Week 43 - Fort Smith, Arkansas

 4.24.24 

(Here's last week's email. Sorry it's late! I'll send this week's email later today.)

Hey all!

Hope everyone's having a good week. We were super busy today and I'm low on time, so I'll keep it short and sweet. 

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Fun stuff this week:

- talked with a Vietnamese lady for like five minutes through Google Translate and she was cool. We didn't have a Book of Mormon in Tiếng Việt, but we'll swing by again when we track one down for her. 

- traded friends with the Spanish Elders. They introduced us to an English-speaking dude named Keonte and we introduced them to a Spanish-speaking lady named Guadalupe and both of them accepted a date for baptism right on the doorstep! The Fort Smith Zone is doing awesome right now and the number of friends we have who are planning to be baptized has doubled in the last week. 

- the Elders from Mena, AR came up for the day and we obliterated some potatoes with a sling handmade by Elder McKee (see Google Photos.)

- went to the Fort Smith Historical Museum and nerded out over WWII paraphernalia and other old stuff for two and a half hours. 

- ran into a bulletin board while playing games at the church today and somehow ended up with a thumbtack in my arm. I didn't notice for a full minute until one of the sister missionaries saw it and freaked out, so that was fun. 

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Thought: Matthew 5:6

 Full transparency, these last two weeks were really hard. I've been fighting some demons that caught me off-guard and it hasn't been a smooth ride. However, fighting my battles alongside Christ has given me plenty of opportunities to ponder what I really desire from the life I've been blessed with. 

A lot of things I'd been pondering clicked together when I read this verse from Christ's Sermon on the Mount:

"Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled."

When we're hungry, we don't have food, when we're thirsty, we don't have water, and, when we hunger and thirst for righteousness, well, we don't have righteousness. 

Christ is looking for those who are hungry for virtue. He's not asking if you already have it, He's asking how badly you want it.

"They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." (Luke 5:31-32)

How badly do you want it?

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Photos: https://photos.app.goo.gl/2sk1refRidSszyYk7

Song of the week: "Back to the Shack" by Weezer

Cool stuff:

"Becoming a Consecrated Missionary" by Tad R. Callister: https://drive.google.com/file/d/13RTVR1czGPaiNDLVYQf6lcn_ptkRs9bQ/view?usp=drivesdk

"Our Identity and Our Destiny" also by Elder Callister (he's one of my favorites)

https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/tad-r-callister/our-identity-and-our-destiny/

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Love, 

Elder Rigby

Week 29: Cabin Fever - Fort Smith, Arkansas

*Note: I ran out of time to send this last P-day and had food poisoning yesterday and the night before that so I'm way behind on everything, sorry! Stay tuned for this week's email.

Hey all!

I'm making myself start this Tuesday (01/16) night because while something about writing it the very last second helps me dial in and focus, it definitely doesn't help my sleep schedule. 

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...aaaaand that's pretty much all I wrote on Tuesday night. 

Well, looks like this week's email's gonna be pretty short.

This week, we got snowed in, our most recent convert went to the ICU, I bought some shoes with Elder McKee, and everyone took a trip back to the Bentonville Temple. 

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Incarceration: a snowstorm shut down all the roads for two days here and our mission doesn't do any social media work so we literally did nothing. It was weird. Having free time to study, write, draw, and practice music was fun for a little, but it also felt pretty purposeless. Despite the difficulties of missionary work, I feel most fulfilled when I just put myself in the Lord’s hands and take the chances he gives to be involved in His miracles. 

Claudia: a nice lady who was baptized just two days before I got to Fort Smith. She hit her head last week and had to get ambulanced to the hospital...where they then found out that her kidneys were failing. Her situation is really unsteady right now and she's not often conscious, so prayers for her would be greatly appreciated. We're not really sure how this is all going to turn out, but no matter what happens, she's on the right path. 

Mena: them boys. Remember Elder McKee, the Wisconsonian cranberry farmer built like an Avatar? Well, he came down to the Fort Smith Zone with me too. He's serving in Mena, Oklahoma with his trainee, Elder Whetten, who's equally fun to be around. We spent the temple trip chatting it up in the van with them and then finished P-day with them with a trip to Dick's and Best Buy. I bought some new running shoes with the help of Elder McKee while Elder Bigelow and Elder Whetten went to buy a projector for a Bible/Book of Mormon video movie night. 

