Busier Than a Bumblebee
From: Seth Gifford
Date: Mon, Aug 31, 2020 12:20 PM
Subject: Busier Than a Bumblebee
Hola mi gente!
I don’t have a ton of time today, because we are suuuuuuuper busy and have lots to do, but hopefully you can enjoy whatever I do end up writing. Well, without further ado, let’s get cooking!
Quick side note: I didn’t have time to organize my email into sections so you’ll just have to read the whole thing 😉
Well, without a doubt this past week has been the busiest, hardest, and most stressful week so far. From scrambling to edit a video for the sisters, driving to and from a ton of meetings, making our own video (which drops on Wednesday), seeing some girls practicing witchcraft by a lake we went to, getting hit on by a drunk lady while playing pickleball, responding to messages on Facebook, finding out that Chadwick Boseman died, contacting tons of people, running to Walmart to grab things we needed, getting food poisoning and throwing up for 2 hours straight in the middle of the night, getting Bible bashed and preaching a sermon to a group chat, it has been an insane week! But, all is well! The biggest reason it’s so busy and stressful is because me and Elder Raymond are making a video on top of everything else we have to do, which is not the easiest thing to balance. But we’re hoping our video quality matches all the effort we’ve put into it. Once again, it drops this Wednesday on Facebook, so if you’re friends with me, you’ll get to see it then! We’re pretty excited though!
There is definitely opposition in all things. We’ve been experiencing *so* much opposition this week, but, I can definitely say that God has been there through it all.
God’s work is moving forward, and nothing will stop it, not even some dude telling us that we worship Satan 😂
One thing I want you all to know is that life isn’t easy, and it never will be. It’s literally a battle every single day, but through Jesus Christ, we can find the peace and strength to continue forward, despite our weaknesses and shortcomings. There’s a SUPER good quote by Parley P. Pratt that I love: “*I have desired, after travelling for twenty-five or twenty-six years, mostly abroad, to stay at home and minister among the people of God, and take care of my family; but God’s will be done, and not mine. If it is the will of God that I should spend my days in proclaiming this Gospel and bearing testimony of these things, I shall think myself highly privileged and honored. And when the Spirit of God is upon me, I think it matters but very little what I suffer, what I sacriced–whether I secure the honor or dishonor of men, or where I die, if it so be that I can keep the faith, fight the good fight, and finish my course with joy. I have all eternity before me, in which to enjoy myself.*” Boom. There it is.
I’m sorry that this email wasn’t very long (apparently some of you enjoy reading long emails??), and sorry to my friends and family members that I haven’t or don’t respond to this week. Just know I still love and care about you. You are in my thoughts and prayers!
I love you all!
-Elder Gifford
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