10/16/24 3:338 p.m.

Losing the Spirit?

Yesterday was an incredibly difficult day. It was if the constant companionship of the Holy Ghost had left me for the day. I wondered what I had done wrong to cause this to happen. I was mostly incapacitated all day. It was, to the world, and episode of depression.

This morning, the Spirit has returned, as strong as ever. And, with an explanation of yesterday. Yesterday was a reminder day, taking me back to life before I enjoyed the constant companionship of the Holy Spirit. Reliving that experience in order to teach me more compassion and empathy for those who do not live with the constant companionship. 

It was a lesson to bring me back to the world most people live in. A world of banal existence, with focus on the trivial rather than the imporant. A world of thinking telestial instead of thinking celestial.

So, with that understanding, I thank God for granting me yesterday, so that I can move forward with greater humility, patience, and love towards all.

10/8/24 4:23 a.m.

I am Jesus as You are Jesus

We are alive only because the Spirit of Jesus, the Holy Ghost, lives in each of us. Without this life of Christ, we would not only not be alive here on Earth today, we would cease to exist entirely. Our lives are an intimate partnership, between our individual spirits, and the Spirit of Jesus that dwells in us. At every time, we have been given the freedom to make choices according to our will or His will. Those who choose His will consistently find themselves receiving greater blessings and those who choose their own will find themselves learning difficult lessons.

This entire planet is a nursery to raise up gods who are capable of serving others in bigger and better ways. Gods start, as Jesus did, and as you did, as helpless babies, even when still in the womb. Where these humans end up is determined by the choices they make. As they choose love, they progress, as they make other choices, they are disciplined by facing the consequences of their choices.

Jesus lives here on Earth with us. I have seen Him many times, face to face, after understanding how to find Him. As Brigham Young taught, gods are free to occupy the living as they will, this is how they further their work here. Most of my encounters with Jesus, face to face, have happened as I meet and listen to people who are clearly possessed by the Spirit of Jesus, even as I sometimes am. Some of my encounters with Jesus, face to face, involved dreams or visions, which for me happen occasionally, and are photorealistic. In either case, I am blessed to walk and talk with him as you would any other person.

When you have a close relationship with Jesus, you will often feel you are as Jesus, as you live His life rather than your own life. You may even forsake your own identity, give up all your former life, and live a radically different lifestyle. Here's a picture of a man who has done so that I met while serving at the Food and Care Coalition in Provo, Utah. Not official service, but simply going there to minister to those who present, to be as the presence of God to them with words of love and encouragement.

This man goes by the name of Jesus. His understanding of Jesus is similar to mine, he has his own name and life, but has chosen instead to take on the name of Jesus, and live the life of Jesus, following the Way of Jesus, to love all, all the time.

He occupies the lowest status in our society, as a homeless man. He professes no faith in anything other than Jesus.  And he ministers to those that surround him. He testifies that he lives a very good life, and the last time I saw him, he had found a wife, and his life was getting even better for him.

And finding a wife, and ministering to her, and then to your children, is the central calling of all men on Earth. Because until we learn to give our lives away to our spouses and our children, with the Love of Jesus, we will find it very difficult to love all, all the time.

For the economy of Jesus is not stealing, or even buying and selling, it is giving and receiving. As you give more, you receive more of the presents and presence of God. Every day is Christmas for those who follow Jesus as little children, knowing he will meet all of our needs and also shower us with gifts.

Here's a picture of another man whom is as Jesus.

Latter Day Saints will recognize this as President Russell M. Nelson.  He is at the opposite end of the spectrum of those whom I have been with face to face who clearly appear to me to be as Jesus. He lives a life of immense blessings, in every way imaginable. And he blesses the entire world in the work that he does, in every way imaginable. 

So which is the better choice, to live as my friend Jesus who ministers to homeless people, or to live as President Nelson, who ministers to the whole world from a position of power and authority and immense resources?

My answer is to do both. To minister to all that cross my path, whatever that path may be. That's why I am running for Governor of Utah, to reach many people with this message. And that's why I continue to minister to many one on one, by putting myself in places where I am likely to find those most in need.

This is why I am Jesus as You are Jesus. This is why some people call me Jesus. Because my greatest desire is that when people see me, they don't see Tom Tomeny, they see Jesus. And that's why I also go by the name Jesus gave me, Treyeshua, which is a combination of the name my mother calls me, Trey, and the Aramaic name that his mother calls him, Yeshua. As He lives in me, as I live in Him. And if you are not already doing so, we invite you to live with us, to join in His Kingdom, by putting Him at the very center of your life and every choice you make. To take upon yourself the name, and character, and love, of Jesus Christ.

9/29/24 3:25 a.m.

Persecution of the Saints?

I woke up early this morning after going to bed particularly early as we have been travelling so much and attended a family members funeral recently. I woke up to thoughts about my upcoming sentencing for Disorderly Conduct in the 4th District Court in Spanish Fork, Utah.

This case is, to me, completely outrageous, as detailed in this article on one of my other sites.

As in all things, I contemplate and pray about God's purpose in having me subjected to such gross injustice. Perhaps it is the consequences of some long ago sin? Or perhaps it is call to action to prevent more gross injustice from happening to others?

I am going with the thought that it is both. I examined my life and recalled a financially sharp thing I did many years ago that was a mistake, but not sin, as I thought I was doing the right thing at the time.  Those details are irrelevant now, as I confessed and was forgiven by the person affected.

So now I am acting on the call to action. Both the prosecutor and the judge attended the same law school, at Brigham Young University. 

So tonight, I scanned the online resumes of all 34 permanent faculty members of the J. Ruben Clark Law School, and identified 5 of them who apparently teach some aspect of criminal law. 

My plan is to contact them to ask if any of them teach about the special issue, for saints, of being falsely accused. 

if there is anywhere that should be a legal safe haven against false accusations, it is Utah. The Church of Jesus Christ, of Latter-day Saints has endured false accusations against the Saints for almost two centuries now, as Jesus said, as part of the Sermon on the Mount, that His true followers would be falsely accused. My numerous legal troubles since moving to Utah are all tied to that fact.

So I plan to share this with the judge prior to my sentencing, for better or worse. The law limits the sentence to a fine, but at the same time, judges are given wide discretion as to what that can be.

9/25/24 2:55a.m.

A Letter

A letter to my pastor from 1991 to 2006 in Plano, Texas. Gerald Brooks of Grace Church Plano, it was sent to him by US Mail. 

Gerald:

I write today to thank you for the many years of spiritual formation that happened in me during my years at Grace. You are an important link in the chain of grace that has been my life.

I also write today to be faithful to what we are told in the Book of Revelation, that we are saved by the blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony.

This is my personal testimony to you, written with great respect for you.

When we attended Grace in the 1990’s I felt like you, your wife, and your kids lived in a different world than we did. You and your family were so faithful to the call of Jesus on your lives that the blessings surrounding you were obvious to me.

My wife and I were not nearly so holy, and the struggle of our marriage got worse when TJ got sick. As you may be aware, we divorced in 2012. 

While we were not great at being spouses, we were pretty good parents. That was greatly aided by the Growing Kids God’s Way program. 

And we were pretty good educators. my first wife still works at Legacy Christian Academy all these years later, and after I left Legacy, I was one of the founders of Coram Deo Academy, which continues to thrive also today. 

After the divorce, I ended up living in our second home, in Idaho Springs, Colorado. By the providence of God, I became a leader in an amazing independent church, The Sanctuary in Denver, led by my now good friend Peter Hiett. The message there is somewhat distinctive within Christianity, it is that God loves all people, all the time, and that there is no “hell” of eternal conscious torment that God assigns to any. Those who live in such a hell have, and continue, to choose it, and God will allow those who choose such to remain there indefinitely until they choose Him.

For about 5 years, this message, also the message of my friend Wm. Paul Young, author of the book and movie, The Shack, dominated my spiritual life.

Then, on January 26, 2017 in a three minute experience that ended at precisely 2:00 p.m., I was truly born again, by receiving the baptism of fire and the Holy Ghost. It was the exact experience that Jesus’ apostles and other true followers had in the upper room about 2000 years ago. I felt the fire of God move through every cell of my body and was completely transformed.

My previous Holy Spirit experiences had largely been in your church, and they were real, but temporary. I remember you teaching that we needed to “be being filled with the Holy Spirit” as, at least at that time, your understanding was that being filled was an experience that is temporary, and that is true for disciples of Jesus, who have committed to follow him and been baptized in water.

But after the baptism of fire and the Holy Ghost as I received it that day in 2017, I have had the constant companionship of the Holy Ghost. I wake up every day with my thoughts on Jesus and helping to build HIs Kingdom, work all day towards that goal, and go to bed still constantly praying for that. While I am still a disciple of Jesus, this experience transforms us, one at a time, into true saints.

This experience is in fulfillment of John 14:20, which reads, “On that day, you will know that I live in the Father, and the Father lives in me, and that I live in you, and that you live in me.”

On that day, I emptied my vessel and that allowed Jesus to come in and take over my life. I emptied it by offering my spiritual life to Peter Hiett, who has a large following, so that he could reach his large audience with those parts of the true Gospel that I knew at the time and Peter had not yet learned.

I did so by writing him an email offering to give up my spirit and its knowledge to him, and the moment I hit the Send button, the room I was in got very dark and cold, and I wondered what I had just done. But as I left that room and went into my kitchen, the fire of God came upon me and changed my life forever. 

Then I heard Jesus speak to me. He said, “no greater love can a man have than to give up his life for a friend”. And as I sat down to open my Bible, I saw that I was reading and understanding it with new eyes and with a new mind, of Christ.

I was like one of the Elders of Revelation. I had laid down my crown of free will at HIs feet and He responded by putting a new crown on me, the crown of doing His will. I was given no less than the mind and heart of Christ.

I did not know at the time exactly what had happened to me. I knew I had been completely transformed. I was surely a wholly new creation. I had no knowledge of the term “baptism of fire and the Holy Ghost”.

So I went to the internet looking for people with similar testimonies of complete transformation. And I found a book of them and bought many copies to hand out to others, it is called They Found the Secret, by Raymond Edman, a mid-century President of Wheaton College. The people whose biographies are in that book are well known names like John Bunyan, Dwight L. Moody, and Oswald Chambers.

