Travel Plans!!

I got my travel plans last night!! So I think I'm going to copy them and send them to you so you can have all of the details or whatever but I'll quickly tell you the flights and layovers. So I leave October 7th at 6:30 pm. I think I leave the mtc at like 3 pm though. I fly to L.A. and land at around 7:30 their time I believe. Then I have a three hour layover in LA and my plane takes off to Manila at 10:50 pm. I arrive in Manila at about 3:45 am on Wednesday Oct 9th their time so I think it's about 1:35 pm on Tuesday in Utah. Then I have about a 2 hour layover in Manila until my plane leaves at 6 for Cebu. I should get to Cebu at about 7:15 a.m. Wednesday morning or 5:15 p.m. Tuesday night for you. I hope this all makes sense. It's going to be a long flight from LA to Manila. We were challenged by Elder Ron Clarke on Tuesday to share the gospel on the plane with someone so we'll see how that goes. But for the prepaid phone I don't know when you want to talk. I would love to talk whenever we can. I think I'm allowed to talk during any of my layovers and I have some long layovers so we could talk. I don't know I guess I'll just leave it up to you to decide when or how long or whatever you want. Make sure if we want to talk in Manila that the phone has to international. I dont know how it all works but just make sure it works internationally. Anyway I think thats everything. I'll send you all the information in the mail so you know everything. I can't believe I'm almost in the Philippines!! It's so crazy. It came so fast. I'm really excited to get there but a little nervous obviously. It's going to be awesome though. Oh I'm flying United Airlines to LA and then Philippine Airlines the rest of the way in case you wanted to know. I love you all so much and pray for you all the time!!

-Elder Fox

New Campus and Awesome Week!

Hey Family!!!

