Letter #51 (July 25th, 2012)

Hey all,
I absolutely hate the computers here. They are the most stupid sucky
computers in the world!!!!
Its 1 year tomorrow! ... miss you all soo much and things from back home...
but we have work to do and it will soon pass. We have a FHE tonight with
some members which is going to be great... so it will soon pass.

I did not expect the mission to go so fast as it has... I expected
that it would be much longer. But it has been amazing!
Things have been going well here and I have a funny story for you lot...
So last Friday, transfer day, Elder Banzon who is AP called us on the
cell phone... "Hey Elder Cox your scriptures are done, they look so
sweet, youre gonna love them. We'll probably just keep them and you can
pick them up at leadership training." Huh!?! "why will I be at
leadership training?" "Your District Leader!" WHAT!?! "Wait... the zone
leaders didn't tell me that! They said Elder Ratu is DL..." "Dili Oi!
Elder Ratu is just junior comp. he's not DL... you are... we told the
zone leaders..."

So turns out im DL... then that next day I performed my first baptismal
interview for the Bayawan elders and the candidate didnt speak cebuano
very well... only tagalog... mahirap talaga!

So this past Monday I had to teach a workshop for the District
meeting as well. It went well and we had the zone leaders come to sit
in a s well. So now we have supplies again for our house in terms of
pamphlets and copies of the book of Mormon. But turns out there are no
planners!!!! Argh! so hard to plan without planners!

Oh! I met a guy out in Bayawan that it turns out he served with Reggie
on his mission in his district. He was like "I knew this Australian
who would breakdance while we payed basketball... And i was like "That
is so my cousin Elder Jacobsen"... small world. He is Bro Timbangan...
you should ask Reggie if he remembers him... Terri here: Taylor's cousin served in the Philippines Angeles Mission about 5 years back!! Funny how the only 2 Aussies this guy meets happen to be related! hahaha

Monday after district meeting e had a "CSP"... On transfer
calls of last week (so last Wed) one of the elders in the
companionship that transferred said the CSP was claro... and this
elder is very reliable and honest.
Well it was definitely wa'y claro jud... morag C-S-P Chica-chica
Saka-saka Panaw-panaw!
We walked for a good 5 km into the bukid over streams and over
mountains through corn fields and shoulder high grass. Then we got to
this house that nanay was leadin us to and tatay was like "You should
all just rest..." and we were all like "No we need to work... this is
a CSP"
So tatay got us to take his two cows to get water and then took us to
his lubihan about another km away, got us to harvest botong (young
coconuts) and then drink them all for him... Huh???
Unsa man ni oi! We are definitely not having another CSP in that area
this transfer. My legs still hurt....

Hopefully this next week the rain will hold off so we can get to some
of the bukid areas to visit. Starting to miss visiting those members
in the layo areas.

Elder Bednar will be here in the mission for the next transfer day
on the last day of August... we will ALL go to Cebu for the transfer
meeting and then mission conference afterwards regardless if we are
transferring or not.

No pictures cause the fast internet is closed today for some
reason. this one is sooooooooo slow... We are sticking it here in Zambo
today, washing clothes, cleaning the house, recovering from the "CSP"
Miss you all tons
Love you all
Elder Taylor Addison Cox