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Tortoise explored a new neighborhood on a minimum 2.15 mile walk this evening after finishing appointments in the Aliente area of North Las Vegas.  The streets are well lit, the sidewalks are wide, and the landscaping is nice.  Quite enjoyable.  Sorry my camera didn't capture it very well. This walk took 40:30 minutes, had a tortoise rating of 6.1, and burned 337 calories.  Please click below for a map and today's walking thought by Aileen Clyde, which includes "I only wanted to go on with reading,but I could tell Mother was pleased with his inquisitiveness"

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2014 Stats:

822.40 miles walked, which is 82.16% of my 2014 goal.

259:41:12 hours walked, which is 82.97% of my 2014 goal

39,780 total feet climbed 

131,345 calories burned
79.23% of the year has passed

I've walked 22 consecutive non-Sundays since my last missed day on September 20, and overall have walked on 235 of the 248 non-Sundays thus far in 2014, a 94.76% consistency rating.

The purpose of the percentages is to have a higher percentage of distance and time walked than of the year. This tells Tortoise that he is on track. Yes, this is more numbers than you are likely interested in, all Tortoise can say is he's really good at setting high goals and having them slip away because he doesn't do them every, every day.

And now for more of today's walking thought, from one of the inspirational messages Tortoise listened to along the way tonight, entitled "Charity Suffereth Long" originally recorded in October 1991 by Aileen Clyde.

"One of the great blessings of my childhood was that my mother spent significant time reading to me and my younger brother Howard. She had a great sense of the importance of good books, and she used them to teach and entertain us. This all served to expand our limited young lives to matters far beyond our daily experience. The reading had begun when I was a runabout preschooler and Howard, who had been born with severe physical disabilities and could not run about, needed special attention. The blessing for me was that I got special attention, too.

"The books were wide-ranging and grew in sophistication as we grew. I remember nursery rhymes, poetry, folktales from Russia, the adventure inThunder Cave—and the scriptures. Together, we read parables, incidents such as the woman at the well, even the great abstractions.

"One day Mother read: “Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up. …

“Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

“Charity never faileth.” (1 Cor. 13:4, 7–8; see also Moro. 7:45–46.)

"Howard interrupted the reading, as he often did, with a question, “What is charity?” He wanted to know the meaning of what we had just heard; I was still caught up in the way it sounded. I only wanted to go on with the reading, but I could tell Mother was pleased with his inquisitiveness. She taught us then, and later, that good questions can be important if we are truly searching to understand, and that sometimes good answers that are good enough may take a lifetime of looking. Then she put down the New Testament and read from the Book of Mormon:

“But charity is the pure love of Christ, and it endureth forever; and whoso is found possessed of it at the last day, it shall be well with him [or her].” (Moro. 7:47.)

"There it was, in one verse, the concentrated essence of a much larger whole, a definition given for a profound yet available truth. What I heard that day was clearly beyond my childhood comprehension, but the spirit of love was there and was as real as any of the other details of my young life.

To watch, listen to, or read the full message, please visit https://www.lds.org/general-conference/1991/10/charity-suffereth-long?lang=eng  #ShareGoodness

The tortoise is smiling!