1. Prepare ourselves for a Pilgrimage to Israel during Holy Week or the Lenten Season Next Year. We will also visit Rome and Greece. By the end of this year’s Lenten season, be prepared to make a commitment by signing up and/or making a financial commitment.

2. Penance(Sacrifice) – 40 Days of Lent – EVERY FRIDAY, SABBATH EVE – SATURDAY, SABBATH DAY, DO NOT Watch TV from 6PM Friday – 6PM Saturday. Ask God to remove the secular part of your life.

3. FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY – Beginning Tuesday evening at 9PM – Ending Wednesday evening at 6PM. Fasting is the best thing you can do for your body. Your body gets a chance to go on vacation every week. ALL the organs in your body go on vacation when you fast, and your blood pressure goes down. You need to think about losing weight.
NOTE: If you work long hours and/or you cannot break your fast on Wednesday 6PM, then start your fast earlier on Tuesday evening, so that you can end without waiting until the late hours to break your fast.

4. NO RED MEAT ON FRIDAYS during LENT. Plan to cut out eating meats overall.

5. READ FIRST and then WRITE a chapter of the BIBLE daily. The first set of scriptures will be PSALM 1-40. Keep all 40 pages together; the Honorable James David Manning may ask to see your book at some point.

6. You are COMMANDED to BUY A PIECE OF GOLD for YOURSELF. You are going to make a commitment and this gold will serve as a memorial to you not to have pity parties for yourself. This is a destructive weakness, hinders growth, hinders your receptiveness for truth, produces foolishness, makes you overbearing, while causing you to refuse instruction, and worrying about why people don’t like you, etc. Your gold piece doesn’t have to be expensive, but it must be real gold. DON’T SPEND MORE THAN $100.

BUY two (2) NICE Bibles and go to a street corner in YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD and give them away. Ask Elder One to make you a nice evangelism card and place it in the Bibles you give away.

7. During Holy Week THIS YEAR – Every night you will SLEEP on the floor of your house. It’s to remind you of just how much you are blessed. It will rejuvenate you and help you to get stronger. Learn to like yourself.