071426, Tuesday. Jake's birthday (48 yrs old)

Weight: 232.1

BP and Pulse: 

GMI: 7.1, Glucose level: 167 @ 0445, Three day Average: 157

Finger Prick:

Reported Sleep: 6:34

Yesterday's Steps: 4,271

Journal Entry:

We're going to take Jake and his family to breakfast at the Avenue Bakery in American Fork to help celebrate his birthday.

The heat has become very very high outside. Salt Lake City had a high of 109 degrees a couple of days ago and it is still hot. It's been over 100 for the past few days. Fortunately we have a good air conditioner in our home so we're quite comfortable. Our car is running very well as well and the AC is great in the car. So we're not adversely affected by the temperature outside.

We have had two plastic vents on the side of our house damaged by birds (I believe). I guess it's not a big deal but it has bothered me. They are coming out of the attic area and I don't have the ability to get up high enough to them to see about replacing them. So I was talking to my neighbor, Shawn Reeves, and he has a ladder and Jake said he would come over and replace the vents. So I checked on Amazon and found two vents made of aluminum that seemed like the right size. So yesterday morning I got together with Shawn and Jake and the vents are now replaced.

I love our house and it was new when we moved in and we want to keep it in good shape. We are blessed with a great LAPD pension so we can afford to keep up whatever repairs or maintenance that is needed.

I will here state emphatically that joining LAPD back in 1974 was a great blessing. I truly believe my angels were with me. I joined because it had a great retirement program that actually got better while I was there. I met and married Cathy which has been a wonderful blessing. And we picked up lifetime medical insurance coverage that has been amazing. So we are blessed.

Come Follow Me:

2 Kings 18: 3 And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that David his father did.

4 He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.

5 He trusted in the Lord God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor any that were before him.

6 For he clave to the Lord, and departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which the Lord commanded Moses.

From King Hezekiah...we can learn a very positive lesson on leadership: circumstances do not always need to remain the same. Leaders can make a difference! Faith in the Lord and high expectations can bring about a mighty change of heart among an entire people.

Elder Spencer J. Condie of The Seventy