September 26, 2011

Well we finally found some new people to teach...we found 7 last week and of the 7 we found, 5 of them got invitations to be baptized. We are just hoping that of them, some will continue to listen to us, and that we can find more people from them. We found a really cool family, we haven’t gone to visit them yet, so they don’t count as new investigators, but this is a family of 3 or 4. She was really nice and asked us to come back, usually they just say that to be nice, but hopefully it will turn into something better. Yesterday we had basically stake conference. All the missionaries in our zone, all 16 of them were here yesterday, it was good to see some of them, like Elder Bartlome, who is now in my zone. That made the day. All of them are coming back to watch General Conference too, Elder Boydston (the district leader, from Moscow Idaho, soon to be Spencer’s friend who has tickets to the ducks games) and I have it all planned out for this weekend. Saturday, we get money, and for breakfast before conference, we are going to the fruit store in front of the church for a huge bowl of strawberries and cream, they are so good. For lunch, we are going to Bendos for pizza, and for dinner, we are going to get lomitos....Can’t wait, last night we had no food, and I had a slice of bread with some dulce de leche for dinner. My comp didn’t eat anything, and after this we are going to get some food finally. It’s hard for us because we only have one lunch appt well 2 but they are both with the Delgado family. Well 1 and a half....Sunday isn’t always, like yesterday we didn’t have lunch with them, I had 2 eggs for lunch, and I lost some weight the last few weeks. My pants that I wear every day, I could barley fit into them....but now I have a bunch of room, I sweat so much, and the heat hasn’t even started really, it’s hot and it’s just going to get worse!!!!!!!!!!
It’s about time that Columbia has won some games though, the boys are going to keep winning, they got some swag and they just can’t lose it now. And the truck didn’t make it home...ha, should have kept the old big blue one, it was way cooler.
I don’t really have that much more to tell you. Just trying to work hard, even though half the day is just walking around looking for people cuz there are none....it gets very boring and very depressing. Spanish is bugging me right now. If i could just talk to people in English. Well that about it for this week need to ask me some questions next week mom. But I have some stuff to add to my Christmas list

1. Dr. Sholls shoe inserts...the ones that I can cut to size to my shoes, like 2 or 3 of these.
2. Reeces Pieces
3. I thought about it and I want more than one of them peanut butter Twix bars...like 5 maybe.
4. Trinkets.
5. Photos of tons of stuff, family reunion, football games, just stuff.
6. Reeces
7. Licorice...twizzlers, the ones that i can pull apart :)
8. I don’t want cake or cookie mixes, they are kind of hard to make here.
9. With the labels, can you send me some of the bigger ones that are blank, i have a bunch of envelopes that have something in the top right corner and i want to cover it so i can use these envelopes!

Thanks for everything mom....love you

Taylor

September 19, 2011

I’m having a hard time getting pictures to you. Elder Moore knows how to do it here but not me. So right now Fatima is trying to download the pics to her facebook so you can see them there if she gets them to do it.

But i really wanted to send you some pictures, cuz we did some swimming this week!!!!
HAHA!

So Thursday the zone leaders told me that they were going to come and bring me all the baptism cloths. Well they didn’t and I had to take a bus out to their area to look for the cloths. We waited outside the church for 45 min in the pouring rain. Then they only had not very good cloths but they had to do. While we were waiting the branch president called and he was ´´sick´´ and wasn’t able to come. The night before he was fine and yesterday at church he was fine. The branch president here never does anything. So we called Fernando to ask him who else could baptize him. And he chose me.

No one was at the church for his baptism. We waited like 30 min and then started, and after about 10 more min a few more people showed up.

Yesterday he got the Holy Ghost and the priesthood. Also he is going to bear his testimony at stake conference. And he is trying to get work off for the 15th of October so he can go to the temple and do baptisms. He is pretty cool!

