Florida Weather 10/30/2017

Hola amigos y famililia!

First off, let me say that I am super sorry to anyone who emailed me last week, I am not sure what happened, but none of them sent out and I got a weird error, so I will go through and send them all again. Been a pretty good week though! Not a lot of exciting stuff, but plenty of good times. The weather has also been really neat-o. It has cooled down to a solid low-60's. Still a little warm, but so much better than what it's been like! Hope the weather back home is good! I'm making try a different format for this week and see if it works.

Tuesday: This week, we did something called exchanges. Basically you just switch companions with another companionship for a day or two to learn more about how they teach and see if you can apply it to your teaching. For exchanges, I went with Elder Tracy to their area, and Elder Shepard came to our area with Elder Cook (Elder Cook is my companion). It was super cool seeing how different Elder Tracy teaches and finds. We also got to eat dinner with a member family that night! Their area covers a lot of people with a ton of money, so the place that we ate at was absolutely massive on a lake with a dock and speed boat and long story short, I felt unworthy to be in the house XD. Super nice people though.

Wednesday: So, Elder Tracy and Elder Shepard are english missionaries. While I was knocking with Elder Tracy on Wednesday, we knocked into a guy that spoke only spanish, so I took over. I was pretty proud of myself for holding the conversation, but he was very very uninterested when we brought up why we were there... I learned some fun new words after that interaction, haha. We also had dinner that night again (apparently dinner from members is a ton more common for english missionaries), sure fancy Italian restaurant that charged an absolutely disgusting amount, but it was 10/10. There were things on my chicken that I could not pronounce, but man was it good. Went back to my area that night.

Thursday: We met so many awesome people Thursday! Frank has a pretty sad past, but has worked his way out of some really bad situations and is now living in an apartment with his wife and little kid! Jasmyn is a single mother with two adorable 3 year-olds and is really interested in how much this gospel helps in raising families and how much help our church offers to those in need. The last one is named Amanda, we knocked on her door and after explaining a little about our church, she immediately asked us to come in and tell her more. She was super interested and her son seemed like he liked it too! She loves that we just believe that everyone deserves to be loved no matter who they are, and is really excited to learn more! They were all super nice, it's awesome to finally see some progress, haha.

Friday: We had a huge meeting on Friday morning for all of the trainees (less than 12 weeks in the mission). It was interesting. We watched about 3 hours worth of Safety Videos, so that was fun. We got to ask the mission president some questions, so that was neat. Other than that, just a ton of information on stuff like cars, apartments, tablets, etc. That basically took up the entire day, because it was an hour drive from our aprtment. We did meet a guy named Addison that night though. He is a firemen with three hurricanes, or as he calls them "kids". Super neat guy, but super busy, so meeting with him is going to be really rough.

Saturday: We had a baptism on Saturday! It was not an investigator we had been teaching, but it was super awesome to go and watch it happen, the guy was so happy! That night, we had a fun ward Halloween party where I got to meet some more ward members and eat a ton of food, good times...

Sunday: None of our Investigators could make it to church, so that was sad, but it was a pretty good day. Something I have forgotten to mention is how fun and different the Spanish meetings are, haha. Latino people are just so much more fun, and that translates into their meetings. While it usually doesn't get too out of hand to where the spirit can not reside, it is just more fun and lively, I'm a fan. We met a less active man named Hector, and he was pretty cool. He does photography and makes music, he plays the piano, mandolin, and guitar all super well.

So yeah, solid week, let me know if you hate this format. Thanks again to all of you back home who are making me want to continue this journey! Like I have said earlier, this stuff can get pretty overbearing at times, but it is 100% worth it, especially knowing I have all of you back home cheering me on! haha, thanks for everything, LOVE Y'ALL!!!

<3 Elder Fox

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Felisa Cumpleaños Jensen! Love ya, hope it's a good one!

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Spanish Practice:

No me rucuerdo una cuenta muy chistoso

10/23/2017

Hola Todos!

How is everyone doing? I hope the weather back there is fun for y'all (I miss it so much). I hope everyone is having a good time and is getting hyped for Halloween! Still my favorite holiday (even though we don't get to do anyhting for it out here, haha). It kind of sucks being so close to places like Universal Studios, Disney World, Bush Gardens, etc. that are throwing these awesome Halloween parties and stuff. I see advertisements everywhere for it all, haha. I just wanna go to one haunted house, but whatever, its worth it. This week has been pretty mellow, so I will try not to write too much and bore y'all.

