Letter # 31 (Mar 7th, 2012.)

Hey all,
To start a note that my k and f keys don't work very well... so some words might not mae sense... Terri here: I thought it would be too hard to read, so I put all the k's and f 's in!!!
Have no idea what the food poisoning is from but its okay cause that's just part of the mission. This week was filled with meetings and training in cebu and then on Saturday we built a house. Yes a whole house, out o kahoy (wood). Pictures... Terri here: I've put them on the photo page!
Thanks dad for teaching me how to use a saw...
we even put in a toilet... jejejeje
and i got sunburnt and am now peeling...
On thurs we had training in cebu for training with the new 12week program for training. We got to eat pizza at the mission home and i had a great interview with President Schmutz.
We spent most of the day sakay-ing (traveling on vehicles) and at night on the last bus back to our area with Elder McBride and Elder Francis we almost died. i was in the left side in a window so i could see everything outside, and we rounded this corner to the left and there were two trucks hurtling towards us, one on either side of the road. Right at that moment i had a vision of what would have happened to the bus if we had not been there... it was horrific... but some how the driver managed to pull of the road far enough that the truck on our side of the road slid through between the bus and the other truck. I have no idea how it happened but i new that Heavenly Father wasn't going to let us be in a accident that night. It was another testimony that us missionaries are protected by the Lord.
Then Saturday was the best csp ever and we built that balay... I turned out to be the foreman and was guiding everyone else who had no idea what they were doing. jujuju anyways, I was so glad that dad had taught me so many skills even though I thought I would never use them... silly me... it turned out to help so much for the house and we were able to give this family a place to live cause if we didn't finish it they would have had no home. It too us 8hrs but was so much fun.
That morning I saw something awesome outside our bedroom window... we have this gamay field and there was some chickens out there and a mother hen with some chicks... then all o a sudden an eagle swoops out o the sky and starts to try and ill the chicks... and eventually gets one o them and flies away... it was crazy but totally awesome!
I love you all and miss you...
Elder Taylor Addison Cox

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Terri here: If you go to the photo page it has the photos of the "house" they built. To us here in Australia, it looks like a shelter to get out of the rain or sun, but to people where they are it's a house!