Letter #92 (8th May, 2013)

Hey all,

Weeks been great. My anak is great. We struggle fitting in our studies with our hectic schedule in Bagakay. Having sooo much fun. So I should have explained a little bit... a check point is a police stop where they check you are keeping the rules that no one cares about... and then "crossing" is like a road that come off the main highway... for example I would say "I'm going to crossing Dumlog" which means I'm going to the road that goes to Dumlog. And the restaurant is medyo mahal... its about P200 for a meal (so whats that? $5? hahaha). Last Monday I got grilled cream dory.... soooo good! 

So last week we moved into our house... and it turns out that our water pressure is like an old man with prostate cancer... that's how bad it is... if it even comes out at all. So we will be moving again. We found this house with upstairs and downstairs split into two houses, one big enough for 2 and another for 4 so we are all moving in (Toledo 2a and us and Toledo 1a elders). That will probably be next week or so... I'll let you know.

 

Hahaha! Send my Congrats to Joel for his call. (His friend got his mission call to Ghana, Africa) Tell him he's gonna love it! Sounds like Reilly is having fun! hahaha. Good thing hes focused.... jejeje. Tell him to just wait till after the mission. So it'll be an interesting time in the wards again and it'll be interesting who gets called as stake president. (Our ward just got put into a newly formed stake!)

Our work this week has been good. Lots of member referrals and they have some good questions too. No more getting rained on going up to Bagakay, but it has been ridiculously dusty this past week. My shirts were yellow brown jud! so kapoy sa paglaba. We have been meeting lots of people up in Bagakay and over in Casoy across the lake... its a little easier to remember everyone's names because you see the same people every second day. You really get to have a more personal interaction with these people because of that which sometimes really helps the work. I've been eating lots too and putting on more weight. up to 58kg... hapit na 60.

 

Sometimes i sit at the computer and all i can think is Visaya, like right now and just feel like giving a splurge of Visaya, so thats what i gonna do... sorry

So, kadtong miaging friday, nagadto mi ni Elder G sa DLC for district leaders, ug nindot kaayo and gitudlo ni President Schmutz kabahin unsa gyud ang meaning sa "succesful missionary". Unya, gipalit nako ang mga Basahon ni Mormon nga gamay para sa akong personal study. Matag usa nay lain nga topic. Ang usa kay Faith, ug ang lain kay "Overcoming/ Withstanding temptation". Nakatabang jud siya sa study nako. Mas daghan ang gikuha nako sa study kay sa una, kay samtang nagabasa ko, morag nagbantay ko sa mga butang nga related sa topic, ug kuha-on nako ang mga principles nga pwd i-apply nako sa adlaw, or sa mga investigators/ members. Nindot jud siya, ug di samok ang notes/ markings nimo sa scriptures, kay usa ra ang topic bitaw.

Hopefully you can get that translated... hahaha

Well that's all really for this week that's changed or excited.

Miss you all,

Love you,

Elder Taylor Addison Cox

I got the above paragraph translated from a friend of ours..... So, this last Friday Elder Gr and I went to DLC for district leaders, and President S’s teaching on the meaning on what it means to be a successful missionary. Because of this, I bought several small copies of The Book of Mormon for my personal study. Each one of them has a different topic, one can be faith, the other is overcoming/withstanding temptation. It really helped in my personal study. I’ve learnt so much more than my previous study cause while I’m reading I’m looking for things that are related to those topics, I pick the principles that I can apply in my daily life or for my investigators/members. It’s really beautiful and the notes in your scriptures are not all over the place.