Letter #47 (June 26th, 2012)

Hey all,
This week has been great! we have had some success with learning how
to help out our branch to progress with working with the leaders. And
we are also now working with some investigators who are progressing,
even though slowly... We hope to see some baptisms this next month.
Our new flat is amazing and so easy to keep clean. We had the Croppers
(the couple missionaries for Negros) come and do an apartment check
yesterday and we got celestial rating for cleanliness. They gave us
icecream and mangos for that and i was happy! They also participated
in our companionship study in the morning which was great as well to
hear from their reserves of wisdom.

We had zone interviews this past Sat with pres. schmutz and we went t
dumaguete in the evening before and had this amazing dinner provided
by an americano member who lives here and his philo wife who cooked
the whole zone dinner!

We have been working with the less-actives again this week and have
recently found out that some of them are just shy to come back because
they have been away from the church for so long. So we are working on
getting members to come with us to the visits there to help out.

Terri here: I told Taylor we'd celebrate his birthday without him,but take photos for him and send them to him!! haha
We'll be celebrating here as well on my birthday with some of the
members at the beach. There is this one sister that has a house right
by the beach and we are going to do lunch there on that day probably
with the whole zone.

I got some funny stories from this week as well. One evening we were
walking down this one street and there are these to guys that look
like they are from construction about 40yrs old and as we walk past
them we notice that they are holding hands! We laughed soo hard... and
then when we made it to the highway one of the buses passed by and we
saw this one guy asleep on the window seet about to fall out the
window... he was basically hanging out the window asleep!
hahahahaha....

others things that have happened... Last night we came down the one bukid road that is 7km long... IN THE RAIN... we got wet even with our rain coats on...and at one point the bike slid out from under us but luckily the driver caught it cause we
weren't going fast, cause it was wet... but it was an experience all
right...

We have been caught by the rain about 3 times this week and got stuck
in members houses waiting for it to stop being the
"the-instant-you-walk-out-you-are-drenched-no-matter-what-you-use"
type of rain... fun times...

All things are great,
Miss you all,
Love you all,
Elder Taylor Addison Cox