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Health is a way of life.
You have to choose to be healthy.
You can't just be healthy for a day and just eat right and
exercise for one day.
It's something you have to do continually.
Every day you have to be in that attitude of watching what
you're doing and making sure that you're making wise
decisions that are going to help your body and help you to
feel healthy and strong and active.
Being healthy is more than just eating right.
We also need to be exercising and be getting enough sleep,
and just regularly participating in activities to
keep our bodies strong and keep them healthy.
In the great plan of salvation, a big part of it is
us coming here so that we can obtain bodies.
The way I look at it is that God sent me
here to get a body.
And He gave me this body, so I need to take care of it and do
the best that I can to keep it in the best possible shape.
With Young Women's, we do a lot of service for families
with new babies and stuff.
We'll cook meals for them.
Or we do yard work.
It's really good to be in a state where my body is healthy
and it's able to perform to its best and I can do my best
completing that service and really serve these people.
Spiritually, if you are doing things that harm your body,
like taking in alcohol or drugs, they can really mess
with your sense of feeling and mess with the way your body
works, and you can become numb to the Spirit to where you
won't be able to feel the Spirit and recognize that it
is the Holy Ghost, that is the Spirit of God.
I think that by keeping the Word of Wisdom, it helps
others around me to see that I'm happy with the way I'm
living and I feel healthy and I feel good.
And they want to feel that way too.
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The marvel of our physical bodies is often overlooked.
Your body, whatever its natural gifts, is a
magnificent creation of God.
It is a tabernacle of flesh, a temple for your spirit.
It's also amazing to think of the scripture that says, "Ye
are a temple, and know ye not that the Spirit of God
dwelleth in you?"
It is necessary for us to live the Word of Wisdom so we can
be healthy, play sports in our life, and live precious lives,
and to keep our bodes pure.
I'm glad to say, and I'm proud to say, I've never had a drop
of liquor, alcohol of any kind.
I've never smoked.
I've never done anything.
And it really helps your life.
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With school friends, you'd say, "Oh, yeah, I'm not sure,
I'm not really that sure." But when you say no, and that's a
definite answer, you're not going to do it, then it puts
you in the right mind to say no for the rest
of your life, really.
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I find sometimes if I'm ever feeling less confident or
something like that, that I'll remember that my Heavenly
Father gave me this body, and I have to learn to love it and
learn to realize that it's a gift to me.
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"All saints who remember to keep and do these sayings
shall receive health in their navel and marrow to their
bones, and shall find wisdom and great treasures of
knowledge, even hidden treasures; and shall run and
not be weary, and shall walk and not faint." D&C 89:18-20.
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