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Hey Marty,
welcome and hope you learn to enjoy this site as much as so of us O.G.’s do. If you are new to guitar you will want to start out with a set of strings that you can learn to hold down next to the frets that don’t discourage you to think this is too hard and you stop practicing. Start out with a fairly light gauge string. 10’s or 11’s. You are going to get blisters, just a rite of passage, and start to form calluses. At the early learning stages the brand isn’t real important until you start to form an “ear” for guitar tone.
The Yamaha FS or FG 800 is a good 1st guitar. If you can afford to have a set up done by a local guitar tech. It will help you progress faster. as you will not be fighting the guitar, but learning to play the guitar. Make sure he shows you how to string up your own guitar so you don’t have to pay extra every time you change strings.
It is like a zen thing to me and I change strings at least once a month, but I’m weird. Most people go a lot longer that that between string changes.
Do some google research on guitar strings. Every guitar picker will swear to you that there brand is the best string to buy. I string all of my steel string guitar with D’addario XT strings and they are the best . Just saying. Good luck