And I found a few contemporary Christian leaders who have a testimony of the baptism of fire. The most prominent one that comes to mind is Todd White.

But about 50% of the people I found with testimonies of the baptism of fire were not even “Christians” to my way of thinking then. Instead, they were members of the Church of Jesus Christ, of Latter-day Saints. I noted that, but did not pursue those leads because every evangelical knows that Mormons are not Christians. Even the writers on South Park know that, as they made an episode mocking Mormons while also having cartoon L. Ron Hubbard proclaim, in a welcome to hell scenario, that it was Mormons, it’s the Mormons who are not here in hell because that is the right religion.

For several years I had been listening to a lot of music from Bethel Church, so I journeyed to Redding, California to see if Truth could be found there. And I found Truth there, in the sense that I discovered that the Truth was now in me, and that Jesus goes with me everywhere I go. 

Prior to the baptism of fire I thought I was living a life of signs, wonders, and miracles, but since I am living a life of 100 times as many signs, wonders, and miracles. Several people that the Spirit has directed me to pray for and with have been cured of terminal illness.

All of this may have you questioning my mental health, which was an issue at the time I attended Grace. I now have a full understanding of “bipolar” and with that understanding, am fully cured, and can offer the cure to others, if they are open to being cured with their hearts set on Jesus.

Bipolar is a symptom of seeking Truth. When you follow Jesus, He blesses you beyond what you may yet be capable of believing, and that leads to manic episodes. When you stop believing because you are overwhelmed by His grace, mercy, and love, that causes depressive episodes. The cure is to comprehend, often after a lifetime of struggles, that Jesus is NOT too good to be true, He is indeed the Truth and you can follow HIm with your entire heart, mind, and soul and He will provide your every need and, eventually, your every dream will come true.

While I am grateful that modern medicine helped me survive my season of unbelief, I take no medications for anything now, and haven’t taken psychiatric medications in many years, and have had no more episodes as I did many years ago.

I am not the first in my family to receive the baptism of fire. TJ surely received it at a very young age, as his faith is the purest that I have ever known. Perhaps you remember the story you retold at his funeral, that when he earned his very first pay, $10, I suggested that he tithe on it to the church, and he insisted that he give it all. 

Now I understand the purpose of TJ’s death, as there is no way to understand the heart of our Father better than to watch your beloved son suffer and die. TJ knew this implicitly, and he offered his life for me, as he followed Jesus, even to death.

My current wife also watched her beloved son suffer and die. She is the most courageous woman I know. In High School she attended LDS Seminary as most kids around here do. In that class the students made decisions for life as to what they would do when confronted with the most difficult choices imaginable. She covenanted, with Jesus, that she would not abort any pregnancy. Her third pregnancy was diagnosed with spina bifida in utero and she was told he might only live hours or days, and encouraged to abort. 

Joshua ended up living 25 years, and was a blessing to all who had the privilege to know him. He served faithfully in Church and was a service missionary for our Church and a volunteer leader of a youth group of disabled kids. He passed about a year after his father had passed and left his mother for me to marry about five years later.

My wife has also mothered six other children and she now has seven grandchildren who call me Grandpa. 

My surviving son is living with his mother and her second husband, a firefighter, in Corinth, Texas. He is still unmarried and has no children yet.

Speaking of Corinth, Paul wrote letters to the Corinthians. In his first letter he said that God chooses the despised things to do his will (verse 28). The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is just such a despised thing. In fact, the most despised Jesus following church in the world. By this, and much other evidence, I know, without doubt, that it is Jesus’ true Church.

And that brings me to the crucial point of this testimony. Of those who are given much, much is expected. You and I have both been given much. I have laid down my life to take up His life, in His true Church. I am inviting you to do the same.

Have you ever investigated the Church of Jesus Christ, of Latter-day Saints? Have you ever sincerely read the Book of Mormon?

I have a good friend, David Alexander, who pastored several churches as he tried to follow Jesus for 47 years after committing his life to Christ at the age of 21. He finally gave up and then was led, by God, to take a close look at my Church. And he found everything he had always longed for, a Church with the true authority of God, “built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone”.

David now has a very popular Youtube channel, proclaiming the restored Gospel to all who will open their hearts and listen, many have been baptized under proper authority after hearing David’s testimony. You can find him on Youtube by searching David Alexander LDS.

You impressed me during my time at Grace as being financially astute. I have long lived with financial insecurity, no matter how much money I had at any time. I have finally been cured of my financial insecurity by understanding, as my Church teaches, that our source of everything, including health and finances is in Jesus Christ. 

I have been given revelation that Jesus provides for me as I daily do His will rather than my own. In April of this year, Tesla stock was ridiculously undervalued. Jesus told me to invest all I have left in that stock. And it has about doubled since then. And I understand, due to the ongoing nature of Tesla’s innovations, that the stock will at least 10X in the next five years, which will give me more than what I need to supply all my needs as I live tax free, borrowing against its ever increasing value.

I could have and should have done this long ago, as Jesus prompted me to invest previously in Google and Facebook before their great growth years. I did invest, but timidly, and had not yet the understanding to borrow against rather than sell out in order to meet my expenses. But just as I follow Jesus on the way into any investment, I know that I must do His will to remain close enough to Him to hear Him when it is time to get out of specific investments, so I work for Him daily.

This is the truly abundant life that Jesus is offering you now. Stop building your kingdom and seek first to build His Kingdom.

It’s a rough time for independent churches, as we have witnessed the fall of Robert Morris, Tony Evans, and many others. While neither of them are close friends of mine, they are both close friends of close friends, and I pray for their restoration into Jesus’ true Church.

These falls, even as the original fall of Adam and Eve, are with God’s purpose. We are here to learn His Way, to love Him by loving all of His children all around us, which is the true Way to love ourselves.

I don’t want to see you fall. I instead pray for your surrender. 

As the leader of an independent church, when such churches are falling, you can instead be a leader in bringing yourself, your family, and all those who follow you into the greatest of Truths, who is Jesus Christ, and who has anointed and appointed One Church, with One Baptism to usher in His Kingdom.

Early in this letter I mentioned that I had a holy envy of the life I saw you, your wife, and your family living. I hope you will investigate my Church and develop a holy envy for the lives we live. Within a half a mile of my home here in Orem, Utah there are about 80 families, many quite large, who are living lives wholly devoted to Jesus. We gather on Sundays to worship together in our assigned Ward at a single assigned time. Such a group of saints will surround you as you truly surrender all to Jesus.

You have been a good and faithful servant, serving Jesus in the way you were taught. Now, come to Zion, and live in His presence with His people. 

If you are willing to respond, please email me.

I pray all of God’s greatest blessing upon you and your family even if you are not yet ready to truly surrender all to Him. He is Love and Love is patient.

You have contributions to make to our Church, which is truly the Kingdom of God on Earth today. You can not only bring your family into the Kingdom, but thousands of others as well. Your ministry will be more fruitful than ever, and I can promise you that in no less than the name of Jesus Christ.

In Christ, I am,

Treyeshua Tomeny

ttomeny@gmail.com

214-228-6519

9/25/24

9/25/24 1:11 a.m. 

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9/19/24 8:28 p.m.

Eight Days of Silence

It has been eight days since my last journal entry, and I'm not sure why. A lot has happened in those eight days, including buying my first Tesla, a dark grey Model Y, due to their 2.49% interest deal on purchases this month. It has Full Self Driving version 12.5, so it's like having chauffeur, it drives reliably safely where I want to go, but it does require me to keep my eyes on the road. Five years from now, I believe owning a vehicle that is not self driving will be as outdated as a flip phone was five years after smart phones were introduced in 2007.

Elon Musk continues in his spiritual development. He made a post on X a few days ago about the importance of forgiveness instead of vengeance. If Trump wins the election he has promised to have Musk head a commission for government efficiency, that could make a huge difference in the world.

One project I may soon undertake is writing the pastors of the churches I used to attend in the Dallas area. The megachurch model seems to be falling apart there as seven different pastors in the Dallas area have recently resigned their megachurch positions due to scandals, most sexual. Those pastors, the ones I know, are good men who got lost along the way, and we would surely welcome them to repent and join the true Church of Jesus Christ, of Latter-day Saints.

The first snow of the year fell on the mountains overlooking our home two days ago. Winter fast approaches. The Tesla will be my ski car since it cost just a few dollars to take up skiing, as the regenerative braking recharges the car on the way down the hill, so the net energy used is small. I've ordered a mattress for the back so I can sleep on the way home when the Full Self Driving no longer needs to be supervised.

I have been on a very low carb diet for about three weeks now as my blood sugar got out of control. It is getting much better now.

My chances of being elected Governor of Utah aren't looking that good now. The scenario I expected did not come to pass, as I was hoping for Phil Lyman's endorsement after he was defeated in the Republican primary, since our views on the issues are so similar. Instead he is waging a  write in campaign. I doubt his chances of being elected are much better than mine, but he is shining the light on corrupt practices in the Republican party here in Utah.

On the 9th of this month I did have to lock in my message for the official voter guide, here is what is says:

Tom Tomeny is a follower of Jesus. He gave up his business career to follow Jesus daily by sharing the Gospel with all. He is running for Governor to show all that the Way of Jesus is the answer to our divisive politics, whether you are religious or not.

The Way of Jesus is to love all, all the time. This is reflected in our core Utah values of Faith, Family, and Freedom, which is where Tom prayerfully stands on all issues. 

Tom is qualified to be Governor as his temporal gifts align well, having led numerous enterprises, both non-profits and for profits.

This campaign involves no money and no party. We urge you to ignore all political advertising and research every candidate on their website. 

Tom Tomeny is the alternative to voting for any professional politician. His life story is being written on a website, My Life of Light. Tom lives a life of signs, wonders, and miracles along with his share of trials and tribulations. He moved to Utah after joining the Church of Jesus Christ, of Latter-day Saints 7 years ago.

Please consider voting the Jesus Way no matter how you vote.

The website is VotetheJesusWay.org and it still needs substantial updating before the voter guides go out with that site listed on October 15.

9/11/24 1:03 a.m.

