Letter #2. (Aug 10, 2011)

Hi all,
The email was not long! It was plenty long I thought... joke lang. Its just because of the time restriction its hard to write longer emails. Only 30mins on Pday isn't much at all. =[
Our district has been plagued with illness this last week. Just the flu or something, so we are doing okay. Hopefully it will be gone in the next few days.
This past week has been maayo kaayo, with some unfortunate events of illness. So far we have learnt to pray, bear testimony, greet, and some other basics in Cebuano. In the first week we taught 4 lessons to an investigator in full Cebuano. Walay Ingles! This week so far already another lesson but with a different investigator... so now we have 2 progressing investigators. In my district everyone is going to Cebu except 1 elder who is going Tagloban but speaking cebuano.
I've met a few Aussies actually... the guy from Harvey Bay came and said hi to me the other day, don't remember his name though. Also some guy from Perth knows Ma and Poppy... small world hey! And then there is this guy from Melbourne, an Elder Mits who knows the Orros and is friends with Benjamin. Even smaller hey?! And he is in the same district going to the Philipines as well.
My kauban, Elder Ervin is from Farmington New Mexico (go look it up) and when I said he's like a Mormon Jack Black, I meant exactly that. Think of how Jack Black is personality wise and tone it down to a Mormon level of humour and spirituality and thats my kauban. He has a great testimony and knowledge of the gospel, and I learn so much from his take on the gospel and the scriptures. Then I help him with the language with pronunciation and sentence structure. We work together quite well.
What do I want sent... here's a list:
Cherry ripe
Boost bars

Love you all, tell everyone to write to me (hand written snail mail is much better, please!) and I'll WILL try to write this week (not like last week when i said i would but didn't)
Missing you all muchly, especially Australia...
Elder Taylor Addison Cox