092125, Sunday

Daily Vitals: Weight: 226.8, GMI: 7.1, Steps (previous day): 4,366, Blood Pressure: 108/67, 73 Reported Sleep 6:17

Journal Entry

Went back to choir practice today then Sacrament meeting. Cathy is still feeling poorly. Hopefully our visit to the doctor tomorrow will help.

Come Follow Me 

D&C 105:5 And Zion cannot be built up unless it is by the principles of the law of the celestial kingdom; otherwise I cannot receive her unto myself.

6 And my people must needs be chastened until they learn obedience, if it must needs be, by the things which they suffer.

"I would like to speak of one particular attitude and practice we need to adopt if we are to meet our Heavenly Father’s high expectations. It is this: willingly to accept and even seek correction. Correction is vital if we would conform our lives “unto a perfect man, [that is,] unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ”.  Paul said of divine correction or chastening, “For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth.” Though it is often difficult to endure, truly we ought to rejoice that God considers us worth the time and trouble to correct."

Elder D. Todd Christofferson, Apostle

Though Zion’s Camp ultimately failed in its aim to reinstate the members of the Church in homes in Jackson County, it was an important proving ground for the future leadership of the Church.

Joseph’s brush with mortality during the journey with Zion’s Camp may have caused him to begin thinking about who would continue God’s work if his life was taken. The winter after he arrived back in Kirtland, he called together the priesthood holders of the Church, many of whom had been members of Zion’s Camp. Joseph Young, one of the men present, recalls the following words of Joseph Smith: “Brethren, some of you are angry with me, because you did not fight in Missouri; but let me tell you, God did not want you to fight. He could not organize his kingdom with twelve men to open the gospel door to the nations of the earth, and with seventy men under their direction to follow in their tracks, unless he took them from a body of men who had offered their lives, and who had made as great a sacrifice as did Abraham.”