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The Didache, Chapter 14:
“But every Lord’s day gather yourselves together, and break bread, and give thanksgiving after having confessed your transgressions, that your sacrifice may be pure. But let no one who is at odds with his fellow come together with you,until they be reconciled, that your sacrifice may not be
profaned. For this is that which was spoken by the Lord:
“In every place and time offer to me a pure sacrifice; for I
am a great King, says the Lord, and my name is wonderful
among the nations.”

It seems that, from the very beginning, giving confession before receiving the Eucharist was a given. I have to wonder why we’ve went from this to today’s guidelines of some Churches to confessing maybe twice a year.

From my experience, Serbs celebrate Pascha in the morning of Pascha, as opposed to late night as everyone else does?

I will preface by saying I was a US cellular customer for 23 years. They built a solid wireless infrastructure for our rural area, and had basically no issues that entire time. My phone is a 17 Pro max that I bought(not through t-mobile) two months ago that worked flawlessly.

Anyways:
Friday:I was flying home from being halfway across the country for work. While waiting for my connecting flight, my phone did the switch from USC to T-Mobile. Immediately, my phone went to SOS, and a “e-sim not compatible” fault Using my work phone, I tried to call T-Mobile support to fix the issue. They twice send me QR code, that still says “not compatible.” As I’m getting on the plane, they tell me to delete my e-sim. I do that, but don’t have any time to do anything else.

I land, and call support again. They give me the same run around, and don’t fix anything. I’m exhausted form a long week, and frankly a bit pissed off, so I leave it at that. Drive home, and call it a night.

Saturday: I call T-mobile again in the morning, they try eSIM QR again, have me reset network settings. This does nothing, and they tell me to call apple, as it must be a problem on their end. I do so, they run mobile diagnostics, and find no issue with my phone. (At this point, I’ve spent roughly 3 hours on the phone.)I go to the local T-mobile store, which had 1 employee present. She tries to fix, both on her own, and with the said tech support people that were of no help. After spending 2.5 hours in the store, they tell me I need to take my phone to an Apple Store for them to run diagnostics. (Note, there were two other people with the same issue while I was there. One person she was able to fix relatively quickly. But, he still had his eSIM.)The closest store is over an hour away, and will have to wait until the next day.

Sunday: I call apple support to schedule an appointment. They run remote diagnostics again, find no issue, but set me up an appointment. So I drive 1:15 to the store (located in a mall.) they get me in look at the phone find no issues. The lady let me know they have been having issues like this for four weeks. She sends me to the t-mobile store also located in the mall. I spend 2.5 hours with the associate there, who is on the phone with t-mobile support. They have him do the same exact steps they’ve done the last two days. At this point, they have requested 10 eSIM QR codes, and to no surprise, they haven’t done anything. The T-Mobile tech support guy tells me to go to Apple and see if they will replace my phone. At this point the mall has been closed for over 30 minutes. So I drive the 1:15 home. I call Apple care in the evening. They say I am eligible for a new phone, and they could send me one. I have to travel out of state the next day (today) and ask if I could just switch at the store. They say yes, and book me an appointment.

Monday (today): I go to the Apple Store, and they look at my phone. They verify there is nothing wrong with it, and tell me that they can give me a new phone, but because it is a T-mobile networking issue, the new phone would do the exact same thing. She calls their t-mobile line, talks with the person, is supposed to be transferred to a tech support. She is on hold for about 30 minutes. She talks to the same person again, they put her on hold again. After about 20 minutes on hold, they hang up on her. She tells me that it’s an issue with them porting my phone over. She has tried to reach the people who can fix it, but she can’t.

So here I am, sitting in my vehicle, having spent well over 10 hours of my time the last few days trying to resolve an issue that no one seems too inclined to help with, mentally exhausted. We have two other lines that switched without issue. T-Mobile has been completely unhelpful. They keep asking the same questions over and over, which would all be in the now long service log. So, I have to ask, what do I do at this point. I haven’t had a phone since Friday. If Verizon service was better in our area, I would’ve switched before leaving town this morning.
No, T-mobile, I don’t want another eSIM QR code that won’t work. I don’t want to reset my network settings again, and I don’t want to factory reset my phone again I want you to fix whatever parameters didn’t get switched for my network.