Hey all!
Definition: "An optional task or mission in a video game that is not part of the main storyline or primary objective. Side quests are typically secondary to the main quest and can provide additional challenges, rewards, and story depth." - Meta AI
Quest #1: Tracked down our friend Brandon from NEO campus at the school's secret Esports lab in the basement of the music building and watched him sauce two guys in a row in a Smash Bros tourney. My man 
Quest #2: Drove like 45 minutes to rescue three other Elders when their brand-new car broke down on the way to us and ended up waiting over an hour and a half for the tow truck with one while the other two got a ride home with a member who was cool enough to pull up and taxi them on a moment's notice at like 9:00pm. Smh Hyundai
Quest #3: Found an awesome guy named Richard who joined the Church in Idaho a few years ago but had to move around a bunch to look for work and got lost spiritually along the way. He'd just barely quit his night shift trucking job the week we knocked on his door, which was fifteen minutes before we had lunch at a restaurant literally next door with a ward member who was also a trucker. He was happy to join us for lunch right then, and then came to church two days later to see his new trucker friend teach the lesson during the second hour!
Quest #4: Narrowly avoided a real estate disaster when the apartment my five college buddies and I told us they didn't have room, which meant mama and papa Rigby and I had to scramble to find a new place. Fortunately it all worked out and we're still all going to be living together, coincidentally at the exact same apartment complex my dad and uncle stayed at when they went to BYU in the 90’s haha. Legacy status on west campus 
Quest #5: On Sunday, a sister in the ward referred us a family of six who are looking for a church, but she only had their address and technically couldn't be involved cause she works for them, so for the first time in my mission we went "truck tracting". We knocked every house on a whole mile of super long, spread-out farm road by driving to each one, pulling over, knocking on their door, talking for a minute, and then driving on to the next one. Definitely a weird way to do missionary work but hey, it's the best excuse we could come up with to meet them without violating FERPA or somethin.
Quest #6: Found five YSA-age football players on campus within a half an hour and we set up a Book of Mormon study with all of them for tomorrow at 5. The YSA sister missionaries are driving 45 minutes out here to scoop 'em up, so hopefully it goes great 
Song of the week: "In Too Deep" by Jacob Collier
Awesome message from a global Church leader visiting our mission, Elder Michael T. Ringwood: Truly Good and without Guile
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Thought: Psalm 56:8
Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?
This is a verse shared by Dr. Frankl in Man's Search for Meaning, which I finished this week. I know mentioned it a couple weeks ago, but dang, that book was good. I was blown away by how impressively his writing aligned directly with the doctrine of Christ and the personal vision of my mission president. God definitely led me to read it at the time I did. Anyways, I thought this verse was cool. I don't know if this is quite what the psalmist meant when they wrote this verse, but it brought to my mind the idea that no matter what those we pray for may be going through, God always knows the complexities of their trials. Our prayers for them are saved "in His book", and when we give Him the gift of our faith, He will always put it to the very best use possible.
Your prayers are saved in His book.
Love, Elder Rigby
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