081825, Monday

Daily Vitals: Weight: 229.1 (with cast), Book of Mormon Reading: 2 Nephi 13, GMI: 6.7, Steps (previous day) NA, Blood Pressure: 119/81, 80

Journal Entry 

Yesterday was Sunday abs we didn't go to church. I just didn't want the attention that might befall me with my cast on and Cathy, I think, felt the same way. I'm planning on going no matter what next Sunday.

So other than administering my own IV, playing a few games with Cathy and strolling around the house carefully every hour or so, it is was just TV.

Today I'm getting my blood sample drawn and hopefully the results of that will become known sooner rather than later. When I was in the hospital I was told that my cast would be needed for at least four weeks and it's only been one so far. Tomorrow I see my podiatrist and get a new cast. I suppose it would be too optimistic to hope that a new cast might not be needed going forward. We will see.

Come Follow Me 

D&C 89:1 A Word of Wisdom, for the benefit of the council of high priests, assembled in Kirtland, and the church, and also the saints in Zion—

2 To be sent greeting; not by commandment or constraint, but by revelation and the word of wisdom, showing forth the order and will of God in the temporal salvation of all saints in the last days—

3 Given for a principle with promise, adapted to the capacity of the weak and the weakest of all saints, who are or can be called saints.

"The Word of Wisdom was “given for a principle with promise.” That word principle in the revelation is a very important one. A principle is an enduring truth, a law, a rule you can adopt to guide you in making decisions. Generally principles are not spelled out in detail. That leaves you free to find your way with an enduring truth, a principle, as your anchor.

Members write in asking if this thing or that is against the Word of Wisdom. It’s well known that tea, coffee, liquor, and tobacco are against it. It has not been spelled out in more detail. Rather, we teach the principle together with the promised blessings. There are many habit-forming, addictive things... which injure both body and spirit which are not mentioned in the revelation."

President Boyd K Packer, Apostle