Hope you have all had an awesome few weeks! Sorry for the lack of email last week, it was super busy. This week has been awesome though! have a good amount of stories, and I remembered to take a few photos this time around! I've got lots to talk about, so I'm just going to skip to the meat.
First: Friends! Weve actually met a lot of cool new people these last two week. An awesome old lady from Trinidad who just "felt" like she shoud answer the door this time, even though she has never answered when people dressed like us come by. Cool kid from Bolivia, who knew missinaries back there. A 92 year old lady that wants us to come over and play Phase 10 while we talk about God. A guy who is trying to turn his life around, and saw a picture of the Book of Mormon on facebook, and felt strongly that he needed to read it. Its been awesome! We also have a lot of people weve been talking with that are doing really well! Most exciting of which is Azura! She is 13, and met the issionaries a while ago, but stopped meeting with them. We've been meeting with her again, and she is now really excited to be baptized! It's awesome, she understands the meaning and purpose of baptism more then most other adults. And we finally got permision from her mom to let her get baptized! She has it set for the 12th of May! We're super stoked! Other than her, everyone else is doing really well!
Now for a fun story! So this week we were asked to come help out a member fix his fence. It is a chainlink fence seperating his yard from Florida jungle.The hurricane a few months back knocked it off its posts, but it was being held in place by the plants. So we got to go to town with machetes to cut off all of the vines and roots and things. then rolled up the fence. While doing this, several interesting things happened. First, a bee fell out of one of the trees and went straight down into the back of my pants. It was not happy, and very quickly, nor was I. Took a bit, but I finally got the stinger out, not a good time these last few days. We also found a ton of raw, wild, sugar cane. The member showed us how to cut it and chew on it, so we had a snack for the rest of the time. Then the finale. We finished getting the fence all off, and were rolling up the last bit when we suddenly smelled gas. We turned right when the member set it ablaze. There was suddenly a 6 ft wall of flames along the back edge of his yard, and we all went into shock. I noticed the gas can was about a foot from the wild flames, so I bolted and grabbed that. Then he came around with a hose and very calmly started surrounding the flames, then quenching them. Neighbors gathered, smoke billowed, we chewed some more sugar cane, it was a grand 'ol Floridian time (pics below).
Other than that it was another week of livin' the dream! This is a really fun place. The people are all just really fun and most just are really down to talk! Its been incredible to meet so many people and hear so many stories. It's honestly insane to just think that everyone that you see has a life and story as complicated (or moreso) as your own! We are all on this journey together though, and we're all here to help each other out! We are supposed to do everything we can to follow the example Christ set for us, and I can't imagine a better way then to help everyone else come closer to Him. We can all do a ton to help out each person we know and even each person we see, it doesnt have to be huge either, there is so much power in the little things I've learned. Wave, Smile, High-five, Hug, Say "I Love You"! It's amazing what that phrase does for people. The world is starting to become afraid of showing their love, People who do are soetimes labled as soft or weak, but that's just not true. Show love! Be strong enough to be willing to give up your own pride and selfishness to help someone else who needs it. I have seen lives change from the simple phrase "I love you". Many people today feel alone, please don't let them! And I hope no-one recieving these emails feels that way! Because I truly Love all of you! Tahnks for everything! Have an awsome week! LOVE Y'ALL!!!
<3 Elder Fox
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