080926, Sunday

Weight: 233.4

BP and Pulse: 114/72, 68

GMI: 7.1, Glucose level Three day Average: 160

Finger Prick:

Reported Sleep: 6:03

Yesterday's Steps: 7,739

Journal Entry:

I was pleased to see that my Come Follow Me lesson today emphasized having gratitude. I think I'm usually very grateful but this morning I was feeling a little down because of being tired and having a few medical issues. 

Every Friday morning I serve in the temple starting at 0500. And for some reason, I don't sleep very well on Thursday nights. This turns Friday and sometimes Saturday into days where I seem more tired and logically that shouldn't be. My temple shift is only two hours. I think I'm going to get used to this but so far it's a little bit of a problem.

So last night I took a sleeping pill and that causes me to snore. Cathy wakes me up and the result is reduced sleep. I need to just treat weekends like every other day and there's no reason I can't do that. And I truly believe I will. 

So that's my little problem and then I see a Come Follow Me lesson on gratitude and I feel better already. I'm going to solve this little problem and continue with my life which is truly blessed and wonderful.

Come Follow Me:

Gratitude

Esther 9:20 And Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters unto all the Jews that were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, both nigh and far,

21 To stablish this among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,

22 As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.

"We pray always with full hearts, drawn out unto God continually for our welfare and the welfare of those around us. Sincere desires offered in a spirit of gratitude for abundant blessings and gratitude for the lessons of life instill in our hearts steadfast faith in Christ, a “brightness of hope, and a love of God and of all men.”

Sister Carol F. McConkie, First Counselor Young Women's General Presidency, October 2016

080826, Saturday

Weight: 233.6

BP and Pulse: 115/73, 70

GMI: 7.2, Glucose level Three day Average: 157

Finger Prick:

Reported Sleep: 5:46

Yesterday's Steps: 4,950

Journal Entry:

Come Follow Me:

Esther 7: 3 Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request:

4 For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king’s damage.

5 Then the king Ahasuerus answered and said unto Esther the queen, Who is he, and where is he, that durst presume in his heart to do so?

6 And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.

"With every step she must have wondered, “Will he hold out the royal sceptre?” “Will he condemn me to death?” “Will he drop me into poverty and oblivion?” She stood before him, young, beautiful, calm—knowing that she was totally vulnerable. She also knew that she had appealed to God for help and that there was a great moral wrong about to be committed. She had to be responsible to God who made her, no matter what the mortal consequences."

Sister Barbara B. Smith, Relief Society General President, October 1979

080726, Friday

 Weight: 233.6

BP and Pulse: 

GMI: 7.2, Glucose level Three day Average: 

Finger Prick:

Reported Sleep: 

Yesterday's Steps: 

Journal Entry:

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