Keep reading the scriptures!

the boys were trying an online playstation hook up??? the playstations we have dont do online... the xbox does... anyway im glad your here and got to email me, im sure everything was nuts over the fourth. it always was and will be cuz we are definately keeping that tradition of having the Petersons come. Ye, im so so glad that dad and Kenny were companions! idk i like most of my companions but its been a little tough with most of them cuz i either do everything or nothing ha. but idk i love bein here so much that it doesnt even matter! so i talked with a guy that served with andrew that just got home off his mission it was crazy and i dont remember his name though. hahahahahaha! Sondra was perfectly right i would have been all over in that roman candle war!!! im doin that when i get home for sure... idk with who, cuz everyone will be gone but im gonna. its sooooooo awesome about alisha listening to the missionaries! just a little miracle i guess. the week has been ok, tough cuz we had 0 investigators and white washing means that were going into area we havnt been in and thats the only area we have now. dad can probably explain it a little better. our sucess was with some formers, so for now we have 2 new investigators. but we are still looking...my best day, hmmmmmmm.... probably wednesday cuz i worked my butt off and idk i just felt really accomplished cuz i thought it was gonna be the worste day of my life but idk it was tough but we can only work and the lord does the rest. so companion, he is good. idk how to explain him, he wants to play more than anything and i think he is starting to get trunky cuz he has 5 months left and yeah. i do mostly everything i call people and talk to them on the street what not but then he takes credit for everything and idk says he is the one that does stuff so that bugs me a bit but im over it haha. Feeling the spirit the most was on sunday, alot of people talked about the atonement and it was a really good church meeting! i also gave a blessing and the guy was spanish but spoke english too and he said oh yeah you can give it in english so i said ok and i started in english but couldnt do it... i had to do it in spanish i just couldnt do it in english it was crazy... health is pretty good, i exercise but idk its weird we dont have enough time and elder isom sleeps in and if he does get up he wants to play sports but no one else goes so its hard. make sure you set a little time apart for you mom do what you need, go to the gym or what ever but dont stress your self out and burn out ok? so elder paredes, he has support and everything, thats just the way he is... dont worry about the letter. he goes home in september so hopefully he doesnt come visit ha..... im glad jose is good he is sooooo awesome, i use him so much as an example and he has been such an example to me. oh elder klien i love him and he is so awesome, we are gonna room at utah state if i go and he does too :) now i have 2 big things pushin me there so looks like thats winning! i dont think il be headed to hawaii at least not right away. well i love you all bunches and im glad to hear all is good and everyone is alive after the 4th! stay happy keep readin the scriptures as a family and you all will have a better relationships! i love you all a ton!!!!
love taylor

"thine afflictions are but for a small moment..."

TRANSFER NEWS..................im staying but we are losing part of our area which has our investigators in and taking part of another area and white washing but we are both staying...i knew elder klein would leave this transfer but i knew that you would be ok now. the Lord gave you someone to kind of help me not being there but can see that you are doing great now and that you dont need him to stay sane anymore lol. im sad he is leaving cuz i loved havin him close to you all and what not. you will have to road trip down to him once and a while, and while your in driggs for all brodys cavities see elder francis. IM SO PROUD OF BUB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! im now going to be waiting for a letter from him that says where he'll be serving and when he leaves... thats crazy about the whole mishap with his papers tho. KaLee's softball, that's too bad they lost so many girls to summer basketball. sports are such a joke these days, i hate that its the way it is... oh well not much you can do, they will lose alot of good players. oh sebastion is kickin it in heaven with grandpa marshall hahah grandpa is teasin him with a cane that he doesnt even need but has so he can torment people with it hahahaha. this week was really good, i felt the spirit strongest on exchanges teaching Gabriela and idk it was really awesome. right now im bummed though cuz we officially have 0 investigators and we are restarting...... its going to be really really hard but its what the lord wants and knows that i can handle it. idk i have felt very afllicted lately but the words that the Lord told joseph smith when he was in jail and joseph said," oh god where art thou?" and the lord replies " be patient in thine afflictions for they are but a small moment..." its true and he knows, he has been through it all and they are very short we just need to rely on him. so it will all be ok. oh the baptism i had no idea until a couple days before and it was amazing i was super nervous though... the spirit was sooo strong! gosh i just cant explain the joy that i felt that night to know that finally she is baptized and she is on the path. my spanish is terrible but i will know quite a bit whem i get home. sundays are weird we have church at 2 so we go out for a bit before we go to church and have a bit of time that night. they are pretty slow though. BOM in spanish is good im slowin down a bit cuz i been readin like our heritage and our search for happiness and im now on jesus the christ. im very proud that you all like the horchata haha its amazing, im gonna mexicanize you all. lol. thank you all for everything you do and yes i feel your prayers everyday! i hope all is well and that you are all havin a great summer.
love taylor