Superabundance Crisis, a Book I Hope to Write

I am intrigued by Elon Musk and believe that he operates in the technology sphere with more of the mind of Christ than any other. His purity of heart is evidenced by his spending 44 billion dollars, an absurdly high price, to buy Twitter, so we can have at least one social media platform oriented towards freer speech 

Elon Musk is leading the charge to create a world of superabundance. As we get more machines that make  machines, and artificial intelligence that surpasses most human intelligence,  the physical productivity of our planet will exceed our wildest current expectations. To the extent that governments stay out of the way, every person, everywhere on Earth, will have everything they need and even desire at a continually lower cost.

That's superabundance. The crisis is as old as Adam and Eve, how then will our lives have meaning? What do we do when work as we know it now is no longer necessary? How do we avoid the deadly spiral of depression that overtakes all whose lives are without meaning?

The shortest answer is Jesus.  We can continue to love and serve others no matter what the physical circumstances. We can orient our lives to be of service to others in ways machines and AI cannot replicate. We can engage all others we meet in genuine relationship. We can share our testimonies of what God has done, is doing, and will be doing for us as we progress in His Kingdom, even towards Heaven, as all begin to follow our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

9/7/24 5;04 a.m.

Persecuted and Prosecuted

The War in Heaven is Here and Now

In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus said that His true followers will be falsely accused.  To be falsely accused is Heaven's credential that a person is truly following Jesus. Just as in the days of old, people who allow satanic forces to influence them use civil and religious governments to do their bidding.

Since the age of 30, I had been trying to follow Jesus. I raised a family, was a leader in several churches, and helped start two Christian schools that now graduate hundreds of Jesus following young people every year.

In 2005 my oldest son, a true saint, passed into the next life after a three year struggle with a brain tumor. His remarkable story was told on the front page of the national edition of the Wall St. Journal.

His passing led me to focus even more on following Jesus. My first wife never recovered from his loss and ended up leaving me after 28 years together.

In January of 2017, I experienced a miraculous conversion to the Church of Jesus Christ, of Latter-day Saints, leading me to move to Utah in 2018, in search of a new wife and a new life.

In 2019, I found a new wife and a new life, and was sealed to her in the Temple.

In nine months of marriage, we started a group home for wayward teens and got her two teenage daughters back in church.

But in 2020, at the onset of the pandemic, I agreed to allow her homeless ex-husband to live in our basement until he was able to move on.

He was and is truly possessed by evil, and with her, hatched a plot to destroy me.

On September 1, 2020 my then wife called the police and accused me of abusing her. This was a complete fabrication of lies.

The very next day she left our marriage bed and began co-habiting with her ex-husband. I found out later they had been accused of drug dealing when they were married a decade or so earlier.

While the police took no action on her initial claim of abuse, she was just getting started. She began relentlessly stalking me, both in person and through the legal system. She found a corrupt lawyer to help her, and lied to get a stalking injunction against me, when all I ever did was to try to get her mental health treatment, and to advise others who had trusted her of her ongoing mental health crisis.

I was never served her temporary stalking injunction, so was not subject to it. A local police sergeant, demonically influenced, decided I had been served it, and had two criminal charges filed against me for allegedly breaking it, even as I had no contact with her whatsoever.

When I got a temporary stalking injunction against her on December 8, 2020 I was told to go to that same police department and have her served with it. Instead of serving her and getting my house and possessions back, that same demonically influenced police sergeant had me taken to jail on completely false felony charges. This, at age 60, was my first ever time in jail. I spent 6 days there before being released. The false charges that put me there were never formally filed against me, as there was no basis for them at all. 

The next month, my ex-wife made more false allegations against me. One of those led me to be charged with the crime of a false written statement, though at trial in the Orem Justice Court, the charging officer admitted I had not made any false statements. Yet the Judge found me guilty, after the demonically influenced prosecutor bombarded him with irrelevant lies about the stalking case. That same prosecutor then realized that such irrelevancies would not play well after the verdict was appealed to District Court, and promptly dropped the charge. 

This incident taught me that a fair trial is impossible when a prosecutor is willing to lie in court against you. 

Because of that, I reluctantly took my attorney's advice on the original two charges related to breaking the stalking injunction, and pled no contest as a plea in abeyance, with no real consequences except mandated mental health treatment, where the therapist understood I had been falsely charged, and released me from that treatment after a few months.

In the spring of 2020. my ex-wife's corrupt lawyer was successful in getting me declared a Vexatious Litigant, based upon the courts failure to grant me the multiple domestic violence and stalking injunctions that I had filed against my ex-wife and her now live in lover, even though he later pled guilty to assaulting me in one of those cases. Later the Utah County Attorney refused to prosecute him for perjury for when he lied to the court at the domestic violence hearing.

I then found the great love of my current life, and married her in October of 2021, even as my ex-wife has continued to stalk me all along.

She has a friend who has turned away from the Church, after having been Temple worthy. In an effort to help , I gave her friend an opportunity to participate in my food trailer business. 

That was a disaster, as, on the second day of operating, her friend judged me as unrighteous for raising my voice at another food trailer operator who showed up in our spot for the express purpose of blocking our operations. The yelling at me caused the police to be called for a second time that morning, and they, incredibly, charged me with disorderly conduct.

This led to a guilty verdict in Orem Justice Court, which I again appealed to the District Court, as I had proof that the witnesses had lied in the Justice Court trial and thought that the Orem prosecutor would do the sensible thing and drop the charges when confronted with the irrefutable evidence that the witnesses had lied. 

But this Orem prosecutor decided to go ahead with the District Court trial, and the main witness lied again and again. The accuser, who had made the call to the police that had me charged, was not present, making this an unconstitutional trial, as I was not able to confront my accuser. Nevertheless, the judge found me guilty, and is for that reason I am writing this statement to present to him at sentencing, scheduled for October 4. 

The headline of this short story is to let all know that the War in Heaven is indeed here and now. Those who closely follow Jesus, even doing as He did, living lives of signs, wonders, and miracles, will be falsely accused even as He and all the early apostles were. Is this the consequence of truly doing the work that saints are called to do? Is it possible to do the work that Jesus did without these trials and tribulations?  I believe it is not, for as Jesus said, those who are not for me are against me, and the spirit world is very much alive all around us, and those evil spirits influence all those who are not truly following Jesus. 

9/3/24 2:00 a.m.

When Witnesses Lie

As detailed several times on this site, I was found guilty by a Utah District Court on an infraction of Disorderly Conduct recently. This injustice has consumed much of my thoughts for the past several days since the verdict was sent to me. 

The judge decided the case based upon the evidence presented. The problem is that the prosecuting attorney and the main witness both lied. The other witness, a family member of mine, admitted that the main witness lied to me yesterday when she was here, but I, defending myself at such a low stakes trial, did not think to recall her to rebut the new lie that the main witness told, that could have made the difference.

This willingness to lie is at the core of much injustice, and I'm not sure of the solution. Twice in the past three months, I have reported easily verifiable false witness to the proper authorities and, as of now, there have been no consequences. I'm not sure where the pressure point is in the Utah judiciary to end this frequent process of lying in court proceedings, as there are apparently no consequences for most. 

Perhaps this is a calling to begin some sort of awareness campaign of this huge problem.

8/30/24 9:26 a.m.

My  First Draft of a Short Biography

As a candidate for Governor, I am allowed to submit as 200 word short biography that will appear in the printed and online official election materials. It is likely the most about me that most voters will ever see. Pasted below is what I just wrote. Any feedback would be appreciated as the deadline to turn it in is one week away.

Tom Tomeny is a humble follower of Jesus. He gave up his business career to follow Jesus daily by sharing the Gospel with all. He is running for Governor in an effort to reach those whose focus is on politics to encounter the Gospel. As a close follower of Jesus, he has been falsely accused many times, and his record, of doing the right thing and then being persecuted is available in his free online book, My LIfe of Light, of which a major movie producer has expressed interest in turning into a feature film.

Tom stands for our core Utah values of Faith, Freedom, and Family. He has led numerous enterprises, both for profit and non-profits. He has never been a part of partisan politics. His campaign is Jesus centered. As Jesus did, his campaign is without any party and without spending any money on advertising. His life story testifies of his character, his life walking close to Jesus.

Tom Tomeny is the alternative to voting for any professional politician. His temporal gifts align well with what is needed to govern Utah. He’s not Jesus, yet he strives to be as Jesus, loving all, all the time.

8/29/24 12:48 p.m.

My Campaign Speech

Tonight, at 6:30 p.m., I have been invited to speak at an event for Third Party Candidates at the Sandy Library in Sandy, Utah.

Here is what I wrote this afternoon.

My name is Tom Tomeny and I am on the ballot this year as an Unaffiliated Candidate for Governor. Some of you may understand why I am wearing a white suit with a red tie, if you don’t know the spiritual reason for that, you may know that a white suit worked out real well for Colonel Sanders, when he sold his first Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise here in 1952.

I am running to remind Utahns why Utah exists. Utah was founded to be Zion. Zion is heaven come to Earth. Zion's ruler is Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ can and does rule in the hearts  of those who truly follow Him, even if they don't know His name yet or are not involved in any particular religion. My running mate, Dr. Lans Taylor, follows in the Way of Jesus. He has learned the Way of Jesus through amazing personal experiences, yet he is not yet a member of any religion. His is a good example to follow if you are not of any religion.

People who follow the Way of Jesus need no government, as they govern themselves.  

The Way of Jesus is to love all, all the time. As you follow the Way of Jesus, this task gets easier and easier as your selfish self is transformed into a selfless self, even as Jesus.

The pioneers of Utah understood this, as they gave up all to come here and establish Zion.

We are still standing on the shoulders of those who first did the work of Zion.

Yet Zion has become distracted, as Utah now seeks to be just a “better state”. 

We are not called to be a better state, we are called to be THE shining city on the hill. 

I am running to reignite the flame that started when our pioneers packed their wagons and handcarts and began moving West.  

They were on their way to establish Zion, and they knew that God had anointed them for such a time. 

We too are anointed for such a time as this. 

Our pioneers traveled to a new world, a wilderness. 

We too travel to a new world, a future vastly different from the past. 

We are on the cusp of technological innovations that are changing everything.

Change is hard, yet that’s where we are headed, like it or not.

Our challenge is to change ourselves, by the Spirit of Love, by living lives that are oriented towards serving others rather than serving ourselves.