First off, this week me and Elder Cook finally got some solid Spanish nvestigators! We usually find between 8 and 15 new investigators a week, with only like 2 or 3 being Spanish, and 90+% don't want us to come back after the first lesson because they are not actually interested, not willing to change, not willing to make appointments, etc. This week though, we finally got some people that are willing to have us come back again and listen! And 4 are Spanish!!! Super exciting (and terrifying, but I'm being positive)! Three of them are from the Dominican Republic, we only knocked into and set up the appointment with the dad: Greg, but when we got there, his two teenage sons decided to sit in randomly! It was super awesome, they asked some very good questions, and seemed generally interested. He has been here for a few months, but his sons just moved here a few weeks ago, so absolutely no english. The other is named Ermando, he is from Nicaragua, and is super cool. He moved here about a year ago, and actually got a hold of us and asked us to visit him! He has a super busy/crazy work schedule, so we only got to meet with him once, we are planning on trying to see if 

Online Prosilyting would work for him (we skype for lessons and keep in contact through Facebook messanger and stuff), I hope it does, I really want to teach him.

We also got to go and help with the Orlando Cares, Feeding Puerto Rico thing again! It was super fun once again, and the normal music was still 10/10. Speaking of music, I recieved a ton of music on a file from a guy in the CCM, but had totally forgotten about it until last week. And there is some really cool stuff on it (as far as "missioanry appropriate" music goes, haha). We have been listening to one band called newsboys a lot. They seem to be as close as I can get to the stuff I usually listened to back home (if any of you are aware of any christian rock bands that do not sound "aggresive", please tell me...I need it). Anyways, it was a blast, we actually got to meet the head of the project and he expressed his grattitude to our church! He explained that he is not a member, but he has never seen a church that has such a large population of members that honestly want to help out! It was really awesome to hear from such a cool guy.

Again, not much else this week, haha. Pretty mellow (in the terms of super exciting stuff). I am still feeling 100% exhausted physically and mentally every night, but it is still worth every ounce of effort! I know that I got called out here for a reason, and I love seeing the reason unold with every interaction! I love feeling just so content every day...its awesome! I love all of you back home and hope you are finding success in whatever you are doing! Don't be afraid to rely on help from above in whatever it is! Trust me, it works! Shoot me a message if you wanna talk :D. I LOVE ALL OF YOU and hope that this week goes well! 

<3 Elder Fox

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Feliz Cumpleanos a Jensen and Jane! Love Y'all!

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Spanish Practice:

En nuestro apartamento tenemos una 

pelota de ejercicio (uno de los grandes, de goma, llenos de aire). Elder Cook y yo nos gusta jugar con ese y arrojarlo el uno al otro. La noche pasado, Elder Cook me lo arrojo y se perdio. Fue a la cocina y derribo un monton de cosas. Siguio rebotando y derribando una cosa tras otra. Muy divertido de limpiar, jaja. Vale la pena.

Pictures:

I am still figuring out the best way to do pics this week, I will send them out in a bit.

I am horribly out of shape 10/16/2017

Hola Amigos y Familia!

Boy oh boy, do I got some stories this week! A lot of neat-o stuff happened this week (and a lot of not neat-o stuff) so imma skip the begging for responses for now so I dont make this too long. I'll start off with some good ones and end with the less-than-optimal ones (Positivity!). Onward!

So, this week we had a few meetings with members in our ward to see if they know of anyone that we can teach, this turned out to be rather effective because we got a few names from it. Sadly, we have not been able to meet with any of them yet becaue they were all busy this week. We also did a ton of door knocking, and I have finally gained the courage to actually knock and talk to the person, rather than having my companion do them all!. We only managed to gain one solid investigator through it though. His name is Brandon and he is a super cool dude, he has 5 kids and is very well versed in his bible knowledge. He has a few interesting beliefs, but none that interfere much with our truths, so we are not worried (for example: Noahs Ark was found in Turkey, Jesus is black [this one is very common out here], and that biblical giants may still exist). From this week though, I have really nailed down that I just have to get used to rejection and develop some thick skin. Usually, the people pretty calmly say "not interested" *door slam*, sometimes we get some mean words, a few times its just wierd/funny (one lady just opened the door and said, while shaking her head, "nope, nope, nope, nope, nope...nope *slam*, and we didnt even say hello XD), Then there are the 5% that let us explain what we are and the 1% that lets us set up an appointment to come back with a Book of Mormon. Its really interesting to just see all of the different reactions, haha.

