Monday, January 16, 2012

January 16, 2012

Yeah it’s P-Day finally!!!!

Well the week wasn’t too bad. We don’t have very good numbers. But Elder Segovia and I felt good about what we were doing all week long. One Day it was raining a ton and of course we didn’t have our umbrellas and we didn’t care either, we were just happy to get cooled off for the day, but we knocked this house and the lady yelled at us that we couldn’t come in because it was raining......yeah it’s raining so let us in for a minute to get away from it!

We had one investigator at church that has a baptism date. He has a problem with drinking and smoking but he has a friend at the church that can help him with all of that. He has a baptism date for the 28 of January. Then we had a bunch more people with a baptism date but they didn’t come to church so they can’t get baptized on that date.

I have like a problem in my mouth. I thought it was just a canker sore or something, but then it got worse and got swollen. So I called Sister Callan to ask her if there is some kind of antibiotic I could take. She said she would call later that night, so when she called she gave the phone to Pres Callan to talk to me cuz he knows a little about the mouth. So I was trying to figure out where it was in my mouth and I said president, its right above tooth number 4 the bicuspid. He said wait what...elder do you have like a dental background. And then we talked for a min and he told me it was nice to have someone who knows how to number teeth. He said it’s a disaster to ask missionaries which tooth hurts and where it is. But it looks like a big blister and he said to check to see if yellow puss comes out of it and it was. The swelling has gone down. I almost had to go get an x-ray to send to him to see what we need to do. I’ll call him today to tell him how it is.

I do have some things that I want...if you would like to send me a few things on my birthday...I would like a bag of jalapeño cheetos, a rubix cube, and a jump rope. See if you can get me a jump rope like the one I would always use at wrestling, and I might still have the yellow one in my room somewhere. And the rubix cube, go onto like rubix cube .com and see if they have one of the mini keychain size ones....that’s 3 blocks on each side, and if not maybe just a normal size rubix cube!!!!! :)

Also, did my tax return of like1600 bucks ever come last year.....and did my tax sheet come this year yet. Tell dad to do that thing quick so I can get some more money in my account for when I get home!!!!

Last night, we went to a member’s house, they gave us a reference of a family of like 15, so we are going to try to contact them today. Hope we can get something out of that. We could really use something like that!!!!

This week, we went over to the old bishop’s house, he got released a week ago after being bishop for 11 years. He is way rich cuz he like a pharmacist or something, and they always give us lunch on Thursday, and since he is gone all day we can never go over to eat cuz he only has 4 girls and his wife.....but he was on vacation this week and we ate at their house. While we were waiting, we went into his theater room and watched the Christmas event that happened at the conference center in 2010 or 2011 when Nat King Cole’s daughter sang. That was cool, cuz it was in English and he speaks English too.

I’m gonna look to see if I can find a small box or package thing today....but if you send me a package for my birthday, you should put a big padded envelope in there so I can have one for the future to send stuff home to you!!!

Oh and Spencer's eye is sweet...I'll bet coach loves that.  And whats up with all my stuff getting used while I am gone.  I have a pic of you guys at the cemetary and Grant has my old school nikes on that Josh gave me and this pic, Spencer is using my blanket.  My nike shox better be under my bet still.  and nobody can touch my external hard drive with all my movies, pictures, music, my life is on there....no touching!!!!  But I guess Grandma Mann can make me a new blanket when I get home, one that's bigger so it fits me!!!!


***FYI - -  His blanket has never been used until last night because Spencer's was filthy from being on the bus to Elko for wrestling.  And yes, everything is untouched, under his bed, just like he left it!***  Paranoid a little?  :)

That's about all for this week

Love you mom

Taylor

PS  And what did sister Acuña say to you, or did you not understand her letter.  She said she sent you one.

(***I didn't know what he was talking about so I logged on to his Facebook account and sure enough there was a little note to us from a sister in Paraguay!  Here is the google translation:***)

HNa Hello! Am the Sister. Acuna, of Paraguay. I want to tell her son is serving in my neighborhood, the neighborhood pto.Pabla ... the very good and works hard ... I tell you who passes by my house to share with us and we appreciate much! Adib our son is serving in the Argentina Resistencia mission and they are friends! from here sent him my regards and affection for you and your beautiful family !!!:)

Their friend Jorge (the one who always makes the weird food) does BBQ´s for people for like parties of about 150 to 200 people and he always cooks.  They are American so he gets paid in dollars.  He is waiting until the dollar goes up some more so he can change it over for more guaraní´s!

Taylor's little "gangsta" buddies Moises & Joel

This is a "light" rain!  Look at that street!

Monday, January 9, 2012

January 9, 2012

This is the bat that I killed in our house last week. I knocked it out and then put hand sanitizer on it and burned it!!!!

Yes we had another bat in the house. SO annoying.....

But I bet you are glad Rollie Lane is over. Get to rest today and yesterday a little. Sad that you aren’t going up to Post Falls this weekend though. But maybe Spencer can redeem himself from that loss at Rollie Lane and get his 100 wins!!!

Today is the start of a new change of a new 6 weeks. Missionaries are going home and new ones are coming. Next change I will reach a year in the mission mom.....and 9 months on wed too! Elder Segovia and I are doing well together. Didn’t have any baptisms this change but we have found some really promising people to teach.

The pics of Spencer look good, like last year, he is taller than all of the people even when he isn’t on the highest spot.

We ate something else this week mom....can you guess what we ate or where we ate it? Yes with Jorge and it was Manta Ray! It was good, better than that beaver we ate. And tomorrow, we are eating crocodile and armadillo. I’ll send you the pics of the two in just a min!

I have a birthday presant for you mom, but I dont have a way of sending it yet so pray that I'll be able to get it sent to you.

Love you mom






Crocodile for lunch?

How about Armadillo?

Maybe a little seafood!


Love that he is sporting his Wildcat  Wrestling Shorts on P-Day!

Elder Salinas & Elder Segovia

Monday, January 2, 2012

January 2, 2012

Hey mom!  Happy New Year.....I was woken up rudely by the bombs going off outside the house!!!  They don’t have fireworks here, only like giant explosions.  And it doesn’t even feel like a new year. 
This week we finally found some new people but I’m pretty sure we are going to drop a few of them. They came up to us asking for help to stop smoking and drinking and so we took their cigarettes and their beer but then the next day when we went to visit them, they were like totally wasted.  One guy said I can’t stop and I was drinking last night, and  I asked him how much he drank, he drank 12 beers....that’s hard to drink, even if that was water, that’s hard to drink that at a party.   So idk how that guy drank 12 beers in one night! We aren’t giving up on the people they are giving up on themselves.  They need to do their part.
On Wednesday, there was a bat in the house, not just in the ceiling....I grabbed a box out of the room, and there was a bat behind it.  So I put it in the box, and chucked it out the window.  But then yesterday there was one in our room where we sleep.  I have a sweet video of when I was getting it out of the house with my machete.  And a picture to send you.  Then once it was out the door, I took my machete and cut its wing so now it can’t fly, and it’s going to die soon and that’s just less bat poop to worry about!

This is the last week of the change already.  And it’s just going by fast for me, it’s only 8 and a half months of 24 which looks like little but I remember the day that you dropped me off like it was yesterday.  And it’s almost my birthday hooray....gonna be 20. Hope that doesn’t make you feel old!!! 
That’s about it for this week mom, Adios.

Taylor
Bat that was actually IN their house! YUCK!

A Man and his Machete!

This is a tiny lizard that he caught in his house