My intent was to give some ideas to Elder Porter that would help him  understand why people are not willing to listen to him and his 'army' about the restored gospel of Jesus Christ.  I ended up writing lots of stuff that has been floating around in my own head and I have put them to paper (?) in a good way that has caused me to just keep going in my own pondering process.  Trying to understand others is a good thing, but the best result is to be able to better understand yourself.  After all, we are only actually living that one life in the midst of all of the others doing the same.  I guess that if things are perfect for us then we might go on trying to 'bless' others, but I find that my energy is best spent concentrating on me.  That seems a full time endeavor.  But I do find benefit in my observations of others especially when I then turn them to myself and use them to help me deal with my own 'stewardship'.  Pride, selfishness and idleness  hmm.  How am I doing?  Just this past couple of days I have been wondering about my own work ethic.  I have found myself with some free time and I haven't used it as well as I could have.  I am taking myself to task in that and have started to make some improvement.  I'll let you know how this new project works out.