Letter #87 (3rd April, 2013)

Hey all,

This week has been great and so much has been accomplished with the San Nicholas ward. Almost every single member we visited this week, active or inactive, came to church this past Sunday and the attendance broke the 100 mark. We have had members work with us everyday and our investigators are progressing. We are excited for this next week also. We had a great workshop on Sunday in our missionary coordination meeting about endurance in terms of the work and it was received really well. The leaders in the ward are functioning well as well in their respective callings and they had a successful PEC meeting without us being in attendance, which has been a great success.
Labangon ward is also starting to pick up. Bishop Sawal worked with us last night and we visited one less-active that really needs member nourishment. It was great to have the bishop of the ward to work with a family in need of spiritual strengthening. Then the Labangon ward now also has a ward mission leader who is a recently returned RM of 2 weeks. It was really sad when we first were pulled out of the ward, because all of our investigators slowly just stopped progressing, but we have tried to enlist the help of some of the members who are willing to work to help to teach and to fellowship.

My personal study has been great, from the account of Mormon and the final destruction of the Nephites because of their wickedness. I have learned a lot about repentance and the pride cycle of the Nephites recently. It is crazy to think about the numbers in the Book of Mormon of the people that we wiped from the face of the earth for their own wickedness... makes you think about what the second coming is going to be like, huh!?

We had a surprise visit to the Capitol ward also this Sunday and it went really well. We could really see the great work of their Bishop there in trying to get the members in the ward to fulfill their responsibilities and duties. They had a good missionary coordination meeting as well, in which Elder L and Elder M gave a great workshop on the importance of scriptures, especially in bringing them to church.

The mission is going so fast! Noooo! Looking forward to some of that sticky date when I get home, haha. It seems that as it gets closer to that last day I have less and less to say. So that's all for this week...

Miss you,

Love you all tons,

Elder Taylor Addison Cox