080924, Friday

Vitals: Weight: 220.9, GMI: 6.9

Book of Mormon review (review of earlier Come Follow Me lessons): Alma 30

Journal Entry 

I successfully installed the new shelves in my bathroom yesterday. I had some problems in Cathy's bathroom and will install her shelves later today.

I'm pleased that my GMI is down to 6.9. That bodes will for my for my continued God health. I got in over 8,000 steps yesterday which means I've exceeded my 7,500 steps per day goal for several days now. Still recovering from spinal surgery and basically bored. Cathy served at the Bishops Storehouse yesterday and my goal is to begin there again next Thursday. Then the following week I'm hoping to serve there each Tuesday and Thursday and the temple on Wednesdays. Mostly back to normal.

Come Follow Me 

Alma 41:11 And now, my son, all men that are in a state of nature, or I would say, in a carnal state, are in the gall of bitterness and in the bonds of iniquity; they are without God in the world, and they have gone contrary to the nature of God; therefore, they are in a state contrary to the nature of happiness.

"Snares and pitfalls can come to all of us, whether in our youth, middle age, or old age. As someone once observed, “In youth we run into difficulties; in old age difficulties run into us.”  The increased permissiveness of our society will require us to hold very tightly to the iron rod of righteousness in order to receive the blessings and protection of the Lord. There is great danger in trifling with Satan’s temptations. We will need to guard against all forms of evil all of the days of our lives."

.    President James E. Faust, Second Counselor in the First Presidency, April 2007