Pictures!

Sister Cox finally sent some pictures! As she requested, I scanned them in. Here they are.

After her first Zone Conference.

Beautiful scenery in her area!

Sister Cox and her MTC companion with their trainers.

Service in the MTC.

Here she is with her mission president and his wife. Don't they look like wonderful people?!
Her MTC group.

Funny Dinner Mishap and New Investigator

Hey everyone, I hope you are all doing well. things are going good here! we found some new investigators this week, one of them is named Frosty! Haha yeah, he is a funny old man, its fun. :) So we set one of our investigators with a baptism date this week! its that girl from China, Amanda! she is set to be baptised on aug. 14! I am so excited, i hope nothing comes up between now and then. Last night we had dinner with her and she made us some traditional Chinese food. and now i know the reason that the Lord didn't send me to China! haha, the food was good, but very, very, spicy! and you know I don't do spicy very well! i think i had like 10 glasses of water! oh and she didn't have any forks or knives (apparent they don't use those in China) so we had to eat with chop-sticks. yeah that was interesting! haha I went to put so beef on my plate and my chop-sicks slipped and the beef landed in my water cup! oh it was embarrassing! Sister ***** got a kick out of it! this week was also Return and Report! it was so fun to see all the people I came out with! and talk with them and share stories. it was especially nice to see Sister ****** again. the sad thing is, now we are not sure when we will see each other again. It might not be until we come home together! but i bet we will before that. we also had interviews with the mission pres this week. they came to ****** and saw our new apartment and then they surprised us by telling us that as part of the interview they wanted us to teach them part of the first lesson! talk about intimidating! But it turned out really good. He said he was impressed and thought we did really well. the only bad thing is that now he thinks that I can handle taking over the area!! Transfers are next week and I am freaking out just a little. i have this feeling that my trainer is going to get transferred! oh well, i guess we will find out soon enough. oh and there might be a threesome here next transfer too! so lots of possible changes! I am not sure how I feel about that! haha. Oh I am so excited for today! we are going to see a first edition Book of Mormon up on campus and then we are going to play basketball!!!!! YES! and then we have to pack because we are going down to ******* for an exchange. and then those two sisters are coming to ***** and we are going to Blitz the area. I hope it all goes well and our appointments don't fall though because that about all I know how to get to, and i am not sure i can find were our backups are, I think I will be getting lost alot that day! haha. well thats about it and I am running out of time so I will email next week!
Love Sister Cox.

Upcoming Baptism?!

Hey everyone, how are you all doing! Happy birthday to David! I can't believe that you are 3! wow! thank you all for your letters and emails. I am sorry that I haven't been writing back as much as i would like. P-days have been crazy lately but I should have more time today to write people. so things are going good here. We have one investigator that is soooo close to being baptized! her name is Amanda and she is from China. she is visiting here until December and going to ***** University. she came with us to a concert here of the Utah Valley children's choir, it was amazing! the spirit was so strong after and she was talking to all the missionaries because our whole Zone was there and she told the AP's that she knows that this Church is true and that she wants to be baptized! We haven't set her with a date yet because she is still thinking about it, we are hoping for this Saturday or the next! She has a husband and a daughter back in China and she has been video chatting with him and telling him all the things she learns from us. He has a book of Mormon and has been reading it! he told her that he wants to be baptized also but the sad thing is that you cant be baptized in China, he has to travel to hong kong for something. I hope that he does get that chance to be baptized sometime soon. I Had my first Zone conference this past week, it was good I liked it. we drove by the river that Joesph Smith was baptized in and were the Priesthood was restored! We found out that church headquarters has asked that we don't have zone conference every transfer but every other transfer! that's kinda a bummer. on Friday is return and report for me. all the elders and Sister ****** and I go back to the mission home and have meetings it only happens your first transfer and I am excited to see everyone! transfer calls are a in two weeks and i am nervous I don't want my companion to leave and there is talk of putting a threesome here in *****! My companion can't leave me! I don't know the people of where I am going still! well I will let you know what happens in a few weeks. but i better go because i am running out of time.
Love Sister Cox

ps. i am sending some pictures home to mom, maybe carrie can scan them in and post them so everyone can see them or I will try to email some next week.
oh and mom can you forward this to everyone? thanks, love ya!

Hot and Sticky

Hey everyone, how's it going? things are good here. Hot and Sticky! Did you get my e-mail from last week I tried to send pictures but I don't think it worked and I don't think it sent my email at all :( Anyway, I cut my hair today, its short! I had to, it was bugging me on my neck all day in this heat and i never had the time to do it, so i cut it. I will try to send a picture. i hope it works. We started to teach a few new people this week so that is exciting. We just started to teach them so i don't know where it will go but i will keep you posted. Things have been harder lately, people set appointments and don't show up and people on the streets are more mean, or it seems like it, than when I first got here. maybe its the heat or something, idk. We have our most progressing investigators coming to the Utah Valley Children's choir concert this Wednesday and we get to go too! we have Zone conference that day in the same place where they are preforming so we get to stay for the concert. I am looking for ward to that! so being out in the sun all day I have actually gotten a tan line on my arm from my watch! I know! Me! I got a tan line. the whitest of whitest people. its not that dark but i am sending you a picture so that you can see. Oh and I am also sending you a picture of the water falls right around the corner of our new apartment. they are so pretty! its called Ithaca falls. so my new address I don't know it off the top of my head but i am going to give it to you because when mail goes through the mission office I don't get it for like a week. so i will give it to you but just keep in mind that its not my permanent address. well i hope you all are doing great! thank you for all your letters and emails so far, keep it up! I love to hear from you guys.
Love Sister Cox
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(Sister Cox has not sent us any pictures! I will post some when we get them!)