So Mardi is still on date for next Sunday. We had a delicious steak at her house that was... delicious. It was cool because that day the AP's came on exchanges with the ZL's and DL's in our zone, so we had Elder Babcock with us. Elder Babcock was in this ward at the very beginning of his mission and he only has one transfer left. When he was here, Mardi was just another eternigator that was way far from baptism. Well he was there with us when we had dinner with her and it was pretty cool to see it full circle. She just looked at him funny and was like "he looks soo familiar". She told him that he's grown up a lot and looks like a man now, etc. etc. It was just cool, and now she's going to be baptized.
Not too much to report on Anastasia. She's still on date for the 18th but neither she nor Mardi were able to make it to Conference. Anastasia's kinda hard to meet with too. Based on the last time we met though, she's solid and really wants to be baptized.
On Friday we went to the Easter Pageant with our wonderful black family Dierre, Serita, Johnny, Jellia, JaKayla, Martholomuel, Bartogondrion, DaMarcus, DaMatthew, DaLuke, and the whole gang. Okay, I made some of those up after JaKayla. But still. Anyway, it was a pretty terrible experience actually, but absolutely hilarious. So we get to their house at like 6:30 so we can head all the way up to Mesa, like 45 minutes, find parking, find a seat, and be ready for the pageant to start. Well we get there and get in the car and we're all just sitting there but Serita, the mom, isn't there yet. We're all buckled up just waiting and we ask Dierre where his mom is. He goes inside and says she's just chillin there. He goes back in a little later and she's COOKING FOOD. Okay, uh, we have to go like... right now. After a little bit she comes out and yells at us saying she's been to Mesa a thousand times, we came too early, she knows where to park. etc. etc. Okay... so we wait. After a little bit she's ready and we leave. Pretty much the whole time she's just agitated and yelling at her kids and it was super awkward and we didn't say a word. She ran a couple red lights on the way up and I literally thought I was going to die. Long story short, we get to the pageant like 15 minutes after it started and just sit in the grass. After about 10 seconds, Serita says that the kids are too squirmy and she's going to go "walk them around". We watch the rest of the pageant and are wondering where Serita is. Turns out she took the kids to dairy queen and was just chillin. That's cool, I guess. Needless to say, we made it home safe and sound and I never will do that again.
As far as conference goes, it was sweet! It's weird because it's my last one of the mission. Crazy! One of my favorites was Elder Uchtdorf's about grace. It seemed to change my perspective a little bit and I really like it when that happens. Also very touching was Elder Holland's when he was talking about those brothers. I don't think it's coincidence that the younger brother saved the day :) Granted, the older brother boosted him up... Anyway, thanks all my brothers for showing me the right way and being stellar examples of good missionaries. Love y'all.
What did you all think of people opposing the sustaining of the brethren? Crazy, right?! Who in their right mind? All well. Let it be known that I sustain the brethren! God hasn't ceased speaking to us!
Oh so, our mission has been pushing for physical fitness as of late. I think mainly because back around October President said no more waking up early and going to gyms, and no more gyms whatsoever. Naturally, our motivation to exercise would decrease, so to supplement that he announced a mission 5k run. Well, that was today and I haven't run more than a mile in about a year. Last year around this time I was running almost 3 miles daily but since then... not quite that far. Anyway, I was able to run the whole thing without stopping, so that was a bonus. Needless to say, it kicked my butt.
Anyway, love you family. Keep it real and endure to the end!
-Elder Cox
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