Keep listening to Part 2 with Sister Whitney Johnson, Doctrine and Covenant Sections 58 and 59.

A couple of other things that I wanted to think about and reflect on is the Sabbath Day, section 59, verse 10.

For verily, this is the day appointed unto you to rest from your labors and to pay thy devotions unto the most high. He was talking about keeping the Sabbath day holy. I came across a quote a few years ago,

which I really loved. This is from Tiffany Shlane, and she wrote a book called 246. She said,

what if we thought of rest thinking about the Sabbath day? So she practices a technology Shabbat once a week. What if we thought of rest, thinking about the Sabbath day, so she practices a technology

Shabbat once a week, what if we thought of rest as technology? The promise of technology

is that it makes things efficient. It saves time and it allows us to get things done. It's

incredibly simple. It literally requires you to do nothing. Rest is one of the most effective

technologies there is. By giving you a complete day off each week from screens, from responsibilities,

from being available, which isn't true in the church, we're very available, but letting you reflect

and connect, tech Shabbat becomes the ultimate technology. It's like a system update to keep you running

in our always on world. The Sabbath day actually gives us stability. We partake of the

sacrament every week. We go to the temple as frequently as possible. We read our scriptures. We pray

every day. These are all things that give us rest. Think about the Sabbath day as a

technology and think about it as a way to give us stability so that we can deal with the disruption

and things that are happening around us. I want to talk about gratitude. If you go to verse 15,

it says, inasmuch as you do these things with Thanksgiving,

with cheerful hearts and countenances, not with much laughter, but the good kind of laughter from John, for this is sin, but with a glad heart and cheerful countenance. I wanted to come back to this

idea of gratitude and a little bit back to the place where we started of the saints arriving

in independence. I thought a lot about the word

and gratitude because I think for a lot of my life I would hear, you get what you get and you don't

throw a fit. And there's a verse in here where the Lord says, if you're not grateful, you're going to

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