Letter #97 (June 12th, 2013)

Hey all,
So this weeks been good. It has been better this week kay last week.
Bagakay to be honest has become sort of stagnant. Not much progression
is taking place anymore, which is kind of sad for the members there who
are really striving to do their best. But Casoy is just flourishing at
the moment. We have another investigator with a baptismal date for
Aug, and her husband has gone from uninterested to wanting to learn
the gospel. Sister is hoping he will be ready by Aug so that they can
sabay their baptism. We had another new investigator last week as well
and she just lit up when we taught that the church has been restored
with living prophets and apostles once again. She seemed really
excited about that fact. Then Brother J is doing really well, and has
been to church 3 times in a row now. After sacrament meeting in
Bagakay we taught sort of like a RS, Priesthood classes, and he was
the most attentive out of all the members there at the time. We have
been thinking about moving the sacrament meeting over to Casoy as well
because all the members that are coming to the sacrament meeting are
coming from Casoy. It was almost half-half, and we have more people in
Casoy who would probably simjba as well if we had sacrament there. We
are going to talk to President this week about that.

E was baptised this past Saturday. It was great. Then I had two
more baptismal interviews that night. This week I have 5 more
baptismal interviews... the areas are really flourishing here in the
Toledo zone. Yes, we have some new missionaries.... on of them is a
Sis. Cox... (from America, no relation)... Then Elder P has
followed me again to this zone. so we have now ka-zoned for three
times in a row.

You should tell Reilly that Risk isn't he most appropriate game to be
playing on the sabbath. I can understand chess, or basin Chinese
checkers or something, but Risk?... I feel the same as Dad did before
when i wanted to play on Sundays... definitely not the best thing to
be doing on Sunday. haahaha.... funny how the mission changes you huh?
So me and Elder U got our X-rays today in Cebu for going
home... scary huh?  You can count the weeks on your hands now.
So we did that before coming back to Toledo.
Its samok here cause its fiesta! so we're avoiding everything here...
Next week p'day is supposedly Monday because we have mission tour with
Elder Ardern in Cebu next Weds... so I'll send another email on Monday
with all the pictures i have collected the past few weeks. Tell Reilly
I'm sorry I haven't emailed him for a while, and let him know that I
will email him on Monday.
Love you all,
Elder Taylor Addison Cox