Hey all!
Transfers! I have to leave my anak... and go to CEBU! Three islands now! Wooo!
So I am transferring to Danao 2nd and my companion is Elder Pastor.... and this is the craziest thing.... Elder Padilla will get followed
up by none other than his Lolo, Elder Holley!!!!!!!!! Woooo! I am so
happy!
So I am so disappointed to have to leave my wonderful house in Zambo
and all the buotan members but it will be exciting to be in this new
area, with a new companion. My ZL wil be Elder Dustin (so i ve heard)
who is my batch, which is gonna be sweet!
Elder Padilla and I had a great last week. We have had fun working
together for the four days we had to work... with all the other
things going on like Zone Confernece, Zone CSP and Baptismal
interviews in Bayawan again. We had fun I2L-ing together on the buses
and I feel that Elder Padilla has really gained confidence in his
abilities now. He is more and more willing to lead and open his mouth
first. It has been an amazing experience to train with him and to
learn so much from him. I learnt so much from him on how to feel for
the Spirit of discernment. He taught me to really listen to peoples
bodies as well as their words. It has been a great experience and one
that I will never forget.
Then we have had an amazing experience with one family this week, the
N family. We had worked with this one Nanay for about 4 months
with no success what so ever, until she told us she would not come
back to church unless he kids came back with her... then we found out
where her kids live and that one was in our area. Just recently we
have been working with her some and his wife and teaching
them the lessons. He is a member but his wife is not yet, but she
is so accepting and is really progressing. So it turns out this Nanay
heard about what we were doing and is excited to come back to church
with her son and his wife, and hopefully one of her other sons as
well who is coming back to live with the Nanay next month. It has been
this amazing miracle for this family and I am so disappointed that i
will not be able to see it all play out. But hope to hear the stories
from Elder Padilla and my Tatay in the near future.
I am excited for this next transfer and for the experiences ahead. I
hope to continue to learn from my new companion Elder Pastor. I have
not heard anything about him so I am excited to head into the
companionship. I am excited to be on Cebu finally and am very much looking
forward to the temple after being so long off island with no
opportunity to attend. I miss the temple sooo much... and I realise
how important it is in our lives.
I'm sure I'll have all sorts of stories to tell you next week about my
new companion and area and lots of pictures again. Looking forward to
this next week! That's all for this week.Salamat daan! That's all now...
Miss you all,
Love you tons,
Elder Taylor Addison Cox
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Terri here:We have some photos this week, and hopefully more next week!
Sunday, September 2, 2012
Letter # 55 (Aug 22, 2012)
Hey all,
This week has been great. Transfers is next week on the 29th of August
and apparently at our zone conference yesterday, President Schmutz
told elder Padilla that I would be transferring from the area... so
either he already has something planned for me or my companion that he
has been pondering about. So next week I'm transfering... kono (so he
said). Don't know where yet but will let you know next email. turns out
Elder Padilla only needs glasses and so we paid for them today and
should get to pick them up next week siguro. The baptsimal interviews
were great... they were all kids between ages 9 and 14, so it was a
little different but all good. Tell Dad... I GOT TO RIDE A BIKE FOR
THE FIRST TIME ON THE MISSION! ...it was so much fun and I miss riding
the bike alot. When I got to Bayawan I got to ride with one of the
bayawan elders to the interview while elder Padilla and the other
elder walked. I so wish we had bikes... hopefully in my next area,
basin(maybe).
Terri here: One of Taylor's YM's Presidents...(who is now a Bishop)
was working in Cebu, and spoke to the mission President while he was there.
President Schmutz told me yesterday at zone conference that one of my
young men's presidents had called him that weekend and talked with him
cause he tried visiting in the office and he wasn't there. I
was trying to figure out whether it was Fritz or Andrew... jujuju...
cool.
Yesterday we had an amazing ZC and learnt so much from President
Schmutz... it was about rededicating ourselves to our covenants and
remembering our purpose and abilities as missionaries. He is
amazing and I love him so much, he has helped me so much on the
mission and is always giving us great encouragement.
Things have been great and I am sort of excited for transfers.
Training with Elder Padilla has been great fun and it is time to see
him forward on his mission experience and fro me to get out of this
area... almost 6 months now... its been great.
Something that stood out to me in the ZC was this, and I'd like to
leave it as my closing remarks. Always remember this principle in
everything in life...
"Our opportunities are but few...
... don't waste them!"
Miss you all,
Love you tons.