Another good story! This week we met an awesome lady named Lisa! She is older and just moved down here with her mother to help her...live. She actually recieved all of the lessons about our church and fell in love with it back in Seattle from another set of missionaries, but she could not be baptized because she was still on parole (the state gets mad when churches baptize people on parole for some strange reason). She was just released last month though! THis means that we just have to help her out with any problems she might have and then we get to baptize her! She is super sweet and has an insurmountable amount of faith of this restored gospel! We are super excited to help her out!

One more good story! As you all likely know, Puerto Rico got absolutely destroyed by hurricane Irma, and in many places is still without clean water, food, electricity, etc. This week we got the chance to go help out down at a huge project by Feeding Children (not 100% sure that is the right name). We got around a table with a bunch of boxes of food and made an assemble line where we put one of everything into these little lunch-box cartons and then put them into a bigger box. We were there from 9:00am to 5:00pm on Saturday, and it was AWESOME! Not only was it super cool to help put together all of these boxes for famalies that need it down there, but they were playing normal music which I miss dearly, so that was an amazing bonus XD. It was super fun and as a zone, I think we got like 40,000 boxes made that day (there was about 5 people to a table and like 20 tables of our zone filled by our zone). Overall the project is going to have made 4.4 million by the end of it (it has been going on all month and will finish by next month). Super fun time! I loved it!

Yay, time for the bad (humorous) stories! So, in this mission we have bikes and cars to get around. Each area is either full-car, car-share or full-bike. Full-car and full-bike mean you only use a bike or car, car-share means that you and another area take turns with a car every other week. In our Spanish area (which is pretty big) there are four different english areas, and each of them is full-car...and we are car-share... This was our first bike week, and I realized that I am not a fan of biking here XD. We ran into a ton of problems in the beginning too. On the first day, my companion realized that his tire was flat, so we tried to use a little hand-pump we found to pump it up. This ended in use trying deperately to figure out how to use this tiny thing for about an hour before finally accidently ripping the bike tube's valve out of the tube... Luckily, we got the people we are care-sharing with to get us a ride to a walmart the next day to buy a new one. We then got home and started trying to get that tube on, after about 30 minutes of struggling, it dawned on us: this tube is the wrong size... Nonetheless we forced it on, and finally attempted to pump it up, hoping that it would work well enough for us to bike to a bike shop about 4 miles down the street. After another half an hour of trying to figure out again how to use the stupid pump, the tube basically exploded... We decided the best course of action would be to cancel our appointments for the rest of that day and work on calling members and figure out what to do (so entire day wasted). The next morning, we came to the conclusion that the only way we could do this without wasting more days waiting, was to walk to the bike shop and back to get the tire. That is an almost 9 mile walk, in the blistering Florida heat and humidity, in churh clothes... would not recommend, but we done did it! We got the tube! Put it on! And then realized that we still don't know how to use the pump! We finally figured it out though, and began to pump up the tire! We were so excited, then suddenly, we hear a hiss, and watch in horror as the tire deflated. We almost cried XD. Lckily though, we figured out that it was the pump, not the tire this time. We found a small hole in the back that was letting air escape through it now, so we did the logical thing and, with very little thought, super-glued it shut! We were so proud of ourselves until the glue finally dried... we realized that we also managed to super-glue the air intake shut as well... There was a ton of super-glue an no way to dig it all out... We then decided to go around and ask the people in our apartment if they had a bike pump. A few say that we were missionaries and did not even let us get the question out XD. We ran into a guy named Ace though, he is a super buff dude with a ton of really nice cars and some very... non-PG pictures all over his garage, but HE HAD A PUMP!!! He pumped up Elder Cooks tire and we were finally done with thiswonderful series of unfortunate events and got to start biking! I then learned that I really wish I would have worked out more! Because we ride around 20 miles a day! 10/10 car-share is the best thing ever!