So we made the move to west campus, or should I say paradise. It's amazing!!! Seriously west campus is so awesome. I love it way more than main. Main is cool becasue it's main but west is just better. I'll send pictures and hopefully you'll be able to see why I say that. It's just more open so you can walk around and there's a little stream that runs through the middle of it. I'm staying at rain tree but west campus includes rain tree and wyview. Wyview is nicer but i still love it here. And we get to go to brighams landing which is a little shopping center. We went to jamba juice this morning and we get half off! I got a power size and it was 2.90! It is so awesome. And we are going to DP cheesesteaks for lunch and maybe burger supreme for dinner. We can only go there on pdays so we have to live it up while we can! Our apartment is a legit apartment too. Its huge and there's only 5 of us in there right now. It can fit up to 12 people in there and we're hoping no one joins us so cross your fingers! Anyway I love it here! The food is also way better. Youd think it would be the same but it's not. its way better. Well thats about it for West campus. I have a lot of things to talk about from the devotionals we had. Oh and I'm feeling a lot better which is so nice after being sick for four weeks. I'm so grateful for the opportunity I have to be a missionary for Jesus Christ. It's hit me multiple times over the last few weeks and it hit me again. this is no sacrifice. Yeah I miss you all like crazy but it's no sacrifice and i wouldn't trade this for anything. Yesterday during class we were talking about tithing, The spirit revealed to me how little a sacrifice it is to pay tithing and to be here on a mission. The Lord asks us to give only 10 percent of our income and He promises us that He will pour out more blessings on our heads than we can store or handle. All that we have is his and all he wants is 10 percent and for us to obey Him and He will give us all that He has, and all that He is. I know that He is our Father. I know that He loves us more than anything. All He wants, ALL He wants is for us to be happy and to live with us again. He has laid out the perfect path for us and is begging us to follow it. I testify that if we obey the commandments and follow the path that He will provide for us and we will be happier than we can even imagine even during hard times. I know this. On Sunday we watch a video at night and I went to For Such a Time as This by Elder Holland and yes dad "wow". It was amazing. I told you to find the Character of Christ no matter what you had to do and you have to do the same thing for this talk! It is powerful and wow. I don't know how to explain it but you all know Elder Holland so yo uknow what I mean. Here are some of the notes I took. "Today and everyday is supposed to be a wonderful day." This next one goes along with what I was saying earlier. "It wouldn't be happy in Heaven even for God, if He couldn't be with His family. So you have work to do." "From the moment you wake up until the moment you go to bed you are engaged in the saving of a human soul." His whole talk was based this dispensation and how we don't realize and he even said that he doesn't quite realize and blessed we are to live in this time. I thought that was amazing that he said he doesn't realize and appreciate as much as he should living in the dispensation of the fullness of times. He said to pray for an understanding and an appreciation of being able to live at the time we do. Another quote, "we are the favored people God has chosen to bring about the latter-day glory and kingdom of God on this earth." He talked about how the prophets and apostles of old knew that they were going to fail and that there dispensations would come to an end. He said but they saw our day. They saw us, the mtc, the members of the church and knew that we would not fail. They saw that we were destined to win and thats what gave them hope when they knew they would fail. he said that we have all the dispensations of time cheering us on to victory. He then started to talk about Joseph Smith. I have never heard anyone talk about the prophet like this. It gives me chills and brings tears just thinking about what he said and the way he said it. He made it very clear that Christ was excluded from this group he talks about but he said "no man has changed my life more than Joseph Smith. There was no man like him and there won't ever be anyone like him. He has taught me more about the Son of the Living God than any man in the history of written language." He said other things that I didn't write because I was trying to soak it in but the way he said it was amazing. It was so awesome to hear an Apostle of the Lord talk about Joseph Smith in that way. You have to find and watch this talk! One last quote from him. He was talking about his mission and he got emotional and said,"no man was more affected by a mission than I was. My mission meant everything to me, everything to me." Amazing talk. On tuesday Elder Ron Clarke came and spoke. He said at the beginning of his talk, "I bring you President Monson's love, his best wishes, and his prayers. President Monson knows all of you." That was so nice to hear and to know that the prophet of God prays for us out here and prays for our families I'm sure, and that he knows us and cheers us on. Elder Clarke spoke with real authority and power. It wasn't like an Elder Holland or the Quorum of the Twelve but it with authority. One thing I liked was he said, "First you run with your heart, then with your mind, and then with your feet." He was talking about long distance running but really applicable to our lives. At the end of his talk he said "I'd pay $100,000 dollars to be a missionary." It was so powerful and he was serious, you could tell. He really would lay down $100,000 dollars to be a missionary again. It gave me such a great perspective on this work. Shoot I'm running out of time. This is the fastest hour of any other hour in here. One last thing. I've started writing down some characteristics or things that the Lord wants me to be as one of His missionaries. so I have it titled The missionary the Lord needs, wants, and knows I can become. I've prayed for HIm to give me things to do and I'm going to read it every morning and every night to evaluate myself. Some of those things include am I making every minute of every day count? Am I more Christlike today then I was yesterday? Am I talking with everyone? Do I have a stronger and closer relationship with Heavenly Father and my Savior today than I did yesterday? And the one of the most important, can God trust me? Now I have a lot of work to do to become these things but I'm going for it. I encourage all of you to join me in this. I know it's harder for all of you becasue you're not like force fed this stuff everyday but I invite you to try and do it with me. You can make your own or do the same as me. But just like President Boyer said and also Elder Clarke said, this is not my mission but ours and we're in this together. And how grateful I am for that. I love you all so much! I love this gospel. I love my Heavenly Father. I love my Savior Jesus Christ. He is my Redeemer, my Captain, and my King. I know that He is in charge of this work. I know He will come again to reign. I know that this gospel is true. I know it and I'm so grateful for it. I love you all and pray for you all the time! I miss you! Keep sending letters becasue I love getting them!! I love you!!!

Love, Elder Fox

Time is flying!!

Pamilya!!!

