The Lord wants us to be happy!

i am staying! thank goodness, i really didnt want to move right before christmas. as for the sending stuff i should probably get it soon if its at the mission office so we shall see, but the problem with the other is that i dont know my physical address but i will have someone text it to you.

now for calling on christmas... i will be skyping not just calling :) so i hope your all ready for that! as for what time im still not sure cuz we havnt completely set that up yet we will find out later today from the pacheco family. im super duper excited also, it will be good to be able to see you as well as talk to you!

i know how lame christmas parties go cuz our branch one was pretty lame... usually at a hispanic party there is lots of music, pasole, tomales, menudo, all that good stuff and at this one we had ham and potatos. the food was good but definately not what i signed up for... haha but it was still fun.

i work the christmas lights again tonight so i may be buying a sweater cuz its raining and pretty cold. it got below freezing here! we woke up and there was ice outside for a little bit it was crazy and we left the window open and the temp inside was 42! i love christmas lights, im sure you have seen them online somewhere and you know how amazing they are already haha.

thats awesome you passed your test! dont stress about the other, when it comes time study and pray. i have learned thats all you have to do. you do ALL you can and then you put it in the Lords hands. i promise you will do well if you do that mom. thats one thing that i have really learned on my mission is that he really does want us to be happy. he is ALWAYS willing to help us if we do our part and ASK for his help.

i cant believe you have no snow! that is rediculous, you have the same weather we have... thats not ok! haha yeah i know about vaughndavid and rachel, thanks to grandma Adeana. i found out like forever ago when everyone else did but just barely found out from your guys when i got your last letter.

elder tuttle is doing good, we are still workin hard! ha yeah i got to see sister cottrell before she left, she is sad to go cuz she is leavin all her friends here. she is way excited to see you guys though at her homecoming, and says she will come visit at our home too haha. she really wants brody and camden lol. we got in with that family again once but they didnt come to church... we have found 3 new investigators so we will keep going and hopefulyl find another family that wants to be eternal... studys are good. i changed it up im reading the BOM in english and spanish at the same time so i read like a few chapters in english and a few in spanish so il finish it in both before i leave. ummmmm when did i feel the spirit the most, idk it was probably yesterday at church during a talk about goals but the spirit told me alot and i learned alot believe it or not ha.

im glad all is well and that your happy! i cant wait to talk to you all soon!!! i love you soo sooooo much!



love taylor

Remember what the season is about

hahaha my computer is working today! yeah i dont think i have changed in skin color or voice that much but i sure do enjoy hispanic food and the people! i have no clue where i will be for christmas, transfers are comin quick and i just hope i will be here cuz i really dont wanna move right before christmas... we have a little tree already cuz a family in our ward gave it to us. ummm i think if you send it in the next day or so then you can send it to my actual address or if you want to send it to the mission office that is ok too. i dont think there is anything that i need or he needs right now but il let you know if something comes up.

wow that is so sweet that you got a 99%, haha yeah pride is a major downfall but its one thing that everyone has to work on. im glad you enjoyed it, thats what our heavenly father wants is that we have joy especially learning. gaining knowledge thats the point of our life here is to learn and grow to become like him.

im really excited for bridger that he is finally kinda taking his own course in life and doing what he likes, i kinda feel like i may have pushed him into different sports cuz that was what i loved. he will do good at swimming, he is a little fish. thats also one thing i love is swimming so i can definately cheer him on haha. thats gotta be super nice to be able to read and have some time to yourself while he is swimmin. i think i will really enjoy reading when i get home like you and dad. oh my goodness the story about grandma is hilarious, she wrote me and told it too and i was just laughin along with the other missionaries here! i can only imagine grandma with a flipper tooth.

Katie being baptized, i cannot believe that! everyone is growing up way to stinkin fast! the story about Jake in the car is pretty funny to, that is definately our family lol.

is lavern a pigmy goat? what animals do we have at the house now goat cats chickens dogs no cows but soon im guessing here in the spring. we are gonna need pigs cuz i will want some real bacon when i get home and im glad we have eggs cuz i eat them everyday but they dont taste the same. haha you have mikes mules, how is mike? i heard about the sharp boy that died in Iraq, thats sad.

ok so my last two weeks.... i wont lie i have had better. the companionship is good but the area went off the maps down hill... that family just like stopped and we dont really know whats going on, they were super solid loved everything and then the dad stopped listening to us and is dragin the whole family down too... its been really rough, we tried to pass by a couple times out of the week and they told us to stop coming by so much and then we would only come on the day that they said and the whole family wasnt there. so we didnt even get to teach them but they werent at church so we went over to see if they were ok and we knock and we could hear the dad say they dont come over all week and then they come today. so he didnt want us to come but then blames us for it idk its tough right now. so we are back to lookin really hard to find someone to teach... well there was a few other stories but they are definately stories for when i get home hahaha. so i felt the spirit super strong on friday when we worked at the lights, it was super awesome i felt like i had a HUGE smile on all night and we talked to ALOT of people and handed out 6 book of mormons it was a blast too! i think that some people are more receptive because of the holiday but i feel like alot arent because they dont understand the real meaning of all of it and they are focused on all the worldly things and everything thats happening in the world and all sorts idk its rough cuz some people are really touched by the spirit that there is during the holidays but some just get super grumpy and mean cuz they are in the worldy things. im going to temple lights again the 12 22 and 30th to so i am super duper excited.

it really hasnt been a very eventful 2 weeks, we helped put up lights and all that other stuff happened. hopefully this next week will be better!

well im glad all is well i hope that everyone is happy and enjoying their time right now, and remembers what this holiday season really is about. i love you all and hope you have an amazing week!

love taylor

I'm learning that worldly things are unimportant

yeah i have actually been really amazed in the change in me. hahaha idk if someone wrecks the boat we would have a problem and if its my truck to pull the boat also but anything else its ok haha. no its very true if we focus on the actual important things then you realize how unimportant the worldy thing was. im going to borrow a bike til im done. dont worry about it il be takin care of, especially wh
ere its christmas time i want the kids to have an amazing christmas, use any money you were going to on me on someone else whether it be one of the kids that needs something or one of the secret santa things at walmart. i really dont need anything. well maybe a letter but thats it.

so clinicals are over and it sounds like you are super excited for that, i was really weirded out that i was gonna come home to a working mom i wont lie. idk i just know you as being at home with the kids and if something happens your always there waiting to help. the cabin should be a blast and i really hope that you get to see Klien. fun fun you will have a good time with machens, i remember going up wow i guess 2 years ago now with them and me and keg hung out ridin the snowmachines and what not it was sweet. ha i guess not this year...

oh KaLee i know just exactly how she feels... i remember sitting downstairs and crying cuz really baseball was all i knew ha it had been a HUGE part of my life for a long long time and i felt like a piece of me was gone. it was definately the right thing to do though, i dont ever regret it either. im super duper glad that she went and hung out with Morgan, she is an amazing person. i know that she will always be there for KaLee if she needs it. as soon as KaLee gets there then i will be there also and i can finally be the big bro again.

they havnt destroyed anything?!?! what a miracle!!! hahaha Brody is such a goof ball! i love that kid, am i alive? my heart is beating in my head... what a goof troop! wow that blows my mind that he will be getting the priesthood so soon, 3 months after that happens i will be home. he is such a stud, i am sooooo proud that he is gettin it and will be in YM. i would love to be there too but he needs to get it when he is supposed to and not to wait for me. i want to watch him and bridger pass the sacrament together. wow airplane rides?!?! i wanna go haha maybe one day i guess. im glad that dad is havin fun, i feel like sometimes he gets stuck in work mode and and just goes goes goes and forgets that he needs to have some fun. you too though so im glad you two get to enjoy yourself once and a while and especially that you are goin to the temple together.

i thought you all went to the dentist last week to get his cavities filled??? how many did he have? a million and a half, he only has so many teeth haha. its always nice to know your test is done ha and not have to worry about it anymore.

so our week was pretty good. investigators are still progressing but slowly now, this family that we are teaching there are only like 3 or 4 out of 7 that are doing much the moms are but the dad isnt, idk what is happening with him but it makes me sad and i feel like he is pulling alot of the rest of the family down...we are gonna do all we can this week to boost them up and help them in any way that we can. we did get back into the less active kids house and it was neat cuz we talked to him yesterday right before church and he came but not only did he come but the branch president talked to him and he got to pass the sacrament! it felt really really good to see that. companionship is soooooo good i love elder tuttle and by far he is my favorite companion! idk really know what else to tell you ha its really the same thing going on we are working hard with the people we have and we are looking hard too, we have some potentials this week that hopefully will become investigators so we shall see. i love you all so much and i hope that you have a wonderful thanksgiving!!!

love taylor



pics: me elder scherbel and elder tuttle at the park

elder tuttles GIANT bike haha

The Lord's work cannot be frustrated!

