This morning we did all our grocery shopping for the month of July. There is very little space left in our average size fridge. The happy note is we stayed within the budget that we set up for ourselves. Through the rest of the month of July we will only need to buy bread and milk as needed. Of course there is always the occasion where we realize we forgot something. Anyway, we should be set. After a month in the mission, we have come to conclude we will spend, on average, $40.00 a week in gas, about $450.00 a month for food and other personal items. We drive, on average, 50 miles a day; that includes a trip to Columbia about every other week, which is a little over 60 miles away.

This evening in Institute we studied Helaman chapters 1- 4. We have focused on the debilitating effects of contention over the past 3 weeks. This evening we concluded with how that contention grew into secret combinations. Then we turned the focus to Sanctification and studied how a sanctified people will be able to avoid contention in life.