HAHAHA wow lots of questions this week.my comps name is elder paschoalini (pass qwa lee nee) and he is cool, he is from brazil and has been out about 6 months. the area is HUUUUUUUGE but yes we have a car and it makes life a little bit easier but its still tough. i love the area here, i have had some awesome experiences here already with teaching and the spirit being strong and just its cool. so i wont lie leaving was tough cuz i love the members there in tierra rica but i was definately happy to leave to cuz we didnt teach much there cuz of the lack of hispanics but there is not a lack of them here. i love it we teach quite a bit and there is always people to talk to. my responsibilities as a DL is i now have to worry about the other 4 elders and their investigators now, not just me and my companion and ours. we live in an apartment with our ZLS. i did get a GPS thank you so much cuz i really needed it. i did get my package thank you i loved it, i love getting homemade stuff its the best.
i think my best day this week was wednesday cuz we got to the area and i put a few things away ate lunch and we were off. we went and taught some way sweet lessons and the spirit was way strong in one of them, we taught the restoration and it was just way strong. we do have investigators, in fact we have a baptism this saturday!!! he is way cool and ready, he has taken discussions for a long time and now is finally getting baptized. there is alot of potential in this area and i am super excited cuz i am hoping by the time i leave it will be a ward! there are plenty of people to teach so it should be possible.
i cannot believe that jose is half way.... i remember when he left i had 6 months... that is sooooooo crazy. it really sounds like stuff is normal at home haha. the sports have begun haha open gyms and everything. its gonna become run run run once again. THEY ARE HAVING A BOY!!! wow when is she due? its gotta be before i get home haha im sooooo excited cuz i will have a little baby to hold at home. we see them all the time and we cant hold little kids and it kills me. haha one of my not favorite rules. any way im glad all is well and that its all normal at home. you think grandma and grandpa will come down for months? wow.
president ellsworth wrote you about me being DL? ha thats pretty cool, im definately glad for your guys support cuz i wouldnt be able to do any of this stuff. its not gonna be too much different i will just have more time to serve different people.
well all is well here and i am about out of time so i love you all and thanks for everything you guys do and i love you all sooooooooo much!
love taylor
Monday, January 30, 2012
Monday, January 23, 2012
I want to be obedient
well sounds like a busy day there as well as for me here. i am being
transfered to the paradise valley zone as a district leader. it is a
long ways away and its in phoenix so im finally leaving mesa haha. its
really exciting cuz i will be district leader and i will have a car
but i am definately nervouse to go and do it. my companion is from
brazil and has been here like 6 months. i cannot spell his name cuz
its crazy haha but he is a really good guy i have met him before so i
am excited.
now for all the buisness back home people are goin on missions
like crazy its sooooo awesome except i get home and everyone is still
gone... i cannot believe madeline driving on her own kinda scares me
lol. thats so awesome that bridger did so well and that olivia won her
game! they are definately my siblings!
ha yeah grandma was tellin me that they wanted to take me to dinner
and i just said that if they wanna call president they can and if he
says yes i am happy to go, i would love to see them but now more than
ever im trying to be more obedient. i want to become who the Lord
would have me be and i have to be an example for those around me. but
if president gives me permission then i am totally fine with it, but
if not then i wont go.
so i already told you about transfers and what not. not much happened
this last week but we had a really good lesson last night with a lady
that we have been working with. her son is a member but she isnt and
she knows it is true and we invited her to pray about it and ask God
if this was the true church and she says i cant ask that question. we
were really confused and i remember just feeling like i needed to say
some stuff and i did and she asked why do you know its true, what
happened to you and i just bore my testimony to her and the spirit was
SOOOOO strong and then after i did i invited her again and i invited
her to pray about it again and she said she would and i know that her
simple prayer will change her life.
the family that was gung ho just kinda disappeared, we passed by but
they never had time or didnt answer and we could hear them inside. i
dont really like to think about that... the weather is amazing! i love
it, its starting to warm up again and i cant wait to not have to wear
my jacket all the time haha.
anyway im glad all is well there makes me happy to hear about all that.
i love you all sooo much!!!