Side note for added flavor: Elder McKee's latest farm life stories included one, getting attacked by African killer bees while driving a tractor (this happened miltiple times,) and two, drive-by paintballing bears to get them away from the cranberries.

Temple Trip: always my favorite part of the week. I called my little sister Hazel in-between some McDonald's breakfast and the van ride up to Bentonville, then shot the breeze in the back of the bus with the other Elders. The temple itself was awesome as always. I felt comforted, protected, and revitalized by the time I was able to spend in service to the Savior. One of my takeaways this week was how much I feel the Holy Spirit when I see the beauty of Earth. Nature builds my faith in God.

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Songs of the week: 

- "The Kids Don't Stand a Chance" by Vampire Weekend

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Thought: Moroni 9:6

"And now, my beloved son, notwithstanding their hardness, let us labor diligently; for if we should cease to labor, we should be brought under condemnation; for we have a labor to perform whilst in this tabernacle of clay, that we may conquer the enemy of all righteousness, and rest our souls in the kingdom of God."

Everyone in our zone knows that Elder Smythe is probably the hardest worker of all of us. I've been trying to figure out what makes him so different than the rest of us when he seems to have similar source of motivation to the other missionaries. What makes him so much more driven, then? 

Here are some of his answers I got while on exchange:

○ What makes a 'visionary' missionary?

"One of the biggest reasons we're here is to learn self-mastery and discipline from Jesus Christ. What sets casual and visionary missionaries apart is consistency in these things."

○ Serving in Fort Smith, Arkansas of all places:

"Serve like you're three hours from where Jesus Christ will return in His Second Coming. We're building up the kingdom of God on Earth no matter where we're called to serve."

○ What keeps you going?

"You were saved specifically for today because you proved to God through faith, diligence, and valor that He could trust you. Prove Him right again."

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"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." - Jim Elliot

Lots of Love,

Elder Rigby

Jacob

Elder Bigelow made me a crunchwrap supreme

Snow day art project

Not Arizona

Cool brass rubbings from Westminster Abbey

Pupusas done gave me food poisoning

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Week 12: The Plot Thickens - Bentonville, Arkansas

Hey all!

This episode, an Elder gets shuffled, I pray for a mailbox, and our best friend goes AWOL. Buckle up, it's a long ride today.

Quick News:

Real talk, last week was hard. We gave it our all every day and found exactly 0 people. However, Elder Cebellero and I grew a lot closer as a companionship as a result. The Lord saw fit to humble us through this time and once we finally got that in our heads, we were able to become more unified as companions. Plus, He blessed us with three new friends for our efforts this week: Sofia, Eduardo, and Fernando! I'll give an update on how their lessons go next week. 

- The Bentonville, Arkansas temple is getting dedicated this Sunday! I just barely missed the open house so I can't wait to finally see inside. For anyone who's wondering what in the world a temple is for, check out this cool tour of the Rome, Italy temple: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__m.youtube.com_watch-3Fv-3DdhWgPwEQQ98&d=DwMFAg&c=z0adcvxXWKG6LAMN6dVEqb0UviF1pXyDevTjy_jKVOk&r=N3V4p6LL0bE9YbknWrlp1I7jdVR1DT8UEsxCpy3W2Yc&m=TwFtBAeh0O_Si72RY9u2GU3U0NTBSULx5fYbG9uwj7YMjNVwuEfWsQSZZ5vkoJZ5&s=Wwnp6elMBJ9Bx0mrrUC8nEUz2agJQfjKvClP6CXn6Lk&e=

Sorry for the long YouTube link, my phone's weird. 

- tragedy strikes: a missionary in our zone went home last night and Elder McKee's being emergency reassigned to the Grove, Oklahoma area :( . I'm losing a homedog all too soon. On the bright side, a new missionary returning to the field is going to be joining us and Elder Atuaia's going to train him this time around, so the boys'll back to full strength soon enough. 

