This week has been a bit rough as you can tell from the title. Yes, I had my first run-in with bed bugs, and I hate them...so much!!! Words do not describe my burning hatred for bed bugs, they are NOT just something to go along with a song!!! All of you who haven't had bed bugs, stop whatever you are doing, I don't care if you're driving a car or skydiving, stop whatever you're doing then get on your knees and pray for the next 3 hours that you will never have bed bugs!! They suck!! I didn't take pictures of my bites, but they're pretty knarly. That wasn't even the worst part, it was all the dang cleaning we had to do! We had to wash and dry (multiple times) all of our clothes, pull everything away from the walls, and we can't sleep in our apartment. So we've been camping out with the Downtown elders this week. And then I got sick and it made it hard to go to sleep. So that's my sob story haha but I'm not dead and I'm not in Hell so I can't complain.
I re-read a talk called "What Lack I Yet?" this week and got a lot out of it. It's such a blessing to have living prophets and apostles here on the earth today, it would be so confusing without modern-day revelation and guidance from these men of God! So anyways, in this talk Elder Lawrence recounts the story of the Savior and the rich young merchant. In this story, a wealthy young man approaches Jesus and asks what he needs to do to inherit the kingdom of God; Christ, in response, tells him to keep the commandments of God, to which the young man replies that he's been living the commandments his whole life so "what lack I yet?" Jesus tells him that he still lacks one thing, to give all he has to the poor and to follow Him. But the young man couldn't do it, he loved his worldly things too much. So what do you personally lack? The simple answer to this question is to pray and ask Heavenly Father "What Lack I Yet?" and I know He will tell you what you need to do to improve. We all have room to improve, which implies that we need to fill that empty space with something. It is our choice to fill it with good or bad, but true happiness never lied in wickedness. I'm so grateful to have endless opportunities to become more like the Savior and to have so many restored truths to bring me closer to Him like the Book of Mormon!
Love y'all go watch General Conference this weekend,
Elder Crow
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