051524, Wednesday, Journal Entry

 Vitals: Weight 229.2

Book of Mormon Reading: 2 Nephi 19

Journal Entry:

The "old" Provo Temple was a very distinctive looking building. If you looked at a picture you knew right away which temple you were looking at. But old age was setting,repairs were getting expensive and updates were getting harder to accomplish so it had to go.

Yesterday we drove by and saw that demolition was well underway. The only recognizable portion of the building is the still existing base of the tower.

Then I had the thought that the new Rock Canyon Provo Temple which will be built on roughly the same ground could become a focal point for a Utah County Temple Square. Mind you I haven't read or heard anything about such a development but keep in mind that the Church owns a lot of land where the new temple will be built and it's right across from the Provo Missionary Training Center which is arguably the main MTC for the church world-wide.

Just saying... A nice visitor center could benefit the churches ongoing mission of gathering Israel.

I am still suffering from extensive pain from my left hip area. It keeps me from getting the sleep I should be getting. An MRI is scheduled for me later today and I'm hoping it will provide answers as to what's going on with me.

It looks like our car which I damaged in a dumb collision last week will be ready by Friday and we can lose the rental.

Come Follow Me 

Mosiah 14:3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

"Elder Richard G. Scott explained that “we were taught in the premortal world that our purpose in coming here is to be tested, tried, and stretched.” That stretching comes in as many forms as there are individuals experiencing it… I don’t completely understand your challenges. But through my personal tests and trials—the ones that have brought me to my knees—I have become well acquainted with the One who does understand, He who was “acquainted with grief, who experienced all and understands all."

"We each belong to and are needed in the family of God."

Carole M. Stephens First Counselor in the Relief Society General Presidency, April 2015

Mosiah 13: 24 “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife, nor his man‐servant, nor his maid‐servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbor’s.”

As I was reading this I received the impression that this is one of the main problems in today's society. Not only do many "covet" what others have but they are taught to do so in school and by the media, etc.

We see the good things that others have and without appreciating how they were obtained or earned we are taught that these things should be ours without earning them. That is what coveting is and why it's evil.