This great change began happening in me about 8 years ago. I was on a rafting trip on Clear Creek, which runs through Idaho Springs, Colorado, where I lived at that time. It was the highest water day in at least ten years but I was, and am, a very experienced rafter. 

But on this day, my raft was the last in a pod of five rafts, and the water was running at a Class 5 level. At the top of the largest rapid on the trip, called Widowmaker, our raft was thrown violently sideways onto a large rock, and I was ejected onto the rock momentarily. This was the beginning of my solo swim of about half a mile.

I emerged from the water with 14 large bruises all over my body, and felt very blessed to be alive. This was a true baptism to me, as it began a long series of spiritual events that led me to joining the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and moving to Utah. There is a video of my complete conversion testimony online if you are interested.

Last November, I awoke to a prompting to do the work necessary to get on the ballot for Governor. During the cold month of December, I spoke face to face with about 2000 people, and about 1250 of them signed the nomination petition, as I had been advised to get 25% extra to be sure of the 1000 verified needed.

Now nothing has really played out as I imagined at that time. While the Cox versus Lyman primary went as I expected, I did not anticipate Lyman starting a write in campaign. HIs candidacy is an example of why I am running, political parties and their ties to government are, to me, clearly evil and, in the age of the internet, completely unnecessary.

And spending money advertising your campaign appears to me to now be silly. Why ask people for money to buy ads to ask people for votes, when we have free social media where we can go and simply ask for the votes directly?

So the point of my campaign is to introduce to the world a new way to campaign, no party, no money, but with complete transparency. 

Aspiring leaders don’t need to shower us with fantasies of what they will do, when they can share with us, in detail, the lives they have lived, what they have done.

And ballots can be as long as they need to be, so that voters have many choices instead of two.

I am here tonight, and on the ballot in November, to spark an overdue change in how we select our leaders.

If you are a Latter Day Saint, you may know that President Oaks has advised us to vote for people not parties. If you are not a Latter Day Saint, the fact that you are here say to me that you already understand the wisdom of that advice. 

But we can’t vote for people instead of parties until we have more people to choose from. There are about 6 choices for Governor this year, I look forward to the day when there are 60 or 600.

My policy positions are about as traditional as can be. I believe in Faith, Family, and Freedom.

Big government is the opposite of these values. It pretends to provide security without Faith or Family as it takes away our Freedom.

My campaign website is very unusual. My name, Tom Tomeny, is not even on it. The site is Vote the Jesus Way dot org and it does not even have a donate here button on it at all. It also does not urge you to vote for me, it urges you to visit all candidate sites directly and make your choice based upon your own evaluation.

The person who leads Utah in a unique position to start a movement that will change the entire world. Utah can and will be Zion, and as our hearts are changed, so shall our governments be changed, because those who know, know the destination, and how to get there, by following in the Way of Jesus, which includes voting in the Jesus Way.

8/29/24 9:00 a.m.

Guilty

Yesterday morning I received notice from the Court in Spanish Fork that I had been declared guilty of Disorderly Conduct, an infraction. This is the only almost criminal conviction of my whole life. Sentencing, which is limited to a fine, is scheduled for October 4. 

Good news came yesterday also, as the Orem police are referring my report of all the lies told by "Leo" at the original Justice Court trial in Orem to the Utah County Attorney's office for possible prosecution. Leo enhanced those lies even further at the de novo trial, claiming that I actually ran my vehicle into his vehicle and damaged it during the incident.

I have both sympathy and disdain for the judge's ruling. I think he is an honorable man trying to do the right thing but, based on my experience, half the witnesses and almost all the lawyers are always lying in court. Somehow sanity and sanctity need to be restored to courthouses, but I am not now sure how.

I am trying to do my part by cooperating with the Orem police on the possible charges against Leo. And I may file a new report in Spanish Fork for the multiple instances of perjury he committed there. 

The biggest problem is Prosecutor Leon. It is my understanding that she had access to my report of Leo's perjury in the first trial, yet she relied on his witness again in the second trial. It is highly likely I will make a second ethics complaint against her. 

I am still praying about God's larger lesson in all of this. How can Utah, which was founded as Zion, can have such corruption in their justice system is beyond my current understanding. I view all of the actors as beloved children of God, yet how can they end up making such evil happen?

World events are just as disturbing as local events. France arrested Pavel Durov after luring him into the country with a dinner invitation from President Macron. Brazil is trying to get Elon Musk to come there to possibly arrest him. And one of our presidential candidates is comically unqualified, yet barely being held to an level of competence in the legacy media. The world has truly gone insane, mine, and our, only hope remains in Jesus Christ.

8/22/24

My Campaign Outing Yesterday

I was on the BYU campus again yesterday for Education Week. For the second day in a row, I wore my white robe campaign costume. And it worked, as I had numerous people come up to me and ask me about why I was wearing a white robe, and some who approached me also had heard the story and invited me to sit and talk to them about my campaign for Governor. It was my first large scale experience of being a political celebrity. 

Two days ago, I decided to change my campaign's main message. The previous main web site had been VotetheJesusWay.org, the new site is VotefortheTruth.org. Since Jesus is the Truth, I hope He is happy with this change. In a few days I will need to submit my official campaign site and short biography for distribution by the State of Utah, and I believe I will stick with this messaging.

Campaigning is fun, but also a bit exhausting. I can feel the Spirit working in me as I share God's better ways with people. There always are connections discovered as I listen and learn from each person. We are truly connected with each other through the Spirit. The concept of us being the Body of Christ is reinforced by every person I meet.

8/21/24

A Miracle Reunion

Yesterday, while eating lunch at the Cannon Commons on the BYU Campus, I helped facilitate a miracle reunion.

I was there after attending Elder Anderson's talk just up the hill at the Marriott Center. The theme of his talk was that God gives us his righteous desires, and he asked us to pray about what our righteous desire truly is.

I already know my righteous desire. It is for the unity of all in Christ Jesus. And in the hour that followed that talk, I was able to witness it.

When I got my pizza and pasta at the first food station inside the door of the Cannon Commons dining hall, I saw an older woman eating alone. So I sat near enough to start a conversation. She had moved back to Utah fairly recently and was a cafeteria worker there, after having lived and worked in a similar role at the U.S. Air Force Academy, in Colorado Springs, Colorado for many years. She was eating her lunch on her break. 

Martha Carter is clearly a faithful Saint. She mentioned that she served a mission in Hong Kong in 1983, But our conversation was cut short as her break ended, and I finished the small portions that were my first lunch.

Then I went to the far back part of the dining hall, and got a delicious second lunch of a Cuban sandwich with seasoned fries. This time I spotted an older bald headed man who was dining alone, and as I moved to sit near him, it became apparent that he was Asian.

My conversation with Peter Chan revealed that he had been baptized in Hong Kong when he was 16 years old. Then he revealed he had been born there in 1967. Doing the math, I realized that Peter had been baptized during the same year that Martha served her mission. I told Peter about Martha and he expressed his strong desire to meet Martha. Peter is now a Professor at BYU, in the Department of Education.

On the way out, I inquired as to where Martha worked and had a second conversation with her, telling her about Peter. She said she had taught a young man in Hong Kong who had taken on the English name Peter.

I thought I would need to hunt down Peter to tell him this additonal fact about Martha, but the Lord went before me. As I exited the dining hall, I saw Peter again in the lobby area of that dorm building, and told him where to find Martha. 

Then I watched from a distance, leaning on the dining hall front desk, as Peter and Martha started a long conversation, so long that I eventually left, to experience another small miracle reunion of my own by "accidentally" running into the BYU professor whose work I quote the most, Anthony Sweat.

Miracles can and will happen in your life every day as you follow our Savior, Jesus Christ.

8/20/24 2:15 a.m.

Vote for the Truth .org

For months now, I have struggled to discover what my actual campaign message for Governor of Utah this year will be, as I am on the ballot in November as an Unaffiliated Candidate. I have registered numerous URLs that I thought might work at different times

This early morning, I have made my choice, and will be putting up a new site as soon as possible. My first real campaign event is this coming Wednesday night at UVU, so it's not a moment too soon.

I encourage everyone to vote for the truth, the truth as they know it. As we go through life, we go through numerous versions of the truth. I know that I have, and that has made living with me hard for all who have had to do that. My Truth is Jesus Christ. Jesus is God of Gods, and Lord of Lords, in something we call the Body of Christ. We are all children of God, and destined to be as God. Yet we all our own unique and special path to become as God. 

It is important to know that you are not, and will never be, God. But you are, and always have been, a child of God, and ever growing to be more like God.

Your place in the universe is uniquely yours. You are here to explore, discover and learn. You will, as I have and will, follow many paths that are dead ends, yet they still help you through this maze of life. We each learn the good, often by understanding its opposite.

We live in an age of imperfect civil government. Those who are as God, let's call them Saints, need no civil government as they govern themselves and their families. Yet those who are not yet as God, let's call them humans, need civil government to restrain them from hurting themselves or others as they learn.

The solution is not more civil government or less civil government, it is to have more Saints. And the good news is that every single human will one day be a Saint as they walk the path to eternal life.

My name is Tom Tomeny, and this is my life message. Vote for your truth, every single day, and remain open to the fact that your truth is not yet the Truth, for the Truth is the head of the Body of Christ, the One who was, and is, and is to come, Jesus Christ. 

8/19/24 2:20 a.m.

A Day of Repentance

Yesterday, during the Sunday morning session of our Stake Conference, I finally became aware of how frequently I have failed my serial wives and families.

I have been an ardent adult follower of Jesus since a "Road to Damascus" experience in 1991. The mistake I made then, and have continued to make, is to make my journey towards Jesus a solo one. I have not been near as patient and kind to my wives as we are called to be. I pursued my own spiritual progression without keeping each wife along side me for that progression.

My first wife, Kari, helped me back to Christ after I had fallen in love with money and power in my 20's. She was and is a great Christian woman, as her life is one of the Way of Jesus.

My second wife, Eden, in a very short marriage that was annulled, had a spiritual background so dissimilar from mine that the marriage likely never had a chance. I failed to recognize this and was not the husband she needed at all. 

My third wife, CC, was also a short marriage, of only nine months. As a recent convert to the Church of Jesus Christ, of Latter-day Saints, I was taking on much more than I could possibly handle as her spiritual condition was uniquely challenging. While she was and is as spiritually ambitious as me, she too appears to be focused on her solo progress, and has left several husbands behind.

