040824, Monday, Journal Entry

Vitals: Weight 226.4, BP  117/69 (Standing 71/55, GMI 7.0

Book of Mormon Reading: 1Nephi 4

Journal Entry 

I enjoyed watching each session of General Conference the last two days. Yesterday I went for a long walk after the last session and listened again to the last three talks while walking including President Nelson's talk. 

It's truly fascinating that we are getting among the fifteen newly announced temples a new temple in Lehi... And in Cincinnati. In today's thinking these temples and many others might not seem to be needed. For example when we lived in Crestwood, Kentucky where the Louisville temple is located, the Louisville temple was open on Tuesday and Thursday evenings and on Wednesday mornings with two endowment sessions total on each of those days. As I recall there were four endowment sessions on Fridays and five on Saturdays. In other words the temple wasn't very busy. Now, with a new temple in Cincinnati they might be even less busy as most of the saints in Cincinnati attended the Louisville temple. And in Lehi we will have the eighth temple in Utah County. There are times when the Mt Timpanogos temple is busy but not overly so. And that is with the Provo Temple being closed and the Heber Valley temple still in the planning stages.

If you believe, as I do, that there must soon be a much greater need for temples than seems to exist today, then there is clearly going to be some exciting and dramatic developments in the not too distant future. I am totally convinced that our church is the true church of Jesus Christ and that our current president, first presidency and the Quorum of Twelve Apostles are receiving constant guidance from above. I need to make sure I'm doing all I can to be on the right side of history.

Cathy seems to be doing better and she's planning on joining me at 4th Bishops Storehouse tomorrow for our regular assigned shift.

Come Follow Me 

Jacob 4:13 Behold, my brethren, he that prophesieth, let him prophesy to the understanding of men; for the Spirit speaketh the truth and lieth not. Wherefore, it speaketh of things as they really are, and of things as they really will be; wherefore, these things are manifested unto us plainly, for the salvation of our souls. But behold, we are not witnesses alone in these things; for God also spake them unto prophets of old.

"And then comes instruction that can be applied to all of us trying to dig about and find good fruit in our own little vineyards: “Ye shall clear away the bad according as the good shall grow.”

Unity doesn’t magically happen; it takes work. It’s messy, sometimes uncomfortable, and happens gradually when we clear away the bad as fast as the good can grow."

Sharon Eubank First Counselor in the Relief Society General Presidency, October 2020

Jacob 5: 65 And as they begin to grow ye shall clear away the branches which bring forth bitter fruit, according to the strength of the good and the size thereof; and ye shall not clear away the bad thereof all at once, lest the roots thereof should be too strong for the graft, and the graft thereof shall perish, and I lose the trees of my vineyard.

66 For it grieveth me that I should lose the trees of my vineyard; wherefore ye shall clear away the bad according as the good shall grow, that the root and the top may be equal in strength, until the good shall overcome the bad, and the bad be hewn down and cast into the fire, that they cumber not the ground of my vineyard; and thus will I sweep away the bad out of my vineyard.