072824, Sunday

Vitals: Weight 219.8; GMI 6.9

Journal Entry

It's Sunday and I'm still trying to get well. I've found that the discomfort in my right calf muscle is probably related to my spinal surgery. The latest CT Scan revealed that one of the screws in my spine has shifted and is in a position to cause more harm obvious my right calf. Dr Kimball will have more info about that tomorrow morning and there is a plan to surgically correct the situation probably this coming Thursday. In the mean time I have to be very careful to not do anything to aggravate the situation. So life is difficult. It's hard to get through each day knowing I have to be constantly careful more than usual. Walking is difficult but useful so I try to do that as much as possible. The 90 degree plus days make that a little difficult. I think I will be able to go to church today and if like to stay for the whole block... Sacrament and Priesthood meetings. I think I need to just suck it up and get through it. Hopefully I'll know more after I talk to Dr Kimball tomorrow morning. In the meantime we need to be careful with Cathy and her osteoporosis. 

So life's a little stressful right now but I have my strong testimony of Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ and their love for me. I take great comfort in knowing that life is eternal and at some point it will again become wonderful.

Book of Mormon review (review of earlier Come Follow Me assignments): An account of the sons of Mosiah, who rejected their rights to the kingdom for the word of God, and went up to the land of Nephi to preach to the Lamanites; their sufferings and deliverance—according to the record of Alma.

Comprising chapters 17 through 27. Alma 18

Come Follow Me 

Alma 34: 32 For behold, this life is the time for men to prepare to meet God; yea, behold the day of this life is the day for men to perform their labors.

33 And now, as I said unto you before, as ye have had so many witnesses, therefore, I beseech of you that ye do not procrastinate the day of your repentance until the end; for after this day of life, which is given us to prepare for eternity, behold, if we do not improve our time while in this life, then cometh the night of darkness wherein there can be no labor performed.

34 Ye cannot say, when ye are brought to that awful crisis, that I will repent, that I will return to my God. Nay, ye cannot say this; for that same spirit which doth possess your bodies at the time that ye go out of this life, that same spirit will have power to possess your body in that eternal world.

"Repentance begins with our Savior, and it is a joy, not a burden. In last December’s Christmas devotional, President Nelson taught: “True repentance is not an event. It is a never-ending privilege. It is fundamental to progression and having peace of mind, comfort, and joy.”

     President Dallin H. Oaks, First Counselor in the First Presidency

"Procrastination may seem the easy way, as it momentarily removes the effort required to accomplish something of value. Ironically, in time, procrastination produces a heavy burden laced with guilt and a hollow lack of satisfaction. Temporal and, even more importantly, spiritual goals will not be achieved by procrastination.

Now is the time to exercise our faith. Now is the time to commit to righteousness. Now is the time to do whatever is required to resolve our undesired circumstances. Now is the time to reconcile with God through the merciful process of change afforded us by the Redeemer of mankind."

      Elder Donald L. Hallstrom Of the Seventy, April 2019