And I continue to fail my amazing current wife in many ways, as I fail to understand her perspectives. 

Righteous words and actions towards all others, in the Way of Jesus, must come after truly listening and understanding each other. Instead of doing that, I have been listening too little, and responding too soon, thinking I am doing the good for another. 

It is not a matter of salvation, but of exaltation. President Nelson taught, in May of 2019, "that salvation is an individual matter, but exaltation is a family matter".

I did not understand that principle well then, but am on the way to understanding it now. 

I now feel ultimately responsible for my son's death at age 14 in 2005 of a brain tumor. Before we broke his heart and he got sick, my wife and I had the most horrible fight that  I can imagine. It was over the course and direction of our family's life, involving a job and location change.

In retrospect, God had created a way for this situation to never arise, as I had several good opportunities to lead our family into the true Church but I failed to do so based upon my preconceptions of "Mormons". If we had been on the covenant path together at that time, we could have avoided so much calamity. 

I had close contact with two priesthood holders about 25  years ago. Being more curious about their faith, rather than dismissing it, would have allowed our family to begin learning and progressing towards the Truth way back then, and what could the results have been?

But I did not do so, as I was so confident of my then spiritual understanding being correct. And this remains the case until today, as I have continued to make the mistake of not going at a pace that most anyone else can reasonably follow.

Jesus, by His grace, has allowed me to make spiritual progress that is far beyond what I ever imagined possible in this life. But even as my calling and election is sure, I have been travelling mostly alone, as I have left my families behind.

This is my new and ongoing challenge, to run the race that Paul spoke of with my wife and family. To make their progression my goal instead of my progression.

It is a race that can be won, day by day. I will report back here as to how we are doing.

8/18/24 7:30 a.m.

On the Second Comforter

Last night, at Stake Conference, President Kanahele presented a marvelous graph, pasted below, of where we can be in relation to Jesus Christ. He properly emphasized that to be exalted, we need the Second Comforter. As someone who has received the Second Comforter, I cannot agree more. 

You can have sure knowledge of  your election and calling when you see and speak to Jesus face to face. I have done so many times. A very memorable occasion was in the spring of 2017, when He gave me the name Treyeshua, for He told me that I live in Him, and his mother addressed Him by His Aramaic name, Yeshua, and that He lives in me, and the name Treyeshua reflects the name my mother has always addressed me by, Trey, and His name, with each of us sharing the most  important question and letter of our existence, Y.

Y is the "symbol of the son of man" as mentioned in the Book of Matthew. It appears in the sky over the BYU campus on those moonless nights when BYU chooses to illuminate it. It is painted on Y Mountain, but is obviously there when there is sufficient light. But on, illuminated on totally dark nights, it appears to float in the air above His University.

Read the graph below carefully. You may have arrived but not yet truly arrived. When you are able, by your choices, to stand in the presence of Jesus, you will, by His grace, stand in the presence of Jesus and see His face, in flesh and blood, right in front of you. You will converse with Him even as you converse with any other person. This is the condition to dwell in His presence, in eternal life, which can start now, if you so choose to see Him as He is.

8/18/24 7:00 a.m.

Reflections on My Day in Court

I was given revelation this morning on how to still prove my innocence if Judge Eldridge were to find me guilty in the City of Orem Disorderly Conduct case. 

The only way to appeal a District Court ruling that was already an appeal from a Justice Court ruling is to appeal on constitutional grounds.

The Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution requires that, when on trial, we come face to face with our accuser.

My accuser in this case was Gabriel Guerrero, and he was not a witness in this trial last Friday. 

Orem City Prosecutor Alliisa Leon lied to the judge in her opening and closing statement, that "the police had to be called twice" in this incident. Both calls were to the police were prompted by Gabriel Guerrero, who was not a called as a witness against me in either trial. Leo Blanco made the first call at the urging of Mr. Guerrero, and it was Guerrero who spoke to the police as the accuser both times. The big lie from the prosecutor was that the police had to be called, at all. 

This whole circus is the responsibility of Mr. Guerrero, and he surely knows it. Someone told him he has moved out of state, and this may be part of the reason.

8/17/24 9:00 a.m.

The Pastor Conversion Campaign?

This is a thought I had as I left home this morning to attend the Bible study at the Provo Seventh Day Adventist Church, as I try to do on Saturday Sabbath mornings when possible. 

One of the most effective recent converts to our Church is David Alexander, who previously served as a pastor in several churches of his own creation.

Our world is full of churches of their own creation, commonly called Megachurches, led by Megapastors.  These men and women have heard the call of Jesus,  but not yet fully understood that call. 

In their enthusiasm to soon bring the Word of God to as many as possible, they overlook what it means to truly follow Jesus. Jesus did not build His Kingdom in mortality,  He deferred all power and honor and glory to His Father. He did not become a megapastor, he became a suffering servant on a cross.

To my understanding megapastors, like megapoliticians, build their own kingdoms rather than the Kingdom of God.

Our True Church has, since its inception, been the target for attacks from the megapastor churches. We are rightfully perceived as a threat to the kingdoms they have built, as all kingdoms other than the Kingdom are not ultimately of God.

We have adopted a defensive stature, and stayed in that posture.

This idea, of a Pastor Conversion Campaign, is for us to go on offense. Not with the weapon of Satan, but with God's weapon of Love. 

An effective Pastor Conversion Campaign will rightfully affirm all that is good and true in all other churches and their pastors. 

And, rather than accusing them of untruth, gracefully walk along side them as we live in the Truth. 

They shall see and follow as we grow great love for each other.

8/17/24 6:15 a.m.

An Extraordinary Encounter with my Covenant Companion

Last Wednesday, 8/14/24, I had an extraordinary encounter as my CC showed up at a time and place where she surely should have known I would be. It was a regular meeting of a weekly event called One Million Cups, where entrepreneurs gather to share business ideas. 

CC and I first met, in 2019 at a One Million Cups event, then held in Provo, Utah.

And I proposed to her on the stage of a One Million Cups event, the one in Provo, Utah as I made a somewhat phony presentation to the group for the express purpose of surprising her with my proposal. Somewhere there is professionally shot video of that proposal.

But this day was a wholly different CC from five years ago. She appears to me to have descended into hell on her life's journey due to her creating her own alternate reality. 

To protect myself from more false accusations from her, I audio recorded everything after I saw that she was there. 

And then something wild happened.  The scheduled presenter failed to show for the event, and the moderator, my friend Jim Beckstrom, who had likely not seen CC since her break with me, invited her to be the presenter. 

That's when I used my second phone to make a video recording of her presentation, holding it in my right hand so she could clearly see that she was being video recorded by me.

CC spent about 13 minutes making what I hope is the most unusual presentation in any Million Cups event ever. She appeared to me to be semi-psychotic, as, instead of talking about her business, she rambled on and on about her personal life, her genealogy, and her scrambled hopes and dreams. Jim interrupted to get her on business track after about 8 minutes had passed, but she soon returned to her rambling thoughts.

I asked her, publicly at the end of her presentation, to consider writing her own LifeBook similar to this one, as it would be a way for her story to get out to the world eventually. She answered that her story is her property and she would not release it without copyright protection as she feared that others would change her story. The beauty of this LifeBook method is that no one can ordinarily change your story, as it is published on a site that you control.

Later in the day, I shared the video with my wife, who gained a deeper understanding of who CC is, and the challenges she faces. We concurred that CC has had a pure heart for the world, yet has been caught in the grasp of evil as she continues to spiral down towards the outer darkness as she lives in her alternate reality.  Perhaps CC's LifeBook is the one that all need to read to understand how God works in each of our innermost beings.

The next day, after a long phone conversation, I shared the video with her dear mother, who I believe then began to share it with other  family members.  I hope and pray that CC will soon get to the end of her false reality and be restored to who she was, and is, meant to be. I pray for her daily that she will again walk closely with Jesus Christ and receive the healing that only He provides.

8/17/24 5:30 a.m.

My Day in Court

Yesterday, I represented myself in a bench trial in the 4th District Court located in Spanish Fork, Utah. No verdict was rendered as the Judge promised to examine the evidence more thoroughly prior to issuing his ruling.

I have written extensively about this case on my tomtomeny.com site. 

Most fundamentally, it is an example of what Jesus said in the Sermon on the Mount, that His true followers will be falsely accused. 

This judge, Jared Eldridge, appears to me to be a true Jesus follower himself, so I have hope the verdict will be favorable. I believe the Spirit of God will move in him as he further evaluates the evidence. 

The principal witness against me, Leo Blanco, hurt my soul for him as he descended deeper into a web of lies he has spun. Since this was an appeal of an Orem Justice Court guilty verdict, it was essentially a do over of a trial that occurred last February. In the first trial Blanco made several outrageous lies about what happened, and yesterday he further enhanced those lies. Fortunately, there is an audio recording that refutes the worst of the lies, and it is the part of the evidence that Judge Eldridge will be reviewing.

I was a terrible imitation of a lawyer in defending myself. I struggle to maintain my composure when wading through a sea of lies. If you are blessed to be a Temple worthy Latter Day Saint, you are familiar with the atmosphere of the Temple, where Truth resides. That court room yesterday felt like a place of Truth at the beginning, but the atmosphere grew very dark as the lies came forth. 

The Accuser in this case is particularly influential in the Orem City prosecutor, who lives with a false narrative of this case she sincerely believes, despite all the clear evidence to the contrary. She is surely a wonderful child of God, so I am a little lost on the how and why that she  is being used for God's ultimate purpose in all this. Being a prosecutor, essentially a professional Accuser, is surely a very challenging job, it was the job that Paul the Apostle had 2000 years ago before he famously met Jesus on the road to Damascus. I am as sure as ever that God works all things for good.

8/15/24 6:00 a.m.

Tesla Brings Zion?

The arrival of AI and hubots is soon upon us. Tesla is the leader in these technologies. The world's people will soon be divided into those who own Tesla stock, and are continuously getting wealthier and those who don't and are becoming relatively less wealthy.

I write today to two groups of which I am a member, Tesla stockholders and Latter Day Saints. I am calling Tesla stockholders to become Latter Day Saints and for Latter Day Saints to become Tesla stockholders.

