072326, Thursday

Weight: 230.3

BP and Pulse: 108/76, 75

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

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Reported Sleep: 6:26

Yesterday's Steps: 2,139

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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.

072126, Tuesday

Weight: 229.2

BP and Pulse: 118/76, 65

GMI: 7.2, Glucose level: , Three day Average: 161

Finger Prick:

Reported Sleep: 3:29

Yesterday's Steps: 2,384

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Come Follow Me:

072026, Monday

Weight: 229.2

BP and Pulse: 111/74, 67

GMI: 7.2, Glucose level: , Three day Average: 161

Finger Prick:

Reported Sleep: 7:26

Yesterday's Steps: 2,565

Journal Entry:

Come Follow Me:

"While divine love can be called perfect, infinite, enduring, and universal, it cannot correctly be characterized as unconditional.

Perhaps no love in mortality approaches the divine more than the love parents have for their children. As parents, we have the same obligation to teach obedience that our heavenly parents felt obliged to teach us. While we can teach the need for tolerance of others’ differences, we cannot tolerate their infractions of the laws of God. Our children are to be taught the doctrines of the kingdom, to trust in the Lord, and to know that they receive the blessings of His love by first obeying His commandments.

Divine love is perfect, infinite, enduring, and universal. The full flower of divine love and our greatest blessings from that love are conditional—predicated upon our obedience to eternal law. I pray that we may qualify for those blessings and rejoice forever."

Elder Russell M. Nelson, Apostle, Ensign Magazine Article, February 2003 "Divine Love"

071926, Sunday

Weight: 231.4

BP and Pulse: 111/75, 67

GMI: 7.2, Glucose level: 139 @ 0515, Three day Average: 163

Finger Prick:

Reported Sleep: 5:32

Yesterday's Steps: 2,759

Journal Entry:

Come Follow Me:

2 Kings 23: 25 And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to the Lord with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose there any like him.

"Of course, we are speaking here of the first great commandment given to the human family—to love God wholeheartedly, without reservation or compromise, that is, with all our heart, might, mind, and strength. This love of God is the first great commandment in the universe. But the first great truth in the universe is that God loves us exactly that way—wholeheartedly, without reservation or compromise, with all of His heart, might, mind, and strength. And when those majestic forces from His heart and ours meet without restraint, there is a veritable explosion of spiritual, moral power."

Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, Apostle 

071826, Saturday

Weight: 231.2

BP and Pulse: 117/79, 75

GMI: 7.2, Glucose level: 144@ 0440, Three day Average: 162

Finger Prick:

Reported Sleep: 6:20

Yesterday's Steps: 3,546

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Come Follow Me:

2 Kings 23:3 And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the Lord, to walk after the Lord, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all their heart and all their soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant.

4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Beth-el.

"What is the source of such moral and spiritual power, and how do we obtain it? The source is God. Our access to that power is through our covenants with Him. A covenant is an agreement between God and man, an accord whose terms are set by God. In these divine agreements, God binds Himself to sustain, sanctify, and exalt us in return for our commitment to serve Him and keep His commandments."

Elder D.Todd Christofferson, Apostle 

071726, Friday

Weight: 232.1

BP and Pulse: 111/72, 76

GMI: 7.1, Glucose level: 151@ 0420, Three day Average: 163

Finger Prick:

Reported Sleep: 6:32

Yesterday's Steps: 2,285

Journal Entry:

Come Follow Me:

2 Kings 22:19 Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the Lord, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the Lord.

20 Behold therefore, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace; and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place. And they brought the king word again.