(Elder Cummings)
Howdy y'all!
Yes, today is my pday. This week we had the Area President
tour the mission and so the whole mission's pday was moved to today. These last
almost two weeks have been a blur, but I'll start with the skinned deer:
Here we are, it's already dark out, and we're knocking on
this families' door that we've trying to get in contact with. No one ends up
answering the door but we look over to our right and there is this man tying up
a dead deer to a hanger that connects on the hitch of his truck. As we walk up,
he's like "Hey Elders!" as he pulls out a knife and just starts
slicing away. In the matter of about 5 minutes he has almost completely skinned
it and we talk to him. He knows the missionaries, and is best friends with a
member in our ward, and invited us to try some venison with him once he makes
some this coming weekend. We asked him where he got it and he was like
"about 15 minutes ago in my backyard". That's Mississippi for you.
Best part is: his name is Dan. Picture included below.
We had to drive up to Jackson for the devotional with Elder
Stanfill and there ended up being 14 missionaries in one apartment just
sleeping on the ground. It was so awesome. Slept so bad, but it was awesome.
The best part was the devotional though. I wish I could
convey the Spirit that was in the chapel as we listened to Elder Stanfill
declare pure and powerful doctrine. The one thing that really hit me is
"the more you become a disciple of Jesus Christ, the less it becomes about
you" When we take ourselves out of the picture, our decisions become
easier. The hardest decision is taking ourselves out of the picture. In the
end, we just gotta let God prevail.
Elder Cummings
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