2023 November 11, Saturday, Journal Entry

We were going to watch Jake's kids while he and Meredith celebrated their anniversary but they had to cancel due to illness. So we tinkered about and sort of vegged. We went to Fashion Place Mall to the Apple store and got a new watch band for me. My original was not adjustable and I've lost so much weight that it didn't fit any longer. My Apple watch does a lot of things beside tell time. But it has to fit snuggly to do some of them. So I splurged and got a new band that is attractive and adjustable.

Today we will be serving at the Bishops Storehouse. I'm anticipating that we will be very busy. Our Lindon Bishop's Storehouse is, I'm told (and I believe it), the 2nd busiest in the church... 2nd only to the main Storehouse in SLC. We are living in perilous times and many people are having a hard time just getting by. The Storehouse, with their Bishop's approval, provides needed food that truly blesses their lives. Many of those who avail themselves of our services are recent immigrants and others are just suffering from lack of decent employment. For whatever reason, we can provided essential food that can truly bless their lives and I am truly happy to be part of that.

Cathy is feeling much better and should enjoy serving today with me.

Come Follow Me 

Hebrews 12:1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

"The race that is set before us on this earth is an endurance race filled with obstacles. The obstacles in this race are the challenges we wake up to each morning. We are here on earth to run the race, to exercise our moral agency, and to choose between right and wrong. In order to honorably and successfully finish the race and return to our Heavenly Father, we will need to pay the price of dedication, perseverance, and self-discipline. We need to get into spiritual shape. We need to develop spiritual stamina. We need strong testimonies that will lead to true conversion, and as a result we will find within ourselves the inner peace and strength needed to endure whatever challenges we may face."

Elder Richard J. Maynes Of the Presidency of the Seventy, October 2013

Mosiah 4:26 And now, for the sake of these things which I have spoken unto you—that is, for the sake of retaining a remission of your sins from day to day, that ye may walk guiltless before God—I would that ye should impart of your substance to the poor, every man according to that which he hath, such as feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, visiting the sick and administering to their relief, both spiritually and temporally, according to their wants.

27 And see that all these things are done in wisdom and order; for it is not requisite that a man should run faster than he has strength. And again, it is expedient that he should be diligent, that thereby he might win the prize; therefore, all things must be done in order.

 Book of Mormon reading 

Ether Chapter 7, Orihah reigns in righteousness—Amid usurpation and strife, the rival kingdoms of Shule and Cohor are set up—Prophets condemn the wickedness and idolatry of the people, who then repent.

Chapter 8, There is strife and contention over the kingdom—Akish forms an oath-bound secret combination to slay the king—Secret combinations are of the devil and result in the destruction of nations—Modern Gentiles are warned against the secret combination that will seek to overthrow the freedom of all lands, nations, and countries.