030426, Wednesday

Daily Vitals: 

Weight: 227.9

BP and Pulse: 131/79, 77

Current Glucose Level: 133 @0435

Reported Sleep: 6:31

Yesterday's Steps: 3,286

Journal Entry

I've been working on improving my physical conditioning mostly by going to the Orem Famiky Fitness Center and walking and riding a recumbent bicycle. At my age (80) it's difficult to do more than that. I'm going to try to come up with something to exercise my upper body as well.

Yesterday we served at the Bishops Storehouse and that is something I truly look forward to each week. I'm also looking forward to being a temple worker again when the new Lindon Temple opens next month. I want to be productive but as I age it becomes increasingly difficult. I'll keep trying though.

Come Follow Me 

Genesis 28: 15 And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.

"Challenging times come in this mortal world, including to the faithful, but the reassuring message of Christ is that although He, the paschal lamb, would go like “a sheep before [its] shearers,” He would nevertheless rise, as the psalmist said, to be “our refuge and strength, [our] very present help in [times of] trouble.”

Elder Jeffrey R. Holland

030326, Tuesday

Daily Vitals: 

Weight: 229.2

BP and Pulse: 136/83, 76

Current Glucose Level: 126 @ 0435

Reported Sleep: 7:13

Yesterday's Steps: 5,648

Journal Entry

Come Follow Me 

Genesis 25: 32 And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me?

33 And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob.

34 Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright.

"In the busyness of our daily lives and in the commotion of the contemporary world in which we live, we may be distracted from the eternal things that matter the most by making pleasure, prosperity, popularity, and prominence our primary priorities. Our short-term preoccupation with “the things of this world” and “the honors of men” may lead us to forfeit our spiritual birthright for far less than a mess of pottage."

Elder David A. Bednar, Apostle 

030226, Monday

Daily Vitals: 

Weight: 229.0

BP and Pulse: 117/75, 76

Current Glucose Level: 112 @ 0425

Reported Sleep: 6:53

Yesterday's Steps: 2,600

Journal Entry

Come Follow Me 

Genesis 24: 18 And she said, Drink, my lord: and she hasted, and let down her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink.

19 And when she had done giving him drink, she said, I will draw water for thy camels also, until they have done drinking.

20 And she hasted, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again unto the well to draw water, and drew for all his camels.

"The Lord knew Rebekah’s heart; he knew how she would respond when she observed a need. He answered the servant’s prayer that the young woman who was to become Isaac’s wife would offer him water…Her charitable response to this stranger was automatic. She did not stop to think, I am giving service, nor did she consider the station of the one in need. She hastened to serve water—to camels.

Respectfully, she offered an act of service, a simple one, and from that act was born a family of great influence for whole dispensations. Rebekah loved with worthiness and willingness as a daughter of God. Remember the question, Who can gauge the reach of our goodness?

From her we learn that charity, though often quantified as the action, is actually the state of the heart that prompts us to love one another. She offered water. It was in the offering that charity was manifest."

President Elaine L. Jack, Relief Society General President 

030126, Sunday

Daily Vitals: 

Weight: 230.3

BP and Pulse: 129/78, 76

Current Glucose Level: 119 @ 0315

Reported Sleep: 5:19

Yesterday's Steps: 4,441

Journal Entry

Come Follow Me 

022826, Saturday

Daily Vitals: 

Weight: 229.0

BP and Pulse: 126/72, 83

Current Glucose Level: 129 @ 0440

Reported Sleep: 7:36

Yesterday's Steps: 3,356

Journal Entry

Come Follow Me 

Genesis 22: 13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.

"This story also shows the goodness of God in protecting Isaac and in providing a substitute so he would not have to die. Because of our sins and our mortality, we, like Isaac, are condemned to death. When all other hope is gone, our Father in Heaven provides the Lamb of God, and we are saved by his sacrifice."

Elder Dallin H. Oaks, Apostle 

My feeling regarding the situation of Abraham and Isaac is that Abraham was tested so that Abraham would know his level of loyalty to God. We now know that even if Isaac had been sacrificed, he would continue to live on the other side of the Veil. Heavenly Father knew that Jesus would continue to live but someone - in this case His Only Begotten Son - needed to suffer unimaginable pain of every kind in order to satisfy justice for all of our sins and wrong doings. Jesus Christ volunteered to do that for us on condition of our complete repentance. To this day, I don't think most of us fully comprehend the depth of the price He paid in order to satisfy justice for each of us.

022726, Friday

Daily Vitals: 

Weight: 228.3

BP and Pulse: 117/73, 77

Current Glucose Level: 133 @ 0425

Reported Sleep: 5:50

Yesterday's Steps: 3,771 + 40 mins recumbent bike

Journal Entry

Come Follow Me 

Genesis 22: 11 And the angel of the Lord called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.

12 And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.

"How painfully difficult it must have been for Abraham, in obedience to God’s command, to take his beloved Isaac into the land of Moriah to offer him as a sacrifice. Can we imagine the heaviness of Abraham’s heart as he journeyed to the appointed place? Surely anguish must have racked his body and tortured his mind as he bound Isaac, laid him on the altar, and took the knife to slay him. With unwavering faith and implicit trust in the Lord, he responded to the Lord’s command. How glorious was the pronouncement, and with what wondered welcome did it come: “Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.”

…Although we are not asked to prove our obedience in such a dramatic and heart-wrenching way, obedience is required of us as well."

President Thomas S. Monson, Apostle 

022626, Thursday

Daily Vitals: 

Weight: 226.4

BP and Pulse: 120/75, 82

Current Glucose Level: 135 @ 0430

Reported Sleep: 6:40

Yesterday's Steps: 3,712 + 40 mins recumbent bike

Journal Entry

Come Follow Me 

Genesis 22: 9 And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.

10 And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.

"…[T]he experience of Abraham and Isaac was what the scriptures call a type, which is a likeness or reminder of something else. The Book of Mormon prophet Jacob said that the command for Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac was “a similitude of God and his Only Begotten Son.”

Elder Dallin H. Oaks, Apostle