Nov. 25, 2007

Hello to everyone from Tampico Mexico... (yes i am actually in Tampico this time)
So much has changed since that last time i wrote a good entry so lets see what needs to be said. First of my companion is Amazing!!! His name is Elder Bautista and i am his second companion, or in mission jargo his godfather. We are having an amazing time in our ward Del Valle. In the next four weeks we should be baptising 6 people... the work is going well. As you can see by the pictures we both are of Sangre Azul... (have blue blood) the jersies are of cruz azul a soccer team here in Mexico. We played soccer this Monday and i had a great time in goalie as my comp tore up the field. Anyway things are going very well. As for the other pictures. Elder Nelson is now in my district... we are basically neighbors. Its nice to have someone from your home ward in your district. We had zone conference this last week and my comp and i had an amazing experience. During the conference our zone leaders challenged us to go out and find someone and challenge them for baptism... i thought it was a joke but as my companion and i walked out the door they didn´t stop us. So it was to knocking doors trying to find someone to listen to us in a neighborhood that we knew nothing about. Basically we had to depend on the lord because with 20 minutes left of our hour we still hadn´t been able to teach anything. We were trying to pick our directions by how we felt but by this point we were feeling like we shouldn´t have volunteered without knowing what we were going to have to do. Finally we knocked a door and a lady came out that was working as a maid. Turns out she lives in our area... we taught her and challenged her and she said she would have to pray... we were amazed and almost skipped back to the zone conference... the lord knows exactly where we need to be and he put us right there without us or our zone leaders knowing exactly why. The work goes on
Your friend Elder Cox