You wanna know what's fun? Going on a nice bike ride in some cool weather in some normal clothes. Wanna know what's not fun? Biking 20 miles every day in 90+ degree heat and 80%+ humidity in church clothes. Wanna know whats fun? Going on a 9 mile hike in mountain fresh air. Wanna know whats not fun? Walking 9 miles in the same conditions listed above along a highway in a dense city. Wanna know whats fun? Playing in the rain in clothes that can be taken off when you want to dry off. Wanna know whats not fun? Biking through the equivalent of a waterfall for 20 minutes (while still being hot enough to not know if sweat or rain is dripping down your face) in church clothes. Wanna know whats fun? Meeting new people and getting to know them. Wanna know whats not fun? Getting yelled at because you just wanna share something you think is awesome and eternally helpful. In all honesty, most of the mission seems to be things that are just not fun, but holy cow are they WORTH IT! I we didn't bike every day we  would not be helping everyone. If we did not have to walk and get that bike stuff, we would not have ran into Brandon while he so happened to be home. If we didnt bike through that storm we would not have had the chance to go give Virginia (a super sweet old lady who is having helth issues) a blessing before she went to the hospital. If we were not willing to get yelled at, we would not be able to find those people who are ready for this blessing of the gospel! Overall a mission is not by itself a fun experience (there are definetely times that are fun though), but so far, it is one of the most WORTH IT things I have done! I have seen the power that this gospel has and the happiness it can bring! I am honestly so grateful for this opportunity! Trust me, there are definetely times where school and work seem so much easier, but I don't think anyhting but having a family will be this worthwile! Sorry I got a little preachy there, haha, I just love this stuff so much! And I love all of you back home! You all mean the world to me! Have an awesome week, and keep me updated (I can read emails every day, only write on mondays)! I LOVE ALL OF YOU!!!

<3 Elder Fox

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Feliz Cumpleanos Quince! Love Ya!

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(pls send me your birthdays if you can, I wanna remember them)

Spanish Practice:

Este semana yo trataba de hacer los bownies de platanos que mi mama cocina muchos veces. Primero yo accidentalmente agregué demasiada crema agria. Pues, me di cuenta que uno de las bolsas de azucar en polvo fue vencido. Entonces, yo use azucar regular por la mitad. Idea malo. En el fin, no sabia tan mal, solo tenia una textura muy extrana, jaja.Tratare de hacer otra vez en el futuro.

Pictures (once again, not alot, sorry. My family did just send me an AMAZING Halloween package with my camera though! Photos will improve from here out):

1-7. Photos from the service project!

9-10. Stuff I got fomr my family's Halloween package!

10/09/2017 First real Mission week

Hola Everyone,

How's it going y'all? (again, please feel free to respond and answer that). I can not believe another week has gone by, it feels like I just sent one of these yesterday (although I'm sure it has felt like an eternity for some of you *cough* mom *cough*). This was my first real week though of being out in the field and doing real missionary stuff. There was just so much logistical stuff I had to do last week that I only got in a few hours a few days to proselyte (knock doors, teach lessons, service, etc.). This week though, it was all regular missionary stuff that I will be doing for 23 more months :D. And it is awesome, exhauting, exciting, terrifying, fun, nerve-racking, very fulfilling... The list goes on for a while. In all honesty, it is some seriously hard work and can be a little over bearing haha, but I have never felt so useful and like I am really making a difference! So let's talk about some specifics.

This week, I finally got to start eating with members/investigators (members of the church/people we are teaching), and it is fantastic. It seems like the only people who ask to feed us are the ones who really like to cook and are therefore, really good at it. I got to eat some traditional home-made food from Venezuela, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Mexico this week, and it has all been incredible (the lady who cooked from the Dominican Republic was actually a proffesional chef there). One of the big plusses of getting called state-side spanish, is that there are so many different cultures to experience all in a small area. Its awesome! We have also been going down to that awesome bakery I touched on last week. It is called PanPan Bakery (pronounced paun paun) and is owned by a really nice lady from Venezuela. They make some really good stuff and it is crazy cheap, we have been going down for lunch and getting one of their ham and cheese rolls (a ton of ham and swiss cheese cooked inside a chunk of sweet bread) for like $2 and they are awesome. It is also a really good place for us to just kind of hang out in, because 7/10 of the people that come in only speak spanish, so we can practice our spanish with them and see if they are interested in our message! There is also a really neat little "Spanish Grocery Store" in the same parking lot. They have a ton of stuff from quite a few different countries that is not so common here. Including some soda from Columbia that is 10/10. They also have all of the strangest meats you could think of (tounges, ears, kidneys, stomachs, feet, etc.). Haven't had to try anything like that yet, probably will at some point though haha. (It is also next-door to an awesome looking indoor skatepark and I cry everytime I pass it, haha).

