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Shamelessly Seek Him

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On May 27, 2015, I was boarding a bus with my good friend Gregory Barker. We were starting a journey that would begin with an 18 hour bus ride. We were joined by 34 strangers who were filing onto the bus where we would be riding and sleeping that night. I boarded that bus not recognizing yet recognizing that I was missing something. I didn't realize that I was missing it until we arrived at our destination the next day. On Thursday, we arrived at our first site in Kansas City, Missouri. It is a beautiful temple and it was great to walk around the temple and enjoy of the spirit that you can feel on temple grounds. Directly after, we went to the Community of Christ temple (a dissension of the LDS church) in Independence and it was a beautiful building. Speaking with Gregory, it was interesting that we both noticed the lack of meaning and symbolism within the building. Our next stop on the tour was Liberty Jail. This was a place of great suffering, butt along with suffering came