022426, Tuesday

Daily Vitals: 

Weight: 227.7

BP and Pulse: 118/69, 85

Current Glucose Level: 150

Reported Sleep: 7:12

Yesterday's Steps: 4,140

Journal Entry

I had a nice visit with Dr Phillips, my foot doctor, and he pronounced me healed enough to resume any healthy activity I wanted to do such as walking or getting in a hot tub without restriction but to let him know if anything resulted in my foot being worse. This is great news. I need to walk because it's really the only exercise I seem to be able to make myself do and Cathy also loves to walk so we can do it together.

Come Follow Me 

Genesis 19: 26 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

"Strangely enough, it may be that the simplest and most powerful prevention and cure for…any unclean act, is to ignore and avoid it. Delete from the mind any unworthy thought that tries to take root. Once you have decided to remain clean, you are asserting your God-given agency. And then, as President Smith counseled, “Don’t look back.”

President Boyd K.Packer, Apostle 

This is truly a lesson on repentance. If we truly are repenting of anything we need to not look back with any desire to re do what we are repenting of our even wishing we could re -do. Our hearts need to be firmly in complete support of moving forward for the right reasons.

022326, Monday

Daily Vitals: 

Weight: 228.3

BP and Pulse: 124/76, 81

Current Glucose Level: 144

Reported Sleep: 5:39

Yesterday's Steps: 3,687

Journal Entry

Come Follow Me 

Genesis 18: 32 And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten’s sake.

"Abraham knew that...Sodom and Gomorrah and other places—were wicked cities, housing wicked, godless people...[I]n his compassion for his fellowman, he begged and pleaded with the Lord...but apparently there could not be found even ten...who were righteous...

When we see the depravity of numerous people of our own society in their determination to force upon people vulgar presentations, filthy communications, unnatural practices, we wonder, has Satan reached forth with his wicked, evil hand to pull into his forces the people of this earth? Do we not have enough good people left to stamp out the evil which threatens our world? Why do we continue to compromise with evil and why do we continue to tolerate sin? …

We do not believe in situation-itis; we do not go with the people who think that this is a different age, this is a different time, these people are more enlightened, that was for the old times. Always the Lord will hold to his statements that he has given through the ages, and he will expect [men and women] to live righteously, as he has repeated thousands of times through the ages...

What can we do that we are not doing?...What changes can we make that will guarantee righteousness in this world?"

President Spencer W. Kimball, Apostle 

022226, Sunday

Daily Vitals: 

Weight: 228.3

BP and Pulse: 114/67, 84

Current Glucose Level: 170 @ 0410

Reported Sleep: 5:02

Yesterday's Steps: 5,526

Journal Entry

This has been an interesting weekend. I am diabetic (type 2) and have been monitoring my blood glucose level by using a continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) system where I attach a small monitor to the back of one of my arms and it is supposed to send a continuous blood glucose level to an app on my iPhone. Two nights ago on Friday night the app showed a dangerously low blood glucose level and I got up and Cathy gave me some honey and a banana and we went back to bed. The app gave pretty normal readings throughout yesterday and I was more careful than usual in my eating throughout the day.

Then last night the same problem occurred twice where my blood glucose showed dangerously low. Finally I got my old fashioned blood glucose monitoring system out and pricked my finger. Everything was normal. I checked it twice more and my glucose level was fine. By then it was nearly for AM and I was wide awake. Poor Cathy was suffering with me as well. I got up and she is trying to sleep. We're both relieved that my blood glucose levels are fine. I'm just going to go back to the old method of finger pricking until I can come up with a more reliable system that I can rely on.

My glucose level was at 170 at 4:10 this morning but that was after our efforts to raise my glucose level. I'm confident that it will come down to more normal levels as time goes by.

Come Follow Me 

Genesis 17: 19 And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him.

"Important components of faith are patience, long-suffering, and enduring to the end. The Apostle Paul recounts the faith of Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, and Sara, concluding that “these all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth”. These faithful Saints knew that this earth life was a journey, not their final destination.

