Hey all!
Another week in the sticks 
I'm starting to really love this place. The pace sure is different from Fayetteville and the UofA but the folks are just so kind and humble and the sulphur in the water here really spices up normally boring activities like brushing my teeth, showering, drinking water, etc.
I don't have a whole lot of time tonight so I'll keep this one short, but even if I can't write all of them, rest assured that something bizarre and/or wonderful happens to the missionaries in Anderson every single day.
This week, I/we...
- ate two Thanksgiving dinners with only an hour in between them 
- found a cool millipede in the basement. 10/10 would recommend basement millipede-watching
- played guess the body part with Pohnpeian mystery barbecue. Think I got an elbow
- found out that I lived with my current companion Elder Perry's cousin, who's also named Elder Perry, in Bentonville almost exactly a year ago!
- started working with an awesome younger couple named, the Lionhearts, to streamline our ward records and visit lost members of the fold who might not have had contact with the Church for a while. I don't really know how to describe how awesome they are. Both of them converted to the Church 6 and 12 years ago, respectively, and have been an absolute power couple since they got married a year ago. Plus, their chocolate lab Aslan is a nice stand-in for Charlie too (you're still #1 Charlie don't worry)
- finished the Book of Mormon again! As always, please try it for yourself and ask God. He will never lead you wrong.
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Song of the week: "Here I Am Again" by Luz Ysabelle Cuevas (see Sacred Music app)
Google Photos: https://photos.app.goo.gl/2sk1refRidSszyYk7
Check out this awesome nativity video called "The Christ Child"! It's definitely worth a watch: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/video/light-the-world/2019-09-0050-the-christ-child-a-nativity-story-lighttheworld-1080p?lang=eng
Scripture of the week: Moroni 10:7-19
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Cool story:
Last night, we decided to stop at the gas station called Casey's to buy some drinks on the way to the church building and casually struck up a conversation with a nice young couple while in line–nothing super gospel-related, just about the best flavor of Naked Juice and how Casey's apparently considers beef to be a viable pizza topping–and I introduced myself as a missionary and pointed to my tag...which I then realized was on the sweater I was wearing underneath my jacket. Whoops. Accidentally went undercover for a minute there. Well, now that the cat was out of the bag we talked for a few seconds more and they went to buy their beef pizzas and that was it.
...Or so we thought.
Flash forward to later that evening and we're meeting with the Lionhearts again and Sister Lionheart offhandedly mentions that her friend who wants to start coming back to church more will be joining us for dinner this Saturday with her boyfriend/husband(?) who isn't a member of the Church and she just happened to have the same unusual name as the girl from the couple we'd talked to at the gas station. We asked what her
boyfriend-husband-man-dude's name was and sure enough, we'd talked to them not two hours earlier. The Lord prompted us to open our mouths in the most unlikely of places and when we did, we unknowingly made friends with the people we're hopefully going to start teaching in a few days! God is real and good.
Love you all!
- Elder Rigby
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| (Elder Perry and Brother William, one of our awesome Pohnpeian members) |
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