(Elder Cummings)
Howdy y'all!
This week was a blur. With Zone Conference, exchanges, and
hurricane relief efforts, it seems like I was typing the last email just
yesterday.
Zone Conference was awesome though. Since Hurricane Ida,
President Amos said that he's been getting lots of people telling him
"it's hard, I just don't feel like a missionary". I have been one of
these people. With the aftermath of Ida, a lot of our time has been taken with
clean up and relief efforts. A couple weeks into it I started wishing that we could
just have "normal" days of finding, teaching and baptizing. Basically
I just wanted to proselytize as much as possible. And then President Amos pulls
up and smacks down on how there is not much better to do than for missionaries,
representatives and ambassadors of Christ, to serve and help those who cannot
help themselves. I realized how selfish I had been. I had not been there for
Ida, I was 300 miles away almost in Arkansas. Our apartment got power in 3
days, others got power after a month, some still don't have power. I genuinely
felt chastised by the Spirit. These people needed help, and they weren't
worried about hearing a message about Christ at this moment, they were worried
about how they're gonna get to Walmart to buy food for their kids when there is
a 3 feet wide tree trunk lay across their driveway.
It almost seemed no surprise when President called me and
Elder Smith Friday night to be at the Gonzales Command Center at 6:30am the
next two days. We woke up at 5 to drive the distance there, only to figure out
that we would be the ones handing out the tools and supplies to those heading
out to work sites, not the actual "laborers". Honestly not what we
had expected, or wanted, but it was a great time for me to exercise charity
and a better attitude about service. Afterall, God isn't gonna give me charity,
He's gonna give me opportunities to be charitable
Have a blessed week!
Elder Cummings
Photo dump:
1. Some good ol chicken and waffles
2-5. Clean up
6. Random pic of me and elder Smith
7.another random one
8. Us and our mission presidents wife's 92 year old mom
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