I work no job for money, instead I borrow against my Tesla shares to meet my living expenses, which is tax free.

But without meaningful work, life is empty. 

The meaningful work I do is to build up Zion, the Kingdom of God, right here, right now, on Earth.

Gathering all unto Zion is THE meaningful work we came to Earth to do. 

Doing that work is as simple as listening to and loving every single individual you encounter, in the real or virtual world, every single day.

The deepest desire of each of us is to be loved. 

As you listen to and love others, you not only become loved, you eventually become Love, even as God is Love. 

And you also gain Wisdom, the Wisdom of God. You become, as God, Wisdom and Love.

As Wisdom and Love, you are freed from the toil of ordinary work, free to do the work of Jesus, to spread His Wisdom and Love to all.

Elon Musk is not a Latter Day Saint, yet. But he is working in the Way of Jesus, by being Wisdom and Love to those around him and the world. And his right hand man is a Latter Day Saint.

So work in the Way of Jesus, as Elon does. And be then a Saint, either working with limited power on your own, or joining in the work with the true Church of Jesus Christ, of Latter-day Saints.

8/14/24 4:00 a.m.

More Saints = More Freedom

I support Phil Lyman and his write in campaign, even as I am an opponent since I will be on the ballot for Governor of Utah this year as an Unaffiliated Candidate.

The most important work being done in Utah, and in the world, is converting ordinary people into Saints of God. Some of those are Latter Day Saints, while others are in other religious traditions, or have no institutional religion at all. 

Saints, of any religion or non-religion, govern themselves. We don't need laws or government to limit the freedom of Saints, we need them to protect all from those who are not yet Saints, who do things to harm both themselves and others.

The best way to do this is not with laws or government, but with good strong families. 

And this is where the line can and should be drawn. We need to elect people, no matter what faults they have, and I have many, that comprehend that big government is the opposite of strong families. 

You are lying to yourself and all if you are advocating for bigger government, because that is always anti-family. It appears to me that both of our major party candidates in Utah this year are telling that lie. 

Neither Phil Lyman or myself have much chance of being elected this year. But please vote for one of us or other non-major party candidates this year. Vote for what is good, and trust that Jesus will work all things for our good if evil prevails yet again for a short season. 

8/13/24 1:56 a.m.

I am now listening to the Trump/Musk conversation first aired on X, on a Facebook recording. 

This, to me, is a breakthrough in political discourse. I feel I understand Trump better than ever before due to the long form content. And I will probably vote for him, something I have not done before. He, like me, and you, is a very flawed person. But, in listening, his heart is in the right place. He is deeply committed to improving our country, even as some of his ideas are not what I would advocate or prioritize.

I hope that Kamala Harris will also do a long form conversation with a very successful person if not Elon Musk himself. So we can see where her heart is and give her the same chance to be herself as it appears to me that Trump did with Elon.

And I hope someone successful will have a long form conversation with me to post on my election website. 

8/11/24 3:56 a.m.

Is Elon Musk as God?

"He is a very good and honorable person. He's trying to do right by the world." Cathy Wood, a devout follower of Jesus

As a member of the Church of Jesus Christ, of Latter-day Saints, we believe our purpose in life is to become as God. Scripture tells us that Jesus is the Lord of lords, and the God of gods. Is it possible that Elon Musk, who is not a member, is far along in being as God?

I believe he is. Elon speaks and creation results, even as God spoke this whole world into existence. If you are familiar with my generalization of Wisdom, titled Your 1 Choice, Elon clearly is on upper rungs of his stairway to heaven. He is a good man doing good things, without regard for his own person, but with all regard for serving others. 

His wealth and fame is a result of his goodness. He has come into by honesty and hard work. Like Jesus, he shows us the Way of Jesus.

8/11/24 2:10 a.m.

Adding a Third Section

I am now going to add a third main section to this LifeBook, and titling it "Lessons Learning".

Our purpose of living here is to learn, to learn as individuals, to learn as families, and to learn as a worldwide society. 

Everything that happens to everyone, individually and collectively, is eventually for our good, as that is the promise of God in scripture and by His very nature. 

This is impossible to believe unless we think celestial, which is the admonition of Russell M. Nelson, the current Prophet on Earth, as he is the President of the Church of Jesus Christ, of Latter-day Saints. 

Thinking celestial means to think from the perspective of God, outside of applying time and place. It is only with a celestial understanding that we can understand the "good" of the most terrible of evils, 

This is, to me now, the ultimate lesson learning. To understand that even the most terrible of evils, brought into this world not by God but by the choices of people who have been granted the great gift of free agency, are still eventually worked, by God, into something good for all. 

Then there are, and will be, many more specific lessons learned and still learning, in me, and in you. This section describes how that happened, and is happening, in me, as I constantly ask the question, in every circumstance, good and evil, what God wants me to learn now, to become more like Him, even Jesus Christ.

8/11/24 1:45 a.m.

On Naming Names

A few of the earliest readers of this LifeBook have had concerns about the fact that I name names of those who I feel have done evil against me during this saga that was essential to forming my character to be more like Jesus. 

No person named in this true story had had their name mentioned without considerable prayer and reflection, and without me attempting to use the three step process prescribed in Matthew 18:15-17 before naming them, and their offense, in this work.

Matthew 18:15-17 is the process I learned well while being a leader at Legacy Christian Academy, which I helped found in 1999, and Coram Deo Academy, which I helped found in 2000, both very significant ministries today, in the Dallas, Texas area.

It is a three step process, if you feel someone has sinned against you, go to the them in private and share your concern. In many cases you both learn it was a simple misunderstanding. Sometimes what happened is truly sinful, not only were you harmed, but it was intentional harm, and then you ask them to repent and offer restitution. If they refuse, go to them again, with several other witnesses, and ask them again to repent. If they refuse to repent, the third step is to let all who might also be harmed by them know their name and reasonable details of why you are publicly naming them for that transgression, again in hopes that they repent. While it is a process that God commands us to use, it is still not appropriate to use in most cases, as the greater commandment of God is to show grace and mercy towards all, even as He does, and let small matters go, as they are surely mistakes, and we all learn by our mistakes.

There are many times and circumstances where this process cannot be followed exactly. For instance, one of the largest sins against me in this story was by a Detective Potts, of the Saratoga Springs Police Department, who had me jailed, my first time ever at age 60, for six days for things that are and were not even remotely criminal. He is either very foolish or did, in my case, something very evil. Because of his position of authority, I did not contact him directly, but reported his conduct to the Saratoga Springs police department, and it was after that report that he had me jailed. 

Yet, as all things work for good to those who love the Lord and are called by Him (Romans 8:28), those agonizing days in jail have and will work for good, for my good, and for the good of all as I expose the injustices found there. 

8/9/24

Prosecutors, are they Evil?

Next Friday, I am scheduled to go on trial for a legal infraction, similar to a speeding ticket in severity, for Disorderly Conduct. This is my second trial for the same offense, I was found guilty the first time, but Utah law allows for a new trial in District Court as Justice Court judges are often not as understanding of the law as they could be and are far too intimate with the same prosecutors they see before them day after day.

Prosecutors who appear in front of the same Justice Court judge know that judge well, and therefore naturally tailor their arguments to that judge. This is not evil, but understandable. 

As a follower of Jesus, who closely studies scripture, there, one of the names for Evil in our world is The Accuser. Prosecutors, by their necessary line of work, are Accusers. This makes them perhaps the most important people in our legal system. They are surely in a position to do the most evil. We have seen this lately on the national scale as individual prosecutors have tried to sway elections with malicious prosecutions. 

But while I would never argue that Prosecutors are evil, as children of God are not inherently evil, they are in a special position to do evil, and that is what multiple prosecutors have done to me, and completely separately to my best friend, Lans Taylor, he is my running mate, running for Lt. Governor this year, and I suggest if this topic is of interest to you, that you take the time to read about how evil actions by prosecutors destroyed his career as a renowned scientist. 

In my case, prosecutors from the City of Orem, where I live, are doing evil to me and our community by pushing false narrative about what happened to me as the victim of two men who thought they could use lawfare against me to advance their own interests. Both of them called in false police reports alleging I was fighting in a public place on two occasions, with two different parties. 

Dispatchers take reports of fighting very seriously and on both reports, a large number of police responded. Unbelievably, to me, the most junior officer there became the person to charge me with Disorderly Conduct, for making loud noises in a public place, which I did do, in a reasonable way, which is not illegal. This charge began a chain of events that has been incredibly costly to me, my family, and the City of Orem.

A wise prosecutor would likely have understood what happened and not brought the charges. I have had the good fortune to have wise prosecutors review other cases in my recent past and decide not to bring charges. 

But, in this case, an apparently unwise prosecutor did what many prosecutors are prone to do, create a false narrative, and then charge me with a crime. In this case, that prosecutor also then withdrew himself from the case. 

His replacement on the case, a part time prosecutor, and I hope for the right reason that she is putting her family first, took up his narrative as truth and has worked the case on that basis. So she is doing evil, not because she wants to do evil, but because she has been deceived by her own culture of having to act as the Accuser in so many cases where that must be done, that she apparently sees charged citizens as criminals instead of as, in other many cases, victims of false charges made by unwise police, often the most inexperienced.

I am writing this article to let a small slice of the world know about the spiritual battle that prosecutors are forced to go through as they do their jobs. Please join me in praying for them as they have a tremendously difficult job, literally having to do the work of Satan, be The Accuser, while trying to do justice. They have to do this as they are constantly bombarded with lies from witnesses who are trying to advance their own selfish agendas. 

Prosecutors are not evil, but their work requires them to make judgements about many people who have done evil. In the course of this work, it appears to me that many harden their hearts and start to do evil themselves, as they view charged people as evil doers, rather than as innocents until proven guilty, and then construct false narratives in an attempt to prove the innocent guilty. 

8/8/24 8:28 a.m.

To live for others, or not. 

Living for others is God's Way. God is Wisdom and Love. As you Love, you become Wise.

This is the key to abundant and eternal life. Living this message, and spreading this message, brings joy.

You are always standing on an infinite spiral staircase.

As you choose to love and serve others, you are lifted up to be as God. You bring joy to others and experience joy.

At those times you choose not to love and serve others, you descend the spiral, and experience depression.