well life is way way to crazy here too, i have some stories for you...first i will talk about your letter. so brody is a cavity man is he?its probably from eating frosting off of 2 dozen cinimon rolls. sweet2 letters whoop whoop haha. thanksgiving we are eating with our branch presidents family andprobably just gonna visit members all day and our investigators. iheard you all might be headed to the cabin, that would be way fun (hai actually have some members here that once im done they want to comeup and go to the cabin and visit) i hope that you all can go though iknow that everyone has a good time when they are there. KaLee got a job at the mall? thats awesome, what store? madeline is finishing drivers ed what the heck?!?!?! she is not old enough for that bah they are all growing up tooo fast!!! i dont like it... haha that poor computer has probably had it im pretty sure that we had the keys put back on twice when i was there ha. so your done with your clinicals, whats after that? can you work and what not? snow snow snow, i had a dream about snow last night it was a weird onebut there was snow and i loved it! school, so usu stuff is goin good or whats the news? do i need to tryand do scholarship stuff? idk i started freaking out a little when italked to a kid that is gonna go to school the same time as me and hesaid that he was workin on scholarships and grants and i didnt knowwhat the heck i needed to do... dad will do good ha we sound alot alike on the phone anyway. things here are goin pretty good, working hard like usual. the family is doin pretty good, they want to learn everything before they arebaptized so we are helping them understand that they will learn therest of thier lives. i think 3 out of the 7 will get baptized this month and the rest next month. haha i have seen brandon a few times it makes me smile to see someone who knows the wind and snow of osgood like me :) idk about the needs of my comps family but i will find out about his and what not and see what we can do. oh camden i love that kid he is a hoot! he would be talking about how a girl is hot, haha the kid is 3!

ok so my best day and worste day were probably the same day once again... i found that after overcoming the greatest opposition you find the greatest happiness. so im going to tell you a story. the 2 most handsome missionaries woke up sunday morning, showered, shaved,ate, and finished up what they needed for their 930 meeting. they leftfor their meeting at about 920 which put them there about 5 minuteslate. they had their meeting with a very awesome man brother segurawho is their ward mission leader and is very very ready to help in theLords work always looking for ways to better it. they close their meeting with a prayer and the missionaries elder tortuga and estufa make some copies of a paper that the branch president would laterneed. they went to the bathroom and then decided they would grab lunch at the house and come back for church. they are riding down the roadand they are about to pass the road delta when elder estufa says " HEY TORTUGA what do ya say we visit paul(a less active boy)?" Tortuga says yeah that would be awesome, we can invite him to church today. so they go down delta 8 houses and stop at pauls house. the set their bikes up against the house and go up to the door. the elders were thinking well we will be like 5 minutes, we will invite him to church and see what we can do to help him. well his mom, who is not a member, answers the door and invites them in ( yes there is another male in the house!) so they look at each other and can read eachothers minds and know they should teach a lesson. so they go in and teach a very powerful lesson and they can feel the spirit very very strongly but it was about a 15 minute lesson and they closed with a prayer and it was way way amazing. they walk out and the first thing elder estufa saysis, " YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!!!" elder tortuga," yeah i know that was soooo awesome i cant belive we got in, you havnt gotten in there since you got here and now we did." then he realizes why estufa said it he looked where his bike was and was is the key word...someone had stolen his bike on the sabbath day. then estufa starts thinking and is more happy about getting in with paul and later he gota phone call about an amazing miracle that happened with a referal that he gave to some sisters and he was more focused on peoplessalvation than the bike that was just takin. he looks at elder tortuga and says you ride and il jog home we have a bike there i can borrow,elder tortuga says well lets just go to the church and we can get a ride home after and the spirit said that was what they needed to do so elder estufa says ok i think that the lord may have something for us there. so they get to the church and there is a member and he says hei have been thinkin about this family that you spanish missionaries should go by and gave them a referal that they probably wouldnt have gotten at any other time. later that night elder estufa was thinking about the day and himself, he thought about how much he has changed as a person. he thought before my mission or even in the beggining i would have probably been yelling and freaking out if my bike got stolen but instead , of course i was upset, i thought about what God had planned for us in that moment and i thought of others salvation and not about me or what I had lost, he realized in that moment that he is really starting to become the person that his family and his Heavenly Father want him to be. i think that was the way that Satan THOUGHT he could stop these 2 mighty and handsome missionaries but he thought wrong.

im borrowing a bike now and all is well, the Lords work cannot be frustrated. haha that was my story and i hope you all enjoyed it,but now i gotta get running i love you all and i hope all is well. let me know if there is anything that i can help with!

love elder taylor stosich

I am a bargain shopper!

hahaha yeah it semi amazes me sometimes when i get up so early and i dont have a gun in hand too, nah idk its something that i cant explain that drives me. i have come to love so many people here and i get up to help them. now when im home i may not be so great at it buuuut i guess we will see haha i have heard that you cant really break the habit which im not really stoked for cuz i kinda would like to catch up on some sleep!

i dont even understand the concept of time anymore, it goes to fast and doesnt make any sense at all. its dark here about the same time too and makes everything a little harder. i think people get a little weirded out when 2 guys in suits come up to talk to them in the dark. im glad we are on the same time now cuz it makes emails and stuff easier to time.

so an early thanksgiving huh? sounds like it was a blast though, i have one of those food problems too. i think its more that i feel bad and love these people so much that when we go over and they have prepared so much for us i eat until i literally cant anymore. That's funny about Matt's new puppy! i refuse to have small dogs! they are cute but i have seen enough yapping chihuahuas to last me my whole life and i dont want one in my house! haha Saiko cant die or be murdered before i get home, i will need a hunting dog next year so dont do it, mom!

i know you have changed ha you really dont seem as stressed and i feel like you are all just happier. i have actually all ready written that down that goal thta i will go every week especially with my wife because i have seen the healing power of the temple in marriage and how going helps sooooo much! im really glad that my little challenge for you has turned into such a big thing. i really knew and know how much it would and will always bless your life. im really happy that you and dad are both starting to go together!!!!! gosh i have the best family in the world! my parents go to the temple my sisters do my brothers are studs idk what more i could ask for???

hahahahahhahahhaha the "burn up the carpet club" is gettin big :) i never thought i would be a founder of such a big thing haha. the cinnamon rolls is hilarious too! Brody would, what a little beastie. i cant belive he just turned 4?!?! he is gettin old!

so life here is amazing and crazy! so i gotta laugh cuz you were tellin me to take vitamin C so i dont get sick and i was a smart alic about it and the day after i got tuttle i got his cold too hahaha. all is well now i have lots of vitamin C and im takin my others too. the family we are teaching is sooo awesome! we went to the visitors center with them and it went wayyyy good. we had 7 people at church yesterday which was SWEET!!! i love being with elder tuttle, we have so much fun together! we bought 63 POUNDS of candy for 7 bucks what a steal i know im a bargin shopper like my momma :) we saved like 300 dollars! funny stories yeah we had one last night ha, we went home for dinner and elder tuttle was goin to the bathroom and all of a sudden the power went out and he was freakin out ha not cuz he was scared but cuz its hard to go to the bathroom when you cant see anything hahaha i made him clean it today! best day this week was definately saturday cuz we went to the visitors center and had some sweet lessons and what not it was so awesome. ummm things to pray for would definately be that the family we are teaching can feel the spirit and the importance of the restoration and keep progressing. i dont think i really need anything sent, idk maybe my teeth whitener RICE BAGS we need some of those haha if that is possible. we are eating with our branch president and his family for thanksgiving so it should be fun! haha speaking of missionary moms how is your lunches with all the other moms? well i gots to run i love you all and i hope all is well and you all have a wonderful week!

love taylor

ha it wasnt a big deal my glands in my neck were just golf ball size for a week or so and some elders told me i should get checked for diabetes. everything is all good and i am alive with normal glands. i didnt get any meds though. no i dont have any vitaman c but if i remember il buy some soon. i was just tired and to be honest not in the mood to stare at a computer haha i was ready to just do my own thing and chill and not worry about anything. sorry about that mondays are my sit back and relax days, we are riding an average of maybe 40 miles a day which in all reality isnt that much but it feels like a bunch and after a week of that i dont wanna do much. i wasnt sick so no worries there. oh mom i have a talk that you need to listen to by john by the way called rough start great finish, i love it and i think you would too.i remembered it when you said about your instructor saying oh dont you think you can handle it. she is in for a suprise ha im pretty sure there isnt anything that MY mom cant handle! how dare her say anything like that.im super glad that you and Shelly go to the temple and what not i knew when i challenged you to do it that it would bless your life alot and that your weeks would be better and i can tell that they have just by your letters, ha whether you know it or not even the way you write has changed. i can tell that your a little more relaxed and not as stressed, that your testimony of Gods hand is in all of our lives and how perfect his plan is. Even the way that you decide about giving your children permission to do things and what not, its kinda hard to explain but i know its been a really good thing and i am glad that shelly is doing it too.sounds like its been a week long holiday haha but a super fun one non the less. there has been stuff going on like crazy here and its nuts. are you all going door to door tonight? wow thats so awesome madeline wrote her own talk and gave it, im super proud! i almost choked when i read KaLee went to RS... she isOLD! that blows my mind! so the area is really good, the boundries are still the same but we are going to get permission to teach the guy that comes to church and teach him all this week and then set a baptismal date probably for 2weeks later, im super excited!!! ok so this family im so excited, they come to english classes and what not and church. we werent able to teach them a whole lot cuz the branch had a ton goin on and they went to EVERY activity it was semi frustrating but awesome too ha (mixed feelings) but we have a lesson with them on wednesday and we are going to set baptismal dates with all of them!!! im so stinkin stoked!!!!!!!!!!!!! this branch is goin crazy cuz they had forgotten what investigators were and what it was like to have them come to church haha its so great! a cool spiritual experience was saturday night, it was transfer news and my comp is getting transfered ,btw, so i was just prayin and i was like ok please listen to this prayer i need a good companion that i will get along with and we will work super hard and get these people baptized and that it will be a good transfer. as i said amen our phone rings and its the rest of transfer news and i was gonna find out who i was getting, idk if you remember me talking about elder tuttle from my mtc district but we are going to be comps and we are like super cool and idk it was definately the answer and the comp i think i needed for this transfer! another super cool thing was at church we told the new family that my comp was gonna leave and she was like well i have some good news for you then before you go and she says you 2 have made such an impression on my son (16years old) that told me that he wants to be a missionary and i told him ok well we are still learning and stuff but if thats what will make you happpy later ok and he says i know it will make me happy! wow my heart was pounding really hard and im pretty sure i had a smile on my face that went from ear to ear! so schedule is 620 wake up run and then shower and eat. 8 personal study 9 comp study 10 is language study. haha and you were asking about weight yes i have gained... i am 175-178 haha varies from dayto day... yes i got the package from you, thank you soooo much!!! ha everyone hammered the candy and im pretty sure they had my oreos eaten in like 10 minutes. im super glad you heard from bub and jose, you will have to get me bubs address cuz he wrote me and he leaves the mtc before my letter can get to him there. i havnt heard from jose in a while but it sounds like he is good and im super duper glad! i am so proud of all those guys well i hope its been a good week and i hope you have another good week! i love you all and dont get too cold ;) ha cuz i wont, pretty sure it still hits 100 some days. be safe and i will email again in 1week haha. love taylor

