This morning as I listened to scriptures while getting dishes put away, I was listening to the account of Captain Moroni encountering Zarahemna and his men. In this account, Moroni was outnumbered but better prepared with armor for his men. The Lamanites were afraid of the Nephites on account of their armor and fled to go cause trouble in other parts of the land. Moroni felt that as his only cause was the defense of his people and their freedoms that there was nothing wrong with using spies and strategy to protect themselves and determined the course the Lamanites were taking and set up an ambush for them.

This morning I started out with my two-minutes of squats. Knowing that I did 45 last time, I wanted to beat this number, but still start out slow to not aggravate my knees. By the one minute mark I was well behind the pace I'd need to beat 45, so for the last minute I really had to keep those squats popping and managed to make 55 as the timer went off.

Quick accountability update: I did my two minutes of exercise with pull-ups today. I decided to change things up a little and do more reps, and it was premature as after doing my first set of five which felt easy everything after was a struggle and I eeked out nine total and the last few were not pretty.

This morning saw me setting my timer and pushing through 45 body-weight squats in one shot. I had been finding that simply starting my day with squats and no warm up at all had been bothering my knees, so I took the first several squats slowly to ease my knees into the day and this avoided any pains which was nice.

Two minutes of push-ups went quickly this morning in batches of ten resulting in fifty push-ups. I'm not convinced this is even progress, but it's consistency and that's an important starting place/

For my thought today I wanted to discuss the importance of remembrance and what it means to remember. In my Sunday School lesson we had an interesting discussion about the differences between the words in the Sacrament blessing of the bread vs the wine/water. The first blessing is focused on the recipient taking upon them the name of the lord and keeping his commandments, while the second blessing is focused on remembering.

Fitness accountability update: Two-minutes of squats this morning - I decided to just go all in with no breaks and completed fifty body-weight squats in the two minutes.

My whole family has been sick for the last two weeks with a nasty cough, except for me. I've been trying hard to make sure my hands are always washed before eating and limiting touching my face. I've also taken to gargling morning and evening as it's supposed to be very helpful. I have other things such as trying to rest, getting more vitamin C, oil of oregano and so on that have often seemed to help me avoid illness in the past or shorten the duration - of course it's hard to know for sure. Anyway this week I've been waking up with a sore throat, but between the gargling and such I get the sore throat under control and by bedtime I feel like I'm doing well, but then wake up in the morning a little more sore.

This morning was a round of quick squats over two minutes. The first set bothered my left knee and took a little extra stretching time before the second set, so I went a little past two minutes to make up for the stretching time.