Automatic continuation of enumeration

I’m interesting in automatically continuing the enumeration in my document. Take a look at the following MWE.

    %compile with XeLaTeX
    documentclass[12pt]{memoir}
    usepackage{amsmath}
    usepackage{amsfonts}
    usepackage{amssymb}
    usepackage[shortlabels]{enumitem}
    usepackage{lipsum}
    
    begin{document}
        
    begin{flushleft}
        
        lipsum[1]
        
        begin{enumerate}[label=textbf{arabic*.}]
            item This is the first item
            
            item This is the second item
            
            item ....
        end{enumerate}
        
        lipsum[2]
        
        begin{enumerate}[label=textbf{arabic*.}, start=4]
            item This is the fourth item
            
            item This is the fifth item
        end{enumerate}
        
        lipsum[3]
        
    end{flushleft}
 end{document}

Is it possible when I start the second enumeration to somehow tell LaTeX to start exactly where the previous enumeration ended instead of typing start=4 for example?

documentclass{memoir}
usepackage[shortlabels]{enumitem}
usepackage{lipsum}
begin{document}
lipsum[1]
begin{enumerate}[label=textbf{arabic*.}]
item This is the first item
item This is the second item
end{enumerate}
lipsum[2]
begin{enumerate}[resume*]
item This is the fourth item
item This is the fifth item
end{enumerate}
lipsum[3]
end{document}