Elder Taylor Addison Cox
This week has been great. Transfers is next week on the 29th of August
and apparently at our zone conference yesterday, President Schmutz
told elder Padilla that I would be transferring from the area... so
either he already has something planned for me or my companion that he
has been pondering about. So next week I'm transfering... kono (so he
said). Don't know where yet but will let you know next email. turns out
Elder Padilla only needs glasses and so we paid for them today and
should get to pick them up next week siguro. The baptsimal interviews
were great... they were all kids between ages 9 and 14, so it was a
little different but all good. Tell Dad... I GOT TO RIDE A BIKE FOR
THE FIRST TIME ON THE MISSION! ...it was so much fun and I miss riding
the bike alot. When I got to Bayawan I got to ride with one of the
bayawan elders to the interview while elder Padilla and the other
elder walked. I so wish we had bikes... hopefully in my next area,
basin(maybe).
Terri here: One of Taylor's YM's Presidents...(who is now a Bishop)
was working in Cebu, and spoke to the mission President while he was there.
President Schmutz told me yesterday at zone conference that one of my
young men's presidents had called him that weekend and talked with him
cause he tried visiting in the office and he wasn't there. I
was trying to figure out whether it was Fritz or Andrew... jujuju...
cool.
Yesterday we had an amazing ZC and learnt so much from President
Schmutz... it was about rededicating ourselves to our covenants and
remembering our purpose and abilities as missionaries. He is
amazing and I love him so much, he has helped me so much on the
mission and is always giving us great encouragement.
Things have been great and I am sort of excited for transfers.
Training with Elder Padilla has been great fun and it is time to see
him forward on his mission experience and fro me to get out of this
area... almost 6 months now... its been great.
Something that stood out to me in the ZC was this, and I'd like to
leave it as my closing remarks. Always remember this principle in
everything in life...
"Our opportunities are but few...
... don't waste them!"
Miss you all,
Love you tons.
Elder Taylor Addison Cox
Letter #54 (Aug 15th, 2012)
Hey all!
So about this past week. We had so many things happening that we had
little work this week. We spent so long in the hospital and the we had
a ton of CSP in the district and in own area as well. We got to build
another house, but this time out of bamboo... which is a little
different than working with traditional woods. There are some
different techniques to work the bamboo whch i was able to learn. Then
we also had the meeting with the zone last Thur about the workshop
from President Schmutz about the Book of Mormon which was really cool.
I got my split scriptures and they are sweet as! They are so cool and
everyone wants to do the same now (trend setter man ko!)...
The members are crazy about working with us now... we will be doing
splits this coming Sat and Sun, and I have 3 baptismal interviews this
Sat, starting at 10 in the morning over in Bayawan (layo kaayo), until
3pm in Siaton. it will be so kapoy...!
I had this great opportunity to meet this French dude that lives in
our area! he sad thing was i forgot all of my french! i was so
disappointed with myself that i had forgotten all the words, and that
all i could think of was visayan words. But he was cool, and we
chatted in English. He is 30, has an online business and his own
family here with one kid.
Yesterday I got to do splits with the elders in Siaton the next area
over to see how they are progressing. It was good fun and I got to
learn from elder Ratu as he led his area. He is from New Zealand.
We have zone conference this Mon and the transfer is fast coming to a
close.... I dont really know what else to write about right now...
maybe you can quickly email some questions if you are there are have
some...
But miss you all,
Love you tons
Elder Taylor Addison Cox
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Terri here:A short letter this week. The rest was just answers to questions we asked him.
So about this past week. We had so many things happening that we had
little work this week. We spent so long in the hospital and the we had
a ton of CSP in the district and in own area as well. We got to build
another house, but this time out of bamboo... which is a little
different than working with traditional woods. There are some
different techniques to work the bamboo whch i was able to learn. Then
we also had the meeting with the zone last Thur about the workshop
from President Schmutz about the Book of Mormon which was really cool.
I got my split scriptures and they are sweet as! They are so cool and
everyone wants to do the same now (trend setter man ko!)...
The members are crazy about working with us now... we will be doing
splits this coming Sat and Sun, and I have 3 baptismal interviews this
Sat, starting at 10 in the morning over in Bayawan (layo kaayo), until
3pm in Siaton. it will be so kapoy...!
I had this great opportunity to meet this French dude that lives in
our area! he sad thing was i forgot all of my french! i was so
disappointed with myself that i had forgotten all the words, and that
all i could think of was visayan words. But he was cool, and we
chatted in English. He is 30, has an online business and his own
family here with one kid.
Yesterday I got to do splits with the elders in Siaton the next area
over to see how they are progressing. It was good fun and I got to
learn from elder Ratu as he led his area. He is from New Zealand.
We have zone conference this Mon and the transfer is fast coming to a
close.... I dont really know what else to write about right now...
maybe you can quickly email some questions if you are there are have
some...
But miss you all,
Love you tons
Elder Taylor Addison Cox
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Terri here:A short letter this week. The rest was just answers to questions we asked him.
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