Gamers, guess what? It's p-day! I can already hear the keys clicking from across the internet, don't worry. P-day was moved from Tuesday to Monday now that our temple has closed for the next few years.
This has been such an interesting week. It started out with Elder R going around and saying goodbye to all of our friends and ward members on Wednesday and Thursday. Then Thursday night all the departing missionaries (all 22 of them!) starting pawning off all their belongings since they didn't have enough weight to take them in their luggage. How convenient! I took some food off of Elder R' hands, all the ties off of Elder H's hands, and 2 Wii's off of Elder D' hands. What am I gonna do with two Wii's? No idea, I can't play video games on the mission. I'm thinking of slapping Linux on them and set them up in the mission office as backup servers. It would be funny to walk in and see a Wii acting as a server. But more likely, I'll just send them home. No real use for Wii's on the mission.
The night before they all left, two of the Elders came over to our apartment for the night since we had to be down to the airport at 4am. Very smh, we got up early and drove down there. After we dropped off Rogers and Harrington, Harrington's comp and I went back to the apartment while I cleaned up the huge mess they left from packing. Did that for an hour, took a quick nap then headed down to the mission office for transfers.
This transfer I am comps with Elder S. He's the deaf missionary who trained me 6 months ago, so we're gonna have round two. It's interesting since I'm the senior comp this transfer, and I actually know what I'm doing this time so it'll be good. We started out the transfer by calling everyone on the analytics team since I'm the team lead again, and then we went and visited members. This transfer I'm thinking I want to build member trust and a culture in the ward. Elder S has other ideas, so we spent Saturday knocking doors. When we left to go tracting, we said a prayer to know where to go. There was this one part on the map that was really sticking out, so we head over there and the first door we knock on was a friend that Elder R met at the park and couldn't get back in contact with! Super neat, we're gonna go back and start teaching him and his family.
Yesterday we had a BBQ with a deaf couple who are gonna be baptized soon. They're absolutely the best, even though I can only understand about half of what they were saying. Saul made some bussin chicken for tacos, and we taught them an amazing lesson. Aide doesn't know ASL completely, and knows more Spanish than English so we brought Elder G who knows Spanish and MSL and ASL. What a chad Elder.
This week I've done most of my studies on Moses from the Old Testament. His story is super interesting to me, because he had social anxiety but God told him to march up to the head of the government and tell Pharaoh to let the Israelites go. He must have been biting his nails before that conversation, because that's like walking up to somebody's house on 2b2t and asking for all their diamonds. There's only one outcome with God, and it ain't the diamonds. I know I've written about it before, but the story in Moses 1 is so powerful. His experience when he obeys God is awe inspiring, and the way he puts his trust in God when the adversary attacks is something I want to emulate.
If you've ever seen the Prince of Egypt (old Church cartoon about Moses for kids) there's this song at the beginning there's this song called 'Deliver Us.' It has three lines I like:
Elohim, God on high, can you hear your people cry? Lord of all, remember us Here in this burning sand
It doesn't matter what you go through here in life, I can promise you that God does remember all his children through their trials. He can and does hear his people cry. Also there's this rock version of that song that I've been listening to lately, super hype.
Love y'all, see you next week. Don't worry, be happy.
-- Elder Coxson
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