1/15/2015 The amount of my non-white friends has skyrocketed

Hola familia y amigos!

Another awesome week come and gone. I wanna start by telling everyone that sent me a Christmas present thank you (I have been trying to send thank you cards, but I'm bad at mail), due to fund issues, I will probably have to wait another week to send the thank you cards, sorry. Feels like I just wrote one of these, haha, sorry for no super fun stories.

We met a good amount of new friends this week, and none of them were white. Still kind of wierd just being amidst so many different nationalities...especially compared to Utah, haha. We met a few guys from Puerto Rico, they are all super cool and are really nice and patient with our spanish. Met a few other people from some other Latin countries. Best guy of the week though is named Quan. He is super cool, has a few young kids, writes raps, and is going to college for electrical engineering. Best part though, is that he is super excited and ready to hear the gospel! We met him Friday, and have come back every day since then. He's also just a really down to earth guy, super cool to talk too, good life advice.

Lisa got super sick this week, so we are going to have to move her baptism to  next week, but she has been doing so amazing! She has been through so much, but she has just put so much trust in the Lord (I'm aware of how cheesy that sounds, but she has gone through a ton of crap with a smile on her face for like a year)! We have been teaching this one guy for a while now, probably not for much longer because he isn't really progressing. He just has us over to tell us a bunch of reasons he thinks our religion is wrong, then we share some Bible verses (he doesn't believe in the Book of Mormon) and he just gets sad that we can back up everything we say with the book he thinks disproves us. We really hope he will start to make commitments and look into our church, he has two really sweet little daughters and a really nice wife, we can see how passionate he is about Christ, we just really want him to see what being a member of Christ's church can do for him and his family!

Other than that just been a pretty mellow, normal week. Knocked some doors,  met some crazy Floridians, butchered some Spanish, did a lot of biking, exchanged a lot of very dumb jokes with my companion, etc. Still love it out here though (minus the weather, of course)! Still love getting to meet so many awesome people from so many different backgrounds and watching how we can all relate to each other through Christ! It's so fun! I hope you all have a wonderful week, and once again, I am extremely grateful for everything you have all done for me! LOVE YALL!!!

<3 Elder Fox

Spanish Practice:

La lavadora y la secadora en nuestro apartamento fueron alquileres, y tuvimos que devolverlos a la compañía hace tres años. Se suponía que el hombre a cargo de nuestra vivienda enviaría a un hombre con otras nuevas para fines de esa semana ... no funcionó, jaja. Desde esta semana, hemos estado lavando todo a mano, porque él sigue diciendo que él lo resolverá, y nunca nos responde XD. Ha sido divertido.