Taylor Family and Friends,
So I think Íll start this letter by saying I cańt believe that it is already the end of March/beginning of April. That́s so crazy. It seems like yesterday that I was watching fireworks on Christmas and New Years. The time has flown by these last three months. And now it́s time for Conference again! I am SO excited! I dońt have to sit and watch Conference all by myself this time around; Íll be with the rest of the gringos in the zone. I guess that could have it́s advantages and it́s disadvantages. But we are super stoked to continue the Taylor Family Conference Tradition here in this side of the world! Those of you who know what that tradition is, you understand; those of you who dońt, just ask...but I warn you, you will be converted! That́s why Nathanael married my sister....! :o)
We had a really good week last week. The change of weather got to me a bit, I was sick for a couple of days, and still am fighting congestion. But hey, it́s all good. My tonsils are inflamed again, for about the 4th time on the mission; but wéll just rub some dirt in it and keep going. Worry about it later. Haha.
We found this really cool lady named Angela last Wednesday. She was sitting out in front of her house playing with her grandson, Facundo, whós turning one this Friday. Anyways, we were across the street, and decided to go talk to her; as soon as we started to cross the street, she was just smiling...not a usual occurrence! Haha. We introduced ourselves, asked about her grandson (to break the ice) and told her we were sharing a message especially about the family. As soon as we said that, she said, "Well would you like to sit down and talk for a minute?" as she opened the gate; why yes, Angela, we would LOVE to...! We sat there in the front of her house and talked with her about God́s plan for our families and how we can be with our loved ones forever. At the end of the little chat, SHE ASKED US if there was a church close by and if it was ok for her to go. We told her the address of the church, and invited her to come. She said she wanted to talk to her daughter first, to see if she would accompany her. We told her wéd call on Saturday night to set everything up. Cool.
We called her on Saturday night, and she said shéd meet us at the Church. Sadly enough, she didńt make it yesterday morning. She woke up with back problems, but we visited her yesterday afternoon and had a great charla. We talked about how God calls prophets to reveal his truth to us, and how he has done so in our day. Anyways, at the end of the lesson, after she said a GREAT prayer, she said to us, "I dońt know why it is that you guys came and talked to me that day, but it must be for a reason. I dońt usually sit out in front of the house like that. There must be a reason for it all, right? Maybe I dońt understand it now, but I hope that after praying I will be able to understand." Needless to say, Elder Huber and I walked away smiling and speechless. We have really been blessed in our efforts. Three of our investigators now have baptismal dates in April, and we have a few others who are REALLY close. The Lord provides the way, He just asks us to be the instruments.
This week is a full week- District Mtg tomorrow, interviews on Wednesday, and Conference this weekend. A great week to learn and grow! Elder Huber is awesome. Ím so grateful for the chance I had to be with him these last few months. Lots of desire and a powerful testimony; "Oh, the places (héll) go..."
Well, that́s gonna be about it for my time today. The letteŕs kinda short, sorry, but I had to say hello to my cute little sisters! If anyone speaks to Mary-Anne this week, tell her I love her and I missed her letter this week. :o( I hope you all have a fantastic week and Ím excited to see what you all learn from the Conference this weekend! I expect a good report and some good notes next week. Keep your eyes out for who has the best tie of the Conference...that́s always fun! Chao chao!
Elder Taylor
P.S. For the record, if anyone is reading this, Mary-Anne DID send Elder Taylor a letter...he just didn't receive it. :(
Monday, March 31, 2008
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
¡Feliz Pascua! Ayer....
Taylor Family and Friends,
I hope you all had a WONDERFUL Easter weekend and ate lots of good candy. I was pretty lucky...my family´s Easter package got here last Tuesday! I was probably the most excited/content missionary in the world when I opened it up....well, except for maybe my companion. Yes, Elder Taylor has now converted another helpless soul to Mother´s Taffy Cookies. What a beautiful thing. :o)
Last week was a really good week. Federico Rebollo now has a baptismal date! The date is set for the 19th of April; so we´ve still got a ways to go, but that´s no problem. He went to Church yesterday for the first time in this ward (remember, he had been with his older brother in Fray Bentos) and seemed to really enjoy himself. Now we just have to help make sure that it continues!
