Good morning and what is up all my fine males and females! I hope you have had a sigma week and if you are new normally I email on Wednesdays but since this past Sunday was T-Doc my P day is today. I will explain what T-Doc is later in my email but let's get right into it
March 11
well p day was a chill day we just played board games and went to the store and got more games we also went to like 7 pawn shops and found some really cool treasures but over all just a laid back day
March 12
We had an exchange with our District Leaders, and Elder Cook and Elder Bauder, down in their area in a town called Salisaw near the Arkansas border and I was with Elder Bauder and we had a great day! We taught some lessons to some of their friends and we made them a new friend named Larry and he is super chill. Later that day we played Settlers of Catan, my family's favorite, and I lost by 1 point sadly, but I was cooking pretty good!
March 13
District Conference and it was a good and a spiritual day. At the beginning we talked about how all our friends are doing and all together our district has 8 baptisms in the next 2 months which is so cool. It's amazing to see the commitment the people are making to make that first covenant with Christ by choosing to follow in his footsteps and be baptized. They are willing to repent and ask for forgiveness when they make mistakes. God is so merciful to us and so many people feel like they can never find forgiveness but that is far from the truth. Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ are always stretching their hands out and asking us to pray and repent of our sins. They don't ask for perfection but they ask for effort to make a change and to take small steps and by doing so we grow closer to Them each day. We came back from District Conference and I got super nauseous so I had to lay down for 30 minutes and after I took a Tums I was good but nothing else crazy for Friday.
March 14
Friday was good, to start off me and Elder Douglas had to take a trip to Tulsa because our car is 4,000 miles over its oil change. I’m sure you all know that when you go past your oil change date its a big no-no so folks do your oil changes! If anything, do them earlier than suggested. It will let your car/truck last way longer! It was cool to come to Tulsa, my favorite city so far, and after we dropped off the car we walked over to a Scheels and walked around for a while and it was fun to look at legos and other fun stores. There were some interesting people there, we also saw some protests going into town. After we got our car back we drove over to the biggest Boot Barn I have ever seen in my life– it dwarfs the ones I have been to in Utah and they had an entire wall dedicated to hat brands which was super cool! After we got back to Muskogee we biked around looking for people to teach and serve for the remainder of the night.
March 15
Well ladies and gentlemen today has been so exciting! To start off we had an amazing Sunday. We had a baptism! Elder Cox and Elder Phenomena were able to see their friend Caleb get baptized so congratulations to him! Back at our apartment, we did our weekly planning and then walked in the cold for a long time, had dinner at a ward member's house and it was chill.
Now the moment we all have been waiting for its T-Doc day everyone. What is T-Doc you are asking? Well let me tell you! Every 5 to 6 weeks we have transfers where we find out if we stay in our current area we are assigned to or if we move somewhere else in Oklahoma. It's also where you find out if you get a different companion or train a new missionary that enters the mission. So what is happening to Elder Saunders??
Elder Saunders is leaving Muskogee and is heading to Lawton, Oklahoma! I am going to start a new area with our former Zone Leader Elder Siddoway where he will finish my training. Lawton is located clear on the west side of Oklahoma and borders northern Texas sadly, our area does not go into Texas but I was not expecting that to happen. The funny thing about this transfer is both me and Elder Sidooway requested to be with each other at some point in the future, so talk about a surprise! We will also get to see all the new missionaries coming into the mission but we won't train any, just seeing who comes so everyone! I can't wait to soon be in a new area and Im so excited that next time I will be in Lawton
Well folks this week has been a short email but I am so excited to go and work hard and share my love of Christ with everyone in Lawton, till Next time
No shout outs this week sadly
Maybe next time.