061024, Monday, Journal Entry

 Vitals:  Weight 231.2

Book of Mormon Review Reading: The Words of Mormon

Journal Entry: 

I wonder if I should keep mentioning how much pain I'm in... I don't really feel comfortable sounding like I'm complaining. But yesterday I was hurting all day. I finally took probably too many pain pills last night so I could sleep a little. Went to bed early and got maybe five hours of sleep. I got up at about 0200 and slept off and on in my Lazy Boy recliner for a couple of hours.

I'm going this morning to see Dr. Jon Kimball, the surgeon who operated in my spine a couple of years ago. Hopefully he'll have some solution. 

Right now, my left leg and hip are weak and it's difficult for me to move around much but I can if I push it. I have a temple shift Wednesday morning, day after tomorrow, then two weeks off before I go to the 2nd shift. I would like to serve at the Bishops Storehouse tomorrow if I can do so with Cathy's approval. She takes good care of me. We'll see.

I also have my first physical therapy session scheduled for this afternoon. This was done at Dr. Gordon's direction and we'll run it by Dr. Kimball and see what he has to say.

My unlearned opinion is that I have nerve damage in my lower spine that might be correctable with surgery. Stay tuned.

Come Follow Me 

Alma 5: 14 And now behold, I ask of you, my brethren of the church, have ye spiritually been born of God? Have ye received his image in your countenances? Have ye experienced this mighty change in your hearts?

"The purpose and purification, the happiness and joy, and the continuing conversion and protection that come from “yielding [our] hearts unto God” and “[receiving] his image in [our] countenances” cannot be obtained merely by performing and checking off all the spiritual things we are supposed to do. Rather, the power of the Savior’s gospel to transform and bless us flows from discerning and applying the interrelatedness of its doctrine, principles, and practices. Only as we gather together in one all things in Christ, with firm focus upon Him, can gospel truths synergistically enable us to become what God desires us to become and endure valiantly to the end.

The power of the Savior’s gospel to transform and bless us flows from discerning and applying the interrelatedness of its doctrine, principles, and practices."

Elder David A. Bednar Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, October 2018