I went on divisions with Elder Johanson last week and Elder Espínola went with Elder Huber in our area. They went to a lesson with the Godoy family and invited Rosana to be baptized on the 5th of April-to which she responded that she doesn´t think she is ready. Elder Espínola said he thinks she might have just been a little uncomfortable because there were a lot of people around (cousins, aunts, uncles) for the holiday weekend. So tonight we have a lesson with the Godoy family, and we are going to talk about what it means to be prepared for baptism; all the family visitors left last night, so the lesson will be a lot more tranquilo!
We had an interesting thing happen over the course of the past couple weeks...ready? A couple weeks ago, Ivan stopped the Zone Leaders on P-Day and asked them if they understand Spanish; of course, they said yes. He said that years ago, missionaries had given him a book and told him that if he ever wanted to know more about it, to just contact the missionaries. "Well," he said, "I want to know more." They were more than happy to write down his address and inform him that two missionaries would be passing by. I received a call from Elder Centurión during studies on that P-Day...a very welcome interruption. He passed more the information, and the next day Elder Huber and I tried to find the house...which didn´t take place. He lives in a pretty rough neighborhood, and the addresses there aren´t very efficient. So we couldn´t find the house. A few days later, walking down the street Santa Lucia in the morning, a man calls out to us from the bus stop on the other side of the street. We stopped, and he came over to talk to us. He said he had spoken with missionaries about a week earlier but no one had come by his house; I asked him if his name was Ivan and he confirmed that it was. I quickly explained what had happened and asked him to explain to us how to arrive at his house; he explained, and we set up a time to go by. Ok...I´m gonna try and make this a little shorter...
Ivan is about 63 years old. At the age of 16, he began backpacking South America, arriving all the way to the border of Venezuela. He says he was looking for peace; a peace he could never find. Not in music, drugs, or any relationship. He considered himself atheist, but because of curiousity, he investigated just about every religious group he could find. Evangelists, Mormons, Catholics, Masons, Jehovah´s Witnesses, and any other that comes to your mind. But, nothing "filled" him. He returned home, after many years, where he became very ill. While he was in the Intensive Care Unit for 15 days, some Muslim "missionaries" came to visit him and explained to him that real peace cannot be found in this life, but only in the next. After being released from ICU, this self-believeing athiest/hippie became Muslim. Now, 7 years later, he had come to find that while they talk of peace in their temples, outside they talk only of how true peace can only be accomplished with war. He has become disilusioned with the teachings, and has began his search yet again, beginning with the message that he remembers more than any other, the one that left an impression in his mind and heart...a message about a young boy who saw God the Father and the Resurrected Son, Jesus Christ.
It is going to be a very interesting teaching and learning process, for all of those involved, but I strongly believe that Ivan has started the beginning of the end. I am so grateful for the peace which is offered through the knowledge that God and His Son, Jesus Christ, appeared to the boy Joseph Smith, in a demonstration of His infinite love for us, His children. I am grateful for the opportunity I have to help the people here in Uruguay find the peace that they are looking for. It´s our responsibility and privilege as members of the Church and as Christians.
Well, it´s about that time. I hope you all have a fantastic week and remember to write me! :o)
Chao chao!
Elder Taylor
I hope you all had a WONDERFUL Easter weekend and ate lots of good candy. I was pretty lucky...my family´s Easter package got here last Tuesday! I was probably the most excited/content missionary in the world when I opened it up....well, except for maybe my companion. Yes, Elder Taylor has now converted another helpless soul to Mother´s Taffy Cookies. What a beautiful thing. :o)
Last week was a really good week. Federico Rebollo now has a baptismal date! The date is set for the 19th of April; so we´ve still got a ways to go, but that´s no problem. He went to Church yesterday for the first time in this ward (remember, he had been with his older brother in Fray Bentos) and seemed to really enjoy himself. Now we just have to help make sure that it continues!
I went on divisions with Elder Johanson last week and Elder Espínola went with Elder Huber in our area. They went to a lesson with the Godoy family and invited Rosana to be baptized on the 5th of April-to which she responded that she doesn´t think she is ready. Elder Espínola said he thinks she might have just been a little uncomfortable because there were a lot of people around (cousins, aunts, uncles) for the holiday weekend. So tonight we have a lesson with the Godoy family, and we are going to talk about what it means to be prepared for baptism; all the family visitors left last night, so the lesson will be a lot more tranquilo!
