Letter #75 (9th Jan, 2013)

Hey all,

I have never been so tired in my mission before! The city has really pushed me and I feel exhasted every night. I feel like I am giving my all everyday and then the next morning somehow find extra strength to continue pushing forward. Not to metion we walk so much! Been trying to get to know all the places and routes here in the city, and am still really confused... hopefully this week will be better and i'll start to see some familiar landmarks.

The work has been kinda fun here, but there are so many hard-hearted LA's here that you can lose hope petty quickly if your not careful. You really need to have ethusiams in the work and a desire to enjoy it even though there are all these really depressing people around you. The dicussion we had in ZLC will really hit home with some of these people. We talked about how will inherit a glory according to the law we are willing to obey in this life, and that those who dont follow the celstial law dont get there, so its gonna be hard for te LA's to take that, cause they are definitely NOT living a celestial law, or even a terrestrial law for that matter, in some cases. We have a really good RM who has been working with us every second day. Its been really good as he helps out in the lessons and with finding new LA's to visit.

O yeah, I think I forgot to tell you my comp is Elder Harris from my senior batch. We are having fun tearing it up in the city! Elder Harris and I are doing great. I have never heard or spoken so much English for 6 transfers now, since I was with Elder Seumanutafa. I has been interesting trying to make that adjustment and I find myself thoroughly confused sometimes, trying to say things that make no sense what so ever. It has also been interesting working three areas, and attending the PEC's in each of the areas. We cover three areas here in Labangon (our area) and Basak and St. Nicolas, as the other two don't have missionaries yet but are trying to prepare to be ready to receive them when the bigger numbers come in. It is good training for working with ward and stake leaders. We both have a good feeling for Basak ward, that they are ready for missionaries and we are exited for the work they are doing to ready themselves in that ward to be able and ready to help the missionaries in the work there. They had an incident there before when the members were like "we don't need missionaries here..." so President Schmutz was like,"is that so... well..." *missionaries pulled-out of area*. So its good to see that the attitude has changed since then and members are looking  forward to missionaries being back in their ward.

things are doing great. Miss you all,

Love you tons,

Elder Taylor Addison Cox