When Abram was 75 years old, the Lord promised him, “I will make of thee a great nation”—this at a time when he and Sarai as yet had no children. He was 86 when Sarai’s handmaiden Hagar “bare Ishmael to Abram”.

And the Lord changed Abram’s name to Abraham and Sarai’s name to Sarah, and when he was nearly a hundred and she was 90 they were promised that Sarah would bear a son to be named Isaac. Amidst their disbelief the Lord asked: “Is any thing too hard for the Lord?” And “Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age”, and the Lord promised: “I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore."

Elder Spencer J. Condie of The Seventy 

022126, Saturday

 Daily Vitals: 

Weight: 

BP and Pulse: 

GMI and Current Glucose Level: 6.6, 131

Reported Sleep: 6:24

Yesterday's Steps: 6,246

Journal Entry

Come Follow Me 

Genesis 14: 20 And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.

"Tithing is a test of faith with eternal blessings.  In the Old Testament, Abraham proved his faith by paying tithes to the great high priest Melchizedek.  Abraham’s grandson Jacob vowed to the Lord, “Of all thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.”

Elder Robert D. Hales, Apostle 

022026, Friday

Daily Vitals: 

Weight: 224.8

BP and Pulse: 110/69, 85

GMI and Current Glucose Level: 6.6, 131

Reported Sleep: 4:55

Yesterday's Steps: 4,464

Journal Entry

I walked a little yesterday and suffered no ill effects. Might do more today.

Come Follow Me 

Genesis 12: 3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

"The crowning temple ordinance is available only to a man and a woman when they are sealed together, forming an eternal family unit. It is by virtue of this and all other priesthood ordinances that the families of the earth shall be blessed.  This sealing ordinance is so central to the Lord’s purposes that He has promised to the faithful who are not sealed in this life through no fault of their own this blessing in the life to come.  No other doctrine in all of religion better confirms God’s commensurate love for both His sons and His daughters."

Elder Craig A. Cardon of The Seventy 

021926, Thursday

Daily Vitals: 

Weight: 226.1

BP and Pulse: 112/67, 84

GMI and Current Glucose Level: 6.6, 111

Reported Sleep: 7:16

Yesterday's Steps: 1,434

Journal Entry

Come Follow Me 

Abraham 2: 10 And I will bless them through thy name; for as many as receive this Gospel shall be called after thy name, and shall be accounted thy seed, and shall rise up and bless thee, as their father;

"Though the membership of the Church is increasing in its diversity, our sacred heritage transcends our differences. As members of the Church, we are admitted into the house of Israel. We become brothers and sisters, equal heirs to the same spiritual lineage. God promised Abraham that “as many as receive this Gospel shall be called after [his] name, and shall be accounted [his] seed, and shall rise up and bless [him], as their father.” 

A promise has been made to everyone who becomes a member of the Church: “Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God.”

Bishop Gérald Caussé, Apostle 

021826, Wednesday 26

Daily Vitals: 

Weight: 228.1

BP and Pulse: 130/84, 88

GMI and Current Glucose Level: 6.6, 126

Reported Sleep: 4:38

Yesterday's Steps: 2,924

Journal Entry

I was able to serve at the Bishops Storehouse yesterday for the first time since my surgery without any adverse effects. It felt great. I still have more recovery ahead but I feel blessed to have been able to return to serve with my friends and wife. 

Come Follow Me

Abraham 2: 9 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee above measure, and make thy name great among all nations, and thou shalt be a blessing unto thy seed after thee, that in their hands they shall bear this ministry and Priesthood unto all nations;

" God has once again spoken from the heavens and restored the fulness of the gospel through His chosen prophet. We have become the covenant children of Abraham, a new generation of witnesses to bear testimony that God lives and Jesus is the Christ. We are to be a pure people, a holy people, fully committed and zealous in our proclamation of the gospel in word and deed. This is an awesome responsibility."

Elder J. Richard Clarke of The First Quorum of the Seventy