We had an interesting thing happen over the course of the past couple weeks...ready? A couple weeks ago, Ivan stopped the Zone Leaders on P-Day and asked them if they understand Spanish; of course, they said yes. He said that years ago, missionaries had given him a book and told him that if he ever wanted to know more about it, to just contact the missionaries. "Well," he said, "I want to know more." They were more than happy to write down his address and inform him that two missionaries would be passing by. I received a call from Elder Centurión during studies on that P-Day...a very welcome interruption. He passed more the information, and the next day Elder Huber and I tried to find the house...which didn´t take place. He lives in a pretty rough neighborhood, and the addresses there aren´t very efficient. So we couldn´t find the house. A few days later, walking down the street Santa Lucia in the morning, a man calls out to us from the bus stop on the other side of the street. We stopped, and he came over to talk to us. He said he had spoken with missionaries about a week earlier but no one had come by his house; I asked him if his name was Ivan and he confirmed that it was. I quickly explained what had happened and asked him to explain to us how to arrive at his house; he explained, and we set up a time to go by. Ok...I´m gonna try and make this a little shorter...
Ivan is about 63 years old. At the age of 16, he began backpacking South America, arriving all the way to the border of Venezuela. He says he was looking for peace; a peace he could never find. Not in music, drugs, or any relationship. He considered himself atheist, but because of curiousity, he investigated just about every religious group he could find. Evangelists, Mormons, Catholics, Masons, Jehovah´s Witnesses, and any other that comes to your mind. But, nothing "filled" him. He returned home, after many years, where he became very ill. While he was in the Intensive Care Unit for 15 days, some Muslim "missionaries" came to visit him and explained to him that real peace cannot be found in this life, but only in the next. After being released from ICU, this self-believeing athiest/hippie became Muslim. Now, 7 years later, he had come to find that while they talk of peace in their temples, outside they talk only of how true peace can only be accomplished with war. He has become disilusioned with the teachings, and has began his search yet again, beginning with the message that he remembers more than any other, the one that left an impression in his mind and heart...a message about a young boy who saw God the Father and the Resurrected Son, Jesus Christ.
It is going to be a very interesting teaching and learning process, for all of those involved, but I strongly believe that Ivan has started the beginning of the end. I am so grateful for the peace which is offered through the knowledge that God and His Son, Jesus Christ, appeared to the boy Joseph Smith, in a demonstration of His infinite love for us, His children. I am grateful for the opportunity I have to help the people here in Uruguay find the peace that they are looking for. It´s our responsibility and privilege as members of the Church and as Christians.
Well, it´s about that time. I hope you all have a fantastic week and remember to write me! :o)
Chao chao!
Elder Taylor
Monday, March 17, 2008
So...
Taylor Family and Friends,
¡Buenos días a todos! Digo, buenas tardes- ya es la una y media, pero está bien. Capaz debo escribir toda la carta en español...¿qué dicen? Estoy demásiado cansado para tratar a pensar en inglés hoy. Interesante, no? A veces es más facil a hablar o pensar en español. Antes de la misión, yo siempre quería siempre cómo pensaban las personas que podían hablar dos idiomas...y todavía no sé explicarlo. Elder Huber siempre se burla de mi porque cuando estoy hablando en inglés, muchas veces una palabra me sale en español. Es chistoso, pero a la vez puede ser frustrante.
Ok, enough Spanish. How yáll doin? I hope everything is going well on this beautiful St. Patricḱs Day. Yep, I still got the "American" holidays down...thanks to my AWESOME homemade calendar! I informed everyone this morning at our zone activity that today was St. Pattýs Day-they were all very grateful. Haha. This morning we got together at our chapel and played soccer, and afterwards we played football. We had some good laughs. Elder Huber received a football in a package from home last week, so he was pretty excited to put in to good use. Actually, he and I have been waking up early the last week or so to go play sports in the morning; one day wéll play basketball, and the next football, and so on. A good way to make the morning routine not so boring.