Teaching a new family this week!

hahaha im sorry im bad with sending pictures and everything, i hardly take them. i dont ever feel like I have time! sorry today is going to be short i really am just not feelin like writing much im bein super lazy...
that is so crazy chandler is home i remember when he just left and his farewell and everything haha time goes so stinkin fast i cant even believe it. ok so i just have one super cool story to tell you all and il call it good cuz im bein flojo. so on tuesday we had english class and we went a few minutes early and my comp was talkin to this guy that helps and this lady pokes her head in the doors and so i go over and talk to her and she goes there is a family that just came from mexico that want to come to church and to english classes. i was like ok and asked for the address and she didnt have it so i just gave her all the information i could think of and she left. that was in my mind all week and i wanted to go like search for this family but i didnt have enough info. so sunday comes and before church we were out visitiin people and we got to the church and after a bit the first classes end and i see this family i have never seen before and this member comes up and goes hey this is their first time here, they are a family of 7!!!! we will start teaching them this week!!!! its was the most non members the branch has had at church in over a year!!! it was soooooooo awesome!!! welp thats my story and im reallly excited and il let ya know how everrything goes.

To answer your questions... sometimes i think you love me when i get letters and stuff but sometimes no.... haha! no just kidding of course i know you love me and i really hope you all know i love you all, i know im bad at writing and im super sorry for that but i really do love you all and think about you!
well i gotta run.

love taylor

So busy!

im so sorry i have like 0 time today cuz we had a zone activity and went hikin it was way fun but toook sooooo long and yeah we are just barely emailing. so we dont have any solid investigators anymore, they all kinda bailed on us and we are back to looking. we have one guy that comes to our church and english classes but lives outside of the area which makes things difficult. so since we cant teach him he cant be our investigator but our boundries might be getting changed so we can. we can only hope.so i have learned alot this week about all sorts. i have learned alot about faith and prayer, i continually learn about the atonement and the amzing power it has. haha elder carrillo crashed on his bike and that was pretty funny and today when we were hiking elder scherbel rpped his shorts. ha i think i may also continue to shave my head like dad does cuz it feels really good. i still havnt had a schance to listen to my birthday tape, i tried to find a tape player but couldnt, life is so busy i dont have time to do or think or really anything about anything. sorry i gotta run though its short i know but i got a ton to do!

love taylor

PS.pops im not gonna lie i really needed that encouragement. the Lord did send me to this area for a reason and i can break it open... i saw a service master truck here and i laughed and said dad is probably in one of those right now! im glad you got to get out and do some huntin with the boys, we will have to get lots next year for sure! well i gotta run i love ya lots dad and i am very grateful for you!

bah i was super stressed out about KaLee cuz no one could get a hold of her and what not. haha im definately ok with a package haha i havnt been getting like any mail lately kinda stinks but i knew it would happen sooner or later. oh man the boys went hunting, il be able to go next year with them haha il be able to see ryker shoot his first deer! im definately looking forward to gettin thier letters. thats so crazy he wore my coverals i never thought he would ever be able to fit into them but sounds like he is really growin up! oh my maddy will win royalty she is the most beautiful girl! :) when i read where has all the time gone i thought of the song that i used to sing with gramps. where have all the flowers gone long time passing, where have all the flowers gone long time ago.where have all the flowers gone, gone to young girls everyone when will they ever learn when will they ever learn. its funny how certain things trigger thoughts and memories.dont worry about your stuff tonight it will go great! it will be really a neat experience i think. just go in ready to learn haha its kinda like a greenie goin to his trainer :) i did see austin, his 2nd day here. why did he go home do you know?that makes me sad but hey elder neely will be here in a month! im so excited!!! HOLY COW my bub is goin in to the mtc in 2 days! i love that kid and im super duper proud of him!!!! so visiting navuoo im so down IF we get permission from his president. i think i want to fly home, it will give me closure i think if not i think i would feel a bit wierd. idk i always wanted to fly home anyway... so let me tell you about my sunday. we go to church, we had invited a few people and we have all our classes first then sacrament so we get through all the classes and we are about to go into sacrament and this guy shows up. one of the nicest and funniest guys ever but we had one person in sacrament! im hoping and almost positive he will get baptized and it will be the first one that they have had in this branch in over a year! it was an amazing sunday! so im glad everyone is doing well and there isnt any problems or anything. i hope that everyone is studyin thier scriptures and going to the temple still too. i love you all and cant wait to get all your letters.
love taylor

ps will you look for a a cd from a band called ryan shupe and the rubber band oh man i cant go to the temple when lup goes im sad.... oh well maybe another time i guess.

Conference was amazing!

haha mom its ok that you cried, i dont really mind it anymore ha. confrence was absolutely amazing, i loved the talk about the guy that was swimming and the life gaurds had warned him but he went out anyway. the life guard watched him and went out and waited for him to call for help. he was right there right when he needed it though. that is exactly how Heavenly father and Jesus work they are always ready to help but they are waiting for our call. the 5 dollar story and the prayer. so great i love general confrence now its so crazy how much its changed for me. the father talk about loving mothers also wow that really hit home, i always need to be an example and didnt realize i guess that the way that i would treat my wife would help my daughter determine the husband she chooses. its crazy my decisions and actionsaffect alot more than just me. we watched at a stake center. im so glad you got to see elder klien, i know that he was very happy to see you. i heard from him today also and it was nice. i miss that guy but he sounds like he is doin awesome. so is KaLee's friend that she is coming to AZ with a member? if not i might be able to see if i can set up a lesson with them...anyway we shall see i guess. emotion bowl, blue posts again haha about time!!! how is jose doin, i havnt heard from him in a while. so the roads i gave you was just our area haha not my zone, my zone boundries are waaaaaaay bigger. i do live outside my zone though. we live on the southeast corner there is a pool in thebackyard and we live in the pool house haha. we dont teach many lessons cuz there isnt many hispanics in the area. we found a few potentials though and im hoping to have at least 1 baptism by the time i leave. they havnt had one here for over a year..... im gonna do it tho. ok so i gotta run but i love you lots and miss you a bunch! oh the santa thing, tell santa to hold on to his money for when i get back cuz im gonna have clothes and all sorts of stuff to buy for school... just take pics of the fam and send that i like seein everyone. il try and be better with pics, im just always so busy i dont even think about it. anyway love you all!!! Love, Elder Stosich

howdy! so today has already been a great day! so we live with ASL elders and they are a blast, i have learned how to finger spell which is really slow but if i needed to i could now communicate with a deaf person :) but we have just had a blast this morning! so my area,addison was right it is stinkin rich!. my companion is elder carrillo and he is really cool. we are gonna have alot of fun and hopefully help this place grow. we had 33 people in sacrament in total that was all the members and kids and babies hahaha. TINY little branch. my stake is kimbal east stake but my zone covers the smiths stake. sister cottrell is so cool ha i dont get to talk to her much now cuz i am a long ways from the temple and VC but il see her once and a while. she has definately been one of the friends i have made here along with alot of others, idk who all is planning on coming with her to my homecoming though... did she sayanything about alisha? oh bub, i knew that he would do good! he is soooooo awesome. that makes me smile that he wore my tie :) im not gonna lie i feel a little special. i cant believe they are all so musically talented, what the heck happened to me???? i cant carry a tune in a bucket or play an instrument really to save my life haha. i havnt listened to the tape yet cuz no one has one that plays the big tapes, just little ones but i will find one today. holy birthdays!!! 44???? wow how old ha jk your just a little seasonedpops. so is KaLee what the heck, did she go to phoenix? im so glad that things are good there, how is the weather it is coolin down here and it is really nice. crazy this is my last "winter" in arizona, as a missionary anyway. things are really good here to. i seem to be gettin companions that are a little better every time or im just learning how to deal with them ha. nah its awesome, i really like this branch and feel like i will get really close to them cuz its so small. its so funny though cuz they have had missionaries all the time but usually one has been english speaking and one spanish and usually the spanish was a native and the other a white guy so when i came they were all like holy wow you speak spanish! they are just amazed and happy to have 2 missionaries that know spanish again so im really excited. well i love you all and hope that you have a great day, we are gonna be takin some pics today so i will send them next week and what not.

