January 1, 2013

YEA!!!!

It is finally 2013!  Less than 4 months until we have him home!

December 31, 2012

Dear Mom,

Happy New Years Eve.  I will miss the waffles with whipped cream and every type of topping I can imagine....I think I will be eating some junk food anyways since that is what we survive on here in Paraguay.  ;)

It was great to see and talk to you all.. ... . .the next time we talk will be live.  In 109 days, we will be talking and it will be pretty much the best day ever....

From the letter is sounds like you all enjoyed Christmas day.  We did too sort of.  We couldn’t sleep at all because it sounds like a battle field outside.  It’s going to be the same today...everyone at 12:00 will be shooting off thousands of fireworks. 

Later that night on Christmas day we made our tacos and they were very disappointing.  We went to a different place to buy our food because where we normally go was sold out of tortillas and had nothing.  We got to the other place and it was packed.  They didn’t have tortillas either, but they had something like tortillas, it’s Arabic bread.  So we decided to buy that and did the rest of the shopping at this place....never going back there again.  We never have to buy meat because grandpa always gives it to us....well here we buy meat and its good, nothing compared to what we have at home.  But we bought meat at a different place, it would be like you buying ground meat from Friendly Fred’s or from Kings. It was nasty.  And the cheese we used was like a plastic bag, it just melted and stuck to everything.  The picture of the food looks great but the taste. . . not good at all. 

This week was fast....but was a little hard with Christmas and not many people and stuff.  Tomasa is still reading her Book of Mormon and came to church yesterday.  She is going to be baptized the 12th and not the 5th because she wants her mom to come, but tonight we are gonna see if we can change her mind  a bit.  Last night we ( I ) taught lesson 2, the plan of salvation.  It is pretty much my specialty.  The best lesson to teach, probably because you don’t teach it that often.  It’s always the restoration.  I’ll have to teach it to you when I get home with my scriptures.  That’s the best part of teaching this lesson. . . I have like 50 scriptures to share that teach the lesson for me. 

Nelson came back to town, and we have visited hem twice.  He said he was going to come to church yesterday, and we passed by his house but nothing.  We are going to go back one more time and see how he is, but we might just drop him because he has stopped progressing.

I brought my list to the computer place today, the list i was supposed to have on Christmas.  Some of the things from the list are:

1. Stuff I need to do the week i get home....I-Phone 5, Haircut, Dentist, Renew Drivers License.

2. Fat week.. . I have a list of stuff at the house, but so far this is what I have. . . Costco Muffins.

     Friday: Buffalo Wild Wings.....later that night i want breakfast for dinner, pretty much what we eat on new years eve.

     Saturday I want to wake up to Maple and Chocolate bars from Albertsons and a gallon of choc milk.  To get me ready to kick Grant’s Trash wrasslin!

     Sunday, Party at our house after I speak in church.

3.  Stuff i want to do in Cali. . . Disneyland, 6 Flags

I still don’t have anything about school. . . hope I at least get into BYU-I.  Have you found any scholarships yet???

Love you all

Taylor

ELDER CHARLES TAYLOR SALINAS

PARAGUAY ASUNCION MISSION

ROHAIHY

December 24, 2012

Dear family. . .

I don’t have much time here at the internet.  They are only letting us use half hour, so it’s a short quick one today....since we sort of talked haha...Grant and M’Kay missed out! 

SO the world is getting smaller...there is a sister in my district from LA...Hermana Valencia.  She was roommates with Maureen and Annette Mickey last year at BYUI haha.

This week when we were teaching, we sang Christmas hymns, and we asked a guy if he had a favorite Christmas song that we could sing him. . . he asked us to sing him Rodolfo el Reino...Rudolf the Red nose reindeer haha...

I love you all and can’t wait to Skype you tomorrow.  Its going to be a great Christmas. . . from all over the world, together as a big happy family!!!

Taylor