I can't believe it's already pday again!! Time is seriously flying in here. You know how people say the days are long and the weeks are fast? Right now the days are even flying by! I'ts crazy!! I can't believe it's been three weeks, almost a month! Sorry about the letters I told you I'd send! I wrote them but didn't ever have time to address them and send them so they've just been sitting in my notebook all  week! haha I'm the worst i know! I'm so sorry!! I sent them yesterday though so you should be getting them. I feel so bad. We have barely any time to write letters or emails in here. So many people have written and sent me things and I haven't gotten back to them. I feel so bad! today is hopefully going to be my catch up day! Anyway I had a really good week! It's been awesome! I got to host Connor yesterday with Spencer and it was so awesome!! It was so nice to just hang with them and only them for a while. It was a really good outlet. I got to be with Spencer for about two hours and we just got to talk about everything. It was great. The only bummer about this week is that I'm still sick! I've been sick with a cough the whole time Ive been in here and it's awful. I've gotten my whole district sick and some of my teachers. I feel so bad but there's nothing I couldve done. Oh well hopefully I'll get better soon! The language is coming along. I'm not very good at it but it still amazes me to think that I can understand quite a bit of what my teachers are saying and that I can say what I can and its only been three weeks! The Lord is really helping all of us in here with the language. There's a thing in here called SYL (speak your language) and it's pretty obviouls on what it is. You just speak your language as much as you can. So I say a lot of my prayers in Cebuano and talk to my district in Cebuano. Well we don't do very well at that but we made a covenant with the Lord to start SYLing so we're getting better. The tricky thing about cebuano is that there aren't any set rules. Tagalog has set rules but filipinos that speak Cebuano just say and spell things how they want. Our teahcers have to just create rules and stuff that they came up with while they were there. Anyway it's good though. Sunday devotional was cool! Ron Tanner came and spoke to us. He is the one that created or produced or whatever 17 Miracles and Ephraims Rescue! So he talked about filming those and talked about how we need to know our ancestors. He gave the quote by President Hinckley where he said that we should alsways rememver what the pioneers did. He gave a quote by Arza Hinckley, and it's in Ephraim's Rescue when he was going to find the pioneers who were stranded and came across the quitters that included Ephraim. They were telling arza that the pioneers were either dead or in nebraska so they were going back to salt lake. Arza said, "Brigham Young said go find them so I'll find them or I'll die trying." I thought of President Monson and us today. The Lord through him as commanded us to preach the gospel. to find those that are suffering and who are in the dark. We need to say like Arza did, "President Monson told me to find them, so I'll find them or I'll die trying." Tuesday devotional was really good too! I was in the choir and we sung Joseph Smiths first prayer and it was amazing! I can't tell you how amazing it was. The conductor guy is awesome and hilarious. The spirit was so powerful while hundreds of missionaries sang and testified all at once about Joseph Smith and the first vision. Elder George Schwitzer came and spoke. He nailed it. It was so good. He talked about being converted. I really loved one thing he said. He was talking aobut forgetting yourself and you know weve all heard that a lot and Its awesome but I never quite knew how to actually do it. He said "forget yourself, forget your shyness..." I added a few more forget your doubts, forget your fears, forget your concerns, forget all of your weaknesses and become the son or daughter of God you can be. This was huge for me. I've committed to forget all these things especially my reserved nature. As you all know I'm really reserved. I like being reserved. Its not a bad thing to be reserved but out here I can't afford to be reserved. I want to be the missionary and the person that talks to everyone, that can and will carry a conversation with anyone. The Savior did and I'm a representative of Him so I need to also. I challenge all of you to pick things to forget about yourself and become better. I'm not good at it. I have a lot of work to do to become good at that. I hate being social haha but i'm trying. Elder Schwitzer said something that relates to getting better. It's about repentance. He said "repentance isn't only a change form good to bad, it's a change from good to better, from better to best." I know that we all need to repent and to improve everyday. One last thing I'll say because I have to wrap up. Gosh email time goes by so fast!! Anyway it's an experience I had a couple days ago. It's a really short experience but it meant so much to me. I was on the computer doing an online language study thing that we do everyday. It's called TALL in case you were wondering. Well my computer wouldn't pull it up and the one next to me wouldn't either. It wasn't that big of a deal but I was like dang I guess I'm not doing tall today. Then I thought why don't you pray. It'll work. I kind of procrastinated it but finally prayed. As soon as I said amen, the program came up. Stupid and really simple right? It meant the world to me though. I felt right then Heavenly Father's love for me and for everyone. he answered my prayer and I knew He has heard and answered the pleas of my heart for all of you and that He is watching over you and strengthening you. That He knows you and loves you. I know He is our Father in Heaven. I know He lives. Elder Oakes said something that I thought was really cool. He said imagine the plan of salvation from Heavenly Father's perspective. He sacrificed and is sacrificing so much for us to be here. He let us leave His presence to come here and choose for ourselves. I'm sure He didn't want us to leave His presence. We are His children but He did becasue He loves us and wants us to become like Him. It's just like you Mom and Dad letting me come on a mission. It's the same feeling He probably had when He let us come here. Let us all do what we came here to do. Let's not forget why we are here, that is to become like Heavenly Father. Let's not make His sacrifice go to waste. Let's choose Him and only Him. "... seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Take therefore no thought for tomorrow for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." -Matthew 6:33-34 I love you all! I continue to pray for you individually every prayer I say! Turn to the Lord. Obey ALL His commandments and enjoy the amazing blessings that come from that. I know this gospel is true. I know it and I love it. I love you all! I'll try to better with the letters this week! All is well! All is well! Hurrah for Israel!!!

