072424, Wednesday, Pioneer Day

Vitals: Weight 219.5; GMI 7.0

Journal Entry

My glucose management index (GMI) is down to 7.0 which might mean that I won't have to go on insulin. Dr. Welch was concerned, as was I, when it went up to 7.3 and felt that insulin injections were in order. We agreed to try to bring the GMI down this week and maybe avoid going to insulin. Seems to be working.

Book of Mormon review (review of earlier Come Follow Me assignments): Alma 14

It's very interesting to read in the Book of Mormon about how a growing segment of the people decided to not obey the established laws of their communities but rebelled and persecuted those who continued to live according to the law and behave appropriately and compare that to what's going on in America today. There is a large and growing segment of our population who are being lied to by our elected leaders and who nevertheless support them no matter what. The U.S. Constitution is under severe attack and our federal government is threatened. 

So far, we are not being threatened by physical harm or persecution but that might not be far off. The parallels to the Book of Mormon experiences are stunning.

Come Follow Me 

Alma 32: 27 But behold, if ye will awake and arouse your faculties, even to an experiment upon my words, and exercise a particle of faith, yea, even if ye can no more than desire to believe, let this desire work in you, even until ye believe in a manner that ye can give place for a portion of my words.

"Study the scriptures about faith. Alma 32:27 is a great place to begin learning the process of increasing your faith…Are you willing to try Alma’s experiment to increase your faith? Can you exercise even a particle of faith? Do you have a desire to believe?"

     Mary N. Cook, Second Counselor in the Young Women General Presidency, April 2008

"Nearly 40 years ago as I contemplated the challenge of a mission, I felt very inadequate and unprepared. I remember praying, “Heavenly Father, how can I serve a mission when I know so little?” I believed in the Church, but I felt my spiritual knowledge was very limited. As I prayed, the feeling came: “You don’t know everything, but you know enough!” That reassurance gave me the courage to take the next step into the mission field. Faith is not only a feeling; it's a decision"

     Elder Neil L. Andersen Of the Presidency of the Seventy, October 2008