RYCE Retreat was a rejuvenating experience that helped me learn what my faith truly meant, not just in the short run, but for the rest of my life. I believe Jerome Chen helped me grow spiritually, and Egan Escudero's Blasts were very tasty. I think Pastor Dustin's message brought forth a new truth to me, that my holiness was extraordinarily important, and that my life had to be follow what God had commanded. When I think about whatever happened to me these years, I do believe that there is a sense of redemption that was acquired between the start and end of the retreat. I wish that Jerome and Daniel and I can finally engage in true worship and devotion, not only through fun and laughter, but with a love for Christ that one mere person cannot accomplish. But with us three, we are the triforce that can fight through the worst of trials. There is a sense of regret for stepping off the snowy boundaries of Oak Glen Conference Center, but there is a sense of hope that I have left my training grounds, and have just stepped into the battlefield of my purpose, to put out my God's word and Gospel, so that we will find God as the sole conductor of this broken world we drift within. Now I can finally take my life to the Lord I have always acted upon as lukewarm, now I can finally feel the heat of Christianity, not losing my soul to Satan's tempting ways, or the world's deceiving calls. When I recall the moments at Retreat, I think of what Dustin spoke, that our purpose must me God's, and we must engage in it. RYCE has been the best thing that had happened to my soul and life. Thank You guys for making me so filled and happy.
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Jerome Chen, in perspective of how he thinks William feels
