072826, Tuesday

Weight: 230.1

BP and Pulse: 107/62, 79

GMI: 7.3, Glucose level Three day Average: 164

Finger Prick:

Reported Sleep: 6:16

Yesterday's Steps: 2,340

Journal Entry:

We have been pretty sick for the last two weeks. Mainly severe coughing and gagging and feeling tired. I think we are both finally feeling better and will be able to serve in the Bishops Storehouse this afternoon. I'm not sure about Cathy because she has some additional ailments. We went to three doctors yesterday and she got prescriptions that we hope will help.

I'm not going into details but she is a little more frail than I and as she age more and more problems arise for her. When she's healthy she's amazing and serves others probably more than she should. But overall she is just wonderful and a great blessing to me and our family.

Come Follow Me:

Ezra 1:5 Then rose up the chief of the fathers of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, with all them whose spirit God had raised, to go up to build the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem. 6 And all they that were about them strengthened their hands with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, and with beasts, and with precious things, beside all that was willingly offered.

"[T]he Lord repeatedly says in the scriptures, “Be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the Lord.” Let me tell you what that phrase “bear the vessels of the Lord” means. Anciently it had at least two meanings...

The first refers to the recovery and return to Jerusalem of various temple implements...[T]he Lord reminded those early brethren of the sanctity of anything related to the temple. Therefore as they carried back to their homeland these various bowls, basins, cups, and other vessels, they themselves were to be as clean as the ceremonial instruments they bore.

The second meaning is related to the first. Similar bowls and implements were used for ritual purification in the home. The Apostle Paul [wrote]: “If a man … purge himself [of unworthiness], he shall be a vessel … sanctified, and meet for the master’s use, and prepared unto every good work.”...

In both of these biblical accounts the message is that...we are also to be a sanctified instrument...Partly because of what we are to do but more importantly because of what we are to be, the prophets and apostles tell us to “flee … youthful lusts” and “call on the Lord out of a pure heart.” They tell us to be clean."

Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, Apostle 

072726, Monday

Weight: 229.9

BP and Pulse: 126/85, 76

GMI: 7.3, Glucose level Three day Average: 165

Finger Prick:

Reported Sleep: 7:54

Yesterday's Steps: 2,355

Journal Entry:

Ezra 1: 2 Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The Lord God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.

3 Who is there among you of all his people? his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of the Lord God of Israel, (he is the God,) which is in Jerusalem.

"[T]rust in God can bless nations...

God does not rule in nations, but He is mindful of them. He can and does place people in positions of influence who want what is best for the people and who trust in the Lord...

You show your trust in Him when you listen with the intent to learn and repent and then you go and do whatever He asks. If you trust God enough to listen for His message in every sermon, song, and prayer in this conference, you will find it. And if you then go and do what He would have you do, your power to trust Him will grow, and in time you will be overwhelmed with gratitude to find that He has come to trust you."

President Henry B.Eyring  

The message here today is that God will work using anyone he wants. There is a lot of good being done in the world by good people of  different backgrounds. We are all Gods children whether or not we are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

072626, Sunday

Weight: 230.6

BP and Pulse: 114/76, 77

GMI: 7.3, Glucose level Three day Average: 164

Finger Prick:

Reported Sleep: 5:30

Yesterday's Steps: 7,660

Journal Entry:

072526, Saturday

Weight: 230.6

BP and Pulse: 

GMI: 7.2, Glucose level Three day Average: 165

Finger Prick:

Reported Sleep: 6:03

Yesterday's Steps: 3,811

Journal Entry:

"My dear [brothers and sisters], because of the wave of confusion and doubt spreading throughout the world today, we must hold ever more tightly to our testimony of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Then will our ability to defend truth and justice greatly increase. We will win the daily battles against evil rather than fall on the battlefields of life,"

Elder Ulisses Soares, Apostle 

And never forget that great blessing, the Gift of the Holy Ghost.

072426, Friday. Pioneer Day

Weight: 232.1

BP and Pulse: 106/71, 86

GMI: 7.3, Glucose level:145 @ 0430, Three day Average: 167

Finger Prick:

Reported Sleep: 3:49

Yesterday's Steps: 2,828

Journal Entry:

072326, Thursday

Weight: 230.3

BP and Pulse: 108/76, 75

GMI: 7.3, Glucose level:145 @ 0430, Three day Average: 169

Finger Prick:

Reported Sleep: 6:26

Yesterday's Steps: 2,139

Journal Entry:

072226, Wednesday

Weight: 229.9

BP and Pulse: 107/76, 76

GMI: 7.2, Glucose level:159 , Three day Average: 166

Finger Prick:

Reported Sleep: 6:22

Yesterday's Steps: 1,147

Journal Entry:

As my study of the Old Testament continues, I'm finding that I need to look more deeply into the teachings of our current Apostles rather than simply duplicating quotes from the lesson. Today was no exception. Elder Caussé gave a great talk in April that is so relavent to today that I took an except from that talk as my Come Follow Me to thought for today. Read it below and I think you will see what I mean.

Come Follow Me:

By Elder Gérald Caussé

Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, April 2026

Some time ago, a journalist asked me this simple yet profound question: “What do you know now, after being ordained as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles?” My response came instantly: “I have learned that I can love even more.”

Over the past few months, my wife, Valérie, and I have been deeply moved by the outpouring of love and prayers from Saints around the world. Through you, my dear brothers and sisters, we have felt the love of God more intensely than ever before in our lives. And in response, our own ability to love has grown in ways we never expected.

Christlike love grows and multiplies as it is shared. When we show others the pure love of Christ, they come to recognize more fully how deeply the Lord cares for them—and, in turn, their own capacity to love is enlarged and strengthened.

May we follow the Lord’s perfect example and learn to love all and to love each, just as He does.