050724, Tuesday, Journal Entry

Vitals: Weight 228.3

Book of Mormon Reading: 2 Nephi 11

Journal Entry 

We spent a good part of the day getting the process going to get our car repaired. The damages will be about just under $5,000. We'll wind up paying our $1,000 deductible and probably another $1,000 spread out over the next three years in increased insurance premium payments. We can handle it but I really wish I hadn't had that accident.

We went to Fashion Place and walked for exercise. It's a ways away but it's too cold and rainy to walk outside. As you can see from the photo, Cathy is feeling better. That was a brief moment in Dillard's.

Today we will have breakfast with Jake as we try to do on Tuesdays. It's really pleasant having the opportunity to visit with him on these Tuesday mornings. Later we'll serve at the Bishops Storehouse. I think Cathy has healed to the point where she will  be able to serve there without too much trouble. We will now serve on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons and no longer on Saturday mornings

Come Follow Me 

I'm staying on schedule with the Come Follow Me curriculum but also going back to review what we started at the beginning of the year. My Book of Mormon Reading that I document at the beginning of most of my daily journal entries has evolved into a redo of earlier Cone Follow Me lessons. The Book of Mormon is one of the greatest blessings available to me and I want to take advantage of all that it has to offer. I've got the time to really study it so I'm trying to do that.

Mosiah 7: 27 And because he said unto them that Christ was the God, the Father of all things, and said that he should take upon him the image of man, and it should be the image after which man was created in the beginning; or in other words, he said that man was created after the image of God, and that God should come down among the children of men, and take upon him flesh and blood, and go forth upon the face of the earth—

"The longer I live, the more knowledge I gain. That knowledge helps me to understand that the gift of our physical bodies is a transcendent miracle. A unique body is given to each of us by our loving Heavenly Father. He created it as a tabernacle for our spirits, to assist each of us in our quest to fulfill the full measure of our creation. Our bodies allow each of us to experience the great plan of salvation that He has designed for all His precious children. He wants us eventually to become more like Him and return to live with Him. That great blessing would not be possible without our first receiving a physical body in this probationary estate."

President Russell M. Nelson