2024 February 13, Tuesday, Journal Entry

I'll be serving with Cathy at the Bishops Storehouse this afternoon. Expecting a quiet day. 

I might be having breakfast with Jake if he can get away. Alexander has been sick but could be back to normal. We'll see.

Come Follow Me 

"The hero—our hero, now and always—is Jesus Christ, and anything or anyone that distracts us from His teachings, as found in the scriptures and through the words of living prophets, can negatively impact our progress on the covenant path. Before the Creation of this world, we looked to Jesus Christ when it became clear that the plan proposed by Father in Heaven, which included our opportunity to progress and become like Him, was being challenged.

Not only was Jesus Christ the leader in defending our Father’s plan, but He would also play the most crucial role in its implementation. He responded to the Father and volunteered to offer Himself “a ransom for all,” to pay a debt that each of us would incur through sin but could not pay on our own.

President Dallin H. Oaks has taught, “[Jesus Christ] has done everything that is essential for our journey through mortality toward the destiny outlined in the plan of our Heavenly Father.”

Bishop W. Christopher Waddell, First Counselor in the Presiding Bishopric, October 2023

"For 179 years this book (the Book of Mormon) has been examined and attacked, denied and deconstructed, targeted and torn apart…perhaps like no other book in any religious history. And still it stands. Failed theories about its origins have been born and parroted and have died…None of these frankly pathetic answers for this book has ever withstood examination because there is no other answer than the one Joseph gave as its young unlearned translator.

…I testify that one cannot come to full faith in this latter-day work—and thereby find the fullest measure of peace and comfort in these, our times—until he or she embraces the divinity of the Book of Mormon and the Lord Jesus Christ, of whom it testifies…and if [someone] leaves this Church, it must be done by crawling over or under or around the Book of Mormon to make that exit."

Elder Jeffrey R. Holland Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, October 2009