love elder stosich

ps i havnt gotten that stuff i gotta sign and what not yet.how is the diet?also if your on can you send me my mission blog site or what ever it is thanks

The greatest and saddest day of my mission...

sounds like you are staying busy as normal which is good ha but yes winter is coming faster and faster and for you there will be snow haha. i was gonna say we worked really hard to do that insulated and heat lamp part and your gonna tear some out and add on to it... but thats good how are those chickens? you still love them to death? so the letters, i will be happy to write them back as a group is there anything special that you would like me to put in or just ansswer and write to what they said?

wow sorry idk what happened computer like spazzed out and sent it. so the letter to the school (skyline?) i write and just say please release my transcripts to my mother mindy stosich or what? and i have to get that notarized? then the thing for the visa i fill everything out but i dont sign it and then get it notarized and send them both back right? yeah the connections class, its like an english class or something and its sweet and it gets me some stuff that i need. it is the one that starts a week early yes. hey Shane Motes had like 3 days home and then he went to Hawaii, i can still visit ha. Yes, i could definately work with kids for a career, i really wanna be a doctor or something now. that may change between now and when i get home but thats the career that is on my mind right now. you can give me some other ideas like specifics cuz i dont really know still.

im super glad you llike your class, it is definately good for you!
oh man that stinks that he is goin off again, im glad he had fun though. you both definately deserve some of that. what is he going to now? speaking of going, did KaLee go to phoenix or is she going? i was hoping you could see elder klien that day but maybe another day this week.

wow bub is off i am sooooo excited for him and proud of him! he will do great, tell him not to stress and that il be thinkin about him sunday.

so i will tell you a story that will take up time and i wont be able to write about the other questions but here it is. so saturday morning we get up do our normal thing and we get to comp study and we decided to talk about the spirit and praying by the spirit and some different things. well one of the questions was do you think that your companionship and personal prayers have been getting answered. we sat and thought about it and after about 8 minutes i had really thought that that hadnt, well the bigger things. we have prayed to find a family to teach since we got into this area and nothing, we prayed for just people that would listen and nothing. so i said that and i really felt like those things werent getting answered. dont get me wrong he answered other prayers and i think that is what frustrated me the most is cuz the things that mattered to me a little bit he answered but the most he didnt. i talked to elder pierson and basicly told him how great my desire was to find a family and someone to teach and yeah we ended companionship study. so we head out and start doin the norm, talkin to everyone, visiting potentials, recent converts and less actives. well at about 1215 we are riding and see this guy lady and little girl walkin so we stop and talk to them and they are like yeah we have some time and we will listen, so we were like sweet! im locking the bikes up and said kind of a little prayer saying thanks 3 people is awesome and how grateful i was. we walk inside and they have 3 other kids, its a family of 6. now this family sat down all the kids and listened and were sooooooo amazing, quiet, happy everything it was awesome! their apartment was so clean and they really wanted to learn and wanted to better their lives even more. it was such an answer to my prayers and it was definately more than i asked for!

saturday was one of the greatest and saddest days of my mission. i have come to love my companion sooo much and i learned alot from him, the area wasnt going crazy but we had found that family and the ward is sooo awesome. i found out saturday nighht that im getting transfered to a place called tierra rica and thats about all i know, my companions name is elder carrillo and is way nice. im gonna miss liahona 2 and elder pierson but i think that he is one of those friendships that is gonna last a long time like dad and kenny and russ. well i gotta run cuz i got a few more to write. i love you and i hope all is well have fun and be happy!
love taylor

Primary was great!

hahaha Mom, i was so worried you would cry all the way through your talk i wont lie... im glad it went well! I am sure people were surprised to hear that it's been over a year. i cant believe that its been over a year either! next sunday and im down to 11 months... crazy! haha im glad you got goats and you will have to get some more animals before i get home. hahaha Saiko? Oh no, not another chewer, i doubt i will see him either, cuz i think if he doesnt get hit by a car you or dad might kill him. hahaha So Bridger is home? i know when i stayed home "sick" and had to babysit i wanted to go to school the next day too lol! i didnt know who KaLee was dating, but he is a good kid and i wish that all the other kids could just shut their mouths because that is so stupid, so what if he goes to church and comes closer to his heavenly father and understands the importance of his life here on earth. i think he should have the right to do that with out being bugged even if the first time he goes is cuz a girl invited him. people in this world are so immature, whether it be high oschool kids or adults its really a joke. i see it so much, people wont talk to us cuz their friends make fun of them for it. it is absolutely ridiculous. Mom, dont worry about your test in december you will do fine, im so happy that you are doing that. i know your not gettin home til late and its alot of work but its giving you something to do on your own and that is good. dads goin to woodbadge huh? i have heard all sorts about it but he should like it. i doubt kalee would run into me coming to Arizona, even if she went to the visitors center and the temple cuz im not there very often anymore. she should be fine, let her go ha i went to vegas with brandon for my 17th birthday ha. holy crap she will be 18!!! thats ridiculous i just realized, well it just hit me that she is gonna be 18... scary! So, new investigators, we have some more potentials but not really new investigators. we have 1 that has a baptismal date but is being really lazy and bails on appointments which stinks really bad and is tough but we will keep workin and see what happens. My biggest obstacle this week has been finding people that want to learn. its really rough cuz idk what is going wrong, we talk to everyone but we are finding very little that want to learn. my best day this week, though, was definately yesterday and it was because we had someone at church and also cuz we got to go in and help with the primary, i loved it and i actually learned a ton it was great! haha yeah after 118 degrees for a summer then goin down to 50s and 60s that is a big difference... im gonna try and not be a sissy this winter though, its my last one here so i gotta enjoy it! Yes, mom, i do still have vitamins buuuuuut i only take them once and a while... its hard to remember. well i gotta write president but i love you all and i miss you a bunch. have a great day!

love taylor

So grateful for this opportunity!

yeah crazy stuff i hoped you would remember that i wouldnt be able to email til today and not be upset with me cuz i didnt send one yesterday haha. sounds like you all had a blast at the faiy, for the most part. its crazy to think that next years fair i will be home for... anyway i never brought this up earlier but you all forgot to tell me you got rid of alot of the animals. you gotta get more animals cuz i want some when i get home. sounds weird but i miss the smell of horse manure and havin stuff like that to take care of. i know i wont be home terrible long before i leave to school but i really do miss that stuff. Dad isnt bein weird wanting to go to the fair, he just wants to spend time with the people he loves :) wow 45th aniversery for Grandma and Grandpa? that is sooooooo awesome, what an example we have. they are 2 amazing people! the cabin trip sounds like it was CRAZY. i am soooooo excited for lupe! idk if i will be able to make it because we arent allowed to go to that kind of thing unless its our temple day or we taught them before they were baptized. speaking of the temple i got out of a session about 40 minutes ago. it was soooooooo amazing i learned so much today and the spirit was especially strong. its cool cuz in my patriarchal blessing it talks about how my body will feel rejuvinated in the temple and 2 nights ago my back was hurting more than it has in a looooooooong time. i got a blessing and i was able to sleep and do what i needed yesterday but it still wasnt real great but as soon as we went into the temple i felt great, normally i wouldnt share stuff like that out of my blessing but its something that grew my testimony of patriarchal blessings, a ton. also priesthood blessings cuz i was in a lot of pain but after the blessing i was able to fall asleep in a few minute with alot less pain. i will write Marsh and Dana a letter unless you can get me their email and i will email them about the guitar. ha i have no clue what you should tell the ward over the pulpit next week. like idk, im doing super well for the most part, we dont have much goin on in this area but we are slowly finding people we have a couple investigators and hopefully we will have a baptism this month, if not this month the beggining of next. i really dunno im not a good speaker and definately wouldnt know what to say about myself ha. i do get aunt sues letter and i feel terrible cause i havnt written back until last week... im terrible at writing oh man i didnt write letters yesterday either to anyone in the family so tell them sorry. elder klien will go to utah state no worries i'll talk him into it. its coolin off here too! it feels so nice! its like 107ish now nice and cool. sounds like your all gonna have a blast during harvest ha. This week has been slow, we are lookin really hard. the thing that i have learned about a companionship is you do alot better when you serve each other. life goes alot smoother. my supllies are doin good: socks are smelly :) pants are good shirts are doin really well and shoes just stink up the room but hold up really good haha i spray them ocaisonally with stuff that smells better lol. i was going to ask about your temple trips and what not, im soooo happy you are doin that! the temple is such an amazing place and helps us remember our blessings! im glad dad went ha im gonna challenge him to go every week too. this sounds weird but i have changed but dont really notice it, i know its there i guess but i couldnt tell you all the changes that have happened. all i know is that this is preparing me alot to be the person that i need to be for the rest of my life.i am so grateful for this oppurtunity that i have to be here and i wouldnt trade it for anything in the world. i love you all sooooo much and hope that you have a wonderful day!

love taylor

I'm still kickin' it!

