Cast Not Away Therefore Your Confidence

Hello all!  I am so sorry because I have so little time to write because I had to do something for BYU and I also wrote President a lot more than usual this week because this week was insane.

So, I can't talk about a lot of details, at all, but this week was easily the most dramatic week of my life.  I had some horrendous days and some amazingly wonderful days and so here at the end of the week everything is calm and I'm feeling alright.  And that's all that counts!  There was a lot of stuff happening in the zone and in the ward and with people we're working with all at the same time and all of it came together in a huge mess on Friday when we had zone conference and President and the assistants came and some of the people in our sector we're working with and President wanted to interview some people in the ward and long story short we had a rough day hahaha but all is much better now, though we're still working out some problems in the zone.

One story though, we went to Conti!!! :D  I was so happy I almost died hahaha that was Saturday and it was a good relief from all the craziness of the previous day.  We went to go help out with the open chapel there and Alejandro came with us!  We went by train to see all the pretty places that you can't get to normally on road on the way to Conti and then we were there all day helping out.  We had some time beforehand to see the beach real quick though!  I was in heaven, and I got to see my city again and everybody in the ward and they all recognized me!  It was so much fun :)

Also, as a side note, Elder Covey and Alejandro with the other missionaries brought 105 people in the open chapel.  105.  That is more than double the previous record in the mission.  Alejandro is a machine.

So my message today is about hope, hence the title.  Hope was a really important tool during the harder days this week, and the most powerful moment of the week was when the reality of the atonement impressed my heart, and I remembered that Christ already won the battle.  And that we really can have hope for a better world.  It's a simple message with a lot of meaning, that Christ Lives.  He lives, and I know that He lives.  I know that He's always there, in every moment, and I know that happiness can always be found.  I'm so unperfect, as are we all, but Christ won the victory for me, and for all of you.  Sometimes Satan seems to have perfect control over the world, but the small acts of Christlike love that happen every day constantly display that he can never win.  When I reflected on the atonement, the words of a hymn that my Dad had written to me in a letter but that I had never memorized came to my mind ''Then pealed the bells, more loud and deep, "God is not dead, nor doth he sleep.  The wrong shall fail, the right prevail, with peace on earth good will toward men."  I know that's true, so let's never forget it.  I love you all!  And I hope you that you all have a great week and that we can all remember that hope is the anchor of our souls.

Love,

Elder Fox

Scriptures I read this week that were awesome: Moroni 7:41, Ether 12:4, Hebrews 6:11-20, Hebrews 10:32, 35-36


1 and 2)  Back in Conti, but a year and a half older and 78% doper.
3 and 4)  Train trip
5)  Remember this place?
6)  Alejandro next to the train