10/14/2026, Wednesday

Weight: 232.3

BP and Pulse: 113/73, 66

GMI:          , Daily Average Glucose: 162

Glucose level: 145 @ 0400

Reported Sleep: 5:40

Yesterday's Steps: 3,105

Journal Entry:  

Come Follow Me:

Isaiah 59:1 Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:

2 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.

"The Apostle Paul asks, “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?” He answers, “Neither death, nor life,…nor height, nor depth…shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Yet, there is someone who can separate us from God and Jesus Christ—and that someone is us, ourselves. As Isaiah says, “Your sins have hid his face from you.”

By divine love and divine law, we are responsible for our choices and their consequences. But our Savior’s atoning love is “infinite and eternal.” When we are ready to come home, even when we are “yet a great way off,” God is ready with great compassion to welcome us, joyfully offering the best He has."

Elder Gerrit W. Gong, Apostle 

10/13/2026, Tuesday

 Weight: 232.5

BP and Pulse: 100/62, 74

GMI:          , Daily Average Glucose: 162

Glucose level: 152 @ 0445

Reported Sleep: 7:19

Yesterday's Steps: 3,116

Journal Entry:  

I believe that I, in general, appreciate Sabbath days and do my best to "keep them holy". Attending to church related duties and attending Sacrament meetings are what I consider to be my specific responsibilities. Generally anything else should be what I consider to be in tune with my Heavenly Father. That leaves some discretion and choices but staying "in tune" is what's important to me.

Come Follow Me:

Isaiah 58:13 If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:

14 Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

"The Savior identified Himself as Lord of the Sabbath. It is His day! Repeatedly, He has asked us to keep the Sabbath or to hallow the Sabbath day. We are under covenant to do so.

…How can you ensure that your behavior on the Sabbath will lead to joy and rejoicing? In addition to your going to church, partaking of the sacrament, and being diligent in your specific call to serve, what other activities would help to make the Sabbath a delight for you? What sign will you give to the Lord to show your love for Him?

…Not pursuing your “own pleasure” on the Sabbath requires self-discipline. You may have to deny yourself of something you might like. If you choose to delight yourself in the Lord, you will not permit yourself to treat it as any other day. Routine and recreational activities can be done some other time."

Elder Russell M. Nelson, Apostle 

10/12/2026, Monday

Weight: 230.3

BP and Pulse: 118/71, 75

GMI: Daily Average: 162

Glucose level: 152 @ 1015

Reported Sleep: 6:06

Yesterday's Steps: 6,073

Journal Entry: 

Come Follow Me:

Isaiah 58:6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?

"Satan would have you surrender your moral agency to various forms of addictive behavior, but a loving Heavenly Father has promised you through His prophet Isaiah that through sincere fasting, as you subdue your physical appetites, He will help you “loose the bands of wickedness” and “break every yoke.” Claim that promise through fasting. Our emptiness will provide more room for the fulness of the gospel. The hollowing precedes the hallowing."

Elder Spencer J. Condie of The Seventy, April 2002

10/11/2026, Sunday

Weight: 232.3

BP and Pulse: 112/69, 72

GMI: Daily Average: 156

Glucose level: 141 @ 0220

Reported Sleep: 5:26 

Yesterday's Steps: 6,694, 

Journal Entry: 

Come Follow Me:

Isaiah 58:6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?

"Satan would have you surrender your moral agency to various forms of addictive behavior, but a loving Heavenly Father has promised you through His prophet Isaiah that through sincere fasting, as you subdue your physical appetites, He will help you “loose the bands of wickedness” and “break every yoke.” Claim that promise through fasting. Our emptiness will provide more room for the fulness of the gospel. The hollowing precedes the hallowing."

Elder Spencer J. Condie of The Seventy, April 2002

10/09/2026, Friday

Weight: 

BP and Pulse: 

GMI: Daily Average: 

Glucose level: 168 @0500

Reported Sleep: 5:33

Yesterday's Steps: 3.2 miles

Journal Entry: 

I discovered that my iPad keeps track of my walking but not in steps, in miles. But loosely translated, I think I do about 1,000 steps per mile. But, of course this is of no major consequence. Once I get home and start using my iPhone again I'll be back to steps. Then I'll have a pretty accurate picture because my iPhone will give me steps and my iPad will give me miles. Maybe I'll just enter both numbers.