SANTA VACA!!! school is starting already?!?! hahahaha oh madeline what a silly girl i cannot believe that kalee is a senior and madeline is at the high school... that scares me, i still got bub and brandon there to beat up any guys that get any ideas and i heard as a missionary if someone messes with your sisters all i have to do is say a prayer and a giant lighting will strike the person doin it hahaha. im so proud of ryker he is bein that older brother to everyone on the bus now! what a stud!!! Brody and Camden,those poor little guys dont have a million people to play with anymore, how is that goin? are they getting into everything? i got the announcement from crystalin that is soooo sooo awesome she got married! mom thats sweet about the cna class, i think you will enjoy that. oh addison haha yeah i saw him alot ha he covered my last area for english work so i saw him everyday. how is he doin? we moved thursday which i am very glad for we have alot more room ha i liked the last place cuz it was fun and what not but it was super duper crammed and it was with english elders 2 of which were brand new into the mission. we live with the familia bradshaw they are super awesome. Me and elder pierson are way good, workin super hard lookin for people. he is from raymond alberta canada. we are finding lots of potentials but can never get a hold of people. i saw scherbel 3 sundays ago at a fireside and he is doin good. so the heat, i would say yes im tired of it cuz it is killer but i have been trying to look at all the positive thing. so no im not tired of it cuz everytime i feel it it means im still alive and the sun came up once again. it means i was just in somewhere that was airconditioned and so we either taught a lesson, helped someone or left our awesome members house that we live in. it means the plants will continue to grow cuz they get the sun they need. it means that i am still serving the lord and im in the place where he wants me to be. everything here is good, i dont think i need anything right now. oh yeah im gonna have to have marsh pick up my guitar cuz they made a rule no more intruments, so if you can see when he can do that sometime in the next couple weeks and let me know in my next email that would be awesome. biggest challenge is just finding people that will listen, but its comin along hopefully we will have some this next week. that was an awesome peom and is soooo true, ha way to true... i love my mission and if i were to say it is easy i would be lying but nothing in this life is too difficult and so im still kickin it :) well i gotta run i love you all and hopefully i will have some updates on investigators and stuff next week!
love taylor

This is an amazing opportunity!

so im sure you are semi freaking out cuz i didnt email yestereday but we had zone confrence and so we taught yesterday. hey it was not me that made the basement a mess ha, it was the boys they are just doin better so it looks like it was me when i was there! haha right now the place we are in is a bomb shell cuz we are with 3 other elders... im living out of my suitcase cuz there is nowhere to put my stuff... i want our own place back. wow soudns like you all have alot goin on CNA program thats cool and awesome that you 2 are doin it together. you will do awesome! i think that everyone in the family has changed alot since i left its weird idk. you have been doin a ton of stuff, that is alot of canning! thats sounds like fun though. my birthday... ha i got my package the day after but it kinda felt like a normal day ha got up worked like usual and ate some cake that grandma and gramps had marsh and dana drop off. i love how you put those scriptures and so does everyone else, i think there is only 1 i couldnt guess but i dont remember which one it was. i had a blast and i loved everything thank you so much! i heard from courtney price a couple days before my birthday and bobbie and of course morgan. i did get hartman and emilys gift and it was really nice to hear from them! im glad everyone else remembers me too! haha Mom your not satisified with any of it! ha before you were sayin oh you have tooo much time left and now oh no i havnt done everything i want to yet haha. what else do you want to get done before i get there? wow everyone leaving is crazy... im gonna get back and they will have a whole year left.i need kegs info for mtc and email. me and elder pierson are doin awesome together its amazing! we still dont have many people but we are finding alot of potential families and will start to have lots soon! well a spiritual and funny experiences. the other night we decided to take a new route cuz we both felt impressed to do so. so we did and there was a guy cuttin down a tree, (this is after we had prayed to find someone hopefully a family through a service oppourtunity) well we helped him get part of it done and told him we would come back and he said ok and and we said if your not here we will just start with out you and he said yeah yeah ok. well we show up he is there so we do another third of the tree and he shows up and he was soooo surprised we actually came and so we said that we would come back and finish with him and he said well i have no money and we said oh brother we arent doing this for money and he said how can i repay you and we said we dont want to be repayed but we do want to share a little message that will bless your family after we finish and he said ok so we are goin back tomorow to finish up and share the gospel with them! so i am about out of time im a slow typer but i love you all and i miss you too but its an amazng oppurtunity that i have and i love it alot! have an amazing week!
love taylor

The Gospel brings more joy than anything!

my week has been crazy. i just dont even know ha. my new comp is so awesome! we get along great and we are gonna show this ward what missionary work is about. we are tryin to get to know all of the members in our half of the area so that we can use them to find people and fellowship them. he is from alberta canada, we have the same first name, he has a sister named kalee, and he likes to fish. WEIRD! he has been out for 17 months so he has about 6 left. yes we are on bikes and its crazy cuz since we were gettin a new area they didnt have housing for us so we are living with 3 other elders, in part of the mesa grande area so i see people from my first area like everyday... his fam and he have been members for a long time. ha sorry this is gonna be jumbled.so hump day and my birthday... 365 down 365 to go ha its crazy that im 20 and half way done, i honestly dont feel different age wise... still feel like the same old me that is crazy and wants to be crazy and what not. mom i have officially learned on my mission that its not big things, or expensive things that make something a good gift or something great, its the simple heart felt ones. i have one thing to give people and its not expensive, its not gonna be a big screen tv but it is heartfelt, and its with all the love that i have and it is very simple. simple but it brings more joy than a giant mansion on the top of a mountian with every toy you can think of, more joy than anything. its funny cuz i get little pictures from brody and camden and kids in the ward or who we teach and they make me soooo happy. so dont think you are lame, i love everything you send. so that little blonde girl still visits :) that makes me happy ha so all the secrets and what not they told you is not all true. no one drove any of our cars with out liscences but yes there may or may not have been 3 ball teams at the house but i thought you knew about all that cuz of the whole garrett runnin over the bike thing. ha so how did you find out about all kalees secrets? WOW keg is leavin... i need his email info and what not porfavor. that is crazy thoughi will definately pray for them i feel like shelly is gonna need it. you did... you sprayed thistle? that is tough mom you and grandma should not be doin that. ugh school, its already started here... crazy. so i will tell you about last night cuz it was a cool spirit moment. so it was about time to go home and our plans got bounced around and we were in an area that we didnt know who to go visit and so we stopped and prayed and i just said we are in this area please help us know where to go to find someone. well i remembered seeing this house with a light on and i thought they were formers that no one could get a hold of so we went there and they answered the door and we talked to them for a sec and we found out that the dad didnt have a BoM so we gave him one and we have a return appointment but it was really neat to have the spirit lead us like that. i gotta write a ton of letters today cuz i been slackin cuz of movin which il have to do again and what not but i gotta get letters to maddy and bridge today and a couple other people that wrote me. funny story though well i thought it was funny but semi sad cuz the guy was so drunk but we were teachin a recent convert and a white guy that drinks a ton lives in the same house and we are talkin to the convert and the other guy was watchin a football game and in the middle of our prayer he starts yellin get that roach GET THAT COCKROACH! haha he was talkin about the players hahahahaha i about died. the guy was sooooo smashed, he drinks over 20 a day... anyway i hope you all have a great day today i love you all a bunch!!!

love taylor

Getting transferred!

so transfer news...... i am getting transfered, im whitewashing in a new area but im still in the same zone haha. i will be in the liahona 2nd ward so i am leaving my ward that im in... im getting elder pierson from canada. thats about all i know though ha. i took my camera already we found one thats in the mission but it was a ways away, they had to ship it out and will send it straight to me. so that is taken care of but thanks a bunch anyway. im so happy for Zach and Alex taking their endowments out! i cant believe that! i didnt know that travis anderson was out!?!?!?! that is soooooo awesome!!! yeah i would much rather be outside than inside walking too. thats great that KaLee and Madeline had a good time, i knew they would especially cuz dad and chris together is just asking for a wild time ha. marsh dropped the box off at the vc and i got it that day which was pretty sweet and yes i loved the jam! so did elder isom ha he wants some. i dont really need anything, im doin pretty good. il take what ever you send but you dont need to send anything though im doin good. holy crap everyone is gettin married ha what the heck?!? its like the prophet told people to start gettin married or something, oh wait that was one if the biggest things in April confrence! no fishin this week or today im gettin hair cuts and packin and what not. i do love fishin though :) best day was saturday and was also the day i felt the spirit the most cuz we had a baptism! Demian Leon who is the son of a recent convert got baptized. it was amazing and in january i will get to go to their sealing!!! so last night we at dinner they gave us pepsi and one of the sister missionaries that are in our ward is really sensitive with caffine and she drank 2 and was all sorts of crazy and hyper it was hilarious, i dont think that i have ever seen anyone react to caffine like that. it was pretty funny. investigators in liahona 4th we dont really have any anymore and i dont know what we are goin into for the new area... we shall see. ive learned alot in my companionship, we have gotten alot closer and im actually sad to go. im really lookin forward to meet my new comp and get this new area goin and to help some people out, it will be exciting. we went to the temple in the beggining of the transfer so i wont go for a little bit. we have whats called a mission tour in september and a general authority will be here but we dont know who. im excited though! well thats about it, i dont know what else to tell ya. i got lots to do today so its gonna be crazy.i hope that everything is amazing and that sports are goin well! i love you all and hope you have a wonderful day!
love taylor

