041424, Sunday, Journal Entry

 

Vitals: Weight 226.8

Book of Mormon Reading: 1 Nephi 10

Journal Entry 

We served at the Bishops Storehouse yesterday. It was busy as Saturdays usually are. A lot of people have started utilizing that blessing. And I'm glad to be helping there. 

I found that it's tempting to be judgemental when people come in and pick up literally hundreds of dollars worth of food and other necessary household supplies but I'm grateful to leave the judging to the Lord. I do hope that the food we provide is not being wasted but other than that I just hope that people who need it are getting it.

In this period where the church seems to be doing well financially it is very satisfying to me to help people get food to eat.

After serving at the Storehouse we went over to Centennial Elementary school in Orem and watched Jake coach Fredrick's T-ball team. The photo here shows Jake with Fredrick right in front of him. Their whole family was there and we enjoyed a nice visit. Then they all went to Lagoon to ride rides and we went home. It was a beautiful day.

Come Follow Me 

Jacob 7:10 And I said unto him: Believest thou the scriptures? And he said, Yea.

11 And I said unto him: Then ye do not understand them; for they truly testify of Christ. Behold, I say unto you that none of the prophets have written, nor prophesied, save they have spoken concerning this Christ.

12 And this is not all—it has been made manifest unto me, for I have heard and seen; and it also has been made manifest unto me by the power of the Holy Ghost; wherefore, I know if there should be no atonement made all mankind must be lost.

"You know from your own experience what a testimony is. President Joseph Fielding Smith taught that a testimony “is a convincing knowledge given by revelation to [a person] who humbly seeks the truth.” He said of testimony and the Holy Ghost, who brings that revelation, “Its convincing power is so great that there can be no doubt left in the mind when the Spirit has spoken. It is the only way that a person can truly know that Jesus is the Christ and that his gospel is true.”

President Henry B. Eyring, April 2011

"In the Book of Mormon the prophet Jacob, in his encounter with Sherem the anti-Christ...Jacob points out three sources of truth—the scriptures, the prophets, and the Holy Ghost—that testify of Christ. They will help us build “upon the rock of our Redeemer, who is Christ, the Son of God.”

Elder Sheldon F. Child Of the First Quorum of the Seventy, October 2003