Conference was amazing!

haha mom its ok that you cried, i dont really mind it anymore ha. confrence was absolutely amazing, i loved the talk about the guy that was swimming and the life gaurds had warned him but he went out anyway. the life guard watched him and went out and waited for him to call for help. he was right there right when he needed it though. that is exactly how Heavenly father and Jesus work they are always ready to help but they are waiting for our call. the 5 dollar story and the prayer. so great i love general confrence now its so crazy how much its changed for me. the father talk about loving mothers also wow that really hit home, i always need to be an example and didnt realize i guess that the way that i would treat my wife would help my daughter determine the husband she chooses. its crazy my decisions and actionsaffect alot more than just me. we watched at a stake center. im so glad you got to see elder klien, i know that he was very happy to see you. i heard from him today also and it was nice. i miss that guy but he sounds like he is doin awesome. so is KaLee's friend that she is coming to AZ with a member? if not i might be able to see if i can set up a lesson with them...anyway we shall see i guess. emotion bowl, blue posts again haha about time!!! how is jose doin, i havnt heard from him in a while. so the roads i gave you was just our area haha not my zone, my zone boundries are waaaaaaay bigger. i do live outside my zone though. we live on the southeast corner there is a pool in thebackyard and we live in the pool house haha. we dont teach many lessons cuz there isnt many hispanics in the area. we found a few potentials though and im hoping to have at least 1 baptism by the time i leave. they havnt had one here for over a year..... im gonna do it tho. ok so i gotta run but i love you lots and miss you a bunch! oh the santa thing, tell santa to hold on to his money for when i get back cuz im gonna have clothes and all sorts of stuff to buy for school... just take pics of the fam and send that i like seein everyone. il try and be better with pics, im just always so busy i dont even think about it. anyway love you all!!! Love, Elder Stosich

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

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!