love taylor
transfered to the paradise valley zone as a district leader. it is a
long ways away and its in phoenix so im finally leaving mesa haha. its
really exciting cuz i will be district leader and i will have a car
but i am definately nervouse to go and do it. my companion is from
brazil and has been here like 6 months. i cannot spell his name cuz
its crazy haha but he is a really good guy i have met him before so i
am excited.
now for all the buisness back home people are goin on missions
like crazy its sooooo awesome except i get home and everyone is still
gone... i cannot believe madeline driving on her own kinda scares me
lol. thats so awesome that bridger did so well and that olivia won her
game! they are definately my siblings!
ha yeah grandma was tellin me that they wanted to take me to dinner
and i just said that if they wanna call president they can and if he
says yes i am happy to go, i would love to see them but now more than
ever im trying to be more obedient. i want to become who the Lord
would have me be and i have to be an example for those around me. but
if president gives me permission then i am totally fine with it, but
if not then i wont go.
so i already told you about transfers and what not. not much happened
this last week but we had a really good lesson last night with a lady
that we have been working with. her son is a member but she isnt and
she knows it is true and we invited her to pray about it and ask God
if this was the true church and she says i cant ask that question. we
were really confused and i remember just feeling like i needed to say
some stuff and i did and she asked why do you know its true, what
happened to you and i just bore my testimony to her and the spirit was
SOOOOO strong and then after i did i invited her again and i invited
her to pray about it again and she said she would and i know that her
simple prayer will change her life.
the family that was gung ho just kinda disappeared, we passed by but
they never had time or didnt answer and we could hear them inside. i
dont really like to think about that... the weather is amazing! i love
it, its starting to warm up again and i cant wait to not have to wear
my jacket all the time haha.
anyway im glad all is well there makes me happy to hear about all that.
i love you all sooo much!!!
love taylor
Monday, January 16, 2012
The Spirit will direct us
thats sooooooo crazy that there is no snow... i can only imagine that
all the farmers are freaking out. grandma and grandpa are excited
haha.
wow i am sooooo proud that you are having FHE each week. thats really
awesome cuz we try and help people do it and so its nice to know that
my own family is too lol. im glad rykers knee isnt too bad and that he
is using a brace, he is just like me and it would kill him if he had
to drop sports. plus he is still so young and has alot of sports ahead
of him :) WOW 7 am swim meet that is crazy haha. im glad there is
more fish in the family haha i always talk about swimming or
wakeboarding or stuff about the water and everyone is like geeze you
were a fish werent you and i just laugh. RYKER was the MC, what a
stud! he is my brother :) im sure he did awesome! those kids are
really the best, we lucked out with such a great family.
haha sounds like a wild date night to me, what color did you paint it?
445 am that is ridiculous, i cannot believe that. too much stuff to
do! im soooo happy you and dad went to the temple together again :) it
makes me happy every time that i hear that!!!
i did get your letter and i wrote you one back so i wont say much
now but it was needed. dont feel like you let me down either cuz you
didnt. i was happy to get dads email today and it was good too.
Thats way cool aumberly is coming down she really likes the family.
she is definately a good friend from the mission.
my week was pretty good, i feel like they just go faster and faster
and i get less and less done... umm yes actually we did have some
progress with investigators, we have a new family of 6 but really only
3 or 4 are listening, anyway 3 came to church and then the whole
family went to the fireside with us last night and really liked it.
they are doin pretty good so it will be exciting to see what happens.
the time i felt the spirit the strongest was saturday night and it was
a super cool experience, anyway we decided to take out some young men
with us that have about a year until their mission and we went to an
investigator that we dropped bbut he called us so we decided to go. we
get there and he said a few things and then these 2 brothers who are
twins just start testifiying and holy cow the spirit was SOOOO strong!
they were saying things that were in my mind that needed to be said
and i cant even explain it. i was so proud of them, it was sweet but
this guy really just kind of wanted to bash, but there is a scripture
in the BOM that says that the spirit will direct us that we may
confound men in their words (something like that) and it was so cool
to see that happen cuz he would say something and each of us said
things that would make him think alot but the spirit was really strong
that night.