Be cautious about the computer

well him droppin it off at the vc will be fine i can pick it up there just have them call me. ha mom i said dont worry bout packin around things ha i can get by. its been a wild day i just dont even know, one of my zone leaders is so immature and goes on power trips and no one likes him and i have about had it with him... anyway back to the other stuff, i would love it if it poured rain haha its really hot and i love it but a little more rain would be amazing! wow you got a nice little walk in this morning. we got up this mornign and had a zone activity. FISHIN!!! haha it was sooo fun i have a few pics from the big fish i caught. that is soooo sweet about kade, i am so stoked for him. you saw all of those guys, thats awesome ha tell everyone hi man its so crazy that everyone is goin on missions. everything feels a little surreal on the mission when i think about like everyone back home. brody and the cast, im jealouse cuz i always wanted a cast... hahaha high adventure will be awesome! i would love some rasberries when i get home.im glad your garden is doin good. my week went so fast idk its crazy, we had some good lessons and stuff did some service. we have a baptism this coming week, his name is damien and his parents are recent converts and he is gonna finally get baptized. oh idk what kind of protection you have on the computer but get all sorts of it that blocks ALL kinds of porn and that you have to put in passwords to get through if it is even a little sketchy. i have seen some problem with very young kids with that! So, me and elder isom are good everything has been a little better, he goes home in 4 months. funny stories, gosh idk the size of the fish and the pole i caught it on was pretty funny. i felt the spirit the most in a lesson with damien, i knew that there was a probelem with something and how to address it which was awesome. the mission is a giant obstacle course, things fall through and you dont know what to do, people tell you that they dont want you to come over anymore, people dont come to church. too many obstacles. seein marsh is always cool, i have definately seen him more on the mission than i have in the past years at home haha. all is really good here, transfers is next week i cant believe it time goes so fast, il be an old man soon. i do miss you all alot and love you bunches! i know your all being watched over while im gone. i love you lots!
love elder stosich

i lied im going to have to send pictures next week... camera isnt working at all anymore. bah!

the spirit testifies!

sounds like a very very crazy week. poor brody, marsh told me but i didnt get all the info. ha i never got to see marsh before the mish but now i see him all the time. haha i feel pretty good and for the most part i am healthy haha i have pink eye right now but its not too bad i got drops and its gettin way better.im glad everyone liked their stuff i didnt know if they would. being a doctor would be awesome but i dont think im smart enough for that business... i have thought about that cuz everytime i go into a doctors office i wanna do it but i always wanna learn all the parts and bones in spanish. idk tho. that is hilarious that brody jumped into the pool with his cast on. im stoked that the girls are goin to OYA. so this letter is gonna be short cuz im gonna have a WHOLE day of fun today. we went fishin last week and we are going to do it again today. It was fun and it was the sister's first time fishing and first fish!! anyway sounds like a wild party there with all the family. YOU WROTE KALEES TALK!?!?! wow thats ridiculous hahaha i had to write all of mine what the heck. i love bub! he is the bomb! wait til Brandon gets his call but tell him that you have something for him. i wrote him a while ago and never heard from him... so we had a cool experience that kinda smacked me in the face and its definately a lesson for everyone that has to learn a language. so we went to the visitors center for a lesson and our investigators didnt show but a lady from tempe came and it was for a first lesson and the tempe missionaries just decided not to show and so we decided to teach her. she had a member with her amd like we had a way awesome lesson and then at the end of the lesson the member asked me to bare my testimony in spanish and i said yeah... no one there spoke spanish but my comp but i did it and then when i was done the member said did you feel that? to the lady and she said yeah and he says thats what i love about this message and gospel, no matter what language its in you can feel the truth of it. it really hit me hard cuz its true, especially for keg and bub and all those who are headed out. your gonna make mistakes whether your speaking english or another language but as long as you have the spirit it doesnt matter. just send me anything mom i will be happy with what ever you send. you really dont need to send anything if you dont want ha i dont feel like its my birhtday so yeah haha. oh yeah one thing i do want is all the music we sang on sundays like the black binder.. there are sisters here that will play it for me. i got some pics for ya of my baptism and last p day. the baptism was way awesome!!! i gotta run though.
love taylor

it was both thier first fish and time fishing!
funny pic of me

New baptism dates!!

hahahah yeah its crazy how fast time flys and then seems not real. everyday! only i can remember for the most part things that happened. that is soooo awesome that you met up with Alisha twice! did she say anything about the missionaries? the Civil Rights museum sounds really cool. yeah they are my brothers that they hate and i dont do well with racism... especially now, i will hear a racist comment and the person that says it gets to hear my opinion on racism. its bad here against hispanics, blacks too. its blows my mind... good for Alisha to be getting her bachelors degree in biology thats sooo awesome! yeah, i can have some stuff ready for Marsh to bring home. i will get it ready and have it there today and he can pick it up when possible i am gonna send the baseball stuff i bought home ha. and probably other random things too. k il send my camera home i have the recipt and stuff so il make sure to put it all in with the box. i loved it when it was a constant family party haha well for the most part! but it sounds like a blast! Holy Cow, i am old... i dont feel 20 haha i do have to shave more and im a little bigger but i dont feel older, its weird and college stuff that blows my mind! me and kalee can room together if she wants or do that house thing together, its really up to her i would love it and would be soooo down for it but i dont wanna invade her space... so talk all that stuff over with her. oh elder klien is the man i love him! he is so great, i so hope he is doin well. we still keep in contact too so thats good. the week i have some serious mixed feelings about ha first il tell you why it stunk. it was rough comp wise but im over it and im just working to the best of my ability and we are blessed for it(thats good news and will come later) anyway next i popped 4 tubes this week 2 in one day one the next and then another the day after that.... im a little tired of bikes. so i bought all sorts of crap to keep tubes from popping cuz a good tube is 12 bucks and yeah...ummm other random stupid things happened but good news we have 3 investigators with baptismal dates 1 for this month and 2 for next!!!! we are gonna find even more this week and i am super duper stoked! also an investigator from our last part of the area is getting baptized this coming weekend! its gabriela. we are still knockin alot of doors, tryin to find service opportunities and just everything we are gonna start english classes too. everything else is good im actually losin a little weight now i had to make a new hole in my belt so thats good. i do 20-80 push ups in the morning and have some little work outs that i do so thats good and we are gonna start runnin again. we went to the temple too just barely it was so awesome! that was the day we found the new people. also jim smith took me through again, i believe that is the 3rd time ha and i saw jims dad at arbys one day too. im so proud your still goin to the temple that is sooo awesome that utah trip would be really cool but you should wait til keg is out of the mtc or you 2 will try and see him haha. Bubs call is sooooo awesome, he will fit right in there. its farms haha and he will love it!!! i would be fine with takin a nauvoo trip when i get home haha.... i sooooo hope brandon is workin on his papers that would be so great! keep that kid away from girls! well im glad to hear all is well i hope those cavities went well haha those little beasties haha i love them! well i love you all a ton and let me know if i can do anything for you all.

love taylor

Caught in a giant dust storm!

thats so crazy that your in tennessee again, it seems like FOREVER since you were there last. yeah how awesome is it that alisha accepted the missionaries! gosh i was soooooooo happy when i heard. man thats crazy you have to be there so early. hey you get breakfast! :) its good for you and dad to have time alone its definately needed. family vacations are pretty awesome though! speaking of vacations i know marsh and dana are headed that way soon but idk when, idk if they are drivin or flyin but if they are drivin i was hopin to send a few things with them... idk if you can text them or find out for me. elder dawson is there?!?!?!?! whoop whoop i love him ha. i love that you are gettin everyone now all you need is elder rosa and he will be next lol. brixeys bro is good from what i hear, he said he emailed him today so hopefully. so my BUB got his call, im soooooo proud of him he will love it!!!! yeah! when he leaves im on the down hill... im not gonna have any friends when i get back just morgan and bobbie haha but i have the fam which i dont have to worry about you all leavin me lol. you will be sayin alot of good byes but you will get some hellos here quick too. andrew and kody will come and then me... yeah work on stuff for utah state, il stay close to home for a bit and see where it goes from there. the week has been good, we dont have actual investigators yet but we have some return appiontments which is sweet. we have been knockin EVERY door in our area, we started on one end and are goin clear to the other ha we will find people to teach! Elder Isom and I are gettin along alright, i just tell him that we are leaving at certian times and what we are doing, but its all good though like you said im learnin how not to be! he has 5 months left so yeah he doesnt have much time left. what have i learned about myself? that is a very good question. i have learned that when i need to do something and or have a desire to do something i find away, and sometimes i may sound discouraged but its really not the case. i have learned not to get discouraged but to work harder. i dont really know i feel like i learn alot of little things about myself alot. just keep praying that the lord will put prepared people in my way to talk to, im really working on talking to everyone so that when they are prepared i dont miss them. thank you so much for everything! i hope that everything is good there. oh yeah so my camera is being really really slow and different things are happening and idk what to do cuz there isnt a stinkin best buy in the mission that we can get to, they are all a long ways away or just out of the mission... idk if i should send everything to you or what but i wouldnt have a camera... idk. anyways let me know what you think we have the warranty and insurance or what ever on it so yeah it just needs to go to best buy... everything else is good here. ha i did get caught in the giant dust storm wall thing that looked like its from a movie but im good just was covered in dirt after. well i love ya all and hope your all havin a good summer!!!
love taylor

Keep reading the scriptures!