-Elder Fox 

They are moving us to west campus on tuesday! It's going to be awesome! It's so nice over there. We get our own apartments and we get to go to jamba juice where we get 50 percent off!! Weve heard west campus is missionary heaven! But anyway I dont know what to do about the address. I'll let you know when I find out. I'm sure it'll be fine if you keep sending to the same address and they'll figure it out but I dont know I'll let you know when i found out the new address! We should be good before tuesday though! I love you all!!

Connor's classroom is right across the hall!

Second email!!

Hey pamilya!!!

Thanks for all of the letters and updates on everyone! And especially the packages for my birthday!! I loved everything! It was hard being away for my birthday but that made it so much easier so thank you! We had a little celebration in our room with the cake and stuff. I'll sned you a picture. I love hearing from all of you so keep them coming!! Not much happened this week. We basically are doing the same thing we always do, that is study, study, study. Oh you know how I said I didn't want to be district leader? Well as much as I didnt' want to be district leader, I really didn't want to be zone leader because they do a lot more! So guess what? I was made zone leader! Haha so yeah that means a lot more responsibility and meetings. Oh well it's good. It'll force me to work harder and so it really is a blessing. Anyway I'll tell you about my companions or my companion and the others elders in my district. Elder Smith is from West Jordan and went to West Jordan high school. He wrestled and played football. He has a really good singing voice. He's the only child in his family. Well he has step brothers and sisters but he is the only child of his parents. Does that make sense? He cracks his neck a lot. And im not just talking a few small cracks. I'm talking huge blistering cracks. haha i swear one of these times his neck is going to snap in half. That's about it for him. Oh he's good at the language too. Elder Manley is from temecula, California. He is really witty and hilarious. He ran track and swam in high school. Elder Oakes is from olympia, washington. He played football and basketball. I think he only played football in high school though. He is a happy, funny man. Elder Howell is from st george and he loves baseball. His brother didn't go on a mission and I don't think his dad did either so it's cool that he is here. He's awesome. He and I get along really well. We all do but we especially do. They are awesome. We have good times in here. So I saw Elder Caine and Murphy this week! It was awesome seeing them becasue I don't get to see them a lot since they are on west campus. Oh and I saw Elder Christensen (matt) at the devotional on sunday and I was able to sing Log right when he got in! I knew he was getting dropped off at 1:30 so I went and waited for him and i saw him and got to talk to him for about 10 mintues! It was so awesome to see him. I see Elder Tingey and Lunt all the time. We have the same meal times and stuff so yeah its nice to see them. I think I'm going to send my daily planner home before I leave here so you can see my schedule everyday and stuff but I"ll quickly tell you what I do everyday. I wake up every day between 6:15 and 6:30, shower and get ready. Sometimes I do pushups but I'm so tired that I cant' bring myself to do them most days. I'm ttrying to get better at just doing them. Then I have personal study from 7 to 8:10, then I have breakfast. AFter that i go to class for three hours. Then we have more study time, then lunch at 1:10. then I have class again for 3 hours until about 5:45, then I have daily planning time and then dinner at 6:10. Then I either have an hour of gym, then online language study, then back at the residence at 9:30 then to bed at 10:30. thats my schedule at a glance. some things change but I'll sned the planner so you can see. The food is good here. I mean it tastes good. Its a little rough on the body but it's good. Cant' complain.The language