083124, Saturday

Vitals: Weight: 222.4, GMI: 6.8

Book of Mormon review (review of earlier Come Follow Me lessons): The account of the people of Nephi, and their wars and dissensions, in the days of Helaman, according to the record of Helaman, which he kept in his days. Comprising chapters 45 through 62.

Chapter 57 

Journal Entry: 

We started our day with a 0630 Endowment session. I enjoyed it very much and was able to concentrate on the session pretty well.

The new method of presenting the Endowment gives attendees the opportunity to really concentrate on the  different aspects of the Endowment and causes me to think more about each aspect of the service. 

Come Follow Me 

Helaman 5: 30 And it came to pass when they heard this voice, and beheld that it was not a voice of thunder, neither was it a voice of a great tumultuous noise, but behold, it was a still voice of perfect mildness, as if it had been a whisper, and it did pierce even to the very soul.

"We live in a time prophesied long ago, when “all things shall be in commotion; and surely, men’s hearts shall fail them; for fear shall come upon all people.” That was true before the pandemic, and it will be true after. Commotion in the world will continue to increase. In contrast, the voice of the Lord is not “a voice of a great tumultuous noise, but … it [is] a still voice of perfect mildness, [like] a whisper, and it [pierces] even to the very soul.” In order to hear this still voice, you too must be still!"

     President Russell M. Nelson, President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, April 2021