122024, Friday

Daily Vitals: Weight: 229.9, GMI: 6.8, Steps (previous day) 4,033

Journal Entry

We went to the Bishops Storehouse at 3:30 yesterday to help out and it turned out we were very much needed. Both of us filled numerous orders and everyone agreed it was great that we were there. We both enjoyed it a lot.

We don't have much scheduled for today. I ordered some gluten free bread from the Good Food Store in Salt Lake and am scheduled to pick it up at 10 this morning. Then we might stop at Fashion Place Mall and get some walking in. Tomorrow morning we are scheduled for a 0630 endowment session. Cathy is feeling much better and we both appreciate her new level of this health.

I git our car serviced yesterday - 115,000 mile service. It's just an oil change and general inspection. We do this every 5,000 miles. I was a little concerned about the brakes because since we bought the car new we have never had the brakes serviced. My 78 year old brain has a hard time accepting that the brakes on this car just don't wear out but they don't. A majority of the braking is accomplished by the engine slowing. Again, this is the best car I've ever owned (2020 Prius XLE).

Jake picked me up at the repair shop and we went to breakfast at Del Taco. He brought Jill, Alexander and Fredrick along and we had a nice visit. The Del Taco we go to has a pretty cool children's play area. I talked to Jake about Christmas. Cathy had invited him to bring his family over to our home on Christmas and  he had rather innocently, in his opinion, told Cathy that his wife, Meredith, didn't want to go anywhere on Christmas. She understandably wanted to stay home and had invited some of her family to come over on Christmas afternoon. They invited us to join them. I explained that Cathy was a little disappointed but perhaps they could come over the next day or so and we left it at that. Anyway, I guess he and Meredith discussed it and decided they would come over on Christmas morning if we still wanted them so he called me yesterday afternoon and said they would like to come over and we, of course, are delighted. Happy ending.

Come Follow Me 

Moroni 10:30 And again I would exhort you that ye would come unto Christ, and lay hold upon every good gift, and touch not the evil gift, nor the unclean thing.

"A second channel for these enabling powers is the gifts of the Spirit. Because of Christ’s Atonement, we are eligible to receive the gift of the Holy Ghost and its accompanying spiritual gifts. These gifts are attributes of godliness; therefore, each time we acquire a gift of the Spirit, we become more like God. No doubt that is why the scriptures enjoin us on multiple occasions to seek these gifts."

Tad R. Callister, Recently Released Sunday School General President, April 2019

President George Q. Cannon taught: “No man ought to say, ‘Oh, I cannot help this; it is my nature.’ He is not justified in it, for the reason that God has promised to … give gifts that will eradicate [our weaknesses]. … If any of us are imperfect, it is our duty to pray for the gift that will make us perfect.”

Seeking Spiritual Gifts By President George Q. Cannon (1827–1901), 

First Counselor in the First Presidency