083025, Saturday

Daily Vitals: Weight: 226.8, GMI: 7.0, Steps (previous day): 3,671,Blood Pressure: 113/67, 76 Reported Sleep 7:14

Journal Entry 

We met our Trust &Will guy, John Buckley, and dropped a rough completion of the questionnaire hrs gave us. He's very nice and seems very competent. Then we had lunch at the new Aubergine Kitchen in Spanish Fork and had the opportunity of visiting with the husband and wife team that owns the chain. They are about our age and very pleasant.

Then we had dinner with Jake and his family at Guru's in Provo. That, too, was most pleasant. All in all a very nice day.

Come Follow Me 

D&C 93:38 Every spirit of man was innocent in the beginning; and God having redeemed man from the fall, men became again, in their infant state, innocent before God.

39 And that wicked one cometh and taketh away light and truth, through disobedience, from the children of men, and because of the tradition of their fathers.

"The scornful often accuse prophets of not living in the 21st century or of being bigoted. They attempt to persuade or even pressure the Church into lowering God’s standards to the level of their own inappropriate behavior…Lowering the Lord’s standards to the level of a society’s inappropriate behavior is—apostasy.

…Some members don’t realize they are falling into the same snare when they lobby for acceptance of local or ethnic “tradition[s] of their fathers” that are not in harmony with the gospel culture. Still others, self-deceived and in self-denial, plead or demand that bishops lower the standard on temple recommends, school endorsements, or missionary applications…like the Savior who cleansed the temple to defend its sanctity, bishops today are called upon to boldly defend the temple standard."

Elder Lynn G. Robbins of The Presidency of The Seventy