Dear Family,
This was a fun week. I'd say there were some good highlights of the week. Check out the week below... :)
Normal P-Day. The Barringtons had us over for dinner. They had fantastic Hawaiian Haystacks.
-Tuesday-
Brother Brock took us out to see Brother Strauser again. We had a nice lesson about not letting Satan influence us. Brother Stauser was feeling the Spirit pretty strongly.
After the visit, Brother Brock to us to a burger place called WW Cousins. Before we walked in, Brother Brock asked if we had heard of Fudruckers. I said yes and Brother Brock said this WW Cousins place was very similar to Fudruckers. I got a half pound burger and it was fantastic! Easily one of the best burgers I've had on my mission. It tasted exactly like the Fudruckers burgers. It was so good!
Later on, the Sisters called and asked us to give a blessing to one of their investigators again. We went over, blessed them and their home, and they had extremely positive feelings about it. They said they felt like a burden was literally lifted off their backs. Yay Priesthood!
-Wednesday-
Service day. We went to ReStore. Afterwards we had lunch with the Spanish Elders (now Salazar and Hancock) at Steak n' Shake. I bought a double bacon cheeseburger :). It was worth it. :)
Later on we went to the Methodist Church. They were serving all parts of chicken this time. We sat with a nice man who greatly appreciated the company.
We finished the night off by going on an adventure bike ride way to the top of our area to try a referral. It actually took an hour to bike up to this guy's house. And of course he didn't answer. :(
-Thursday-
We had Zone Conference at the Hurstbourne building. That allowed us to bike there :). President Brough gave a good training about building faith. The Zone Leaders gave an awkward training on the new planning guidelines. I feel like they're trying to over-complicate them. I'm still not sure what they're trying to get at with them. Oh well :).
At Zone Conference, it's customary to have the missionaries who are leaving soon give their testimonies at the end of the conference. One of the missionaries who bore their testimony this time was Elder S. Elder G was companions with him and had a hard time with him. My impression of Elder S was generally negative from Elder G. However, I sat next to and talked with Elder S during lunch and my opinion completely changed. He's actually a great guy. Then he surprised everyone by giving the best testimony out of everyone else who bore their testimonies. He has character flaws like everyone else, but he's still a great guy.
Later on in the day we had dinner with the Brown family. They're converts of about 5 years. They fed us Shrimp Pasta and it was fantastic. On the way to the Browns we got to bike through a street that was preparing for a parade. That means there were hundreds of people lined along the street in anticipation of the parade. And all of them saw us as we passed through on the way to the Browns. :)
-Friday-
We deep cleaned our apartment. We made it cleaner than it ever has been. Then we had a short Weekly Planning session. After the planning I adjusted Elder Williams bike. I learned how to adjust bike derailers this week. I fixed mine and Elder Williams. It wasn't as hard as I thought it was going to be.
I used some chain lube to make his bike silent. His bike was so noisy, it became the way I would keep track of where he was whenever he was behind me. Now it's silent and I can't tell where he is :).
-Saturday-
Started out with Missionary Coordination with Brother Haws and the Sisters. Then we went on a 2.5 hour adventure to the top of the area. I've been wanting to go up there and work for a while but after spending some time there I understand why we don't go there often. First, it's forever out of the way from anything and second, it's the hardest part of our area to bike. There are so many hills everywhere. You're always biking up and down steep hills there. This was the first time I had to use the low gears on my bike because I couldn't take the hills with the medium gears. In all of our adventuring, not much happened. We tried a lot of LA's. 2 of them answered and basically said they're not interested anymore. I was amazed to see me legs were able to handle all the hills we biked without getting fatigued.
Later one, Brother Bowen called us and requested our help moving an 800 lb. gun safe to his basement. He picked us up and drove us to his house. It was just him, his wife, and the 2 of us to move this thing. I'm not sure how we got it down without hurting anyone but we did. We succeeded. It was fun... slightly... In appreciation, Sister Bowen gave us dinner.
On the drive back I learned Brother Bowen has family connections to Kingsland, Georgia, where Grandma and Grandpa Cox lived. He said his grandmother lived down there and he went to church in the ward there a few times when he was young. Brother Bowen called his mom, talked with her a bit, and confirmed that Brother Bowen's grandmother was great friends with Grandma Cox and that Brother Bowen likely met dad as they're almost the same age. This was a highlight of the week to find this out.
We finished out Saturday by teaching Mr C. We showed him the first 4 addiction recovery videos and he enjoyed them. He said he wants to attend the ARP classes now. Hopefully this'll be a way we can get him to more fully commit.
-Sunday-
Church was good. Mr V and his family came. We taught him and his wife for 3rd hour again. This time without Brother Haws. We finished teaching them the Plan of Salvation and they seemed to understand and appreciate it. The lesson went a lot better than we thought it was going to be without the only French speaker in the ward.
The rest of the Sunday was spent trying peeps like normal.
I don't really have a spiritual thought for this week :(. Read you're scriptures. You'll get some great spiritual thoughts out of those :).
Love Elder Benjamin Kohkonen Cox
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| Watching Basketball... too tired to play |
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