070525, Saturday

Daily Vitals: Weight: 228.8, GMI: 6.7, Steps (previous day): 5,992

Journal Entry:

We enjoyed Independence Day by driving up to the Salt Lake Temple to see how it's coming. Progress is being made obviously but it still has a long way to go.

I did a little work on our office. It's now a little nicer for watching TV, and I threw out the old computer that didn't work. I still have the monitor which is in good shape but I'm storing it in the basement for now.

Come Follow Me 

D&C 75:11 Praying always that they faint not; and inasmuch as they do this, I will be with them even unto the end.

"On Sunday, October 20, I spoke to a large gathering near Boston, Massachusetts. As I was speaking, I was prompted to say, “I plead with you … to pray for this country, for our leaders, for our people, and for the families that live in this great nation founded by God.”

I also said that America and many of the nations of the earth, as in times past, are at another critical crossroads and need our prayers.

My plea was not in my prepared remarks. Those words came to me as I felt the Spirit prompt me to invite those present to pray for their country and their leaders.

Today I expand my call for prayer to all people from every country around the world. No matter how you pray or to whom you pray, please exercise your faith—whatever your faith may be—and pray for your country and for your national leaders. As I said last October in Massachusetts, we stand today at a major crossroads in history, and the nations of the earth are in desperate need of divine inspiration and guidance. This is not about politics or policy. This is about peace and the healing that can come to individual souls as well as to the soul of countries—their cities, towns, and villages—through the Prince of Peace and the source of all healing, the Lord Jesus Christ."

President M. Russell Ballard

Acting President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles

October 2020