Elder Sam Fox: The Lord Will Make Us Capable

Friends and Family!

Well it's only been 4 days since the last time I emailed because of the whole change of pday thing. First of all happy birthday Nate dogg!!! It's your birthday right now in the Philippines so technically you could start celebrating right now if you want. The big 16! That is so crazy Nate! You're going to be a priest now which is so cool and you get your license! Wow that's so awesome. I hope you have an awesome birthday. I'll be thinking about you all day. I wish so bad that I could be there for it but just know I'll be celebrating and thinking about you. Have an awesome big 16! Alright quick update on the B Family. Well there's not much to update you all on. They are still aweome and continue to come to church and keep their commitments and tell everyone they are mormon. Hopefully we can get them all prepared and ready for May 24th. Speaking of baptisms I had my first baptismal interviews last night. I interviewed two girls. One was 10 and one was 8. I'm not going to lie I was pretty nervous for the interviews being my first time but they went really well. I was worried about the language and the decision about whether or not they were ready to be baptized and so i prayed for help from the Lord. As I was praying and stuff I just had the thought come to me that I have been called to be a missionary and a district leader at this time and if I had been called by God to do it then obviously I could do it because if I couldn't have then He wouldn't have called me. and thats been a comforting thought and realization whenever I get nervous about something. I'm so grateful for that answer to my prayers. I'm reminded of the scripture in 1 Nephi when Nephi says if the Lord commanded me to do all things, I could do them. I know this is true with all of us. Not because we are necessarily capable on our own to do them but because the Lord commanded us to do them and He will make us capable. How grateful I am for that knowledge that when we are called by the Lord to do something it's because He knows we can do it with His help. we can do all things with His help. We must realize that we are unable to accomplish the tasks placed before us but we must also realize that we can do all things through Him who passed through all things. My love and gratitude for the Savior has grown so much and continues to grow each day. I love the Book of Mormon becasue it leads me straight to Him. The Book of Mormon is true and I testify like Joseph Smith that "a man will get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book." What a wonderful book it is. It is the word of God and it is the "word which healeth the wounded soul" (Jacob 2:8). I love this gospel. I love all of you and I will see you next week!

Love, Elder Fox