082024, Tuesday

Vitals: Weight: 222.2, GMI: 6.9

Book of Mormon review (review of earlier Come Follow Me lessons): The commandments of Alma to his son Corianton. Comprising chapters 39 through 42. Alma 41

Journal Entry

I had a very good day yesterday. Because of my weight loss, which seems to be permanent, virtually all of my trousers in my closet are too big around the waist. They are all 40" waists and I now fit very well into 38" waist pants. So I determined to donate all my 40" waist pants to Deseret Industries and begin trying to find reasonably priced 38" waist pants.

We had decided to go to Fashion Place Mall to get my iPhone looked at and while there we walked through Dillard's and Cathy suggested I look for pants while there. I found three pair that seem to be quite adequate for my purposes. Two of them were on sale for twenty bucks each. The other was more but Cathy wanted me to get them and a nice shirt so that was nice. Then I had told her that I really liked the Kiziks walking shoes that I got a couple of weeks ago but I they are quite expensive. I wear size 15 shoes which are much bigger than most men's shoes but the Kiziks store at Fashion Place seems to have decent looking size 15 shoes but they're quite expensive. The nice thing about Kiziks shoes is that they are designed so that you can just step into them without bending over to tie and untie them and that is a great benefit to me with my recent back surgery. I'm not supposed to bend, lift or twist. Bottom line, we stopped at the Kiziks store and got another pair of really nice shoes for me. So I'm feeling really well about my clothing options right now.

Today I will go get a haircut then we will work together at the Bishops Storehouse. So a giant step forward for me. Really looking forward to it.

Come Follow Me 

Stripling Warriors

Alma 53:20 And they were all young men, and they were exceedingly valiant for courage, and also for strength and activity; but behold, this was not all—they were men who were true at all times in whatsoever thing they were entrusted.

21 Yea, they were men of truth and soberness, for they had been taught to keep the commandments of God and to walk uprightly before him.

"…[T]here will be times when you…will have to demonstrate your righteous courage in plain view of your peers, the consequence of which may be ridicule and embarrassment. Additionally, in your world, skirmishes with the adversary will also be fought on a silent, solitary battlefield in front of a screen. Technology with its substantial benefits also brings challenges not faced by generations before you…The demonstration of righteous courage will often be as subtle as to click or not to click."

.    Bishop Gary E. Stevenson, Presiding Bishop (now an Apostle), October 2012