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