Fireflies and thunderstorms hint to an adventurous summer ahead. BOOM thunder outside is reckoning the imminent basketball game about to drop. Preparation Day baby. The humidity is drenching the work like no other. Pretty sure I've lost 10 pounds of water weight. Well, I guess it just transfers to sweat outside of my body. lol
I left to Damascus for a strange and short exchange with Elder Larson in which we were at the car repair shop for a solid three hours for the mission car's tire replacement. Chevy Cruise. Sheesh. The majority of the exchange was filled with plating 30 tomato plants in a farmer's field, transferring five chopped tree's branches into a dump truck tractor, and questing for unknown members out in the backwoods. One specific experience led us deep into the woods where we stumbled upon a rickety old log cabin in open clearing. Let me tell you that this shack was the creepiest horror cabin ideal for any massacre. It didn't help that it was twilight red sky. The first sign something was amuck were the hanging foot-long skeletons hung by knots around their necks from the porch ceiling. Yeah. Poor Elder Larson. I kept going to the door and peaked inside the thin veil curtain on the way. I caught a brief glimpse of a wheel chair occupied with a slouched over old person facing me. To the door to the door. no one answered the knock.
Oh boy we ran out of there and sped MAN
On a more spiritual note, Zone Conference for the Frederick zone laid the peak of spiritual guidance for me this week. I'm honestly having trouble recollecting the experience into words. Questions seemed to pile my mind of doctrinal concerns raised through dozens of over inquisitive jerks. I tend to overthink things, which led me to enter Zone Conference with a heart and mind ready to spill questions and drink answers. Revelation is the key to salvation, whether it be mortal or eternally centered. In my case, all I wanted was clear night or day support. Heart-felt prayer and humility whipped from pride led me to eye-opening answers unimaginably presented clearly and emotionally. I'm not sure I've felt that before. President Richards and Sister Richards leave in four weeks to be released and changed with our new Mission president. I'm pretty bummed. The guidance of a strong leader and other out here is something I overlooked until Zone Conference.
God works through us as individuals to help and love each other. It's in the process of becoming one with God's love in tandem with our own will that true miracles sprout every day. God lives and God loves <3
xoxo
Elder Burgess
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