Every moment of your life gives you an opportunity to love and serve others. In person, and virtually. 

Spread this message, always, and experience joy, always.

1. The Consequences of Not Living for Others

When you don't follow God's Way and live for others, you become the opposite of Wise, you become Foolish. The Wise and the Foolish live in two completely diffferent worlds, heavenly or hellish, as with Wisdom comes Faith, Hope, and Love, the great gifts of God to those that walk in His Way.

2. The Source of All Conflict

As the Wise and the Foolish live in different worlds, they see the world through different lenses. They then do battle with others over what is true. This is the source of increasing contention in the world, as the Wise are granted more Wisdom and the Foolish, more foolishness. 

3. The Example of Jesus

Jesus became famous by spreading this message, even dying to spread it, and rising to prove His Truth. But you don't have to know the name of Jesus to follow in His Way, some religion may help, but no religion is necessary to follow in His Way, to live for others, by serving others.

This message is brought to you by Treyeshua. I was given that name by Jesus in a sacred encounter with him that occurred before I joined the Church of Jesus Christ, of Latter-day Saints in 2017 after years of working my way through many different religions.  My legal name is Tom Tomeny, and I am on the ballot for Governor of Utah in 2024, as yet another way to spread this message. That site is Vote the Jesus Way. Another site that may interest you is my life story of how this message was discovered and became my one message, that site is My Life of LIght. 

May the Lord of all, the King of kings, and the Lord of lords, by whatever name you know Him, bless you and keep you and have your eyes shine His countenance upon all those you encounter. As we all do so, we not only experience heaven individually, but turn Earth into Heaven as it was ever meant to be.

8/8/24 1:34 a.m.

Just over an hour ago, the State of Utah executed a man who committed a horrible crime 25 years ago at the age of 22 when out of his right mind on drugs and alcohol. I went for a walk and wept after reading the story of tonight's events. I wept for all of us, especially the victims of that crime and even for the perpetrator of the crime who was executed. I follow Jesus, and Jesus is pro-life, all the time, for all. 

The perpetrator, and all perpetrators, are victims of their upbringing. And then we all become their victims as hurt people hurt people. An execution is a moral failure of all. We, as a society, have grown up enough to comprehend that the death penalty does not work. It does not prevent horrible crimes, and it does not lead the perpetrator to restoration. 

Technology solves problems, and with technology, violent people can do meaningful work to serve others even if they must live separately from others as long as they are still a threat to others. Through meaningful work to serve others, violent people can be restored to good mental health and no longer be violent. 

I not only oppose the death penalty, I oppose life sentences with no possibility of parole. God has the power to restore all, and only He has the right to determine each person's end of this mortal life. All people must have hope at all times in order to have the proper incentive to love and serve others, and loving and serving others is the way of restoration for all of God's children who have deviated from God's Way of Love that gives Wisdom.

8/7/24 3:37 a.m.

God is Wisdom and Love

Know this to know God and to know yourself.

To understand this is to understand everything.

Every moment of your life, you face one choice, the choice to love or not love.

To love is to do that which serves others.

To not love is to do that which serves only yourself.

God has eternally made the choice to love you, and all.

To give the gift of love is your choice is to walk on the path of wisdom. 

To not give love is the choice to walk the path of foolishness.

God gives wisdom as you love, and you choose to be foolish as you do not.

You live, at each moment, on your chosen path.

As you give love, you become wise, and as you don’t, you become foolish.

You are here to give love and gain wisdom. This is the purpose of life.

As you give love, your world gets wiser. As we all give love, the world gets wiser.

All conflict in the world is between the wise and the foolish.

The wise are as God, giving love to all, all the time, in wise ways.

The foolish are anti-God, not loving all, all the time.

All Godly religions are efforts to teach you this Truth. 

Choosing to love is religion independent, as gifts of love are religion independent.

Be as God, love all, all the time, using the wisdom you get as you do so.

Then you are wisdom and love and eternally alive.

7/30/24 10:30 p.m.

An email sent to my Bishop

Bishop:

While I appreciate your heart in inviting us to self reliance classes, I don't think you understand how "self reliance" works for those, like me, who understand Kingdom living.

For those who live in Jesus' Kingdom, there is no self reliance, but rather Jesus reliance.

I wake up every morning and work all day, every day to build His Kingdom, as per President Nelson's favorite Bible verse, from the Sermon on the Mount, "But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you."

As I do my part, Jesus does His part and blesses me with all I need and more, often tax and tithe free.

In this season, Jesus has blessed me with prophetic insight into vast technology change that is coming, soon.

While it has fallen back a bit, my net worth recently doubled by listening to the promptings of the Spirit to buy Tesla stock, as they are on the verge of revolutionizing transportation worldwide with their self-driving cars, and also revolutionizing manual labor with their humanoid robots. And, for good measure, their energy storage solution effectively doubles to triples the output of every sort of power generation worldwide, by allowing those plants to run steady 24/7 rather than be throttled up and down as supply and demand fluctuate.

Knowing that the price of Tesla stock will be up at least 10x in the next five years or so as it has become an Innovation Engine, allows me to be free of financial worries. For I know that as I work for Jesus daily, He will always supply my needs, perhaps with prophetic knowledge of Tesla stock today, or with new prophetic knowledge of something else in the future.

Jesus is truly the source of all that I am and have and will be.

Modern financial markets and practices make it easy to turn prophetic knowledge into cash as needed for living and ministry expenses.

I own my Tesla stock, and my wife owns her Tesla stock, in margin accounts. We try to keep our margin borrowing at about 30% of our asset value, so if our stock holding is one million dollars, our borrowing on that is about $300,000. If the stock were to double in the next year, we would raise our borrowing to $600,000 and use that extra $300,000 for our living expenses and to purchase more stock. We can pay back those loans at anytime, but as long as the internal rate of return in the company behind the stock is several times more than the interest we pay, that makes no sense.

With the long term internal rate of return on well established technology/software companies running over 30%, the interest we pay, on 30 percent of invested funds equal to about 3% of total assets, provides us a tax free return of around 27% on total assets per year. That rate allows us to about triple our assets every three years even after taking out our living expenses.

As long as Jesus is providing prophetic insight, this is a perpetual tax and tithe free money machine, both for us and for those, like my CPA, who also are given the eyes to see and ears to hear that Jesus can and will truly provide all of our needs as we focus our lives on Him and growing His Kingdom rather than worldly pursuits like our own careers or businesses.

I recently shared this knowledge with a good Brother in the Ward, though I am not sure if he has had the faith to act on it.

I am also sharing this knowledge with the whole world soon in one of the latest chapters that will be released of my LifeBook, MyLifeofLight.com, which I am currently advertising on multiple billboards along the Wasatch front.

In my hope, all faithful Latter Day Saints will stop building their own kingdoms, things like your family business, and start solely using their time and talents to build the Kingdom, having faith that Jesus does indeed supply all their needs.

He surely has the resources to provide for all His children.

We must look to Him, and not "self reliance" to supply all of our needs, as He commands us to come unto Him as little children. When we do, He lavishes all blessings and honor and praise on us, as a good father does.

And the work we do, for Him and Him alone, is pure joy as we share the fullness of the Gospel with all we encounter, just as you and all the brethren and sisters who served well remember doing each day on a formal mission.

Our eternal mission and enjoyment of His blessings is eternal, for living through, with, and in Him is eternal life, and it starts the moment we turn fully unto Him.

This is my eternal testimony, please share it with all.

Eternal life in Christ is available to all, starting NOW, even as plainly taught by Amulek in Alma 34.  

In Christ, I am,

Tom (Treyeshua) Tomeny

7/30/24 5:00 a.m.

Yesterday evening was challenging. After dinner my dear extended family of older adults surrounded me with feedback on having read portions of my LifeBook. They appeared to me distressed that the narrative names names. They believe my story can be told without naming names, and that naming names is contentious. 

As of now, I am not rewriting my story to remove names. This is not a decision that has been made lightly, but with much prayer and reflection.

A life of light is lived in the life. There is not a single deed in my remembered past of which I would now be ashamed. There may very well be many that I no longer remember, or those things that are remembered quite differently by others.

All of us used to live in the light. Before the industrial revolution, very few traveled much beyond the village where they were born, lived, and died. Everyone in such a place knew well everyone else. Double lives, of good in one place and evil in others, were much less possible.

Now, many live many different lives. They live in worlds of anonymity instead of light. They hide behind screen names, and allow themselves to have an alter ego, often in addition to an oversized ego.  And I see this even in those who appear to me to be very good people. A popular and influential person on X of the Latter Day Saint community is "Dr. Manhattva" whose name in real life is Ben Carson. He appears to be a wealthy and blessed man who lives in Salt Lake City and has a large ranch in the Park City area. He, somewhat famously, was one of the first people in Utah to own and drive a Tesla Cybertruck. He is an attractive man with a beautiful family. He has explained his semi-anonymity by referring to past threats on himself and his family, yet he clearly has some desire to be real, as he has outed himself on some occasions. This I have trouble understanding.

Each one of us is the only one of us that was, is, and ever shall be. To me, integrity requires that I put my name on my deeds, and allow others to put their names on their deeds. If you don't hide your identity in public, I don't believe it is reasonable to expect others to hide your identity.

We all have done things at times for which we should be ashamed. To me, the answer is not to hide those deeds, it is to repent of those deeds. LIving lives of repentance leads to having much less of which to repent.

Technology now comes full circle. As increased mobility added the opportunity for more anonymity, we now all face a world of increased accountability. We track ourselves everywhere we go with our cell phones. We walk and drive through a world full of always on cameras. Our lives are now recorded externally in the same way God records our lives internally. I know, without doubt, that God hears my every thought. There is no anonymity before God. We can ignore Him but He never ignores each of us. We remain accountable to Him at all times and in all places.

Given that fact, living a transparent life before all is the Way of Jesus. Jesus did have a private life, but that private life was still with His Father, as He did withdraw to pray. We too have an inner prayer life, and that is vital to our existence. But even that inner prayer life is better when shared in public, as I am doing now. 

I, as you, sometimes make wrong choices, but with good intent. That process is called learning, and those choices are mistakes, not sin. We may find, in the end, that there is very little sin in the world, but mountains of mistakes that are condemned as sin by the spirits of evil. We can each make our world, and the world, a much better place by seeing other with the eyes of God, which see not the mistake, but the lessons learned that build eternal character.

