091325, Saturday

Daily Vitals: Weight: 226.8, GMI: 6.8, Steps (previous day): 7,098, Blood Pressure: 116/71, 65 Reported Sleep 6:44

Journal Entry 

A photo from yesterday when we visited Temple Square. Even now a beautiful place.

Come Follow Me 

D&C 101:35 And all they who suffer persecution for my name, and endure in faith, though they are called to lay down their lives for my sake yet shall they partake of all this glory.

"Therefore, true enduring represents not merely the passage of time, but the passage of the soul—and not merely from A to B, but sometimes all the way from A to Z. To endure in faith and do God’s will therefore involves much more than putting up with a circumstance.

Rather than shoulder-shrugging, true enduring is soul-trembling. Jesus bled not at a few, but “at every pore.”

Elder Neal L. Maxwell, Apostle

We have enjoyed divine favor through much of our history, but what of the future? It seems to me, my brethren and sisters, that the lessons of history, many of them very sobering, ought to be turned to during this hour of our great achievement because I feel in my own heart that during the hour of our success is our greatest danger. I feel firmly that even during the hour of great prosperity, a nation may sow the seeds of its own destruction. This may happen even during a period of great income, relatively full employment, and high business activity. History reveals that rarely is a great civilization conquered from without until it has weakened or destroyed itself within.

Source

Ezra Taft Benson, “America-What of the Future?”, April 1952 General Conference