my BOM reading is good, i have restarted twice but i am in mosiah 20
in spanish and alma 7 in english. im reading them like at the same
time so we shall se how it goes, i really like it cuz i read it in
english and then i pick up the things i didnt when i read it in
spanish.
no really funny stories this week at least not that i can think of. it
was definately a pretty good week though.
i love you all and am so grateful for you!
love taylor
all the farmers are freaking out. grandma and grandpa are excited
haha.
wow i am sooooo proud that you are having FHE each week. thats really
awesome cuz we try and help people do it and so its nice to know that
my own family is too lol. im glad rykers knee isnt too bad and that he
is using a brace, he is just like me and it would kill him if he had
to drop sports. plus he is still so young and has alot of sports ahead
of him :) WOW 7 am swim meet that is crazy haha. im glad there is
more fish in the family haha i always talk about swimming or
wakeboarding or stuff about the water and everyone is like geeze you
were a fish werent you and i just laugh. RYKER was the MC, what a
stud! he is my brother :) im sure he did awesome! those kids are
really the best, we lucked out with such a great family.
haha sounds like a wild date night to me, what color did you paint it?
445 am that is ridiculous, i cannot believe that. too much stuff to
do! im soooo happy you and dad went to the temple together again :) it
makes me happy every time that i hear that!!!
i did get your letter and i wrote you one back so i wont say much
now but it was needed. dont feel like you let me down either cuz you
didnt. i was happy to get dads email today and it was good too.
Thats way cool aumberly is coming down she really likes the family.
she is definately a good friend from the mission.
my week was pretty good, i feel like they just go faster and faster
and i get less and less done... umm yes actually we did have some
progress with investigators, we have a new family of 6 but really only
3 or 4 are listening, anyway 3 came to church and then the whole
family went to the fireside with us last night and really liked it.
they are doin pretty good so it will be exciting to see what happens.
the time i felt the spirit the strongest was saturday night and it was
a super cool experience, anyway we decided to take out some young men
with us that have about a year until their mission and we went to an
investigator that we dropped bbut he called us so we decided to go. we
get there and he said a few things and then these 2 brothers who are
twins just start testifiying and holy cow the spirit was SOOOO strong!
they were saying things that were in my mind that needed to be said
and i cant even explain it. i was so proud of them, it was sweet but
this guy really just kind of wanted to bash, but there is a scripture
in the BOM that says that the spirit will direct us that we may
confound men in their words (something like that) and it was so cool
to see that happen cuz he would say something and each of us said
things that would make him think alot but the spirit was really strong
that night.
my BOM reading is good, i have restarted twice but i am in mosiah 20
in spanish and alma 7 in english. im reading them like at the same
time so we shall se how it goes, i really like it cuz i read it in
english and then i pick up the things i didnt when i read it in
spanish.
no really funny stories this week at least not that i can think of. it
was definately a pretty good week though.
i love you all and am so grateful for you!
love taylor
Monday, January 9, 2012
A Heaven sent question
so the sports are still going haha i remember those days when thats the reason we were running is cuz there was 5 practices to get to and not enough cars or time. thats so good that olivia is doing good. thats too bad about rykers knee too... put a brace on him and if he can play he can play if not well i guess he will have to figure something else out. he is a very determined kid.
those 2 boys are going to be something else when they get to school... girls are going to go CRAZY.
wow you have a very big goal, well the girls do to finish both of those. you can all do it though but you have to be like on each other all the time about it. support is a big key to completing goals. a staycation sounds like it would be fun and motivating to me. goals are the best but make sure you write them down and put them where you can see them cuz if not they just fall off the map. oh the little boys and not doing the animals, i wonder if they hate them as much as i did? i dont anymore which is funny, as a matter of fact we were at a persons house and they had chickens and a HUUUGE rooster and they said something about grabbing it and i was like yeah its not hard just grab it by the legs and hold it upside down and they were like yeah right you do it then and so i just grab it and they were all like WHAT?!?! he actually did it, i was laughin pretty hard. anyway i remember someone going outside and acting like he was feeding the chickens...
im so glad you guys go to the temple so much its the best place ever, i cant wait until i can go like every other day haha or every day. you just feel sooooo much better when you go!
