090224, Labor Day (Monday)

Vitals: Weight: 223.3, GMI: 6.9

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.

Alma Chapter 59 and 60

Journal Entry 

We spent the holiday walking together in Provo Canyon then, as we often do, decided to take a drive up towards the Kamas area. On the way back, the highway back through Provo Canyon was almost at a complete standstill because of heavy traffic. I'm not sure what the problem was, probably a traffic collision, and didn't know where it was. I finally decided to take the Cascade Springs Drive that winds through the mountains. It ordinarily, of course, takes much longer than US 189, the main highway through Provo Canyon but not this time. There was almost no traffic and we enjoyed the drive. We decided to take the road that goes down through American Fork Canyon and then went to lunch at Nori Sushi Bar and Grill in Lehi. I still don't know why traffic was so bad on US 189 but I don't care enough at this point to research the matter.

Come Follow Me 

Helaman 7:7 Oh, that I could have had my days in the days when my father Nephi first came out of the land of Jerusalem, that I could have joyed with him in the promised land; then were his people easy to be entreated, firm to keep the commandments of God, and slow to be led to do iniquity; and they were quick to hearken unto the words of the Lord—

"Brothers and sisters, by divine appointment, “these are [our] days,” since “all things must come to pass in their time.” Moreover, though we live in a failing world, we have not been sent here to fail.

"Recall the new star that announced the birth at Bethlehem? It was in its precise orbit long before it so shone. We are likewise placed in human orbits to illuminate.

     Elder Neal A. Maxwell Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, October 2002