Letter # 56 (Aug 29th, 2012)

Hey all!
Transfers! I have to leave my anak... and go to CEBU! Three islands now! Wooo!
So I am transferring to Danao 2nd and my companion is Elder Pastor.... and this is the craziest thing.... Elder Padilla will get followed
up by none other than his Lolo, Elder Holley!!!!!!!!! Woooo! I am so
happy!
So I am so disappointed to have to leave my wonderful house in Zambo
and all the buotan members but it will be exciting to be in this new
area, with a new companion. My ZL wil be Elder Dustin (so i ve heard)
who is my batch, which is gonna be sweet!
Elder Padilla and I had a great last week. We have had fun working
together for the four days we had to work... with all the other
things going on like Zone Confernece, Zone CSP and Baptismal
interviews in Bayawan again. We had fun I2L-ing together on the buses
and I feel that Elder Padilla has really gained confidence in his
abilities now. He is more and more willing to lead and open his mouth
first. It has been an amazing experience to train with him and to
learn so much from him. I learnt so much from him on how to feel for
the Spirit of discernment. He taught me to really listen to peoples
bodies as well as their words. It has been a great experience and one
that I will never forget.
Then we have had an amazing experience with one family this week, the
N family. We had worked with this one Nanay for about 4 months
with no success what so ever, until she told us she would not come
back to church unless he kids came back with her... then we found out
where her kids live and that one was in our area. Just recently we
have been working with her some and his wife and teaching
them the lessons. He is a member but his wife is not yet, but she
is so accepting and is really progressing. So it turns out this Nanay
heard about what we were doing and is excited to come back to church
with her son and his wife, and hopefully one of her other sons as
well who is coming back to live with the Nanay next month. It has been
this amazing miracle for this family and I am so disappointed that i
will not be able to see it all play out. But hope to hear the stories
from Elder Padilla and my Tatay in the near future.
I am excited for this next transfer and for the experiences ahead. I
hope to continue to learn from my new companion Elder Pastor. I have
not heard anything about him so I am excited to head into the
companionship. I am excited to be on Cebu finally and am very much looking
forward to the temple after being so long off island with no
opportunity to attend. I miss the temple sooo much... and I realise
how important it is in our lives.
I'm sure I'll have all sorts of stories to tell you next week about my
new companion and area and lots of pictures again. Looking forward to
this next week! That's all for this week.Salamat daan! That's all now...
Miss you all,
Love you tons,
Elder Taylor Addison Cox

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Terri here:We have some photos this week, and hopefully more next week!