me and tuttle are still doin good! we have fun stuff happen every day. ummm the spirit was strongest yesterday forsure, we were fasting and what not but we were tracting and we knocked a door and it was a lady and long story short we had to go find another guy and come back to teach her but as we were talking she stops us and says i know that you have like a set message for everyone and the community but what is it for me, what does God want ME to hear. we sat there for a sec and elder tuttle said some stuff and then kind of passed it off to me and i sat there for a second, then i felt the spirit super strong tell me to ask her a question and it was definately what she needed to hear and we built off everything and it was super good but i really had no idea what i was gonna say but the spirit told me for sure. it was super awesome, definately a Heaven sent question.
investigators: we are kind of starting over, no one wants to progress... we look everyday almost all day. we have lessons here and there but its mostly looking. we get very little referals but do alot of knocking haha.
anyway its super good to hear from you all and sounds like all is well, i miss you all but am having a great time here! i love you all a TON!!!
love taylor
those 2 boys are going to be something else when they get to school... girls are going to go CRAZY.
wow you have a very big goal, well the girls do to finish both of those. you can all do it though but you have to be like on each other all the time about it. support is a big key to completing goals. a staycation sounds like it would be fun and motivating to me. goals are the best but make sure you write them down and put them where you can see them cuz if not they just fall off the map. oh the little boys and not doing the animals, i wonder if they hate them as much as i did? i dont anymore which is funny, as a matter of fact we were at a persons house and they had chickens and a HUUUGE rooster and they said something about grabbing it and i was like yeah its not hard just grab it by the legs and hold it upside down and they were like yeah right you do it then and so i just grab it and they were all like WHAT?!?! he actually did it, i was laughin pretty hard. anyway i remember someone going outside and acting like he was feeding the chickens...
im so glad you guys go to the temple so much its the best place ever, i cant wait until i can go like every other day haha or every day. you just feel sooooo much better when you go!
me and tuttle are still doin good! we have fun stuff happen every day. ummm the spirit was strongest yesterday forsure, we were fasting and what not but we were tracting and we knocked a door and it was a lady and long story short we had to go find another guy and come back to teach her but as we were talking she stops us and says i know that you have like a set message for everyone and the community but what is it for me, what does God want ME to hear. we sat there for a sec and elder tuttle said some stuff and then kind of passed it off to me and i sat there for a second, then i felt the spirit super strong tell me to ask her a question and it was definately what she needed to hear and we built off everything and it was super good but i really had no idea what i was gonna say but the spirit told me for sure. it was super awesome, definately a Heaven sent question.
investigators: we are kind of starting over, no one wants to progress... we look everyday almost all day. we have lessons here and there but its mostly looking. we get very little referals but do alot of knocking haha.
anyway its super good to hear from you all and sounds like all is well, i miss you all but am having a great time here! i love you all a TON!!!
love taylor
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Super awesome to see you guys!
well you just about got a 2 line email... now it might be 3 or 4 cuz of time but il see what i can do haha. christmas was super awesome, to see you guys. everyone looks soooo good. i cannot believe the no snow situation and that you have the same temperature as we do.
i actually heard about grandma grayce... that is sad but like you said she wasnt doin well and it was better. that is sad that jeffery came home.
the whole school thing i will figure out tomorow we have interviews with president so il ask him and see what he says and what my options are.
farewells and homecoming are crazy haha i cant wait to hear about them.
so new years resolutions im quiting pop again, and a few other things but nothing to super huge i guess. im excited to hear how that goes and what some of yours are.
well i gotta go cuz im out of time but i love you all alot and i hope il send a bigger letter next week haha.
Love,Taylor
i actually heard about grandma grayce... that is sad but like you said she wasnt doin well and it was better. that is sad that jeffery came home.
the whole school thing i will figure out tomorow we have interviews with president so il ask him and see what he says and what my options are.
farewells and homecoming are crazy haha i cant wait to hear about them.
so new years resolutions im quiting pop again, and a few other things but nothing to super huge i guess. im excited to hear how that goes and what some of yours are.
well i gotta go cuz im out of time but i love you all alot and i hope il send a bigger letter next week haha.
Love,Taylor
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