- Harrison went completely off the grid out of nowhere. These last few weeks have been awesome with him but then he canceled a lesson with us on Friday saying a ton of stuff came up at work and he had to stay and fix it and we've heard nothing from him since then. From what we've seen through his window it honestly seems like he hasn't been home much, if at all, in the last few days. Tricky stuff.

 But so it goes. The adversary's making an extra effort on him as it always does when a friend is preparing for baptism but we won't give up on him that easy. 

WEEK IN REVIEW

THURSDAY 

Zone Conference (a big meeting with our mission leaders teaching various workshops.) We talked about how to leave home blessings, keeping Jesus Christ as the center of God's Plan of Happiness/Salvation, and a cool proclamation titled The Living Christ. 

- 5 hours of sleep = not good. 

Mental self-evaluation: Kinda grumpy; discouraged; jealous of the more experienced missionaries around me. But y'know what, I felt the Spirit a lot at Zone Conference today and that was cool. 

- prayed over the postal service at a mailbox with a guy named Jacob. He really loved the postal service. 

- Atuaia and McKee picked up a Burger King delivery quest from a random person who got someone else's Doordash. Mission failed unfortunately. 

FRIDAY

- Exchanges with Elder Klingler, day 2: today was an exercise in navigating my own area without someone else who knew it better. Definitely a day in the growth zone. Elder Klingler's cool though. 

- gave my first home blessing ever to Jill and Ken Ehret (the guy who told us to buy land a month or so ago.) They're such a good family. We may have some differences but these people have real charity and that goes a long way. 

SATURDAY

- Woke up in a mini faith crisis. I felt a little better now after prayer, scripture study, "Lord I Believe" by Elder Holland, and time. As I went to bed, I looked back on my day happy and satisfied and ready to work more tomorrow. I had some serious angelic help today. 

- flashback to Campo Craft. If you know you know.

- Picnic in the park with the Grosses for dinner. Good times. 

- Found a fully functioning roomba that Elder McKee had been using as a pillow. Now the apartment has a pet. 

SUNDAY 

- mailbox Jacob showed up to church to return the Book of Mormon we gave him and then leave because "the the mail came late therefore this church must not be true," among other interesting reasons, and promptly went home. He was an odd enough bird from the start to make me think he was probably being genuine. Kinda surreal. 

- Ate some raw tuna like a champ. 

- Sofia and Thomas: she's a Chilean Facebook referral taught as a kid who's really interested in the Book of Mormon and he's a fellow Christian who totally Bible-bashed us but in the oh-so-kindest of ways. Keep going, Sofia! Go pray about it, Thomas. 

- Elder Ceb gave me a hug today. Huh. That doesn't happen very often. It was pretty nice. 

- Accidentally interrupted a Marshallese church service in this random house we knocked on. Whoops. 

- met four returned missionaries in one home, all of them now inactive in the church. Dang. You think you'll be invincible once you get home from spreading the Gospel for two years but we're commanded to endure to the end for a reason. Pretty sobering. 

MONDAY

- picked up a stick bug. Now I really feel like Newt Scamander. 

- Brother McKinney is so cool. He's a firefighter and a (relatively) recently returned missionary from the Fresno mission who's an ace at coming out to tract with us. 

- Got the cops called on us for "aggressively trying to open the front door multiple times" and like four police Chevies just kinda spawned into the hood. They said hi, told us we were all good, mentioned it might rain soon, and sent us on our way.

TUESDAY

- finally found someone: Eduardo!

- The B2 Sisters picked up a raccoon. No context really. People just have interesting pets sometimes. 

- Dinner with a young couple, the Heltons: she owns almost the same Victrola record player as me, has good taste in jazz and makes fantastic sausage and tortellini soup. He served his mission in Mesa, built a PC, had an old gameboy color, and likes brockhampton and Childish Gambino. I've found my people. 

- Second find: Fernando!

- Talked about U.S. Embassy stuff with Elder Powell. He's from an expat family who was born in Finland and lived in Japan, Kuwait, and a few other countries. Sick. Plus, his dad had Elder Powell give me his email and told me to hit him up after my mission for some networking connections. Double sick. 

- our carpets got replaced this week so the other Elders decided to use this chance to relocate the entire gym setup to the living room. Our interior design has my inner Animal Crossing fan in crisis. 

