Fun exchange

Sept 7, 2015

Dear Family,

This week was a bit of a ride. It started with a bang, had a great exchange, taught the gospel, became indebted to senior missionaries, tracked in 90 degree weather, tracked in 93 degree weather, tracked in 95 degree weather, walked, suffered near heat exhaustion, and moved one of our best investigators out.

Blowing up Elder White's suit was fun. We went to President Sodders, he fed us pizza and doughnuts, we set the suit up, put a half pound of explosives in it, and watched President Sodders's son blow it up. It was the best explosion I've seen so far.

On Tuesday I exchanged with Elder Money, our District Leader. We stayed in Corydon. It was a busy day. We got a lot done. It was refreshing to be with Elder Money because he's similar to Elder Lynch. We started the day off meeting with Mr R. This was our 2nd lesson with him. He is a man who the sisters met first. The sisters knocked on his friend's house while he was there. He invited them in, they prayed with each other, the sisters gave him a BoM and our number, and later he called us and asked to meet. When we got there we found the sisters had highlighted Ether 12:27 and he's read it every day for personal strength. He used to suffer from some addictions but has since cleaned his life up. He loves that verse because he feels that it applies to him which it does. The lesson with Elder Money went really well. He loved every second of it. He even brought up baptism. Elder Shelley and I set a date for him on our first lesson and he's still excited about it. 
Afterwards we pulled weeds for a lady for about 2 hours. It was easy because her ground was abnormally soft. Later in the day we contacted a member referral. This referral is named Ms A. She works with Sal (the member). Lately Ms A's been struggling with life in general. Sal, being her manager, talked to her at work and got permission from the president to give her a blessing. Sal gave her a blessing and got her permission to send us over. When Elder Money and I got there the first thing she said was "Are you guys from Sal's church?" We talked and she flat out asked us for a copy of the BoM. That's only the 2nd time I've had someone ask ME for a copy. She was super happy over that. We finished the day by teaching our downstairs neighbor who from long strange series of events Elder Money knows. It was interesting because I've seen her almost every day since she's moved in but I never talked about the gospel to her. Because Elder Money knew her, he wanted to talk and now she's an investigator. She wanted to know how she's forgiven of her mistakes so Elder Money pulled out Mosiah 26:30, "Yea, and as often as my people repent will I forgive them their trespasses against me." That scripture really hit home for her. Between the major events of today we walked around and talked with people. We got a few potentials out it. It was a great day.

Because of the exchange and the mileage limitations on the car we had to spend a few days where we didn't use the car as much. We spent a good chunk of 3 days walking in over 90 degree weather. It wasn't the smartest thing.

On Saturday we helped Mr R move out. We just barely found the guy and now he's leaving. The funny thing is he's going to the area where Sis. Orton's niece, Sis. Webb is serving. We contacted them and they got members to help Mr R move in on their side.

I became indebted to senior missionaries this week. The senior missionaries in our district do a lot of things with military relations at Fort Knox. I ordered a set of military sized scriptures ($17) from them and they bought me some food at O'Charlies ($8) this week. I now owe them about $26 *yay*.

This week was fun because it has trials but it also had successes. I know I'm where I'm supposed to be. Thank you for everything.

-Elder Benjamin Kohkonen Cox

So with today being labor day that means the library is closed. Which means I don't have a way to send photos. I took one yesterday you'll like. In the mean time, here are some photo booth selfies.

Ferengi

Circle head

Derp

Those steaks were seasoned with that Montreal Steak Seasoning that we use on our hash browns. 
They were delicious! I was lucky because I was on exchange with the Brandenburg KY Elders that day.
That's Elder Gunnel next to me.

Giant porterhouse steaks!