A new, exciting week and hiking as a calling

      For many years, I wanted to start backpacking and hiking. I would come across places I wanted to see in my travels and think that I wanted to go hike there, but I never got around to doing it, I didm;t even know where to start.
      Then one day, I was called to be Elders Quorum President. I went to a training session with the Stake Presidency. They talked about the need for the Elder's Quorum President to interface with the young men and to do things with them so there wasn't a gap from the Aaronic Priesthood to the Melchizedek Priesthood.  They said, "When those boys go hiking, YOU GO HIKING!"
     So the next time the boys planned a hike, I gathered what little I had and went with them. And I nearly died. I am pretty sure I saw visions at one point. Maybe hallucinations is a better word.  And then we got out of the car and started moving. I made the hike, and made it home, and even learned a few things. Actually, I learned a lot. Within months I had a bought a few things and changed a few things and very quickly I was a master backpacker. I was going for a week at a time and making 10-20 miles a day rather than the 5 I had done that first time with the boys. It took just one time for my thinking to take a quantum leap.
       I feel like this week has been a similar experience. I read some things and worked on some things, and all of a sudden I saw a clear path through to where I want to go and how I want to get there. I have been taking some accounting classes and side work, and that, coupled with a better reading of some entrepreneurship principles, helped me to focus the jumble of thoughts I have had for years into a single focused beam of thinking. My wife and I sat down and made some plans, and I finally am moving down the path to the goal I didn't have before.
       I was also very moved by a principle that I read about how to run a gospel centered business and making sure that we put people first. these two things together propelled me forward in the same quantum leap in my entrepreneurial future and I am excited for what the future holds. Now to put my thoughts into action.