"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