050424, Friday, Journal Entry

 Vitals: Weight 230.1

Book of Mormon Reading: 2 Nephi 8

Journal Entry 

We drove up to Kamas and had lunch at the Mirror Lake Diner. It's been awhile since we've been there and their menu has changed. I used to enjoy their hamburgers so I ordered one again and it has really improved. My burger - pictured  - featured lettuce, tomato, Avocado, Bleu cheese, onions, bacon and a 1/3 pound patty of beef. I'm not sure I should be proud of being my own version of a hamburger conniseur but I sort of am and I can't remember ever having a better burger than this one. Probably has something to do with my weight bursting into the 230 area.

After working in the Bishops Storehouse today we will drive out to Springville to watch Fredrick play T-ball. Should be decent weather. Cathy's foot might be unswollen enough where she can go to the Bishops storehouse with me but she definitely will go to Springville.

Come Follow Me 

Mosiah 5: 7 And now, because of the covenant which ye have made ye shall be called the children of Christ, his sons, and his daughters; for behold, this day he hath spiritually begotten you; for ye say that your hearts are changed through faith on his name; therefore, ye are born of him and have become his sons and his daughters.

8 And under this head ye are made free, and there is no other head whereby ye can be made free. There is no other name given whereby salvation cometh; therefore, I would that ye should take upon you the name of Christ, all you that have entered into the covenant with God that ye should be obedient unto the end of your lives.

"Latter-day Saints affirm that those who have been born again in this way are spiritually begotten sons and daughters of Jesus Christ. Nevertheless, in order to realize the intended blessings of this born-again status, we must still keep our covenants and endure to the end. In the meantime, through the grace of God, we have been born again as new creatures with new spiritual parentage and the prospects of a glorious inheritance."

Elder Dallin H. Oaks Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, April 1998

"A covenant is a pledge that we should prepare for, clearly understand, and absolutely honor. Making a covenant with God is different than casually making a promise. First, priesthood authority is required. Second, a feeble promise does not have the connecting strength to lift us above the pull of the natural flow. We make a covenant only when we intend to commit ourselves quite exceptionally to fulfilling it. We become covenant children of God and inheritors of His kingdom, especially when we identify ourselves completely with the covenant."

Elder Dale G. Renlund Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, April  2023