is well... coming. No it's not that bad. It just takes work and time. We have two investigators we're teaching and the lessons have to be 100 percent cebuano. Its tough but it's good practice. So one of the things they really drill into us is our purpose (obviously). but our purpose is to invite others to come unto Christ by helping them receive the restored gospel through faith in Jesus Christ and His Atonement, repentance, baptism, the gift of the HOly Ghost, and enduring to the end. The thing they keep drilling into us is that this doesn't only apply to invting investigators to come unto Christ. Our purpose is to invite everyone (teahcers here, missionaries, family, friends, etc) We all need coming unto Christ. I know I do. Anyway I thought that was really cool and everytime I email I keep a prayer in my heart that I'll know what to say to invite you all to come unto Christ so I can fulfill my purpose as a missionary. During language study I was listening to The Daydawn is Breaking and I was flooded with the Spirit and with a perspective on the future. I want all of you to listen to it especially when times are hard. I testify that that day will come. that the day will come when Christ reigns on the earth. Where we will rest from our trials and our challenges. I know it will it come and it's coming soon. In tuesday devotional, Elder James Martino I believe his name was, testified that Christ lives. Ive heard that statement a lot but for some reason it was different. I felt my eyes open a little bit and I knew that that statement that Christ lives was true. Ive always known He lives but at that moment it was so clear. so I add my testimony to Elder Martino that Christ does live and that he is literally in charge and guiding this work. He is at the head of His Church. the hardest thing about being here so far is the fact that you all can't be here to experience with me. I want you to feel what I feel, to learn what I learn more than anything. and just becasue you arent here doesnt mean you cant experience these things. I pray for all of you that you are having experiences like this at home. I hope this is all making sense. I feel like it's all jumbled and stuff. It probably is so I'm sorry but I hope that you know what I mean. I love you all so much! I think and pray for you all the time. Literally all the time. Everyone prays so much in here, its unbelievbale. and every single prayer I pray for all of you individually. One last thing, Elder Martino talked about members helping us and how we need them to do this work. he talked about Amulek and how he was a member missionary with Alma (cool huh). He talked about how it was Amulek that astonished the people, not necessarily Alma. he said find your Amulek in your missions. I immediately thought of all of you. You are all amuleks. YOu have powerful testimonies that can be used to astonish people. Be the amuleks for the missionaries and for the people around you. I've found in here that missionary work is just bearing testimony and teaching from your heart and through the spirit of what you know to be true. I used to think it was some complicated thing but it's just sharing what you know to be true. Elder Martino gave a great statistic. He was a mission president and he said in that mission they had 1 out of 700 people baptized by knocking doors. The mission had 2 out of three people baptized when the lessons were in a member family home. How amazing is that? We need help from the members to fulfill our purpose as missionaries. I'm sorry I'm all out of time. I'll write all of you individually again! Thanks for all of the prayers! I truly feel the strength from them every day and I need that strength. Its hard and tiring in here so the prayers are so needed. Salamat kaayo (thanks so much) again for all of the letters, packages, prayers, etc! I love you all and I pray for you individually every single prayer! I love you so much! Keep updating me on things. "Life is to be enjoyed, not endured!" -President Hinckley. Enjoy life everyone! I love you and miss you all! 

