012625, Sunday

Daily Vitals: Weight: 229.9,  GMI: 6.7, Steps (previous day) 9,206

Journal Entry

I visited Beth and Karen yesterday after walking at University Place. Beth had her home radon-proofed the previous day and that reminded me that I needed to patch some minor cracks in our basement floor that have developed since our home was radon-proofed a couple of years ago. I patched some cracks yesterday and will do more probably tomorrow because I needed more concrete sealant.

Come Follow Me 

 D&C 2:2 And he shall plant in the hearts of the children the promises made to the fathers, and the hearts of the children shall turn to their fathers.

3 If it were not so, the whole earth would be utterly wasted at his coming.

I remember when a friend having a difficult day exclaimed, “Oh, why was I ever born?” God’s plan answers his question. We came into this life to acquire a physical body. We may fall in love and be married. We may have children and experience the trials of mortal life. The Church was restored—the earth was created—so that those families could be sealed in holy temples. Otherwise, the whole earth would be “utterly wasted.”

Elder Russell M. Nelson Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, April 2005

It's interesting to note that the above scripture from D&C 2, appears in nearly the same wording in all four of our standard works. We are building hundreds of temples all over the world and President Nelson has started emphatically in his latest general conference address that we are doing this because the Lord has commanded it.

Family relationships are important. Many of us probably don't even understand how completely important these relationships are but they are obviously part of our Heavenly Fathers plan for us, His children.