 This week's aspect of charity to focus on: Longsuffering. 

- Star Wars nerd fest with Elder McKee. I get so few chances to nerd out with people while on my mission. Boy, that was satisfying. 

WEDNESDAY 

- Brother Agard: a member walked over, and gave us 20 bucks like 30 seconds after we found out we didn't have any money for food this week. 

- Knocked in a trio with Elder Ceb and Elder Atuaia. Blessed two homes tonight baybee

- also got cussed out for the first time but that's less important. 

Thought:

1) Moroni 7:45-48 in context. 

Here, a prophet speaks on charity to the few faithful Christians left standing. The Nephite civilization is collapsing once and for all and the wicked are actively hunting him down and yet he still teaches to love and forgive as Christ would. 

2) A lesson from my dad on expectations:

Excitement: anticipation of a good thing happening. 

Fear: anticipation of a bad thing happening. 

 Enthusiasm: walking with God no matter what's coming. 

"Living outside the 'now' is just painful. Don't miss out on being with the Supreme Creator. If you're with God on your birthday, it could be your best birthday ever."

Fair enough. I want to be an enthusiastic missionary because I want to find joy in the present.

Well, that's about it for this week. I'm trying to work hard and stay diligent, although I still need to work on my bedtime. I've gotta plan my pdays better haha. 

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Love you all!

Elder Rigby

Week 11: The Quad is Banished - Bentonville, Arkansas

Hey all! 

We got locked out of our apartment for a bit tonight so I'm starting this email late yet again but c'est la vie. Hope life's been good for y'all! All the best to my friends and family starting school again this month. 

Quick update:

Harrison's on date for baptism! We had another great lesson with him and invited him but he was still hesitant and wanting a stronger answer before he committed. Remembering our mission president's advice to invite people to act in faith rather than waiting for an answer, I decided to be straight up. I told him we were here to help him get baptized because we loved him. Plain and simple. We then asked him why he was meeting with us, and it took him a while to answer. His response was that the members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints had a light about them he'd never seen before and he wanted to have that light himself. .

 We explained that baptism enables us to that unimitable light and peace through the Gift of the Holy Ghost. We then asked him again if he would prepare to be baptized on October 7th if he had received an answer by then and, thank goodness, our boy came through. It's been so cool to see the Holy Spirit move in the life of our good friend. 

 So pray for Harrison, friends! The adversary isn't going to just let him go and get baptized like it's no big deal. He's gonna need all the help he can get going forward, so I'd appreciate it if you could remember him in your prayers these coming weeks. 

A week in the life of a missionary, 8/30 - 9/6:

WEDNESDAY 

- Taught a guy 3 days out of prison at 11:00 at night down the hall from our apartment

- Elder McKee talks in his sleep lol

THURSDAY

- T2 training: 6 hours with the Presidents, Domino's for lunch, a happy reunion with Elder Andersen, and a sleepover with Elder Hulse and Elder Gleason from the very northernmost area of the mission. 

FRIDAY

- Finished the Isaiah quotations in 2 Nephi and man, the clarity of the "plain and precious truths" of the Book of Mormon is refreshing. 

- Made my pad thai waaaaay too spicy by pouring like ten spoons of chili pepper oil on it. The natural man is inclined to make bad decisions. 

- rip Shelby. She canceled our dinner lesson because her kid was sick and her husband wasn't interested :/

SATURDAY

- Sister Hancock's funeral: "would you help dig even if you didn't hear the voice?"

- SOS from the Central Park Elders with a flat bike tire

- thinkin 'bout Maple Treeway from Mario Kart Wii. Man, where does my brain remember this stuff from?

This church sure ain't comfortable Christianity. That's reassuring if you ask me. 

SUNDAY

- "Commandments are less about 'do this, don't do that' and more about showing God that you're really trying so that He can rightfully bless you."

- Manly pillow talk with Elder McKee. Elder McKee's a G. We get along really well which is nice.

MONDAY

- I dream about doing missionary work most nights. "You'll have that on these big jobs."

- Ceb is so quiet sometimes. 

