010426, Sunday

 

Daily Vitals: Wt. 231.7

GMI: 6.9,   Steps (previous day): 6,288

BP: 134/80, Pulse: 65, Reported Sleep: 6:17

Journal Entry

This has been a great holiday season this year. 

Kevin and Becky came to visit at Christmas and we very much enjoyed having them here. Kevin is a terrific son, husband, father and stepfather and I am just as proud as I can be to be His father. I don't have the ability to write the details but they are plentiful and he is doing great things, especially with his new step children.

Jake has been awesome as well. He is very willing to come over to our home whenever we need his help with anything. He and Meredith and their four children dropped in on my birthday and wished me a happy birthday. We had a very nice visit. He has technical skills that he uses to help us with our phones, ipads, TV and any other devices that I have trouble keeping up with. I'm really glad we moved here and have his presence to help us as we age.

Adam has started communicating with me in a very loving way. He sent me a very nice email on my birthday that I actually copied into this journal. I am planning on being more involved with him than previously and I truly believe that the future goddess well.

And Cathy... Words can't describe what she means to me and has meant to me over the years. Later this year we will celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary. She has demonstrated over and over her love for me. She is the epitome of a great homemaker, wife, mother, grandmother and step grandmother. Our whole family is blessed to have her.

Come Follow Me 

"Tonight, and tomorrow night, you might pray and ponder, asking the questions: Did God send a message that was just for me? Did I see His hand in my life or the lives of my children? I will do that. And then I will find a way to preserve that memory for the day that I, and those that I love, will need to remember how much God loves us and how much we need Him. I testify that He loves us and blesses us, more than most of us have yet recognized. I know that is true, and it brings me joy to remember Him. In the name of Jesus Christ, amen."

President Henry B. Eyring 

Today's come Follow me lesson urged us to record what God has done for us each day. I have recorded many things that have been great in my life in this journal but have failed to point out how all of the good things represent God's blessings to me on a constant basis. I shall try to make sure I do that in the future but let me here say that I do recognize God's presence in my life and the constant guidance I receive from Him and His angels.

2 Nephi 29: 11 For I command all men, both in the east and in the west, and in the north, and in the south, and in the islands of the sea, that they shall write the words which I speak unto them; for out of the books which shall be written I will judge the world, every man according to their works, according to that which is written.

12 For behold, I shall speak unto the Jews and they shall write it; and I shall also speak unto the Nephites and they shall write it; and I shall also speak unto the other tribes of the house of Israel, which I have led away, and they shall write it; and I shall also speak unto all nations of the earth and they shall write it.

"The Lord not only manifests Himself to all nations; He also commands that they write His words...

We conclude from this that the Lord will eventually cause the inspired teachings He has given to His children in various nations to be brought forth for the benefit of all people...

Truly, the gospel is for all men everywhere—every nation, every people. All are invited."

President Dallin H. Oaks, Apostle