2024 February 3, Saturday, Journal Entry

It seems like our world is getting less stable almost on a daily basis. The federal government of the U.S. seems useless and a waste of money. Instead of providing useful services to the citizens it seems to be trying to make life more difficult. Just one example is so-called "Climate Change". It used to be "global warming" but that has proved to be a non-issue so now it's called climate change. Because of climate change, the government has largely shut down gasoline production and natural gas production in the United States but then we go and buy gas and oil from unfriendly parts of the world and import it at much greater expense because we need it to maintain our way of life. It has been suggested that gas powered cars and other gas powered devices be eliminated and that we switch to electricity. But there is completely insufficient capability to produce enough electricity to do that without using natural gas to power steam plants. It's just nuts.

Also, telling the truth is a thing of the past. Schools don't do it. The press doesn't do it. The federal government doesn't do it. A large part of our life is trying to figure out what is true and what isn't.

I'm truly grateful for my testimony of the Gospel and for scriptures, prophets and prayer. There are efforts to attack the church and we need to be careful about what we read and hear because truth, though difficult to find, is still available. 

Come Follow Me 

"God’s love for all people is affirmed throughout scripture. That love encompasses the Abrahamic covenant, gathering His scattered children, and His plan of happiness in our lives.

In the household of faith there are to be no strangers, no foreigners, no rich and poor, no outside “others.” As “fellowcitizens with the saints,” we are invited to change the world for the better, from the inside out, one person, one family, one neighborhood at a time."

Elder Gerrit W. Gong Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostle, October 2020

1 Nephi 21:25... But thus saith the Lord, even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered; for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children. 26 And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; they shall be drunken with their own blood as with sweet wine; and all flesh shall know that I, the Lord, am thy Savior and thy Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob. (See also Isaiah 49:25-26)

The Lord Will Not Forget His People

Is it reassuring to you today to know that God will not forget you? You have made covenants with Him and while you may on occasion forget Him, He will never forget you. That thought must have been very reassuring to Nephi living now in a remote place, and feeling the weight of responsibility for his people. How heartening it would have been to read to all of them of the promise of God's enduring love and covenant. "Yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee" (v. 15). Just as we can be reassured by that, Nephi and his people must all have taken great comfort in those very words.

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John W. Welch Notes by John W. Welch