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!