Me and my companion have started to understand our area. Again, we are whitewashing (neither of us have been to this area), but we have a pretty good grasp of the area now. Right now we have 12 investigators (only like three are solid though), but only 5 are spanish. Which kind of suprises me because (no offense to anyone, just an observation) Spanish people are so much nicer to us XD. They are usually always willing to at least hear what we have to say and then politley say they are not interested (compared to most non-hispanics around here that see us and say mean things without letting us get a word in, haha). They are all really respectful that we are out here giving our time to help, 10/10 hispanics rule. -end rant- Most of our investigators we have found from knocking, and they are all really interesting people! (fyi, fake names) One couple: Marira and Alfonso, just moved here from El Salvador a few years ago. They have some of the most incredible testimonies of God's love and have really strong faith in Christ, but they are not a member of a church (Marira had some bad experiences with organized religion). Super sweet people though who are really interested in talking with us! We have been meeting with an older couple from Brazil (they speak english with us) the wife is a member, but the husband is not. The wife just had a really intense back surgery and so we have been helping her out with some stuff. Super nice people who really like to talk haha. We also have guy from Mexico who we knocked into that was really excited to talk with us! We have not had a return appointment with him yet, but he said he has wanted to learn about us before! (sorry if these are boring to read, I just really like talking about these people, just one more) We have been trying to visit former investigators (investigators who got dropped by past missionaries for not being interested, not keeping commitments, not responding to calls/texts, etc.) and we ran into one named Danny (arounf 25 years old)! We found him sitting on his porch with a buddy and asked him how his day has been, he explained that it has been a "very bad day" (pg version haha). We then asked if he would be interested in meeting with us again and he said he would love to! We set up the appointment and gave him a quick "Christ will help you through your struggles" lesson. The cool part was as we walked away, we heard him say to his buddy "man, everytime I have a bad day, these guys show up, maybe there is something more to 'em". My companion and I celebrated for a solid 2 minutes in the car XD.

Other than that stuff just been getting used to the schedule still. Again, still awesome to feel useful from 6:30 to 9:30 every day, but crazy exhausting. Sorry for the lack of pictures this time, been super busy and don't have a real camera yet, and taking my tablet out every time I see something is hard, haha, I will get better when I get a real camera, promise. I'm going to have to cut it off here though, I have recieved quite a bit of emails this week (thanks y'all!) so I am going to go read and respond to those. I love y'all though! Have a great week! Keep me posted please! Thanks again for all of your support and prayers, LOVE Y'ALL!!!

<3 Elder Fox

Spanish Practice:

Cada semana, tenemos que hacer servicio. Esta semana mi companero y yo ayudamos a una donacion tienda como un DI. Ellos nos hicieron organizar la "esquina de hombres". En realidad ellos ponen cualquier cosa en esta parte cuando no saben que es. Entonces, llegamos a limpiarle! No era divertido XD. Habia un monton de cosas extranos y muy antiguos.

10/6/2017

We received these pics from some members.

FLORIDA 10/2/2017

First off, super sorry for the long wait. The P-Day out here is on Mondays, and I got here last Monday night, so I missed it. From here on out though, it is going to be on Mondys that I can talk. Also, I will have to abide by the 6:00 pm end of P-Day. Which means 4:00 back there, just a heads up. On to the weekly report!

This first week, put simply, was wild. After arriving, I was assigned to my companion/trainer and he explained what was happening. In a mission (eg Orlando, Florida Spanish Mission) there are zones, and each companion is assigned to a zone. Every 6 weeks there are "transfers" where you may switch companions nad leave your zone. 95% of the time, they only send one missionary out of a zone, so there is at least one person in a zone that knows the area, people, situations, etc. I get to start my training in the other 5%, which they call Whitewashing. This means, my companion and I (obviously) have never served in this zone and have no idea what is going on! Also, my trainer is on his 3rd month and his Spanish is as bad as mine, and we know nothing of this zone! Baptism by fire is FUN! I am not stressed or terrified, whatsoever! Yeah! We also had to share our apartment with another companionship untill yesterday, because the office was having troubles getting theirs done, so that has been fun. Getting used to the schedule has been pretty intense too, we really work our butts off out here. Its really nice to feel like I am being very useful from 6:30 to 9:30...but also extremelly exhausting XD, I'm sure I'll get used to it though. Not too much happened lesson wise this week, just a lot of ligistical stuff. We only got to teach 2 real lessons and one was english and with a guy named Robert, he answered the door without a shirt (not a fun view, haha) but has some really awesome faith, the other was the awesome 70+ cuban lady named Dunnia with a heart of gold, I really liked her. We did do quite a bit of door knocking and street contacting though (knocking on doors and seeing if interested and walking around and talking to people on the street to see if they are interested), and I realized really quick that we have to get real used to rejection and form some thick skin. I never really thought about how much people would get offended/angry when they just see a missionary, kind of wierd. We also got kicked out of a trailer park thing, that was fun XD. A lady with a "no soliciting" sign with a gun on it saw us walking on the other side of the street and got real mad, and yelled interesting things. She then called the office and told them something, so a nice lady came by and said that she was super sorry, but she had to kick us out, she was super nice tho, I liked her. Really fun experience overall XD. Now that this paragraph is an essay, lets talk about the climate of the wonderful Sunshine State of Florida!

