With my return to the Peach State, Georgia, returned all of my concerns about my race. Being an only child had deleterious effect on me while I lived in Nashville. I was so keenly aware of my race again that it started to affect my socializing. All of my friends in High School were White after I returned. They were the only ones that I could get along with socially, but they noticed that I did not behave like other Black people. One of my friends, Derek, told me that he liked hanging around me because I was the only Black person that he could be friends with at the time. He said it was because I behaved like them, White people! I felt confused. I did not know whether to take that as an insult or a compliment. I reserved judgement for a time.
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I had never felt such a spirit in the Bishop’s office before and it concerned me. I felt a peaceful spirit of warning before the bishop opened his mouth to speak these prophetic words to me: “Rodric, I have received revelation for you. If you go to school before you go on your mission, you will create a large debt, fall in love, and have to postpone your mission.” I did not know what to say to that. Bishop Leet prophesied that if I went to school before a mission I would postpone it. He did not say I would not go. He said I would fall in love‽ But with whom? I had no one in my life and no prospect! I had a job also and no debt. Why would I create a large debt? I told the bishop not to worry and I went about my business. The Lord released him from his calling as bishop of the Tifton Second Ward shortly after that. I decided that I would not listen to his warning, though I felt the Spirit while he gave it. I would go to …show more content…
I discovered credit cards at college! I did not have a job while I attended school; but I had those credit cards though. I used them! I used them ALL! I created about $4000 in debt with those cards!
I found Maya. It was all innocent. She was in my speech class and we had to present that day. I did not even notice her because she was not my type. I, at the time, was a gym rat, though I was not a muscle head. I always went to the class late having come from the gym. I was arrogant and outspoken, or at least that is what she told me. She thought I was a jock, and truthfully, I was at that time. I could run for miles at a time, thanks to my brother Jeff, without any problem. I did not see myself as an exercise-aholic, but I did spend a lot of time in the gym there for a good three to four months.
Maya was in that class and I barely noticed her because I was busy trying to date models, who turned me down. This, however, never deterred me. For some reason, I was determined to date as many women as I could! Missionary work was still in the back of my mind but I could not stop thinking that I wanted a woman! I had gained new peace about my Black body and my Black manhood. I was ready to get me a Black
I had never felt such a spirit in the Bishop’s office before and it concerned me. I felt a peaceful spirit of warning before the bishop opened his mouth to speak these prophetic words to me: “Rodric, I have received revelation for you. If you go to school before you go on your mission, you will create a large debt, fall in love, and have to postpone your mission.” I did not know what to say to that. Bishop Leet prophesied that if I went to school before a mission I would postpone it. He did not say I would not go. He said I would fall in love‽ But with whom? I had no one in my life and no prospect! I had a job also and no debt. Why would I create a large debt? I told the bishop not to worry and I went about my business. The Lord released him from his calling as bishop of the Tifton Second Ward shortly after that. I decided that I would not listen to his warning, though I felt the Spirit while he gave it. I would go to …show more content…
I discovered credit cards at college! I did not have a job while I attended school; but I had those credit cards though. I used them! I used them ALL! I created about $4000 in debt with those cards!
I found Maya. It was all innocent. She was in my speech class and we had to present that day. I did not even notice her because she was not my type. I, at the time, was a gym rat, though I was not a muscle head. I always went to the class late having come from the gym. I was arrogant and outspoken, or at least that is what she told me. She thought I was a jock, and truthfully, I was at that time. I could run for miles at a time, thanks to my brother Jeff, without any problem. I did not see myself as an exercise-aholic, but I did spend a lot of time in the gym there for a good three to four months.
Maya was in that class and I barely noticed her because I was busy trying to date models, who turned me down. This, however, never deterred me. For some reason, I was determined to date as many women as I could! Missionary work was still in the back of my mind but I could not stop thinking that I wanted a woman! I had gained new peace about my Black body and my Black manhood. I was ready to get me a Black