We had a pretty good last week. Not too much outside of the usual. Yesterday was cool, though. Pablós family (Nahuel, Rosana, Fabian, and Mariana, along with Rosanás 3 kids) all went to Pablós ex-wife house for the weekend, so they wereńt going to make it to Church; we were kind of bummed about that, but when Pablo showed up on Sunday morning, he brought a surprise with him-two of his nieces that he had talked to about the Church and were interested. Hés such a good example of how a missionary should be. He talks to EVERYONE about the Church; and hés only been a member a little over 3 months! It́s so cool. Anyways, his nieces dońt live in our ward, but we got their direction from them and wére going to pass it to the other missionaries. Pretty sweet.
Yesterday in church I also gave my first talk here in this ward. This Friday, the four of us missionaries are going to start a weekly training on Preach My Gospel, and Obispo Sampayo asked me to kind of introduce/give a pitch for the training in sacrament meeting. It went really well. A couple of members came up to us afterwards and made sure on the schedule and asked about where they could buy a copy of Preach My Gospel-so hopefully that́s a good sign!
Whitley Davis is getting married? That́s crazy! To who? If you see her or her mom, give her my congratulations and tell her I want an invitation! Haha. Oh, speaking of which, what ever happened with Shayla Troff́s (Bentleýs) invitation? You guys got one, right? Send me a copy. Or maybe you can scan it and send it in an email. That́d be good. Íd just like to see this shady character that stole her heart! (Just kidding Shay!)
Wow, that́s crazy what happened to Sister Nelson. Next time you see her, make sure you tell her I say hello.
Carson Homer is such a stud. I need to write him again, but with the new rules on the pouch mail, it made it a little more complicated. Some excuse, uh? Get over it, Elder Taylor and write that kid! How are the other Elders doing from back home? Ward/Stake/Bingham. Have you heard from/about any of them? Such as Jeremy or Brendan, for example? Just a question.
Hey Melanie, are Bro. Montoya and Bro. Christensen still at Bingham? If they are, tell them to quit being lazy and write me! :o) Man, I miss seminary. Those were some good times. *Sigh*....haha
Hey Melanie, what́s all this about all these trips?! I want to go! Haha. That sounds like a blast. What is the group that Ms. Hatch chose you for? You are going to be a Senior next year, right? Sheesh, that́s crazy. Yoúre getting old, kid!
Hey Mary-Anne, that́s a pretty sweet missionary experience! Congrats! Haha. Now you just have to follow-up and tell the missionaries yoúd love to be present in the lessons! :o) Theýd be very impressed, as would I! The sister missionaries had mono?! That sucks-we just had an Elder who had to go home early because he had mono. That́d be tough.
Alright, well that́s about it for this week. Ím gonna go home and take a nap. Well, wash dishes and then take a nap! That sounds just beautiful. I hope all of you are doing well. Have a happy Easter this Sunday. Eat lots of candy for me. :o) I love you!
Elder Taylor
¡Buenos días a todos! Digo, buenas tardes- ya es la una y media, pero está bien. Capaz debo escribir toda la carta en español...¿qué dicen? Estoy demásiado cansado para tratar a pensar en inglés hoy. Interesante, no? A veces es más facil a hablar o pensar en español. Antes de la misión, yo siempre quería siempre cómo pensaban las personas que podían hablar dos idiomas...y todavía no sé explicarlo. Elder Huber siempre se burla de mi porque cuando estoy hablando en inglés, muchas veces una palabra me sale en español. Es chistoso, pero a la vez puede ser frustrante.
Ok, enough Spanish. How yáll doin? I hope everything is going well on this beautiful St. Patricḱs Day. Yep, I still got the "American" holidays down...thanks to my AWESOME homemade calendar! I informed everyone this morning at our zone activity that today was St. Pattýs Day-they were all very grateful. Haha. This morning we got together at our chapel and played soccer, and afterwards we played football. We had some good laughs. Elder Huber received a football in a package from home last week, so he was pretty excited to put in to good use. Actually, he and I have been waking up early the last week or so to go play sports in the morning; one day wéll play basketball, and the next football, and so on. A good way to make the morning routine not so boring.
