | Week 2 | ... | Week the Last ...? Then each person can have multiple goals (if they want) and track progress. We could go daily, if people want it (and those who don't could merge the cells for their rows). Thing is, it would end up a public file unless everyone wanted me to have their email address (which is how google drive secures files, sort of). I track my habits in my Hobonichi, on the pages which have one box for each day of each month - the column is the habit, and I check off that day when I do it - makes it easy to see patterns: Edit: OK, if you want this and want to see an example, PM me for a link to a google sheet - it's only by week (not sure it will let me have more columns than A-Z - it stopped at Z and I haven't looked for ways to add more). An alternate would be fore each of us to get a column per goal and the rows could be days 1 - 365. I'm game to do this or delete it.

Today's exercise session constituted 1 week of my Tuesday-Thursday-Saturday addition to my normal trudging. Muscles were sore to one degree or another in between, but no so much that I couldn't do the routine according to schedule. Doing this right after I trudge is, I'm sure, why I'm being successful - it's a built-in trigger so that I don't have to "find time" to do it. Thanks @SpiritDragon!

Sign up sheets. For whatever reason, members of the Church will sign up for something that they won't otherwise agree / respond to. But @Fether's idea is fabulous. You might need to have a nursery or something. And unless you do it on a Friday, Saturday, or Sunday, there are guaranteed to be people who cannot attend (due to other activities Tuesday - Thursday (and not being allowed on Monday)).

J: What think ye of the Messiah? P: He's the son of David. J: Then how is it that David referred to his descendant as Lord? P: Er, um. Answer: He's both the son of David (by his mother and adoptive father) and the Son of God, thus Lord. Conundrum solved. Only difficult if you don't believe in Jesus Christ.

Yes, that looks current to me. There are some blurbs in this regard in Handbook 2 - look for text similar to what's in that PDF - but it won't give you any more, just confirm some bits of the PDF.

Seems pretty clear to me. One's temporal / physical body looks like one's spirit (body) and vice versa.

I would say suppress or contain, but both mask and conceal have the same end. I cannot remember where, but somewhere, it's written that resurrected beings appear to be able to suppress their glory, whereas spirits cannot. Thus when visited by a resurrected being, that being may appear to be a regular person (as the resurrected Christ sometimes did), but when visited by a spirit, that spirit will always appear in whatever glory he may have. Next time I find this, I really should make a note somewhere (right after making a somewhere in which to make the note - perhaps a scripture and a note in Gospel Library).

All that passage means is that no one was able to explain the conundrum - how Christ could be both a son of David and David's Lord. It does not mean that Christ was denying being a descendant of David.

Yes, some soreness, but not too much. We'll see how it goes as I repeat the process.

Remember, it's Rob. On this topic, he doesn't believe what the Church teaches.

Ah, the classics: ...on the beach? .Sandy. ...on the front porch? .Matt. ...hanging on a wall? .Art.

It took about 15 minutes to do the four exercises, 15 reps each (except the reverse lunge, which I did 16 times, otherwise one leg would have to do more than the other, and that's hardly fair), 3 times. It left me breathing hard and straining ye olde muscles by the end of each round - I'm assuming that's the goal. I'm actually looking forward to making this a habit and seeing improvement. (It's kinda shocking how quickly the muscles atrophy without you noticing it until you need to do something that used to be easy years ago.)

I assume the point you were trying to make is that your wife is not a slob.

In that case, the tech forums are probably best - if there's a secret way in, they'll know it and if it's a planned feature, they'll know it if anyone outside the development team knows it.

You can use your LDS.org login to log into the tech forums and ask there. Here's the link to the Apple LDS Tools forum: https://tech.lds.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=118

A) Are you sure you have the latest version of the app from the app store? B) Have you used the sync option to update data? C) Do you have the option to see Organizations > Primary > Valiant 8; with one "tab" for teachers and another for "all members"? That's all I got, cuz I use Android. I'd really be surprised if it's not in the Apple version.

Today's lesson: Sleep is good. Or: You think more clearly in the morning. Or: When you ask God to help you keep up the hard work of cleaning and reorganizing the house, He answers in the morning by reminding you of what you already have which can solve your problems. (Spent considerable time last night trying to find foot rests to buy (on Amazon, of course) - I'm short, regular chairs are not comfortable to me without a foot rest, but most of the foot rests our there are not high enough. This morning, I woke remembering that my ottoman is hollow and contains a mini ottoman, which works well as a foot rest under the desk where I do my journaling and scripture study. This then let me stow some throw-blankets in the ottoman, thus freeing some storage space for other things. One of the throw blankets then went over the back of the office chair, which has a zippered cover, which zipper gouged my wall when I wasn't paying attention - now the zipper is padded by the throw blanket, so no more risk. And a platform my dad and brother built for my aging dogs (now in doggie heaven), so it would be easier for them to get in and out of the car, is now under the kitchen table (a.k.a. artwork station). Further, while cleaning the floor, I emptied the bottom of the pantry and re-discovered the HUGE plastic cutting board that isn't used as a cutting board, but rather to take up space in the pantry. This will now be the surface to which watercolor paper is taped before painting. A bit of cardboard stuffed under the top end angles it just right. No need for any purchases, no need to wait until spring (or build stuff in the freezing garage), existing stuff put to good use! Now the irony - yesterday, after I finished the kitchen floor project, while wandering around the house looking for solutions to these problems, I discovered in one closet, a little steam cleaner mop thing that my husband bought eons ago, but never put to use, which I could have used to clean the kitchen floor instead of scrubbing on hands and knees. Sigh. No telling whether it would have made quick work of it - I don't even know for sure if it works / would have done the job. But you can believe next time I feel like deep cleaning the kitchen floor, I'm going to try it. Unless I forget its existence again. This is another reason I want my house to be empty (of all things I don't use regularly) - harder to forget what you own when you don't own anything you don't actually use.)

So, this morning, I did some rearranging and testing and here are the results: 1) Found the angle on the Total Gym at which I can just barely do 12-15 overhanded pullups (tried underhanded after that and managed the same number - I'm assuming I'm supposed to do the overhanded kind - where my knuckles are pointed up?). I expect in a month or two I'll be able to adjust the angle up a notch. 2) Determined that I can't leave that attachment on and use the Total Gym to do chest presses, and since I know I'll get sick of putting that thing on and taking it off, tried instead using the desk that's in there to do push ups. The desk is lower than the kitchen counter and just right for my 12-15 reps. I plan to get rid of the desk in the spring when I do my yard sale, but hopefully by then, I'll be ready for something lower. 3) For the reverse lunges, I'm nowhere near as stable as the girl in the video, and I think for now, I'll have to do them without getting my back knee all the way to the floor, but I expect that and stability will come eventually. Still, I think what I can do will work. I'll start out working on form - getting as close as I can to the girl in the video, then increase speed and how close my knee is to the floor. 4) Similar with the squats - not as stable, don't think my thighs are parallel to the floor, but I'll get there. Similar to above, will work on form, so I'm not making a bad habit / risking injury, then on increasing depth. I'll do these on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday (because Saturday is my day off from cleaning). I need to move my bike back down to the basement, so I can do all this in the room where the Total Gym lives - walk down the hall after my trudging and stretching, then do arms, legs, arms, legs. I'm going to have breakfast first, and then (an hour or so later) try a few rounds of above routine.