the boys were trying an online playstation hook up??? the playstations we have dont do online... the xbox does... anyway im glad your here and got to email me, im sure everything was nuts over the fourth. it always was and will be cuz we are definately keeping that tradition of having the Petersons come. Ye, im so so glad that dad and Kenny were companions! idk i like most of my companions but its been a little tough with most of them cuz i either do everything or nothing ha. but idk i love bein here so much that it doesnt even matter! so i talked with a guy that served with andrew that just got home off his mission it was crazy and i dont remember his name though. hahahahahaha! Sondra was perfectly right i would have been all over in that roman candle war!!! im doin that when i get home for sure... idk with who, cuz everyone will be gone but im gonna. its sooooooo awesome about alisha listening to the missionaries! just a little miracle i guess. the week has been ok, tough cuz we had 0 investigators and white washing means that were going into area we havnt been in and thats the only area we have now. dad can probably explain it a little better. our sucess was with some formers, so for now we have 2 new investigators. but we are still looking...my best day, hmmmmmmm.... probably wednesday cuz i worked my butt off and idk i just felt really accomplished cuz i thought it was gonna be the worste day of my life but idk it was tough but we can only work and the lord does the rest. so companion, he is good. idk how to explain him, he wants to play more than anything and i think he is starting to get trunky cuz he has 5 months left and yeah. i do mostly everything i call people and talk to them on the street what not but then he takes credit for everything and idk says he is the one that does stuff so that bugs me a bit but im over it haha. Feeling the spirit the most was on sunday, alot of people talked about the atonement and it was a really good church meeting! i also gave a blessing and the guy was spanish but spoke english too and he said oh yeah you can give it in english so i said ok and i started in english but couldnt do it... i had to do it in spanish i just couldnt do it in english it was crazy... health is pretty good, i exercise but idk its weird we dont have enough time and elder isom sleeps in and if he does get up he wants to play sports but no one else goes so its hard. make sure you set a little time apart for you mom do what you need, go to the gym or what ever but dont stress your self out and burn out ok? so elder paredes, he has support and everything, thats just the way he is... dont worry about the letter. he goes home in september so hopefully he doesnt come visit ha..... im glad jose is good he is sooooo awesome, i use him so much as an example and he has been such an example to me. oh elder klien i love him and he is so awesome, we are gonna room at utah state if i go and he does too :) now i have 2 big things pushin me there so looks like thats winning! i dont think il be headed to hawaii at least not right away. well i love you all bunches and im glad to hear all is good and everyone is alive after the 4th! stay happy keep readin the scriptures as a family and you all will have a better relationships! i love you all a ton!!!!
love taylor

"thine afflictions are but for a small moment..."

TRANSFER NEWS..................im staying but we are losing part of our area which has our investigators in and taking part of another area and white washing but we are both staying...i knew elder klein would leave this transfer but i knew that you would be ok now. the Lord gave you someone to kind of help me not being there but can see that you are doing great now and that you dont need him to stay sane anymore lol. im sad he is leaving cuz i loved havin him close to you all and what not. you will have to road trip down to him once and a while, and while your in driggs for all brodys cavities see elder francis. IM SO PROUD OF BUB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! im now going to be waiting for a letter from him that says where he'll be serving and when he leaves... thats crazy about the whole mishap with his papers tho. KaLee's softball, that's too bad they lost so many girls to summer basketball. sports are such a joke these days, i hate that its the way it is... oh well not much you can do, they will lose alot of good players. oh sebastion is kickin it in heaven with grandpa marshall hahah grandpa is teasin him with a cane that he doesnt even need but has so he can torment people with it hahahaha. this week was really good, i felt the spirit strongest on exchanges teaching Gabriela and idk it was really awesome. right now im bummed though cuz we officially have 0 investigators and we are restarting...... its going to be really really hard but its what the lord wants and knows that i can handle it. idk i have felt very afllicted lately but the words that the Lord told joseph smith when he was in jail and joseph said," oh god where art thou?" and the lord replies " be patient in thine afflictions for they are but a small moment..." its true and he knows, he has been through it all and they are very short we just need to rely on him. so it will all be ok. oh the baptism i had no idea until a couple days before and it was amazing i was super nervous though... the spirit was sooo strong! gosh i just cant explain the joy that i felt that night to know that finally she is baptized and she is on the path. my spanish is terrible but i will know quite a bit whem i get home. sundays are weird we have church at 2 so we go out for a bit before we go to church and have a bit of time that night. they are pretty slow though. BOM in spanish is good im slowin down a bit cuz i been readin like our heritage and our search for happiness and im now on jesus the christ. im very proud that you all like the horchata haha its amazing, im gonna mexicanize you all. lol. thank you all for everything you do and yes i feel your prayers everyday! i hope all is well and that you are all havin a great summer.
love taylor

Horchata is delicious!

hahahahha it was really good ha but kinda weird to see brother brewer, doesnt make me trunky at all to se people ha idk why... probably just cuz i love it here so much! i dont think my spanish is that good but i can get around. yeah i loved the package! especially the camo bag! that is my new exchange suitcase hahahaha. yeah the fathers and sons made me a little sad ha they are gonna have to wait a couple months longer to do it next year hahaha so i can come. ryker makes me so proud haha. so the rice milk, its called horchata its delicious! go to bertos, well have kalee take you to bertos and get some its super good! it was way fun though, nice to hear about everything back home and tell someone about all the stuff here from back home in person, its sooooooo much easier to tell people stuff than to write cuz after awhile writin just gets tiring lol. everything sounds super awesome and busy just like usual haha gotta love a busy schedule haha. bridger does sound a little like me ha not tellin anyone about a trip and that kind of stuff...everything sounds great though. little boys peeing outside.... i taught them well! :) that is so awesome that you are all goin to tenessee! oh yeah can you get me the adresses to both the littles boys moms i wanna send the missionaries to them!!! il have sister cottrell call. i love you all so much im sorry i dont have much time today there has been alot of crazy stuff happening in this moment in time. thanks soooooo much for the package, i loved the camo!!!!! glad to hear all is busy there and that its all good. time is flyin we get transfer news this week which is super crazy... well i love you all a ton and am super glad to hear from you all the time! well i hope all is well and no, no word from either of them...
love taylor

I wouldn't want to be anywhere but here!

holy wow sounds like a hectic week. its ok that you didnt get a bunch of homemade stuff in i would have definately loved it but its understandable. we have hectic lives and when people ask us for extra stuff sometimes its dificult so i definately understand haha. im really excited for the pictures ha i love gettin them thats one of my favorite things! your not lame at all mom actually your exactly opposite i say this for many different reasons one of which being cuz you had the love for me to tell me no in things and to actually give me your oppinion. there are too many parents in the world that let there kids do terrible stuff and they dont care at all, they dont even say they think its bad they just let em do it... so Thank you! how awesome for the boys to be in band im so glad that they wamnt to to that kind of thing too, i thought i was to cool for all of that kind of stuff but really there are alot af really awewsome people that do that! about sebastian... that is sad that he dissappeared but who knows he was an odd cat he may show up but if he did pass on(i have no idea if this is doctrine) but he is family and families are forever haha so you may have to deal with the little grump later on again hahahaha. wow averys are leaving?!?! im sorry i know you and stephanie really got along. do you know how tyson is doin church wise like if he is plannin for a mission? i sure hope so he is a good kid! hmmmmm funny stories and my week... well im gonna be honest with ya i caught the flu... it whooped my butt, but didnt stop me. i dont have enough time to sleep all day and catch up haha but im better now. elder isom wrecked on his bike and that was pretty funny i wont lie cuz he was dinkin around and went to turn around and went straight over his handle bars haha. oh man speaking of which i will probably have to buy a new helmet the one i have cracked. my bike tipped over and my helmet was on the handle bars... strong helmet huh? oh so cool story about i guess enduring to the end is what im gonna call it lol i was not feelin good at all like i just threw up in the visitors center bathroom but we still had an hour and a hlaf left of the day and i told myself i wasnt goin back plus i felt like we needed to contact a referal we had. so we go over to this reaferal adn we had tried before but she wasnt home anyway we get there and it was a good 25 30 minute ride and we knocked and she was there! we talked to her, she had been to church at a different branch 2 weeks in a row but it wasnt ours and it was farther away and she had been walking cuz she doesnt have a car! our church is like 3 miles closer than the one she was goin to. so we set up an appointment and we talked to her and we got her a ride to church and she is just awesome! we have a lesson with her today and we are going to see if she will be baptized and i know she will but im just so excited for her!!! oh yeah and her name is gabriela. gosh she is so amazing!!! spanish book of mormon is good, and i actually saw elder scherbel last night! he is doin awesome! excercise is good i really wish we had some sort of gym tho cuz im not a big fan of just runnin especially when i get on a bike later ha. we play alot of soccer in the mornings too. OH YEAH LUPES MOM IS GETTING BAPTIZED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! im sooooooooooo excited on the 25th at 730 pm and josh her son that i baptized is baptising her!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! gosh im so excited and her dad is getting close too!!!! so with the baptisms il tell you all and its ok if you write them i decided but i really really reallly dont want it to be about the number of people i just want to all to know thats not whats important to me the things that are important to me is like on june 5th 2012 the martinez family can be sealed in the temple for time and all eternity and that the people that get baptized are on that path. deal? deal. hmm the thing people struggle with the most, i dont really know just leavin their old traditions and customs behind i guess. i dont really know it varies alot. i gotta say if you werent sad and happy right now that im here then i would be a little upset. A. if you were happy i was gone that would stink. but B. if you were completely sad i was gone and wasnt home i would be sad because idk i guess i would realize that your testimony of the gospel wasnt real strong... so im glad your sad im gone but happy im here haha. well i hope all is well there which it sounds like it is, sounds like a party and alot of craziness but thats good. well i love you all too and miss you too but i wouldn't want to be anywhere but here. time is goin really fast and will just keep goin faster!
love you all
taylor

It's not about numbers...