We had a pretty good last week. Not too much outside of the usual. Yesterday was cool, though. Pablós family (Nahuel, Rosana, Fabian, and Mariana, along with Rosanás 3 kids) all went to Pablós ex-wife house for the weekend, so they wereńt going to make it to Church; we were kind of bummed about that, but when Pablo showed up on Sunday morning, he brought a surprise with him-two of his nieces that he had talked to about the Church and were interested. Hés such a good example of how a missionary should be. He talks to EVERYONE about the Church; and hés only been a member a little over 3 months! It́s so cool. Anyways, his nieces dońt live in our ward, but we got their direction from them and wére going to pass it to the other missionaries. Pretty sweet.
Yesterday in church I also gave my first talk here in this ward. This Friday, the four of us missionaries are going to start a weekly training on Preach My Gospel, and Obispo Sampayo asked me to kind of introduce/give a pitch for the training in sacrament meeting. It went really well. A couple of members came up to us afterwards and made sure on the schedule and asked about where they could buy a copy of Preach My Gospel-so hopefully that́s a good sign!
Whitley Davis is getting married? That́s crazy! To who? If you see her or her mom, give her my congratulations and tell her I want an invitation! Haha. Oh, speaking of which, what ever happened with Shayla Troff́s (Bentleýs) invitation? You guys got one, right? Send me a copy. Or maybe you can scan it and send it in an email. That́d be good. Íd just like to see this shady character that stole her heart! (Just kidding Shay!)
Wow, that́s crazy what happened to Sister Nelson. Next time you see her, make sure you tell her I say hello.
Carson Homer is such a stud. I need to write him again, but with the new rules on the pouch mail, it made it a little more complicated. Some excuse, uh? Get over it, Elder Taylor and write that kid! How are the other Elders doing from back home? Ward/Stake/Bingham. Have you heard from/about any of them? Such as Jeremy or Brendan, for example? Just a question.
Hey Melanie, are Bro. Montoya and Bro. Christensen still at Bingham? If they are, tell them to quit being lazy and write me! :o) Man, I miss seminary. Those were some good times. *Sigh*....haha
Hey Melanie, what́s all this about all these trips?! I want to go! Haha. That sounds like a blast. What is the group that Ms. Hatch chose you for? You are going to be a Senior next year, right? Sheesh, that́s crazy. Yoúre getting old, kid!
Hey Mary-Anne, that́s a pretty sweet missionary experience! Congrats! Haha. Now you just have to follow-up and tell the missionaries yoúd love to be present in the lessons! :o) Theýd be very impressed, as would I! The sister missionaries had mono?! That sucks-we just had an Elder who had to go home early because he had mono. That́d be tough.
Alright, well that́s about it for this week. Ím gonna go home and take a nap. Well, wash dishes and then take a nap! That sounds just beautiful. I hope all of you are doing well. Have a happy Easter this Sunday. Eat lots of candy for me. :o) I love you!
Elder Taylor
Monday, March 10, 2008
Uh...
Taylor Family and Friends,
Good morning to all from a once again sunny and beautiful Uruguay! The weather has finally cleared up a bit, and we are enjoying the sunshine. We had about a week and a half without seeing the sun...just rainclouds. I love the rain, love it, but enough was enough. Haha. Last week I was sick two (and a half) days. I was in bed with a 102 degree fever. But, wére all good now! Elder Huber just took advantage and rested up a bit, too. Sunday morning at Church, I just had a killer headache, and then that ache started working it́s way into every part of my body; the fever came on late Sunday night/Monday morning. No worries, no one died, and wére back to work! We now have a Latin in the house with us, so that́s been a fun change. Elder Huber is definitely cracking down on his Spanish, now. Haha. Elder Espínola is a really fun guy, and a good, hard-working missionary. Hés still young in the mission, but sets a good standard for all those old guys. :o) Elder Johanson and Elder Espínola are in my district this change, as well as the zone leaders, Elder Centurión and Elder Bankhead. On Friday night, I gave my first baptismal interview. One of the ZĹs investigators, Fernanda, was baptized. She is probly the most intelligent 11-year old Íve ever met in my whole life. Super cute kid with a bubbling personality. It was a good way to ease me