We had a pretty quiet day yesterday. We drove over to the Jamestown fairy and then to Smithfield. Then back. Today will be our last full day here in Virginia. Tomorrow we fly home.

Come Follow Me:

Isaiah 54: 7 For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee.

8 In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the Lord thy Redeemer.

"So, in a world “tossed with tempest, and not comforted,” as Jehovah said it would be, how do we find what He called “the covenant of … peace”? We find it by turning to Him who said He would have mercy on us and “with everlasting kindness” would grant peace to our children. In spite of frightful prophecies and unsettling scriptures declaring that peace will be taken from the earth generally, the prophets, including our own beloved Russell M. Nelson, have taught that it does not have to be taken from us individually! So, this Easter let’s try to practice peace in a personal way, applying the grace and healing balm of the Atonement of the Lord Jesus Christ to ourselves and our families and all those we can reach around us. Fortunately, even astonishingly, this soothing salve is made available to us “without money and without price.”

Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, Apostle 

10/08/2026 Thursday

Weight: 

BP and Pulse: 

GMI: Daily Average: 

Glucose level: 168 @0500

Reported Sleep: 7:07

Yesterday's Steps: 

Journal Entry: 

My ability to gather daily data (above) has been eliminated mostly since I don't have my iPhone. I'm getting lots of steps as shown daily on my Apple Watch but they don't transfer to my iPad and at midnight they go away. Of course I don't have my scale so I can't weigh myself and I don't have access to a blood pressure cuff like I do at home. My Dexcom CGM works but doesn't record on my iPad. Some of that data may be available on my iPhone and when I get home I'll do what I can with it. All in all I believe I'm being pretty healthy. I certainly will make every effort to not forget stuff when we go for a trip in the future. I have had a great lesson on the value of an iPhone which is far more than just a telephone.

I had a meal the other day in Irvington that was very tired but not the healthiest. Resulted in a CGM reading of over 200 for a short time. Last night we had a wonderful dinner at a tavern in Williamsburg but I don't think my readings went above 180. I'm still up at 168 this morning. 

We are still enjoying our vacation. Our hotel suite is very comfortable. I'm not sure what we will do today yet but it will be relaxing and enjoyable (I assume).

Come Follow Me:

Isaiah 53: 5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

"But perhaps you feel a long way from the love of God. Maybe there is a chorus of voices of discouragement and darkness that weighs into your thoughts, messages telling you that you are too wounded and confused, too weak and overlooked, too different or disoriented to warrant heavenly love in any real way. If you hear those ideas, then please hear this: those voices are just wrong. We can confidently disregard brokenness in any way disqualifying us from heavenly love—every time we sing the hymn that reminds us that our beloved and flawless Saviour chose to be “bruised, broken, [and] torn for us,” every time we take broken bread. Surely Jesus removes all shame from the broken. Through His brokenness, He became perfect, and He can make us perfect in spite of our brokenness. Broken, lonely, torn, and bruised He was—and we may feel we are—but separated from the love of God we are not."

Elder Karl D. Hirst of The Seventy, October 2024

10/07/2026, Wednesday

Weight: 

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Glucose level: 

Reported Sleep: 5:34

Yesterday's Steps: 

Journal Entry: 

Come Follow Me:

Isaiah 53: 2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

"Jesus was “a man of sorrows,” the scriptures say. He experienced sadness, fatigue, disappointment, and excruciating loneliness. In these and in all times, Jesus’s love faileth not, and neither does His Father’s. With such mature love—the kind that exemplifies, empowers, and imparts—ours will not fail either.

So, if sometimes the harder you try, the more difficult it seems to get; if, just as you try to work on your limitations and your shortcomings, you find someone or something determined to challenge your faith; if, as you labor devotedly, you still feel moments of fear wash over you, remember that it has been so for some of the most faithful and marvelous people in every era of time. Also remember that there is a force in the universe determined to oppose every good thing you try to do.

So, through abundance as well as poverty, through private acclaim as well as public criticism, through the divine elements of the Restoration as well as the human foibles that will inevitably be part of it, we stay the course with the true Church of Christ. Why? Because as with our Redeemer, we signed on for the whole term—not ending with the first short introductory quiz but through to the final exam. The joy in this is that the Headmaster gave us all open-book answers before the course began. Furthermore, we have a host of tutors who remind us of these answers at regular stops along the way. But of course, none of this works if we keep cutting class.

“Whom seek ye?” With all our hearts we answer, “Jesus of Nazareth.”

Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, Apostle, October 2024