There's a reason why the church does not provide us with a list of Sabbath-day dos and don'ts.
First, as soon as the rules are spelled out, people start finding ways to get around them — to obey without obeying, by following the letter of the rule while defeating its intent.
Second, lists like that quickly become a source of contention and fault-finding in the little villages we Mormons live in.
Third, as soon as we start making lists that are the same for everybody, we run into cultural differences — places in the world where this rule or that can't possibly work.
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