into this whole interviewing idea! As Elder Huber, Elder Centurión, Elder Acuña, and I headed back home in the bus, we asked the driver if we could sing a few songs; he said, "Sure, Ím Christian." The four of us stood in the middle of the bus and sang "Nearer, My God, To Thee," "Abide With Me," and "The Spirit of God" to a full-bus audience at about 9 PM on Friday night in the middle of Montevideo! It was a fun, memorable experience. Hailey Nichols is working at your school, Mom? That́s awesome! Who did she marry? And shés pregnant?! Holy cow. Tell her hello and congrats for me! And I actually did hear that Sarah Johnson got married, but that́s not the girl who was ÁCappella pres with me-that was Angela Johnson. Close, though. Any other marriage or mission news that I dońt know about? Mary-Anne, I think that́s a great idea to start studying Preach My Gospel just so you are more comfortable when those questions are asked. The four of us are going to start teaching a Preach My Gospel here in our ward on the 21st of this month. We are super excited for it. If all the members in the Church studied Preach My Gospel and put in practice what it teaches, missionary work would be completely different! So start that study! And then send me all your cool insights...! :o) We just had Daylight Savings Time here. The night of the 9th. So we got to sleep an extra hour. What a beautiful gift! :o) I only change the time one more time on my mission...therés some food for thought. Haha. Hey Melanie! Ím still waiting for my report! Ćmon kid, yoúve got me on edge w/ all the suspense! Haha. I know yoúre probly super busy with all your homework, boyfriends, and driving, but you can spare 5 minutes to write your brother about your play...please? (Insert puppy dog face here!) The Lumbergs had their 5th baby a few months ago? Ah man, I wanna see that her. Their kids are some of the cutest kids ever! Speaking of cute kids, we have one of the cutest girls Íve ever seen here in our ward. I think shés 2 years old, and she looks exactly like Melanie did when she was little! Super curly hair, and a to-die-for smile. Shés not as dark as Melanie was, but just a little doll. Íll have to take a picture and send it to you guys. Dad, I asked about Coleman, Alabama, because that́s where one of our Assistants, Elder Drake, is from. He used to be my ZL in Salto. We were talking a few weeks ago, and I mentioned you had served in that mission. He asked if you had served in Coleman, and I said that I thought you had mentioned that name before. His grandpa was Branch President in that branch for like 20 years. And Elder Johansońs dad also served in that mission, but from ́69-́71. So maybe he liked trained you or something. Haha. Who was your trainer, anyway? His son is probly here in my mission, cuz it seems like everyone has a connection with your mission! Well, I think that́s going to be about it from this side of town for this week. I hope all is going well and that you are all taking care of yourselves. Mom, did you get that list of "needs" I sent last week? :o) Hoẃs that coming along? Haha. I love you guys! Take care and wéll hear from you next week! Elder Taylor
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Pictures...
Hey,
These are two shots from the baptism. The couple standing
next to me is Mariana and Fabian. Pablo and Nahuel in white. Lucia is
the little girl, Matias the biggest of the other two and Nicolás is the
other kid. Rosana is the other lady next to Huber.
The third picture is Elder Ludlow and I. He went to Bingham with me...
yes, that´s right, we are doing the pick and the shovel
on a beach in Uruguay!
Go Miners!
(This is the Elder that´s coming back with us next Spring Break...!)
Elder Taylor
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Changes
Taylor Family and Friends,
> This one is probably going to be a little shorter. If you have any questions, comments, or complaints, please direct them to Mary-Anne Taylor Swift. :o)
> Changes are upon us! But not a lot of changes. Elder Huber and I are staying together! I´m stoked! We have some really good things going on here, so I´m really glad that I get to stay. Elder Roper, from the other companionship, is the only one that is leaving. And Elder Espínola is coming to be w/ Elder Johanson. He´s from Paraguay, and I love him to death, He was in my zone while I was in Bella Union. So yeah, that´s our changes. Oh, and I was called as a District Leader, so that´ll be fun. It´ll be another opportunity to be able to serve the Elders here in my zone! Saweet!
