2023 December 22, Friday, Journal Entry

I played pickleball with three of my friends at the church yesterday morning for two hours. It's a lot of fun and pretty good exercise for a 77 year old guy. We are all retired and enjoy each other's company. Cathy enjoyed taking one of her ministering sisters out to her birthday lunch at a place called "Taste" in Provo.

I think we're going to try again to have Beth and Karen over for dinner this evening. Cathy seems to be feeling better and of course that's a good thing.

Come Follow Me 

Luke 2:16 And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger.

"When the angel announced the birth of the Savior to the shepherds, these men “came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger.”…

The good news of the gospel throughout the ages has been accompanied with a rapid pace and a sense of urgency. The Prophet Joseph Smith exhibited this haste as well as have all modern-day prophets. …

Where do the streams of our thoughts flow? Are we reading the scriptures? Are we listening to the counsel of our present-day prophet? Are we catching the vision of really living the gospel? Are we feeling the sense of urgency—an urgency to repent, to share the gospel, to prepare for the second coming of the Savior, to obey all God’s commandments?"

Elder J. Thomas Fyans, Assistant to the Council of the Twelve, April 1975

Good questions.