1st Transfer Week!

Hello Everyone!!!

Time just continues to fly here in the field! I can't believe it's pday again! This last week has been an awesome one! Before I tell you about it I'll answer some of your questions. Dad you wondered about emailing and laundry and showering and the weather. There are internet places all around the city and so we go to one of those and pay for two hours or whatever. A lot of them have been shutdown because of the lack of power so it's been harder to find a place to email. We are spoiled here in Tagbilaran and have a laundry shop place that we take our stuff to which is really nice. We can't take our garments though becasue the people aren't endowed so we have to wash those by hand. Its a pain but it's fine. Other missionaries have to wash everything. I'm sure I will later on in my mission. We shower everyday. We have a shower head which is really nice. But after the storm we havent been able to get water to shower until today so weve been showering in our backyard with rainwater. Haha it's actually kind of fun. But we have water now so it's all good. the weather is well... hot haha. It rains really hard and just random times. You can't every predict the rain here. It will be super hot and humid and sunny and then the next moment it's pouring rain and the next moment it's super hot and humid and sunny. It's crazy. I love the weather though. It's nice. Mom you were wondering Tacloban missionaries, power rationing here in Bohol and group email with my friends. Yeah Connor set up a group email so it's awesome. We just say a couple lines every week to everyone. Its way fun to hear from all of them. Some of us email each other outside of the group email too whcih is fun. They are rationing power here in Bohol. Our power gets switched on and off at random times. Right now we have power but tonight we wont. Its a pain but I'm just grateful that we get power once in a while. The other question I will answer in this email. Alright here's the update on the past week. Oh first of all i think I forgot to tell you about something a few weeks ago. Or maybe I didn't. i don't know. I can't ever remember if I told you guys or not. If i have I'm sorry but if not than here you go. Elder Rainey when he was staying with us bought a 57 pound jackfruit! It was huge!! I'll have to send pictures but it was gigantic! We are in a sketchy internet place so I'm kind of scared to send pictures from here so it might have to be next week but i'll sned pictures! It was awesome though. Alright now onto this week. We had zone conferene and zone interviews last thursday and friday which was awesome! Pres Tanner and the AP's and our ZL's gave workshops and they were all so awesome. President Tanner talked to us about maybe pulling all the missionaries out of Bohol becasue of lack of power and water but he said it was up to us. We all decided that we could survive and make it work here so we are staying. But anyway the workshops were amazing! I forgot my notes so I can't write some of them down but one thought that kept popping into my head the whole time

 was "I want My children back. I want them back." I know that God loves all of His children. i know that He wants all of His children, all of us, to be happy. I know that He will do anything for us to be happy. If we are ever suffering or feel like we are in bondage to sin, or sadness, or lonliness or whatever, I know that He can and will deliver us. I know that living the gospel and relying on Jesus Christ is the only way to have happiness. Christ is the way, the only way. I love Him and have learned so much about Him on my mission so far. So on Friday we had zone interviews which is interviews with Pres Tanner. He is so awesome. We were low on time so mine wasn't very long but he is just the man. He is so nice and so loving. He just told me that he is there any time I need him. he said I can call him about anything, about my joys, sadness, disappointments, anything. he said, you are never an inconvenience Elder Fox. The whole interview was like that. he talked a little about PMG. He said we are the last army to go out and gather His children and preach my gospel is the latter day tool that has been given to us to help us gather His children and so we must use it and use it often. I thought that was really cool. I have started really studying it and I encourage all of you to do the same. Read it and study it every day. So then saturday we had the baptism which was awesome!! The font water was disgusting so we almost got to do it in the ocean but then we didn't which was super lame. We were really hoping we could do in the ocean! the baptism was amazin though. The spirit was so strong. Jesse bore his testimony and got pretty emotional. It was an amazing experience. he was so happy. You could tell by just looking at him. It was so cool to see. So then Sunday I spoke in church! My heart has never pounded that hard in my life haha. I didn't even feel that nervous but my heart was going crazy. I could see it pounding through my shirt. The talk went well though. Sorry I'm running out of time so I'm racing through everything. Monday we had transfer calls! It was so exciting to see where everyone was going. The zone leaders put me on the board to mke it look like i was transferring but it was a bluff.
but we got some Tacloban missionaries in our district and zone which is cool! Elder Chamberlain, the one that knows the Olsens, is the new AP! He is so awesome. I love Elder Chamberlain. Alright well I have to wrap it up. I know this gospel is true. I know it is. I know the Savior lives and is coming soon. He is coming sooner than we realize. I know we need to do everything we can to prepare physically and spiritually for what is to come. We have to fortify ourselves, and our families. I know that if we trust in Him, we have no need to fear the future. Our Savior and our Heavenly Father will take care of everything. Everything works out for our good as we trust in Them. I love Them and I know Them. I'm so grateful for all They do for me each day. Im so grateful to have the chance to serve Them. I love all of you! Thanks for everything, your prayers and emails! I pray for you constantly! I love you!!

Love, Elder Fox