> Well, Nahuel went swimming on Friday! Elder Huber was a witness in his first baptism here in the ´Guay. It went SUPER well. There was a very small turnout of people, but that´s because it had been raining every day, nonstop, for the last week. I don´t know if you have heard about the flooding in Argentina...we haven´t had any flooding, just lots of rain. Pablo, Nahuel´s dad, was able to do the baptism. He is a recent convert. He was super emotional and super nervous- reminded me of dad. :o) The first time he dunked him, he forgot to say the last name! But the second time, he did just fine. After Nahuel came up, Pablo just gave him a huge bear hug, right there in the font. It was a very touching moment. I was there waiting with the towel at the top of the steps. Nahuel went in the bathroom to go change, and Pablo just stood there, looked at me, and said, "Tengo ganas do llorar por alegría." or "I feel like crying I´m so happy." I just gave him a hug, in my suit and all-I can dry it off later, right? So yeah, we had a good baptismal service. The other Elders and I sang "Dime la Historia de Cristo" a´cappella. I don´t remember the title in English, sorry. It went really well. The Bishop asked us where he had to sign in order to contract us for a sacrament meeting. Haha.
> Mom, I want maple extract! :o) And peanut butter. :o) And taco seasoning. :o) AND PICTURES OF OUR HOUSE! Other than that, let your heart guide you. Haha.
> Dad, did you ever serve in Coleman, Alabama? Or did you ever know and Elder Johanson? It seems everyone has a connection with that mission! Pretty sweet!
> Well, I think that´s going to do it for me this week. I hope you all have a FANTASTIC week and I can´t wait to hear from each one of you! Melanie, the pictures of the play looked awesome! I can´t wait to get a review from you! :o) Hey, ¡no se vayan a olvidar que les quiero a todos! ¡Pórtense bien y cuídense mucho! Hey Matt Boyce, I´m expecting an invitation!
> Elder Taylor
> This one is probably going to be a little shorter. If you have any questions, comments, or complaints, please direct them to Mary-Anne Taylor Swift. :o)
> Changes are upon us! But not a lot of changes. Elder Huber and I are staying together! I´m stoked! We have some really good things going on here, so I´m really glad that I get to stay. Elder Roper, from the other companionship, is the only one that is leaving. And Elder Espínola is coming to be w/ Elder Johanson. He´s from Paraguay, and I love him to death, He was in my zone while I was in Bella Union. So yeah, that´s our changes. Oh, and I was called as a District Leader, so that´ll be fun. It´ll be another opportunity to be able to serve the Elders here in my zone! Saweet!
> Well, Nahuel went swimming on Friday! Elder Huber was a witness in his first baptism here in the ´Guay. It went SUPER well. There was a very small turnout of people, but that´s because it had been raining every day, nonstop, for the last week. I don´t know if you have heard about the flooding in Argentina...we haven´t had any flooding, just lots of rain. Pablo, Nahuel´s dad, was able to do the baptism. He is a recent convert. He was super emotional and super nervous- reminded me of dad. :o) The first time he dunked him, he forgot to say the last name! But the second time, he did just fine. After Nahuel came up, Pablo just gave him a huge bear hug, right there in the font. It was a very touching moment. I was there waiting with the towel at the top of the steps. Nahuel went in the bathroom to go change, and Pablo just stood there, looked at me, and said, "Tengo ganas do llorar por alegría." or "I feel like crying I´m so happy." I just gave him a hug, in my suit and all-I can dry it off later, right? So yeah, we had a good baptismal service. The other Elders and I sang "Dime la Historia de Cristo" a´cappella. I don´t remember the title in English, sorry. It went really well. The Bishop asked us where he had to sign in order to contract us for a sacrament meeting. Haha.
> Mom, I want maple extract! :o) And peanut butter. :o) And taco seasoning. :o) AND PICTURES OF OUR HOUSE! Other than that, let your heart guide you. Haha.
> Dad, did you ever serve in Coleman, Alabama? Or did you ever know and Elder Johanson? It seems everyone has a connection with that mission! Pretty sweet!
> Well, I think that´s going to do it for me this week. I hope you all have a FANTASTIC week and I can´t wait to hear from each one of you! Melanie, the pictures of the play looked awesome! I can´t wait to get a review from you! :o) Hey, ¡no se vayan a olvidar que les quiero a todos! ¡Pórtense bien y cuídense mucho! Hey Matt Boyce, I´m expecting an invitation!
> Elder Taylor
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