Now we have a problem, we don’t have anyone to teach. We found one new investigator this week. Everyone in the zone has the same problem; we can’t find anyone to teach. Don’t know what I’m going to do this week.

Anyways Columbia is 4-0 now, and sounds like they can have a way better chance of winning state. I can’t wait for them to beat Skyview. Hopefully Columbia is ranked right now. Are they?

Oh yeah, i have a few things you can add to my Christmas list
-- tuff actin tinactin....my feet are getting destroyed.
-- white tootsie rolls
-- peanut butter choc. Twix
-- jalapeño cheetos

idk what else for now.

I got the letter from Spencer, M’Kay and you today. Ballin!!!! And I got one from Saige and Richard too. Tell Richard to tell James to write me a darn letter. What does James think he´s doing not writing his only brother?

I just read a book in Spanish called dia de la defensa....Elder Moore is going to send it to me in English so I can understand it better, but all it is all the leaders of all the other churches and 2 missionaries. The missionaries can only use the bible to answer all the questions that come from the other ´´leaders´´. The other leaders can use talks, any book they want, What’s cool is that all of the questions are ones that we usually get. Ya’ll should read it.

Well that’s about it for this week, not too much exciting except a baptism.

Love ya mom

Taylor

September 12, 2011

Oh finally its pday again. It seemed like this last week was really long but I don’t really remember any of it. Just glad to have a break!!! First I’ll answer your questions:


1) Tell me all about your new companion!!! Where exactly is he from? Has it been hard to only speak Spanish - -or are you a “baller” as you would put it
Ok well my new companion is Elder Perez. He is from El Salvador. At first I thought “this is going to be a long change” But not so much! He is cool. He is just really quiet. But duh I’m a baller at Spanish....I can understand everything. But idk where it came from, I could understand pretty good before but now it’s just so clear. Elder Moore always did the teaching and most of the lesson. I don’t know how I just pulled out scriptures, and talked for hours but I did.


2) I am so anxious to hear about your “golden” investigators!! I’ve thought so much about you this week and am hoping that you have found success with them! Also, how is Lily? And Sonia?

Well I’m pretty much counting out Lily. She pretty much told us that she didn’t want to work on fixing problems; she is out of the picture now. Sonia idk, she didn’t come to church and I don’t think that hna Delgado has talked to her yet.
Well let’s get on with the good stuff!!!!! My golden boy....Fernando. Reference from Salt Lake whoo hoo that never happens. He found the church website and started to talk to a lady from Salt Lake, then we got him.....Elder Moore and I taught the restoration, he had some questions and we answered them and he understood. Oh and he asked us for a Book of Mormon too. So I went back wed with Elder Perez and I said well idk about this investigator, he isn’t that good at keeping commitments and stuff (as a joke.) We left him about 4 chapters to read on last Sunday, and he had all of them read by Wednesday when we went back. He found the questions of the soul online and started to read those too. He prayed about everything, and says he can feel that it is true. We left him stuff to read and went back Thursday. He read all of it and prayed, and you should hear him pray....no other investigator is like he is. He also printed out invitations to his baptism to give to his family and friends. Tell the boys not to get too excited on a mission because this never happens.....everyone is so jealous of us. So basically the next 3 days we are going to teach law of chastity, word of wisdom, and tithing. Thursday we are going to go over the baptism questions and Friday is his interview. He is getting baptized Saturday, and it’s about time I had one. oh and he went to the stake activity in another part of Encarnacion and he drove people to and from. BALLIN!!!


3) What was your favorite thing you ate this week? What was the worst thing you ate?
Well that’s easy, yesterday when Elder Moore and his dad came to church, after we went to eat lunch at Vanessa’s. Hermana Delgado made 85 empanadas. We are taken care of really well here. It was a sweet party.
The worst thing I ate was well I drank it. I’ve been kind of sick, like a cough and sticky green slimy snot. Hna Delgado made me drink this anti sick stuff, barf it was nasty, she made me drink 2 spoons of it. But it worked, I’m fine right now.