12:00pm: I did not want to talk to people today. At all. So I said a prayer and got to work. 

4:00pm: I feel better now. Little miracles. 

TUESDAY 

- wake up -> get out of bed -> go sleep on the couch for two hours. Not sure why, I was just not feeling it this morning. 

- quick post office trip. I like the post office. 

- saw some Jehovah's Witnesses in the wild. I thought about how I'd react to *them* knocking on *my* door and that was a real eye-opener. I've walked a mile in those moccasins. 

- meditated for a few minutes at lunch and my brain chilled out. Meditation is neat.

- got a postcard from Aunt Jen hand-delivered by President Collins when we dropped by the mission office. A pleasant double surprise. 

- ate at Cane's. Cane's is Cane's. It speaks for itself. Thanks for dinner, Aunt Jen. 

- 9 hours of tracting in one day with 0 new people found. Woof. 

WEDNESDAY 

- got locked out of our apartment 

- lost a page from a song I was practicing on the piano 

- saw Halloween decorations in someone's yard for the first time this year. I'm not about that. No Halloween stuff in my birthday month. Gimme some space 

"life's all about peace and pain at the same time. This life will always have pain but peace can be found in it as we align our will with God's will for us." Credit to Dad for this one. 

今週の人々:

- The Wilhites: a nice young family who just moved from near Aomori, Japan at the snowiest U.S. Air Force base in the world. Brother Wilhite worked there as a family doctor for the military. 

- Brother Ward: a softspoken and kind elderly artist in our ward. Owns a motorcycle and looks like Liam Neeson.  

- The Thurmans: a member family staying in an AirBnB we happened to knock into. Sister Thurman's originally from Gilbert (shoutout Ciudad Gilberto) and their family lived in Appleton where one of my ride or die homies Elder Thompson served for a few transfers this year. 

Thought:

This week my zone met together to discuss a talk given by Gary E. Stevenson a few years ago titled "Your Four Minutes." In it, he compared our whole life to the four minutes Olympic athletes have to has to prove themselves in the Skeleton event. Four short minutes and the decisions they make therein determine the outcome of an event they will spend the rest of their lives remembering. 

  This life, and, to an even greater extent, my mission, is four short minutes to prove to God how we will act when it's down to the wire. While an hour feels like an eternity some days and I sometimes find myself wondering what in the actual heck I'm doing knocking on a stranger's door at an apartment complex in northwest Arkansas, I know my purpose and know that RIGHT NOW IS GO TIME. 

  Right now, I have the opportunity to bring more of my family back home with me. If that means that I need to endure a spiritual and emotional marathon then I'll do that every day.

I wish I could spend more time on how impactful this talk and the discussion we had on it was to me but wow, I gotta go to bed. Goggins rant over.

Song of the week:

"BrokEn (Reimagined)" by Coldplay. 

Good music. 

I'm too tired to write a witty ending so I'm just gonna finish up here and hit send in the morning. Sorry again to all the people I couldn't respond to! I wish I could. I'm working on catching up as best as I can so bear with me a little longer. 

Be cool, do stuff. They're closely tied together. Love you guys!

Elder Rigby

The Quad Squad

Bentonville Temple

A lot of birds on one power line

Week 10: Leg Week - Bentonville, Arkansas

Hey all!

Another week goes by! Today's pday was really busy so I couldn't respond to hardly anyone but I'll try and get back to you soon if I missed ya.

Man, I wish I was better at putting my feelings into words. I don't want to just go around every week like "Hey guys life's great everything's good!" because it's not always like that. So in a few words, I'm sustainably uncomfortable. I'm humbled and challenged every day but "nevertheless, I know in whom I have trusted" (2 Nephi 4:9.)

The news:

- CAR SHARE. Fortunately, our mission just received 25 new missionaries and only lost 7 this transfer. Unfortunately, we received 0 new cars. So, this transfer we'll be sharing the car 50-50 with the other Elders in the apartment and biking the rest of the time. Time to get huge quads I guess 

- Our new roommate, Elder McKee, is one-of-a-kind. He's a tall farmboy from outside the small town Marshfield, Wisconsin Who loves Rubik's cubes. In his last area in Missouri he found a dead otter, skinned it outside the mission apartment, and sent its pelt home in the mail. A true frontiersman. I like him a lot. 