Love, Elder Fox

First Email!

Pamilya!!!!

Ah wow it's finally P-day!! I've been dying to write you guys and now i finally can! I've experienced so much in the past 7 days. It's been one crazy rollercoaster from learning the language, studying the gospel, missing you guys, and tons of stuff in between. I'm not very good at writing so Im sorry and ill try not to think about it and get it all out. First, so you all know I can only write on Pdays but I can send letters throughout the week so Ill use this email time to update everyone on what ive experienced and then I'll write letters to you individually throughout today and then send them throughout the week so you can get more than just one a week. Sound good? I hope so! Thanks for all of your letters and packages! You have no idea how much they helped and how comforting and strengthing it is to get them. It's made this transition and overwhelming experience a lot easier and a lot better so keep them coming please!!! So wednesday was crazy. I was rushed around getting all of my materials and then I was plopped in a classroom (which i was told is my home here at the mtc and I have found that so true. I'll explain in a second). Then our teacher came in and spoke only cebuano to us and it was hilarious. We all had the same confused face as she talked and we were all laughing. The people in my class are the people in my district. Oh I was made district leader by the way! That basically means I go to a bunch of meetings on Sunday, I pick up the mail for my district, I conduct district meeting stuff and I watch over the district. I didn't really want to be one becasue of all that but the Lord called me to be one so I'm trying to do my best. Oh and getting the nametag was so cool!! A lady pulled it out of a little pouch and showed it to me and she was like how does that look? And I was like looks great. It really is so cool. I'll send a picture of it. The first night, well every night is the hardest part of the day. It's where we arent doing anything so my mind just starts to go and think of all of you and I start missing you. It usually takes me about a half hour to fall asleep every night but it's getting better. The first few days here were tough. They were really overwhelming and I missed you all a lot. I've had worse days before but still tough so thats why I loved getting your packages and letters. Anyway I'll just give you some highlights so far. We went to a people and purpose workshop and there was a quote by Elder Holland and it said, "When the Spirit is with you and you teach by it, that is when the lesson ceases to be your lesson and becomes His. That is when the lightning strikes..." Wow I just got chills while writing that. Look up the rest of the quote becasuse its really cool and powerful. During the workshop I was getting homesick and then a thought came to my mind and it said "I have a great work for you to do. Do not worry, do not be afraid, I will be with you." I have had my prayers and concerns answered so many times while Ive been here. The Lord is watching over me and strengthening me and He lets me know that He is watching over you all too. Final quote from that workshop is "He called you to succeed in missionary work." Sunday was better but hard in it's own way. It was a nice break from everything. Even though I was still busy all day, it was Sabbath day worth busy and it felt so good. I am so grateful for the Sabbath day. I challenge all of you to keep it holy because you will be blessed and you will feel the power that it can have in your life. You will be reenergized. I know it's easier to keep it holy in the mtc but I challenge all of you to try. Sacrament mtg was cool but it was hard becasue I miss having sacrament with you all so much. I missed sitting with you. That we had mission conference and that means the whole mtc gathers and we have speakers. A couple highlights were we sang Go Forward with Faith and that was powerful. Hearing the power and strenght from thousands of missionaries singing our purpose as missionaries was something I wont ever forget. Same with Called to Serve which was so powerful too. We sang that at tueday devotional. Then one elder sang O Divine Redeemer and he was incredible. It was amazing. A quote from Neal A Maxwell, "The submission of one's will is the only thing we can truly place upon the altar of God... it is the only thing that He really asks of us." This put everything into perspective and another answer to my prayers. Another quote from mission conference is from Elder Bednar, "these are days to never be forgotten... the best is even yet to come." We need to focus on this whenever times get tough. Another