4) What was your most spiritual experience?
Probably when I was teaching a lady and I just talked and talked and talked about stuff. I don’t really know how, it just came to me.
But it sounds like football is doing good; all the kids are good too. I sent home a package bubble envelope with a camera card. Hope it gets there. I’m still working on some stuff that you can send me for Christmas; I really hope I get to stay in this area for Christmas. Its sooooo ballin. But tell grandma I love her, well all my grandmas. But that’s about it for this week, not that much got done, but I don’t care, as long as Fernando gets baptized then I’m good.

I love you mom

TAYLOR

September 5, 2011

Hey mom how’s it going? Going all good here, this morning found out who my new companion is going to be, Elder Perez. A Latin, which is what I need, I can understand about everything, but me cuesta or idk how to say that in English, it cost me or it’s hard for me to talk in all or every situation. But with him it will be good. This change went by faster than the last change did and I guess they will start to go by even faster when I start to become a better missionary. Anyways this last week was the longest week that I have had on the mission, it just, well we were just ticked!!!!!

So last Thursday, we did divisions with the zone leaders, I stayed here in centro and Elder Moore went to the other rama. We went to Lily to do her baptismal interview, and guess who was there, Hno. Nappa. His brothers got tired of him in Asunción and basically kicked him out. So he just showed up here, justito the day of her interview. Lily is such a nice person, even though she hates him for what he did, she let him back into the house until he can find somewhere to live or whatever he is going to do. SO she didn’t get baptized, I just want him to like fall off the face of the earth right now.

Pedro and Sonia are doing mas o menos. Hna Delgado went over to her house one day to see how Sonia was doing. Sonia said she wanted Hna Delgado to come back another day and talk about her wedding. Which is good, because Sonia is thinking about it, I don’t know what she said to her but, hopefully whatever hna Delgado is doing is helping her.

We did find two new golden investigators though.....out in San Miguel, we found a family who is really interested. They asked us for folletos,(pamphlets) and when are we coming back. They had good questions too. It will take a little time but, they will hopefully progress.

While we were at this family, the church called us and said they had a referral from Salt Lake. Yeah those never happen. Well this guy or referral (Fernando) is real.. He asked us what time church started, before we could invite him. He came to all 3 meetings, got there before we did at 8:30 and he was wearing a suit. 20 min after church was over, he sent us a message asking for a Book of Mormon. Later in the day he asked if we were still going to come visit him. We had an awesome lesson with him, the first lesson. In Preach My Gospel, there is a section that has questions of the soul like do kids need to be baptized, other stuff. So we gave it to him to pick out a topic. He picked out why does God allow suffering and pains. So we marked like 3 chapters for him to read. Then he asked, did Jesucristo really come to the Americas, so we marked that chapter too. The only problem he may have is looking up stuff on the internet, he is a little nerdy. I would not be surprised if he has read the whole Book of Mormon by Wednesday when we go back. Also a lady from Salt Lake calls him ever so often and talks to him about church and the Book of Mormon, so yeah basically he is getting baptized next Saturday!

It sounds like the boys are lovin football, and M’Kay is well idk what he is, does he like passing the sacrament, and does he like going around for 2 hours to get fast offerings. HAHA. Didn’t get any email from McCall this week. What the heck McCall? Where is it.


Well that’s about it for this week, I’ll let you know how my new companion is this next week. Elder Moore leaves tomorrow night, and my new comp will get here Wednesday. He looks pretty cool. I love you mom, I’ll keep working on that list of possibilities. Elder Moore is going up to Utah when he gets home as soon as he can to see his grandpa who isn’t doing the greatest. He is going to send me a few things, so if you want to drive down and meet him and his family and drop a small note or candy bar that would be cool.

His mom´s email is

Tracy Moore..... E-mail
And my companion (FACEBOOK)


LOVE YOU MOM

Taylor