WHAT?!??!?!?!?! NO LETTER!!!! see if i write home ever again hahaha. dont worry about it, i dont think i will die... we can only hope not.sounds like life is crazy but fun there. how was your time out for women? ryker is in weights??? ha he is just a little guy, he cant be big enough for weights yet... oh rayos they are growin up ha. that is sooooo awesome that your all gonna keep gettin up and reading! im so proud of you all!!! it will help you a ton especially to get a good schedule and reading the book of mormon is just amazing anyway! poor elder klien haha i hated that darn chicken coop but i do kinda miss doin that work and believe it or not all the stinky smells, that really arent so stinky. the smell of city is not my favorite....we will stay in touch for sure i love him! he is so awesome, yeah i feel like at times we piggy backed each other in the mtc ha he is so awesome! i would wear a tie or two but i honestly cant think of anything else haha. sorry im not much help...sounds like this next weekend is gonna be a pachanga ha dont have too much fun. we need to tell the ward to post pone the fathers and sons next year til august hahaha. now for time going fast, yeah he is home and i have like 73 days or somethin like that til i have a year...my week was good but crazy ha, the baptisms went really good and i ended up havin one in my last area too. so ummm i think that when i have baptisms im not gonna actually tell you... your probably freakin out right now but i really dont want it to be about my baptisms and the amount. idk tell me what you fell about it and we will see. 77 is cold haha its 100's the other day the thing on elder nervezas bike said 128. we dont have to wear our jackets unless we go to the visitors center.health is pretty good. i drink lots of water.me and elder isom get along pretty good i must say its been nice. yeah i know this guy that grandpa met, i will get a letter written to him, i dont have a ton of time to write we have all sorts to do. sometimes i need a nap too. but i love you all and miss you bunches but times goin fast so no worries.
love you all!
love taylor

Still great weather in AZ!

so sorry this is a day late we didnt get to email until today so yeah... that letter from austin reese was crazy! how awesome would it be if i trained him! That is so cool! WOW things are insane i just dont know haha colter goin to ALASKA what who goes there lol i didnt even kknow there was people there lol jk. that is soooo crazy when keg leaves il have a year left il be on the down hill... kinda scares me. ha im glad everyone liked the candy and stuff. sorry it wasnt much and idk if bridge can even use those books but i saw them and said hey why not ha. im a little behind the times now so they proabably use some crazy books. yeah i actually talked to elder brixey the other day and told him about his bro bein at tthe house and what not. me and elder isom are good ha oh sister cottrell... she is hilarious, proabably one of the coolest people i know. she cracks me up. the other day i was at the vc and we were watchin a movie with some investigators and they give people referal cards so if you think of anyone then you can put them down and she gave me one and i said idk anyone ha i havnt been home in 9 months almost 10 and she goes i want someone! i just kinda laughed and during the movie i thought of dannete but couldnt remember phone numbers or anything so i put your name down and number to call you and obviously she did and you told her stories?!?! you gotta quit doin that haha tellin people how crazy a hick i am she just laughed and said a fourwheeler and car seats to go fishin??? hahahaha the weather here is amazing ha we are hittin 100s and what not its pretty cool i guess lol. wow everyone is growin up so fast just think when madeline will be a junior il be home kalee will be in college with me ryker will have the priesthood.... oh rayos everyone is sooooo old. gosh i gotta tell ya the other day one of the girls we are teaching who is 15 asked how old are you guys and when i said 19 she about died and i asked how come how old did you think we were and she was like no no idk and we laughed and she said in your 30s... i just feel old now. ok so me and president Ellsworth yeah i get along with him ha we had a zone confrence and it was 2 zones and president was there and there was a spanish sister that was sick and he came over to me and asked me to help him for a sec and i said yeah for sure. i had no clue what we were gonna do and we took the sisters into a room and i annionted and he gave a blessing to this sister. there were 6 other spanish missionaries there that i feel have better spanish than me and he asked me. it was super awesome, and i felt the spirit suuuuuuuuper strong. now ramon and his family, they have baptismal interviews tonight and saturday is the day so a year from then they can go through the temple!!!!! we have a couple other progressing but they have things that are slowly stopping them. its sad we had 2 guys that were reallly progressing and they had read to 1 nefi chapter 18 in a week and then a week later we went for an appointment and joe arpillo (idk how to spell his name and dont really care to know) came and deported them... they have families in mexico that would have been able to except the gospel too.. ugh it was terrible. everything else is super awesome here we are workin on finding new investigators and yeah it will be good. its sweet to hear about all the guys heading out for their missions and il see austin soon. well i love you all and hope all is well, let me know if there is something in particular that you want me to send with bro brewer home and when he is actually coming. i miss ya bunches and hope all is well!
love taylor

hahaha im writin dad this week, haha oh the emergency transfer was just a weird deal! Elder Cuenca and I were way good together. everyone has little things ha but it was a really good time with him! My new comps name is elder isom he is from grantsville utah he has been out 18 months and yeah. so far things are pretty good nothing bad. we lost our car cuz an elder got hurt and they needed it so who knows how long we are on bike. i liked the trio thing it was just tough covering both areas...yeah elder nerveza was in my mtc district and he is from hawaii and elder monohan is from pensylvania. im not completely sure about byu hawaii but idk its a thought. so il talk a little about the guy and his girls well you know our last baptism? well that was his wife and one of thier daughters. but now him and his other 2 daughters are going to get baptized! on june 4th!!! thier names are ramon is the dad cynthia is a daughter that is 12 and juliana who is 8! im so excited, a year from june 4th i will be going through the temple with that family for them to be sealed for time and all eternity!!!!!!!! in spanish it is way different, i like it ha its another 120 pages though.the pics of kalee did come through, she looked awesome!!! now for your diet, you can do it! mom its not just you, you have tons of help you just gotta use it. well i didnt answer everything but i gotta write president so il write more next week!

love taylor

oh ps i used my card to get a little girl a birthday present and some stuff so she could have a sweet birthday!

In a Tri this week with a new comp on Wed!

im so very proud of you mom for not emailing WAY early. ha i was a little worried tho when i saw there was no letter from you... im sooooooo excited for blake that is sooooooo coool!!! kalee didnt tell me about districts but im sure il hear soon.i can look at attachments but there wasnt one ha, im super glad she had fun tho.im so proud of maddy and her yellow card hahahahaha no she is a good girl! i was so suprised to hear about bridger and piano, i cant even tell you how happy i am for him to play and that he loves it. he will never regret it. ryker is gonna be 11, what the heck he will be passing the sacrament when i get back... i dont even know what to say about some of those kids back home... i honestly want to cry cuz i know what its gonna do to their lives.i work with people every single day that have nothing and are barely scraping by beccause of that stuff, the worst part about it is that its soooo easy to fix. ughhhh idk... im so happy and proud of kegan, i hope he liked that stuff it wasnt much but idk it was something. i want him to do awesome! he is an awesome kid! camden still has that darn blanket?!?! im happy about the bat and ball though! sorry the stuff i sent wasnt much but i thought that you would like it, i love elder holland and the book of pictures i love a ton! well my comp got transfered early and im in a tri covering both our areas... but i get a new comp on wednesday and im staying, my allergies are ok no worries.we eat a ton everynight but mondays yes, its ridiculous haha i wish they didnt feed us quite so much. ummm we teach about 20 lessons a week or so.i dont think i had a best day this week, it was an odd week and im still not quite sure how i feel about it. well scripture study is good, just restarted the bom but in spanish cuz i just finished it in english, im in 2nd nefi 6 i think so im doin ok, i wanna finish it by my birthday in spanish. i cant even tell you how proud i am that you are finishing it tomrorw!!!! that is sooo awesome! haha idk about the accent but i can speak ok now i still got a looooooooong way to go. i love you all bunches and i hope everything is good! i will hopefully have some stories next week for yall!

love taylor

Great to hear from everyone!

The phone call was great! No, you werent discouraging at all, it was super good to hear everyones voices again. itr was super crazy to hear camden and brody jabbering away like there was no tomorow. ha idk why you think the other kids listen to me so much but im super glad if they do, i want to be the good awesome influence and big bro that i should have years ago. ya i was calling from a cell phone but they bought 3 dollar calling cards for us to use anyway, but we tried to pay them back but they wouldnt have any of it haha they are super awesome. the guy actually gave me a suit the other day too, its way nice. they are awesome!! so the baptisms it was maria martinez rodriguez and her daughter yaritza martinez. OK, i will try and share more experiences in my emails. i have no clue about stuff to send with bro brewer to be honest i just kinda fly by the seat of my pants when it comes to my needs but i think everyone else is good really idk ha when is he coming? elder monahan is way awesome he is an elder in my district that i have really gotten along with, he still has a year left. he is from pensylvania and is just way cool, he has tried to talk me into goin to byu hawaii... but idk about that. it was pretty good timing though and kalee knows about the WHOLE cookies and thats what she will get one day ha she has never settled for half a cookie and wont. i am super glad that all is well there and i love you all sooooooooo much your amazing!!!
love taylor