042724, Saturday, Journal Entry

Vitals: Weight 226.4

Book of Mormon Reading: The Second Book of Nephi, An account of the death of Lehi. Nephi’s brethren rebel against him. The Lord warns Nephi to depart into the wilderness. His journeyings in the wilderness, and so forth. Chapter 1

Journal Entry 

I had written entries here but somehow they were lost. The photos are off the nearly demolished Provo Temple and the piano recital featuring, among others of course, Erica and Jill.

Come Follow Me 

 Mosiah 3: 19 For the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and putteth off the natural man and becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord, and becometh as a child, submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit to his father.

"How, then, do we overcome the world? King Benjamin taught us how… Each time you seek for and follow the promptings of the Spirit, each time you do anything good—things that “the natural man” would not do—you are overcoming the world.

Overcoming the world is not an event that happens in a day or two. It happens over a lifetime as we repeatedly embrace the doctrine of Christ."

President Russell M. Nelson 

I bear witness that when Christ comes, He needs to recognize us—not as nominal members listed on a faded baptismal record but as thoroughly committed, faithfully believing, covenant-keeping disciples. This is an urgent matter for all of us, lest we ever hear with devastating regret: “I never knew you,”

President Jeffrey R. Holland,  Acting President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apost