Journal Entry August 5, 2023

 I went to breakfast at Magleby's with Craig. We had a nice visit and he shared stone sweet experiences he has had in connection with Devin's passing and other things. Craig has been a very positive part of my life for years and, of course, I've been his uncle since he came into this world. He has been more like a brother for a long time now and even more so now.

Cathy and I walked for three miles in Provo Canyon. It's too bad there aren't other places to walk but,if course, there are. It's that Provo Canyon at Vivian Park is so much cooler during these hot summer days that it's a lot easier to enjoy walking there.

We went to dinner at Mi Ranchito with Ron Mcdonald and his new wife, Janet. She has been a great addition to his life and made him, in my opinion, an even better man than he was. The restaurant was terribly noisy on this Friday night.

We'll be at the Bishops Storehouse this morning for our mission duties.

Come Follow Me

Acts 28:27 For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

"The importance of having a sense of the sacred is simply this—if one does not appreciate holy things, he will lose them. Absent a feeling of reverence, he will grow increasingly casual in attitude and lax in conduct. He will drift from the moorings that his covenants with God could provide. His feeling of accountability to God will diminish and then be forgotten. Thereafter, he will care only about his own comfort and satisfying his uncontrolled appetites. Finally, he will come to despise sacred things, even God, and then he will despise himself.

On the other hand, with a sense of the sacred, one grows in understanding and truth. The Holy Spirit becomes his frequent and then constant companion. More and more he will stand in holy places and be entrusted with holy things. Just the opposite of cynicism and despair, his end is eternal life."

D. Todd Christofferson was a member of the Presidency of the Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints when this fireside address was given on 7 November 2004.

Speeches.byu.edu

This talk by Elder Christofferson is outstanding. It is rather lengthy but I highly recommend it to anyone reading this.