- It's officially been a full year since I started college. Weird. 

WEEK IN REVIEW:

THURSDAY 

- Our friend Jacob's read like 16 chapters of the Book of Mormon before his first lesson two days after we met him. 

- Dinner with the Edgintons: Their house is like Grandma Rigby's: same homey vibe, same smell, same good family clutter. We ate amazing ham and cheese sliders with broccoli slaw, strawberries, Doritos, and brownies and ice cream.

FRIDAY

- CAR SWAP

- Heard Duel of the Fates on the church radio

- Jeremy and Abbie: newlyweds in the park who met each other on their missions in Greece. He's an Arkansas native and she's from Britain. My man married a Hermione. Also, Jeremy's mom Amy gave us five bucks for ice cream. 

- Biking ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

SATURDAY 

- Comp study at Osage Park. Nice shade and good folk music with some people playing pickleball nearby to add to the aesthetic. I was in a rough state today so this place helped me take a breather. 

- 400 otter pops in the Church freezer

- a dude at Panda Express had a tattoo of the kanji for "sin" so I said "cool tattoo" and he's like "thanks it means 'blessings.'" Hmmmmmmmm. 

- Hadar: really cool Muslim guy we met tracting who gave us free homemade hummus. Like a lot of hummus. Legend.

SUNDAY 

- Today was so much better than yesterday. Absolutely beautiful weather and lots of really nice people. We found a really promising lady named Shelby who invited us over for family dinner on Friday

- thinkin bout Pokémon Rumble on the Wii

- we met a guy who the missionaries helped buy a train ticket in France 20 years ago and he wasn't interested today but he never forgot their kindness. Neat.  

MONDAY 

- washed the dishes again

- Paul: Pastor/Greek scholar/hardcore gamer. Plays the same fighter as me in Smash Ultimate. Helping his buddy out with his marriage as a spiritual mentor. Cool guy. 

- Erxhan: Kind Albanian guy. Hard worker who loves his family and is big on faith and honesty. Downloaded the Book of Mormon app to check it out in Albanian cause he's cool like that.

TUESDAY 

- more nice neighborhoods and more beautiful weather

- Sherri: friendly old lady with ever-so-slightly pink hair. Loves her old cowboy church in Florida. Came to Sacrament (the first hour of church) on her own a couple of weeks back and she said she'll try Sunday School (the second hour) this week. Actually keeps commitments lol. 

- saw the battle bus

WEDNESDAY

- I wanna live in a lighthouse. Idk, just sounds cool. 

- Got mad after a guy slammed the door in our face and felt bad so God gave me more chances to respond with charity. Bentonville's usually got really nice folks but tonight we had five people chew us out in one neighborhood before we met a cool dude Trenton who we set up a lesson with. 

- Played the baby grand piano in the chapel. Pianos are awesome.

Songs that got stuck in my head:

- "Helplessness Blues" by Fleet Foxes. Shoutout to Aunt Susie who went to their concert this week: I love Fleet Foxes! They're awesome. 

- "Julia" by Mt. Joy : Shoutout to Mom and Dad who went to their concert last week: I love Mt. Joy too! They're also awesome. 

Hymn of the week:

- "Be Thou My Vision" by the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square. A good ol' American classic. This song could totally be in the soundtrack of a pioneer movie. 

Scripture: 

7 And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure. 

8 For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.

9 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 

10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

 Paul's cool. I wanna be like him. I get mad at myself for my weaknesses and forget day after day that God made me this way not even though He loves me but *because* He loves me. My weakness is a tender mercy. It keeps me humble enough to rely on my Savior instead of being so prideful as to think I can do the Lord's work without the Lord. 

God is good. Trials are good. Prayer is good. THE LORD LOVES EFFORT. He is waiting to bless us for our diligence.

P.S. Gmail keeps crashing so I can't insert any pictures this time but here's the link to my Google Photos. Highlights include:

- the battle bus

- Crystal Bridges day 2

- the aforementioned hummus 

https://photos.app.goo.gl/2sk1refRidSszyYk7

Love you all!

Elder Rigby