110625, Thursday

  

Daily Vitals: 231.0, GMI: 7.0, Steps (previous day): 6,872, BP: 127/80, Pulse 73, Reported sleep: 4:39

Journal Entry 

Cathy's health is improving somewhat but she is still pretty tired most of the time and doesn't sleep well. 

I got an email inviting me to fill out a short questionnaire about Lindon temple service and then request an interview with the temple Presidency. I filled out the questionnaire but the link to request an appointment for an interview doesn't seem to be working. I'm pretty sure it will all work out soon.

My health is pretty good. I used to think that being 80 years old would be preparing to move on to the next life and I guess it is but I feel so good that I'm hoping to be an effective temple worker as well as continuing to serve in the Bishops Storehouse in the foreseeable future. My thoughts are too work at the Storehouse on Tuesdays and the temple on Thursdays. Then get some temple sessions in as a patron when I can on other days.

Come Follow Me 

D&C 128:9 It may seem to some to be a very bold doctrine that we talk of—a power which records or binds on earth and binds in heaven. Nevertheless, in all ages of the world, whenever the Lord has given a dispensation of the priesthood to any man by actual revelation, or any set of men, this power has always been given. Hence, whatsoever those men did in authority, in the name of the Lord, and did it truly and faithfully, and kept a proper and faithful record of the same, it became a law on earth and in heaven, and could not be annulled, according to the decrees of the great Jehovah. This is a faithful saying. Who can hear it?

"We tend to think of the sealing authority as applying only to certain temple ordinances, but that authority is necessary to make any ordinance valid and binding beyond death. The sealing power confers a seal of legitimacy upon your baptism, for example, so that it is recognized here and in heaven. Ultimately, all priesthood ordinances are performed under the keys of the President of the Church, and as President Joseph Fielding Smith explained, “He [the President of the Church] has given us authority, he has put the sealing power in our priesthood, because he holds those keys.”

President D. Todd Christofferson, Apostle