032524, Monday, Journal Entry

Vitals: Wt. 226.6

Journal Entry 

Nice quiet Sunday. Cathy continues to improve. We might be able to get out for a nice walk today. The weather is not hospitable yet so maybe a shopping mall. We'll see.

I sang in the choir at church. I want to support the choir but our choir director insisted on weekly rehearsals whether or not we are singing in the near future and he selects very difficult songs. He seems to want the choir to be workd-class but it isn't. So, with his OK, I sometimes go to rehearsal on the day of a performance then sing with the choir that day.

We had a women's chorus sing also at Sacrament meeting yesterday and they were terrible. About 8 women mostly off key. It was excruciating. Sorry, but true.

Come Follow Me 

We have finished 1st and 2nd Nephi and are apparently doing some interim supportive study about Easter week before continuing on in Jacob.

Mosiah 3:7 And lo, he shall suffer temptations, and pain of body, hunger, thirst, and fatigue, even more than man can suffer, except it be unto death; for behold, blood cometh from every pore, so great shall be his anguish for the wickedness and the abominations of his people.

Luke 22:42 Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done. 43 And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him. 44 And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.

"When hard times come, I try to remember that I chose to follow Christ before I came to earth and that challenges to my faith, my health, and my endurance are all part of the reason I’m here. And I certainly should never think that today’s trial calls into question God’s love for me or let it turn my faith in Him into doubt. Trials do not mean that the plan is failing; they are part of the plan meant to help me seek God. I become more like Him when I endure patiently, and hopefully, like Him, when in agony, I pray more earnestly."

Sister Michelle D. Craig, First Counselor in the Young Women General Presidency, October 2022

2 Nephi 25:12 But, behold, they shall have wars, and rumors of wars; and when the day cometh that the Only Begotten of the Father, yea, even the Father of heaven and of earth, shall manifest himself unto them in the flesh, behold, they will reject him, because of their iniquities, and the hardness of their hearts, and the stiffness of their necks. 13 Behold, they will crucify him; and after he is laid in a sepulchre for the space of three days he shall rise from the dead, with healing in his wings; and all those who shall believe on his name shall be saved in the kingdom of God. Wherefore, my soul delighteth to prophesy concerning him, for I have seen his day, and my heart doth magnify his holy name.