110624, Wednesday

Daily Vitals: Weight: 224.2, GMI: 6.9, Steps (previous day) 4,624

Journal Entry

President Trump was apparently reelected asking with a majority of republican senators and representatives. If things go smoothly, and I hope they do, the USA should be back on track for at least the next four years and hopefully longer. We shall see.

I served, with Cathy, in the Bishops Storehouse yesterday. The weather is very cold and the heater for the Storehouse is not functioning. We took our electric radiator and one of our area heaters over there and that really helped. 

Earlier we drove out to Park City and stopped at the Whole Foods grocery store out there. It is huge. I really don't know why we can't have good stores here in Utah County. Trader Joe's recently went into Orem and it is always very busy but that's about it. We have Smiths Food king and Walmart and Target but that's about it.

Come Follow Me 

"In this conference, the Lord has spoken to us through His servants. I urge you to study their messages. Use them as a litmus test of what is true and what is not during the next six months."

President Russell M. Nelson, President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, October 2024

Mormon 8:31 Yea, it (the Book of Mormon) shall come in a day when there shall be great pollutions upon the face of the earth; there shall be murders, and robbing, and lying, and deceivings, and whoredoms, and all manner of abominations; when there shall be many who will say, Do this, or do that, and it mattereth not, for the Lord will uphold such at the last day. But wo unto such, for they are in the gall of bitterness and in the bonds of iniquity.

We all hear and read a great deal these days about our polluted physical environment—acid rain, smog, toxic wastes. But...there is another kind of pollution that is much more dangerous—the moral and spiritual.

Sadly, the effects of this great pollution are perhaps most evident in the mass media, films, television, and popular music...

"Although there are some uplifting exceptions, in most areas of the mass media there seems to be a declaration of war against almost everything the majority treasures most: the family, religion, and patriotism. Marriage is degraded, while premarital and extramarital relations are encouraged and glamorized. Profanity and the foulest of vulgar gutter language bombard the ears of all who listen...Human life itself is trivialized by the constant barrage of violence and killings. Remember that anything that is not good for children is rarely good for adults."

Elder Joe J. Christensen Of the Presidency of the Seventy, October 1993

That quote is over 30 years old and things have gotten worse. Fortunately we still have prophets, seers, revelators and other great leaders in the church. We need to follow them carefully.