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