062226, Monday

Weight: 231.7

BP and Pulse: 123/78, 73

GMI: 7.1, Glucose level: 130 @ 0400, Three day Average: 156

Finger Prick:

Reported Sleep: 4:38, (57)

Yesterday's Steps: 8,699

Journal Entry:

Come Follow Me:

2 Samuel 11:26 And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.

27 And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord.

"Do you see how David got caught in this trap? He was on a rooftop courtyard of his palace, and looking below in a neighboring yard, he saw something he never should have seen. That was the adversary’s bait. Modesty, chastity, and good judgment required that David turn away immediately and not watch, but he didn’t do either thing. Instead, he allowed his mind to turn to forbidden fantasies, those thoughts led to actions, and things quickly spiraled downward from bad to worse to fatal. David was trapped, and for him the consequences were eternal."

Elder L. Whitney Clayton of The Seventy 

062026, Saturday

 Come Follow Me:

2 Samuel 5:3 So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and king David made a league with them in Hebron before the Lord: and they anointed David king over Israel.

"The Old Testament frequently mentions anointing with oil as part of a blessing conferred by priesthood authority. Anointings were declared to be for sanctification and perhaps can also be seen as symbolic of the blessings to be poured out from heaven as a result of this sacred act."

Elder Dallin H. Oaks, Apostle 

062126, Sunday

Weight: 232.1

BP and Pulse: 120/77, 74

GMI: 7.1, Glucose level: 136 @ 0420, Three day Average: 157

Finger Prick:

Reported Sleep: 7:48 (92)

Yesterday's Steps: 6,084

Journal Entry:

Come Follow Me:

2 Samuel 7:10 Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as beforetime,

"Personal peace can be achieved despite the anger, contention, and division that blight and corrupt our world today. It has never been more important to seek personal peace. A beautiful and beloved new hymn, written for today’s youth by Brother Nik Day, titled “Peace in Christ” declares, “When there’s no peace on earth, there is peace in Christ.”

Elder Quentin L. Cook, Apostle 

061926, Friday

Weight: 231.2

BP and Pulse: 122/83, 69

GMI: 7.2, Glucose level: 123 @ 0310, Three day Average: 160

Finger Prick:

Reported Sleep: 6:07, (73)

Yesterday's Steps: 8,944

Journal Entry:

All readings obtained between 0300 and 0330. 

Serving in the temple as a Temple Worker this morning starting at 0500.

Come Follow Me:

061826, Thursday

Weight: 231.0

BP and Pulse: 128/76, 83

GMI: 7.2, Glucose level: 163 @ 0420, Three day Average: 160

Finger Prick:

Reported Sleep: 7:02, (74)

Yesterday's Steps: 3,651

Journal Entry:

Come Follow Me:

1 Samuel 18:1 And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

"...I feel that friendship is a fundamental need of our world...Perhaps...the scriptures make little specific mention of the principle of friendship is because it should be manifest quite naturally as we live the gospel. In fact, if the consummate Christian attribute of charity has a first cousin, it is friendship.

...If our children feel friendship within the family, with each other, and with parents, they will not be desperate for acceptance outside the family...It’s definitely a miracle that those in our family who in younger years occasionally threatened one another with serious bodily harm now seek out and genuinely enjoy each other’s friendship. Similarly, I think no finer compliment can be paid to parents than to have children say that their parents are among their best friends."

Elder Marlin K. Jensen of The Presidency of The Seventy, April 1999

061726, Wednesday

Weight: 230.8

BP and Pulse: 129/75, 73

GMI: 7.1, Glucose level: 145@ 0405, Three day Average: 160

Finger Prick:

Reported Sleep: 5:14 (69)

Yesterday's Steps: 11,357

Journal Entry:

Come Follow Me:

1 Samuel 17:46 This day will the Lord deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.

47 And all this assembly shall know that the Lord saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the Lord’s, and he will give you into our hands.

"There are Goliaths all around you, hulking giants with evil intent to destroy you...

The giants who are behind these efforts are formidable and skillful....They would like to ensnare you....You can triumph over them by disciplining yourselves to avoid them. You can say to the whole lot of them as David said to Goliath, “Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.”

Victory will be yours....You have His power within you to sustain you. You have the right to ministering angels about you to protect you. Do not let Goliath frighten you. Stand your ground and hold your place, and you will be triumphant....When temptation comes your way, name that boastful, deceitful giant “Goliath!” and do with him as David did to the Philistine of Gath."

President Gordon B. Hinckley 

061626, Tuesday

Weight: 230.1

BP and Pulse: 125/81, 73

GMI: 7.2, Glucose level: 124 @ 0440,   Three day Average: 159

Finger Prick:

Reported Sleep: 7:02, (90)

Yesterday's Steps: 3,233

Journal Entry:

Come Follow Me:

1 Samuel 17:40 And he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in a shepherd’s bag which he had, even in a scrip; and his sling was in his hand: and he drew near to the Philistine.

"While David used only one stone to kill Goliath, he was prepared with five. With five! This makes me think about how I can prepare myself to face the world.

What if each of David’s stones represented a strength we need to be triumphant in our lives? What could those five stones be? I thought of these possibilities:

The stone of my love for God.

The stone of my faith in our Savior, Jesus Christ.

The stone of the knowledge of my true identity.

The stone of my daily repentance.

The stone of my access to God’s power.

I actually wish David had had one more stone; that would be the stone of my testimony. Our testimony is built by personal spiritual experiences in which we recognize the divine influence in our lives. No one can take that knowledge from us. Knowing what we know from having lived our spiritual experiences is priceless. Being true to that knowledge gives us freedom. It gives us joy! If we love the truth, we will seek it, and once we find it, we will defend it."

Sister Andrea Muñoz Spannaus, Second Counselor, Young Women General Presidency, April 2024