081324, Tuesday

Vitals: Weight: 218.6, GMI: 6.7, A1C: 6.9

Book of Mormon review (review of earlier Come Follow Me lessons): Alma 34

Journal Entry 

While at Dr. Welch he mentioned that he could see an aneurism near my heart while reviewing the CT scan I had recently related to my spinal surgery. He mentioned that when I see NP Mathers, my cardiologist, in November that I should make sure I get an echocardiogram. All of that caused me some concern so I sent a message to Mathers using the Intermountain Medical app and bottom line, I got my electrocardiogram yesterday. I'm also going to have a CTA thorax whatever that is. I may send up with a stent or stint in my expanding aortic artery. Anyway, too complex for me. I'm just trying to do what I'm told so I last as long as possible.

Come Follow Me 

Alma 45: 16 And he said: Thus saith the Lord God—Cursed shall be the land, yea, this land, unto every nation, kindred, tongue, and people, unto destruction, which do wickedly, when they are fully ripe; and as I have said so shall it be; for this is the cursing and the blessing of God upon the land, for the Lord cannot look upon sin with the least degree of allowance.

"Professor Hugh Nibley once noted that the kingdom of God cannot endure if it indulges even the smallest sin: “The slightest taint of corruption means that the other world would be neither incorruptible nor eternal. The tiniest flaw in a building, institution, code, or character will inevitably prove fatal in the long run of eternity.” The commandments of God are “strict” because His kingdom and its citizens can stand only if they consistently reject evil and choose good, without exception."

.    Elder D. Todd Christofferson Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles,October 2021