Fastest year of my life 8/20/2018

Hola Todos!

Hope y'all had another great week. Mine was quite the rollercoaster! Very interesting week. I also hit my year mark this week...that was nuts. Not that the day was crazy or anything, but the idea that a year has passed already is insane. Looking back, it still feels like I've just gotten out here. Still feel like a coomplete beginner at all this and have no clue what I'm doing, but at the same time, I'm more "experienced" than half the missionaries out here now...I fear for the future generations. That's another thing I've noticed, I always thought adults knew what they were doing as a child/teenager, and I've been super scared becasue I have never felt like I know what on Earth I am doing. Luckily, I have discovered, no-one else does! Anyways, I'm gonna explain the week a bit.

Tuesday and Wednesday were pretty normal. We had no-one show up to our English class, so that was lame, but otherwise talked with some people, but not too many interested people. Thursday was amazing. We had another member of the Seventy visit us: Elder Costa. He is from Brazil, and has been a General Authority for like 37 years now... little insane. He was amazing though, I dont have the time nor skills to share some of the things he said, but it was amazing! It was (obviously) missionary work focused, but he talked about marriage, work ethic, and the importance of always serving others a ton and it was really cool. Then the fun days. Thursday night, a member told us that another member was moving and may need some help. We called Friday morning, and she very happily accepted our help. She had to be out of the house (already sold it) by 10 that morning (we got there around 8)...she was not out by 10. We got there, and most of her house (4 bedroom, 2 bath, massive livingroom) wasn't even packed, and the youngest person there besides us was 60 (there were 5 of them), so we couldn't leave them alone, we finally all went home around 7 that night...not finished. She said she got an extension to noon the next day. We didn't want to spend another day there, but we figured we should help a bit, if she said she had to be out by 12, we could make that work. We finished at about 8:30 that day...I just wanted to crawl in my bed and sleep for a week. We felt pretty bad that we spent two days not going out and doing missionary work, but we knew she needed our help. That night tough, we got home to FOUR messages from people who want to learn about the Gospel! We usually only get like one every other week or so, and so coming home to that was an awesome re-affirmation that we were doing what we should have been! I'll tell y'all about them next week when we get to meet them!

Well I need to peace out, sorry for the rambly message, today was super busy. But I do want to leave y'all with at least a scripture: Alma 37:37 "37 Counsel with the Lord in all thy doings, and he will direct thee for good; yea, when thou liest down at night lie down unto the Lord, that he may watch over you in your sleep; and when thou risest in the morning let thy heart be full of thanks unto God; and if ye do these things, ye shall be lifted up at the last day". The part I want to focus on is the first line. Such an awesome promise! Pray to your Heavenly Father about anything, and follow the guidance you recieve, and it will work out good! So simple, so powerful, so miraculous! Wish I could expound some more, but I've gotta head, I Love you all tons! Have an awesome week! Thanks for all the prayers, love, and support! They dont fall on deaf ears! LOVE Y'ALL!!!

<3 Elder Fox