answer to my prayers came in district meeting and it's Mark 5:36- it says Jesus heard...he saith...be not afraid, only believe" Dad, you also sent this to me and I love it. He heard my prayer and answered. Here's another thought that came into my mind, "You aren't here for you. Thant's a great benefit but you really aren't her for you. YOu're here to serve, to labor in the vineyards of the Lord. YOu are here to build Zion. You are here to bring HIs children home to Him. YOu represent Jesus Christ, the SAvior of the world." Sunday night they play a bunch of videos and you pick which one you go to. I went to the "Character of Christ" by Elder Bednar. It's the only video played each week because it is so good. I cant describe to you how good it is. You HAVE to find it! Whatever it takes find it. Even if you have to call the mtc do it. It's so powerful and so good. He gave it at a devotional here at the mtc about a year ago. Some notes I took from it are, " there would have been no atoning sacrifice without the Character of Christ." Neal Maxwell actually said that last one. "Christ always turned outward during hard times unlike us who would turn in." He was hilarious througout the whole talk. He said at one point, " WHO CARES WHAT YOU WANT?" It was really funny but so true. We arent here for us. Another quote, If you are converted unto the Lord, I prophesy, I promise, you will never fall way." Anway find that talk!! A side note but a quote from Elder Holland said, "YOu must be your first convert! What you want your investigators to do you mucst do it first!" All of this applies to member missionary work too. Tuesday devotional was alright. Elder DAvid F. Evans came and spoke. He talked to us about how we are the chosen generation and how amazing it was to see all of us answer the call of a prophet. He then said that he was in a meeting with Elder Eyring and that Elder Eyring talked aobut Jacob 5 and how in there it talks about the prophets calling for more time but finally towards the end of the time in the vineyard a prophet finally asked for more servants. And then he said, we have a prophet that is calling for more servants. How amazing is that!? I jsut got chills again. I think that's all i have for spiritual stuff so now for the other "fun" stuff. The language is pretty hard but it's ocming along. I can say a simple prayer and testimony and cebuano and I am strarting to undrstand what my teachers are saying in class so that's really nindot (cool). My district is awesome. We all get along and have fun, maybe too much fun sometimes. My companion is a good guy though and a smart guy too. He works hard. We actually committed our investigator, Cixto, to baptism yesterday!! He's fake but it was awesome because not everyone commits there invest. to baptism. We had to teach fully in Cebuano! It was hard but cool. Sometimes I wish I was english speaking but the good thing about learning a language is it forces us to teach simple doctrine and not get complicated. There was one time I bore my testimony and the Spirit was there. I was speaking from my heart instead of just tryng to remember how to say stuff. Ive seen all of my friends and more!! I see Elder Driggs, Durham (until they both left), Golds before he left, TIngey, Pinnocks, Lunt, Caine, Wilson and other Olympus kids all the time! It's so nice to talk to them and get an outlet. I haven't seen murph yet though. I'm sure I will soon. I love the elders in my room. They are hilarious especially elder manley. We laugh at everything in here! and I mean EVERYTHING. It's hilarious. Anyway I'm running out of time so I gotta go! Sorry if I forgot anything you wanted to know! Ask and questions oyu have and I'll try hard to answer them! And sorry for all of the errors. I was trying to type really fast. I love you all so much!! I miss you and pray for you individually every prayer that I say! Literally every one! Thanks for all of the prayers and Keep praying for me becasue i need all the strength I can get! And keep writing! I love you all!! Oh I almost forgot. I have a challenge for you Nate and everyone else. It was from Elder Bednar in Character of Christ and it is take a plain paperback copy of the Book of Mormon and think of something you want to learn more about and then mark it up! Make sense? I'm doing it with obedience. He suggested the character of Christ and I'm going to do that later. But thats the challenge! I love you and I'll leave you with this thought. D&C 128:22 says, "Shall we not go on in so great a cause? Go forward, not backward! Courage brethren, and on, on to the victory! Let your hearts rejoice and be exceedingly glad!" I love you all!
-Elder Fox