011825, Saturday

Daily Vitals: Weight: 226.8, GMI: 6.7, Steps (previous day) 8,272

Journal Entry

I have been enjoying reading the book, The Heart of the Matter, by President Nelson that my sister gave me for my birthday. The first chapter is titled, Begin With the End in Mind. That is something I've thought about a lot in the past. We need to consider where we will be and what we will be doing in ten or twenty years and beyond into the eternities. If you believe that life is eternal - and I truly do - then it is very important to consider the future as we decide what to do today.

We are preparing to go to the temple for our Saturday morning Endowment Session. It's snowing and cold outside but that shouldn't be much of a problem. Just need to be careful driving.

Come Follow Me 

Joseph Smith History 1:16 But, exerting all my powers to call upon God to deliver me out of the power of this enemy which had seized upon me, and at the very moment when I was ready to sink into despair and abandon myself to destruction—not to an imaginary ruin, but to the power of some actual being from the unseen world, who had such marvelous power as I had never before felt in any being—just at this moment of great alarm, I saw a pillar of light exactly over my head, above the brightness of the sun, which descended gradually until it fell upon me.

17 It no sooner appeared than I found myself delivered from the enemy which held me bound. When the light rested upon me I saw two Personages, whose brightness and glory defy all description, standing above me in the air. One of them spake unto me, calling me by name and said, pointing to the other—This is My Beloved Son. Hear Him!

"Joseph Smith saw God, the Eternal Father, and Jesus Christ, the Savior and Redeemer of the world...In the years that followed...[n]umerous other heavenly beings visited him, restoring truths and authority that had been lost for centuries. These divine communications to Joseph Smith opened the windows of heaven and the glories of eternity to our view. Joseph’s life stands as a testimony that if any of us lack wisdom, we can ask God in faith and receive answers—sometimes from heavenly beings but more often by the power of the Holy Ghost..."

Elder Craig C. Christensen Of the Presidency of the Seventy, October 2016