062824, Friday, Journal Entry

Vitals: weight 225.0, CGM 130, GMI 6.7%

Book of Mormon Review Reading: The Record of Zeniff—An account of his people, from the time they left the land of Zarahemla until the time that they were delivered out of the hands of the Lamanites. Comprising Mosiah chapters 9 through 22.

 Mosiah 18

Journal Entry 

Another day of pain. I tend to wake up each night about five hours after I go to bed because of pain. Then I struggle to try to go back to sleep but that doesn't seem to help so I get up and go to my Lazy Boy recliner and get little snippets of sleep while reading or writing in this journal. I try to get some walking in and exercise with my stretch bands down in the basement but otherwise it's TV or reading.

Last night Donald Trump and President Biden had their first televised debate about which of them should become president of the United States. I think it should be Trump rather than Biden but we'll see. Of the two, Trump is far more likely to perpetuate the values that I think should make a good President. He's more likely to uphold the U.S. Constitution and that is what I would like to see in a President.

Come Follow Me 

Alma 14:28 And Alma and Amulek came forth out of the prison, and they were not hurt; for the Lord had granted unto them power, according to their faith which was in Christ. And they straightway came forth out of the prison; and they were loosed from their bands; and the prison had fallen to the earth, and every soul within the walls thereof, save it were Alma and Amulek, was slain; and they straightway came forth into the city.

"Alma and Amulek were delivered from prison in Ammonihah in answer to their plea, and their persecutors were slain. Earlier, however, these same persecutors had cast believing women and their children into a raging fire. Alma...was constrained by the Spirit not to exercise the power of God to “save them from the flames,” that they might be received up to God in glory…

In the end, it is the blessing of a close and abiding relationship with the Father and the Son that we seek. It makes all the difference and is everlastingly worth the cost. We will testify with Paul “that the sufferings of this present [mortal] time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.”

Elder D. Todd Christofferson Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, April 2022