Welcome to This Is the Gospel, an LDS living podcast where we feature real stories from

real people who are practicing and living their faith every day.

I'm your host, Corinne Lay, and I don't mean to be overly dramatic, but is there anything

more perfect than the feeling you get from the first shower after a three day camping

trip?

Now listen, we're too cheap in the lay household to hang out in one of those RVs that

are basically bigger and more fancy than our house.

We're talking good old tent backpack camping where the dirt and the smoke just seem to cling

to every pore of your body.

There's just something about the satisfaction of washing it all away that makes sleeping

on the ground in a flimsy nylon shelter, eating half raw half burned meat on a stick totally

worth it.

Maybe you're not a camper.

And that's totally cool.

I have more than enough friends who think it's insane to pack up your house and move it

into the woods for a few days just so you can pretend cell phones don't exist.

But even if camping's not your jam, you probably have something that helps you feel like

a totally new person when the heaviness of life sort of settles into your bones.

Maybe it's a deep and meaningful conversation with a friend about big picture stuff of

life or listening to your gym Spotify playlist at level 10 while you dance around the kitchen.

I know that sometimes for me it's a good heaving cry, the kind where you can't catch your

breath, especially when I'm praying and pouring out my heart.

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