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I had a friend when I was 14 who showed me his journals, and said that he had started writing in them everyday since he was 8. I was not a member of the church and although this seemed foreign to me, I was also very impressed. I went and got myself a black notebook with the word 'Record' in small script on the top. I was and still am considerably cheap and run of the mill ledgers are lower priced than journals. That day I started writing my own history. Something that I found has been missing from my genealogical research are the stories of my ancestors in their own words. I know very little of them other than their biological information. I particularly liked this quote from Spencer W. Kimball; "Your own journal, like most others, will tell of problems that recur constantly in every generation, that are as old as the world and how you dealt with them." 20160712