My name is Ellie Curley and I'm with Plitine 24. I came in to retreat this year, really not looking

forward to it. I was disappointed and grieving the loss of our in-person retreat and just

a change. I knew what retreat was going to be. I had watched my friends go through.

I had seen platoon after platoon get to experience them on top.

And I really honestly had a mini party that I didn't get to.

So I hung out in my garage, fully participated, but really

did not expect the Lord to show up the way he would on the mountain.

And I was really, really wrong, so wrong.

Within the first five minutes of the first day,

the Holy Spirit showed up in a way ahead and felt in a really long time.

The Lord showed me how numb I had become this year and then just after a long frustrating battle with some health things, I just wasn't feeling anything anymore.

In five minutes of our retreat and the first workout the Lord just said you're fully alive be fully alive and he

lifted this huge weight off of me and I felt like myself I felt like I could breathe I felt like I

could feel what was going on around me good and bad and I knew that this experience, although it's not what I wanted, it's exactly what the

life happened for me. And he wanted me to himself. And I just I encourage you if you're on the fence if you're on the fence

about doing platoon 26 and signing up because it doesn't look like you had expected, especially if you

look like me and you've been watching and waiting. If he's calling you do it. The Lord has really big

things for you on the other side of your

yes. The Lord brought the mountaintop to my desert and I know he can do the same thing

for you. There is a ripple effect in the kingdom when we step out in obedience and every

act of obedience and it's not just about you. It's what God wants to do through you and in the

kingdom and I know it's really big things.

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