You Are Capable of Something Better

Hello Everyone!

Well another week has come and gone here in Talibon. time just keeps on flying. things are going well. There's not much to update on the week. we had a full day csp with the district last friday which was fun becasue I got to see elder smith, my comp from the mtc, and elder murdock! it was so fun to be with them and talk with them while serving. the service was basically we put fertilizer soil on a huge dirt field and then planted some stuff. It was fun but we got fried! I know what your thinking mom and dad did you put on sunblock? haha and yeah i did but we all thought we were going to be out there for an hour or two but it was the whole day. it was brutal but the sunburn is better now. that's crazy to hear about Ukraine. I had no idea that was going on. I'm glad they are safe and I will definitely be praying for them. I hope everything is going well back at home. It sounds like they are and people are just plugging away at school and work and stuff. I can't believe it's the start of spring time there. quick update on our investigators. they are doing well. I love visting them. They are such an awesome family. Our investigator is still struggling with cigarettes but i think it's getting better. I know that he will be freed it's just a matter of when. We try to visit them more than other people to just help him and support him through this. they are a great family though. Oh Dad that talk you sent me about being a consecrated missionary by Tad Callister was amazing and like you said, is a must read. It was so powerful and was exactly what i needed to hear. I realize that i've been a good missionary but I haven't been a consecrated one. It really inspired me to become one though. After reading the talk i listened to the Inconvenient Messiah by Elder Holland and it was icing on the cake. I love those talks and all of you should read and listen to them. It's good and great to good and great members and disciples of Christ but as President Hinckley said, "Mediocrity will never do, you are capable of something better." We must become consecrated members and disciples of Jesus Christ. We must give all that we have to Him and allow Him to change us. One of the things I liked in the talk by elder Callister was he was talking about a disobedient missionary and in one of his meetings with him the elder said " you are not asking me to change my behavior, youre asking me to change my nature." Elder Callister said he was so right. I love that and has made me ponder about why i do the things I do. If i'm doing them just do them or am I doing them becasue I want to become something, becaue I want to change my nature. I'm almost out of time and there's so much more I could say about this. This talk really hit me hard. I encourage all of you again to read it. I know that if we give everything we have, everything, to the Lord and His work, that we will become someone we didn't think we could become. I know that He lives and loves us. I know this gospel is true and that this is the true gospel and church of Jesus Christ on the earth. I love you all so much and pray for you always! Hurrah for Israel!

Love, Elder Fox