080626, Thursday

Weight: 232.3

BP and Pulse: 129/84, 71

GMI: 7.2, Glucose level Three day Average: 159

Finger Prick:

Reported Sleep: 7:39

Yesterday's Steps: 9,820

Journal Entry:

Cathy and I are both feeling healthy and well. Yesterday we helped a recently widowed sister in our Ward by giving her rides to a couple of appointments she had that she would not have otherwise been able to attend. While riding with her we were able have a very pleasant visit with her. It doesn't seem like much but I think she appreciated our friendship and service. I was grateful that we were able to help her.

Today we are going to each do an Initiatory session in the temple then attend an Endowment session.

I'm grateful for these opportunities to serve and hope we will continue to be able to serve in future days. We both feel very blessed for these opportunities.

Come Follow Me:

Esther 4:15 Then Esther bade them return Mordecai this answer,

16 Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.

"Trusting in the Lord includes trusting in His timing and requires patience and endurance that outlast the storms of life."

Elder L. Todd Budge of The Seventy 

080526, Wednesday

Weight: 233.2

BP and Pulse: 115/74, 85

GMI: 7.3, Glucose level Three day Average: 161

Finger Prick:

Reported Sleep: 4:14

Yesterday's Steps: 4,216

Journal Entry:

Come Follow Me:

Esther 4:13 Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king’s house, more than all the Jews.

14 For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father’s house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?

"You will probably not be called upon to put your life on the line, as did Esther, for that which you believe. You will, however, most likely find yourself in situations where great courage will be required as you stand firm for truth and righteousness."

Elder Thomas S. Monson, Apostle 

080426, Tuesday

Weight: 233.4

BP and Pulse: 

GMI: 7.3, Glucose level Three day Average: 165

Finger Prick:

Reported Sleep: 6:26

Yesterday's Steps: 8,898

Journal Entry:

Come Follow Me:

080326, Monday

Weight: 232.3

BP and Pulse: 106/67, 78

GMI: 7.3, Glucose level Three day Average: 167

Finger Prick:

Reported Sleep: 6:39

Yesterday's Steps: 2,570 (Sunday)

Journal Entry:

Come Follow Me:

Esther 2:15 Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go in unto the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king’s chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed. And Esther obtained favour in the sight of all them that looked upon her.

16 So Esther was taken unto king Ahasuerus into his house royal in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.

17 And the king loved Esther above all the women, and she obtained grace and favour in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown upon her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti.

"It is because of our spiritual preparation that we can find answers to our everyday challenges. It is because of our spiritual preparation that we can find joy in enduring and overcoming our trials. It is because of our spiritual preparation that we can feel the greatest joy of all, a nearness and closeness to our Savior and Father in Heaven."

Sister Barbara W. Winder, Relief Society General President, October 1988

080226, Sunday

Weight: 233.9

BP and Pulse: 102/65, 72

GMI: 7.3, Glucose level Three day Average: 171

Finger Prick:

Reported Sleep: 6:24

Yesterday's Steps: 9,704

Journal Entry:

Come Follow Me:

Nehemiah 6:3 And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?

"We are not authorized to negotiate the conditions of [God's] eternal plan...Nehemiah...was charged with building a wall to protect Jerusalem. Some wanted him to come down and compromise his position, but Nehemiah refused. He was not intolerant of others; he simply explained, “I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease…?”

Sometimes we become the lightning rod, and we must “take the heat” for holding fast to God’s standards and doing His work...[W]e need not be afraid if we are grounded in His doctrine. We may experience misunderstanding, criticism, and even false accusation, but we are never alone. Our Savior was “despised and rejected of men.” It is our sacred privilege to stand with Him!

...[S]tanding strong sometimes means avoiding and even fleeing from the world."

Elder Robert D.Hales, Apostle 

080126, Saturday

Weight: 232.1

BP and Pulse: 111/67, 73

GMI: 7.3, Glucose level Three day Average: 169

Finger Prick:

Reported Sleep: 6:49

Yesterday's Steps: 6,659

Journal Entry:

Come Follow Me:

Nehemiah 1:9 But if ye turn unto me, and keep my commandments, and do them; though there were of you cast out unto the uttermost part of the heaven, yet will I gather them from thence, and will bring them unto the place that I have chosen to set my name there.

"God’s promise for the gathering of scattered Israel was...emphatic. Isaiah, for example, foresaw that in the latter days the Lord would send “swift messengers” to these people who were so “scattered and peeled.”

This promise of the gathering, woven all through the fabric of the scriptures, will be fulfilled just as surely as were the prophecies of the scattering of Israel...

This doctrine of the gathering is one of the important teachings of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Lord has declared: “I give unto you a sign … that I shall gather in, from their long dispersion, my people, O house of Israel, and shall establish again among them my Zion.” The coming forth of the Book of Mormon is a sign to the entire world that the Lord has commenced to gather Israel and fulfill covenants He made to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. We not only teach this doctrine, but we participate in it. We do so as we help to gather the elect of the Lord on both sides of the veil."

Elder Russell M. Nelson, Apostle 

073126, Friday

Weight: 233.0

BP and Pulse: 

GMI: 7.2, Glucose level Three day Average: 166

Finger Prick:

Reported Sleep: 6:05

Yesterday's Steps: 8,821

Journal Entry:

Serving in the temple this morning