Hey all!
I kinda wrote a sermon last week so I'm gonna try and make this email a little more fun. Here's the latest:
We decided to clean-slate just about our entire teaching pool and really go hard on looking for new friends who were prnepared for the restored gospel. In order to keep things fresh, we also decided to start finding on Northeast Oklahoma A&M campus, which means I've now served at three different colleges throughout my mission: UAFS, UofA, and NEO. Call me professor the way we been educating out here 
I played Unstable Unicorns for the first time ever this week and wow, that game rocks haha. I'm 3 for 3 on wins right now too 
(weird flex Rigby but okay)
(weird flex Rigby but okay)
Met a cool RLDS dude named Bucky Barnes. Like, that's actually his name. Brother is a bona fide Marvel antihero. 100% gotta say the Red Book code words to him next time and see if he turns into a Soviet super-assasin.
I've been waiting like three weeks to write this one haha. Back in Anderson, we visited a nice member family with a fancy house out in the boonies of the boonies. We expected a pretty chill visit because they're more on the quiet side, but NOPE. We walked in and their dogs went absolutely ballistic, which is apparently pretty normal. They're both rescues, and not only that, one of them was a Pittweiler. Pitbull + Rottweiler. Oh my gosh oh my gosh oh my gosh that thing was so scary holy cow. If we made the slightest move it would flip out, so we had to hold perfectly still while teaching or else. It was like teaching a shark while holding an armed grenade. Anyways they were a nice family 
Drove through an abandoned mining town that got shut down by the federal government after everybody got lead poisoning and found a lone statue of a gorilla in the rainy darkness. It was such an unreal vibe that we had to stop for a picture.
99x
Song of the week: "99 Luftballons" by Nena
One thing we've felt inspired to do to strengthen our finding efforts is to be bold and genuine with the Book of Mormon. My personal favorite is to walk up to someone and, after breaking the ice a little, invite them to read and highlight one single page of the book. If they choose to do so and the experience was different than they expected, we invite them to read a full chapter with us together another time. We had an absolutely golden first interaction with our new friend Brandon through doing this, and now we've got a lesson with him tomorrow!
So many people know about the Book of Mormon, but so few have actually opened it up and read from it. Therefore, we invite them to do exactly that—to "come and see". There's no middle man required; the Truth speaks for Himself.
️ I absolutely love music, and the piano has a special place my heart. It has been and continues to be one of my very favorite ways to connect with God, grow my talents, and genuinely have fun.
Over a full year ago all the way back in my very first area, Bentonville, I received an impression that, if I truly put my heart to it, I could learn how to play hymns well enough on the piano to play as the accompanist in Sacrament Meetings. Lo and behold, here I am in what could quite possibly be the last area of my whole mission and the congregation here doesn't have anyone who can play the piano. Last Sunday, for the first time in my whole life and after months of practice on past P-days, I played the piano accompaniment for the Sacrament hymn #100 "Nearer, My God, to Thee". Yes, it was far from perfect; nevertheless, I can't begin to say how special of an experience it was to finally be able to give back my talents to the Lord after working to magnify them for so long. I'm grateful He gave me the chance.
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"...There was one good man and his name was Jesus."
- Joseph Smith
Love,
Elder Rigby
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