I do not understand how people can enjoy this climate. haha, but seriously, it is so different here. I am super lucky that I got here when I did, because they are on a downslope in the weather, so its only been like high 80's (PS that is still hot). I am told that it should drop to low 70's by november and stay that way until like Feburary, then it warms up back to the 90's by May and basically always over 100 during most of July and August...I am so excited. I also get to experience what humidity is, I cant say that I like it XD. I have literally been in saunas that feel less hot and wet, it is very strange. My skin just feels wet, basically always. We actually have this wierd bag in our apartment that sucks the water out of the air in the room, its been up for like two weeks and it is full, like a full ziplock bag of water, really neat. It does have some benefits though. For example, I never have to iron anything here. I can throw on whatever wrinkled piece of packed clothing I have, walk outside for like 5 minutes, and it looks and feels like it just got back from a dry cleaners, 10/10. Also, the water in the air causes everyone to sweat buckets, so I don't feel out of place sweating a ton. Yeah, its really different, I think I should be able to get accustomed to it. Really gonna miss that Utah weather for two years. I will miss snow, haha, the precipitation is wacky here. They call it "rain" and it usually only happens during the rainy season between July and August, but it is insane. I got to experience a "late shower" a few day ago. We ran 10 yards from the door to the car...and I was drenched to the underwear. It is literally just a waterfall that covers a city for like 10 minutes. It is terrifying, but also really neat to watch from inside, because the streets just become rivers, and you watch all of the trash float away, probably really useful for the city now that I think of it XD. I think it is pretty neat, my companion loathes it though, haha.

My companion/trainer is actaully a pretty neat-o dude. He is from Portland, Oregon and has only been out here for three months XD. They had a big shipment of Spanish missionaries come in with me, so they had to use all of the current Spanish missionaries to train, I got the newest guy! Between us there is like 5 months worth of Spanish and being a missionary, its pretty funny honestly. He is super into cars and really enjoys rap music (have not told him how much I hate rap yet). He is a really tell-it-like-it-is guy, which I can respect. He is a really awesome missionary though. He has a saying that he sticks by and I really hope that I can adopt: "fear no man". Basically, don't be afraid to talk to anyone, out message is one of joy and blessings, and worst case scenario, they get mad and say mean things, but than you never see them again. It makes sense, but when I talk to all these people, I just get super nervous and start to freak a little, haha. I hope I can get over that too though.

I honestly realy like it out here (on a mission, not Florida...yet), it feels awesome to just feel so useful to the Lord and I really am excited to find those few souls that are ready to hear the message! Some of the General Conference talks were also really helpful, solid pick-me-ups. Hope y'all had the chance to watch/listen as well. I am so grateful that I have this chance to be out here, and for all of you back home cheering me on! I love every single one of you! I really am grateful for your help in making this possible! Have an awesome week, talk to y'all later! Love Ya!

<3 Elder Fox

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Feliz Cumpleanos to Jaxon, Liam, and Tori! Love Y'all! Have a great one!

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(Pls send Birthdays if you could, I want to remember them)

Spanish Practice:

Bien, durante mi segunda dia, mi companero me llevó a la tienda a comprar comida para la semana. Yo estaba super confundido y perdido (el primero dia fue rapido y loco), entonces yo compre algunas cosas extranas XD. Yo he estado viviendo de leche, cereales, arroz, huevos, y pizza congelada. 10/10 lo recomiendo.

Pictures:

1. Strange dehumidifier bag filled with water

2-3. Soup kitchen/food pantry we volunteered at

4. The freezer of 4 teenage dudes (pizza, nuggets, and fries) XD

5. One of the many modified cars that I have pics of (this one is actually using it seyup to cross over the median to turn into a parking lot)

6-7. The "Great and Spacious Building" or "Top Floor Eyesore" (small story with this one, a dude tries to build this MEGA-CHURCH a while ago, but ran out of funds XD, this is the result, also fun scripture reference for those wanting a good laugh: New Testament Luke 14:28-30)

8. Chocolate canoli and Tres Leches from an awesome spanish bakery down the street, super cheap and really good

9. My awesome bed-chair for the first week