Come As You Are

In the mission field the number one thing that a missionary needs to rely on is the spirit and the missionaries spirituality. I knew that this was very important and to have this it was important that you followed the rules. One of those rules was listening only to church music or uplifting and wholesome music. Ever since my teenage years I had loved music and it was probably one of the hardest things for me to give up. In the field I would do my best to avoid that music, I knew that when I got home it would all still be there for me one day. I have always liked rock music and so one day when I was walking down a poor street in the Podunk town of Itabuna, Bahia I saw a kid I was friends with wearing a shirt that I just had to get a picture with. He would always stop and chat with us on the streets. I noticed he was wearing a t shirt from one of my favorite bands and the greatest grunge rock band from the 90's, Nirvana. I looked down at him and saw Kurt Cobains face covering his shirt. Even clear out on a different continent nearly 2 decades after the band had ended people still loved them just like I did.