040325, Thursday
Daily Vitals: Weight: 229.4, GMI: 6.9, Steps (previous day) 3,390
Journal Entry
We have decided to serve at the Bishops Storehouse today because General Conference is coming this weekend and the Storehouse will therefore be closed on Saturday. Traditionally it therefore gets a little busier on the Thursday before conference.
Come Follow Me
D&C 29:39 And it must needs be that the devil should tempt the children of men, or they could not be agents unto themselves; for if they never should have bitter they could not know the sweet.
The Fall was not a disaster. It wasn’t a mistake or an accident. It was a deliberate part of the plan of salvation. We are God’s spirit “offspring,” sent to earth “innocent” of Adam’s transgression. Yet our Father’s plan subjects us to temptation and misery in this fallen world as the price to comprehend authentic joy. Without tasting the bitter, we actually cannot understand the sweet. We require mortality’s discipline and refinement as the “next step in [our] development” toward becoming like our Father. But growth means growing pains. It also means learning from our mistakes in a continual process made possible by the Savior’s grace, which He extends both during and “after all we can do."
Elder Bruce C. Hafen of The Seventy, April 2004
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