7/29/24 7:00 a.m.

I took yesterday's Sabbath off from journaling. When I attend our ward in Orem where we live, I will write a version of a journal post to each of the speakers during sacrament meeting, in the form of an email to them thanking them for the aspects of their talk that impacted me. When visiting somewhere else, such as yesterday, I do not have access to email or text addresses to share with those speakers, do I emailed myself a few notes instead. 

My takeaway from yesterday's meeting was out of a story told by the Sister who spoke. They had visited Sharon, Vermont, the birthplace of Joseph Smith Jr. and discovered they were very near the Appalachian Trail. As they wanted to to hike a small portion of it, they went looking for signs, but found none, Stopping to speak with a woman who was tending her garden, they learned that the signs were always being stolen, so instead look for trees with a square of white paint on them that mark the trail. You have to know this secret to stay on the trail.

This occurred to me to be related to the covenant path. It is marked well, but not always obviously so until you are given eyes to see and ears to hear by Jesus. Then you will see His signs (and wonders and miracles) about everywhere you look.  His signs have His "white" light, and are "square" reflecting His order in an otherwise chaotic world. Follow His signs and you will be led to greener and greener pastures.

7/27/24, around 10:30 p.m., PDT

As is often the case, I went to bed Drop Dead Exhausted, around 7:00 p.m. tonight. DDE is often my state of being at the end of a day of listening, learning, and loving. And one day often involves multiple days, as I seem to work on a schedule of rising from dead sleep to life and and back again several times in a 24 hour day. The time of revelation in each of these time segments is what inevitably awakes me. When I receive fresh personal revelation I often feel compelled to write it down, which often means getting out of bed and going to a computer with a full keyboard. This schedule works well for me but is very tough on my wife, who keeps a more conventional schedule, and indeed was tough on previous wives, whose schedules I also interrupted.

I am not alone in this schedule. It is my understanding it was the schedule of Thomas Edison, and now of Elon Musk. Those two men have sent the standard for lives that were extremely productive, both for them and their fellow Earth beings. Those two men are historically renowned for their temporal, technological achievements. Yet there is a least one man who has even greater achievements, as his are not only temporal, but spiritual and eternal. HIs name is Russell M. Nelson and he is now approaching his 100th birthday and appears to be as sharp as ever. He is the current Prophet and President of the Church of Jesus Christ, of Latter-day Saints and, according to my sources, the oldest Jesus following religious leader since Joshua in the Old Testament, who lived around 5,000 years ago, as he was Moses' successor. His wife has testified repeatedly that his schedule is as mine.

It is my understanding that such a schedule is evidence of "life in the Spirit" in contrast to "life in the world". Life in the Spirit is eternal life, life that has begun for that individual after a new birth, the birth of the Spirit in you, named within my Church the baptism of fire and the Holy Ghost, and in other churches as the Pentecost experience, being truly born again, or simply "the quickening". Life in the Spirit is when your will has been exchanged for the will of God, sometimes it is also known as the Great Exchange. About 7 years ago, after my very own great exchange, which happened on January 26, 2017 at 2:00 p.m. MST at my then home in Idaho Springs, Colorado, I discovered a book with short biographies of others who had gone through the Great Exchange, most of them famous Christian workers who lived in the past few centuries. That book is called They Found the Secret, first published in 1960, the year I was born.

None of these extraordinary people were Latter Day Saints, yet, as I looked upon the testimonies on the internet back in 2017 to discover what had happened to me, most of those with testimonies of this great exchange I found then were Latter Day Saints. In fact, going through this great exchange is so ordinary for Latter Day Saints that, as per 3 Nephi 9:20, many who have received this most supernal of gifts are unaware of having received it, as their lives have naturally progressed at a young age from saintly attitudes and actions to saint status within the Kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Progression in this life has at least three major stages, of which the Bible and I testify. You are first part of the great unwashed, those who don't know and follow Jesus and have not yet made a commitment to Him that is shared with the world by public baptism in water. Doing so makes you a disciple of Jesus, but not yet a true saint. After a time as a disciple, Jesus HImself confers the baptism of fire upon you, even as happened to the ancient disciples on that certain Pentecost, about 2000 years ago in an upper room. It is only then that you are endowed with the true power of God, to speak and act in His name, as you have access to the mind of Christ. This power is given by Christ, as per John 3:8, as the wind of the Spirit blows as it will, to individuals that are strategically placed in time and space to advance His will  This explains the miraculous appearance of some in history whose power in God is at the time was unprecedented, saints of God like Joan of Arc, St. Patrick, and St Francis.

And this same power is available to you, as to me, today. A favorite recent example to me is Eugene Peterson, the author of a paraphrased Bible translation called The Message. Or Richard Rohr, a Catholic priest of much renown. These saints of God are not perfect, yet surely progressing towards perfection as they live lives wholly devoted to the cause of Christ, yet tainted by the traditions from which they arose. In my Church, I would count all of our leaders as being in this way of being, even as most, in humility, are not yet widely known. As far as I can discern, having been truly blessed with the actual power of God is the prerequisite for our Church leadership. Yet, even as Jesus was, with Judas in His own inner circle of apostles, we must be wary of wolves clothed as sheep. Some accuse me of being a wolf clothed as a sheep, and all I can say to that, as Jesus did, is to consider the fruit. Does what I say, write, and do build up or tear down the lives of others who choose to follow me? You can be the judge of that as I try to live a life of atonement. 

Those who criticize the ministries of saints are those who do not yet follow the Way of Jesus, so their lives are a reflection of their choices, and surely not of the true saints.

There are many theological theories of atonement, and I suppose all have elements of truth. The one that, by far, makes the most sense to me is Exemplary Atonement, that Jesus lived and lives a life to show us His Way, which is to have grace, mercy, and forgiveness for all around us, giving our life as a living sacrifice to others, even unto death. His is the great and first Atonement, when He showed us the Way as He ascended to the throne of glory, as King of Kings, Lord of Lords, our Savior, Jesus Christ.

7/27/24. around 2 p.m.

7/26/24

The great gift of God to eaoh of us is free agency, the ability to choose.

The great transformation in us occurs after we give that gift back to God, vowing as Jesus did, "not my will, but thy will".

This is the rock on which relationships are found.

Our most important relationship is with our spouse, ideally an eternal covenant companion.

The will of God for our lives is hard to discern when we are immature, yet it is simple, to love others as we love ourselves.

And the beginning of loving others is to love one other. That one other is our covenant companion. 

To be one with our covenant companion requires us to extend grace, mercy, and forgiveness to their every word and deed. To be as accepting of them as of God, to be willing for our life to become as hell, for a time, that they may experience heaven.

They, and we, can only experience heaven if that is our heart's desire. So the conflict that arises is what to do if your spouse's desire is not heavenly? When to say NO instead of Yes to your spouse?

I have a covenant companion who has said NO to me, the CC of this book. Her desires are clearly not for heaven, where God's will is the will of all, but for hell, where her will rules supreme.

And I have acceded to her will, and seen her life devolve into hell. Her family and I have left her in her outer darkness as we pray for repentance.

My life has, in contrast, evolved into heaven, as I have a wife who, while not my covenant companion, lives and understands the will of God.

Together we pray for CC. That she will choose to leave her outer darkness and come back into the light, through the only door that allows that, the door of repentance.

And we ourselves live a life of daily repentance, ever reflecting upon the contrast between our thoughts and deeds and the perfection that is possible through, with, and in living the will of our God, Lord, and Savior, Jesus Christ

7/26/24

Welcome to the first entry into my LifeJournal. It is a record of my prayer time. The time of day that is intentionally set aside for me to record the conversation with me. We are all, for the lack of a better term, bipolar. We live our individual lives and we live our communal lives. When we pray we focus on the internal dialogue between me and we. By writing down that conversation we can grow far more quickly, as we can invite others into the conversation, and review our previous conversations. 

The format I plan to use for my daily journal entries is yesterday, today, and tomorrow. 

Yesterday was an amazing day. My amazing wife put together a completely new, to us, dinner recipe. I named it Pho El, as it was a broth full of vegetables, a small bit of leftover pork slices, and really fat noodles. We ate with Bill, Eric, Susan, Kimberly, my mom, and us, with all 7 of us gathered around a barely large enough table in Robert and Susan's house. Robert is bedridden so he enjoyed his Pho El separately.

Yesterday I received the revelation of purpose for my book. It is the first entry into the LifeBook Library.

Yesterday I struggled against a corporate behemoth, Ameritas Life Insurance. We need to get the cash out of my mother's annuity with them to pay for her care. They, for 10 weeks now, have been stalling on giving us the cash. If we had that cash 10 weeks ago, it would have been invested in Tesla shares, and be worth about 30% more over just that 10 weeks. So I did a bit of research and found a lawyer who is already suing Ameritas for shady practices. He returned my voicemail, and I hope to speak to him today.

Today is 3:39 a.m. I got out of bed to write this first journal entry, and am looking forward to going back to bed to be with my beloved Ellice. I registered the URL LifeBookLibrary this morning, and envision it being the repository of billions of LifeBooks, edited by LifeLivers from their LifeJournals, as they live lives of LifePrayer. 

There are two tasks on my calendar today. One is to speak with a Catholic priest, 28 year old Father Barbarossa of Gray's Harbor, where he attends to 7 different congregations. My core question for him is how can the Roman Catholic church possibly be true when it's clergy all vow to break the first commandment of God, to be fruitful and multiply?

My wife would like to attend a farmer's market today that is quite a distance away, hopefully my meeting with Father Barbarossa is short enough to allow that. And we need to bring back 16' long deck boards for the house that need to be replaced as they are rotting.

Tomorrow is the Jewish Sabbath. When possible, I love to attend a church service on the Sabbath, often with the Seventh Day Adventists. There is no close congregation so that may not be happening.

Prior to starting this journal, I used Facebook like a journal. The posts from here backward have been copied and pasted from Facebook. I received the sure knowledge of my election and salvation in the spring of 2017, when I had an undeniable face to face conversation with Jesus. At that time he gave me the name Treyeshua. My Facebook name since then has been Treyeshua Tomeny.