Horchata is delicious!

hahahahha it was really good ha but kinda weird to see brother brewer, doesnt make me trunky at all to se people ha idk why... probably just cuz i love it here so much! i dont think my spanish is that good but i can get around. yeah i loved the package! especially the camo bag! that is my new exchange suitcase hahahaha. yeah the fathers and sons made me a little sad ha they are gonna have to wait a couple months longer to do it next year hahaha so i can come. ryker makes me so proud haha. so the rice milk, its called horchata its delicious! go to bertos, well have kalee take you to bertos and get some its super good! it was way fun though, nice to hear about everything back home and tell someone about all the stuff here from back home in person, its sooooooo much easier to tell people stuff than to write cuz after awhile writin just gets tiring lol. everything sounds super awesome and busy just like usual haha gotta love a busy schedule haha. bridger does sound a little like me ha not tellin anyone about a trip and that kind of stuff...everything sounds great though. little boys peeing outside.... i taught them well! :) that is so awesome that you are all goin to tenessee! oh yeah can you get me the adresses to both the littles boys moms i wanna send the missionaries to them!!! il have sister cottrell call. i love you all so much im sorry i dont have much time today there has been alot of crazy stuff happening in this moment in time. thanks soooooo much for the package, i loved the camo!!!!! glad to hear all is busy there and that its all good. time is flyin we get transfer news this week which is super crazy... well i love you all a ton and am super glad to hear from you all the time! well i hope all is well and no, no word from either of them...
love taylor

I wouldn't want to be anywhere but here!

holy wow sounds like a hectic week. its ok that you didnt get a bunch of homemade stuff in i would have definately loved it but its understandable. we have hectic lives and when people ask us for extra stuff sometimes its dificult so i definately understand haha. im really excited for the pictures ha i love gettin them thats one of my favorite things! your not lame at all mom actually your exactly opposite i say this for many different reasons one of which being cuz you had the love for me to tell me no in things and to actually give me your oppinion. there are too many parents in the world that let there kids do terrible stuff and they dont care at all, they dont even say they think its bad they just let em do it... so Thank you! how awesome for the boys to be in band im so glad that they wamnt to to that kind of thing too, i thought i was to cool for all of that kind of stuff but really there are alot af really awewsome people that do that! about sebastian... that is sad that he dissappeared but who knows he was an odd cat he may show up but if he did pass on(i have no idea if this is doctrine) but he is family and families are forever haha so you may have to deal with the little grump later on again hahahaha. wow averys are leaving?!?! im sorry i know you and stephanie really got along. do you know how tyson is doin church wise like if he is plannin for a mission? i sure hope so he is a good kid! hmmmmm funny stories and my week... well im gonna be honest with ya i caught the flu... it whooped my butt, but didnt stop me. i dont have enough time to sleep all day and catch up haha but im better now. elder isom wrecked on his bike and that was pretty funny i wont lie cuz he was dinkin around and went to turn around and went straight over his handle bars haha. oh man speaking of which i will probably have to buy a new helmet the one i have cracked. my bike tipped over and my helmet was on the handle bars... strong helmet huh? oh so cool story about i guess enduring to the end is what im gonna call it lol i was not feelin good at all like i just threw up in the visitors center bathroom but we still had an hour and a hlaf left of the day and i told myself i wasnt goin back plus i felt like we needed to contact a referal we had. so we go over to this reaferal adn we had tried before but she wasnt home anyway we get there and it was a good 25 30 minute ride and we knocked and she was there! we talked to her, she had been to church at a different branch 2 weeks in a row but it wasnt ours and it was farther away and she had been walking cuz she doesnt have a car! our church is like 3 miles closer than the one she was goin to. so we set up an appointment and we talked to her and we got her a ride to church and she is just awesome! we have a lesson with her today and we are going to see if she will be baptized and i know she will but im just so excited for her!!! oh yeah and her name is gabriela. gosh she is so amazing!!! spanish book of mormon is good, and i actually saw elder scherbel last night! he is doin awesome! excercise is good i really wish we had some sort of gym tho cuz im not a big fan of just runnin especially when i get on a bike later ha. we play alot of soccer in the mornings too. OH YEAH LUPES MOM IS GETTING BAPTIZED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! im sooooooooooo excited on the 25th at 730 pm and josh her son that i baptized is baptising her!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! gosh im so excited and her dad is getting close too!!!! so with the baptisms il tell you all and its ok if you write them i decided but i really really reallly dont want it to be about the number of people i just want to all to know thats not whats important to me the things that are important to me is like on june 5th 2012 the martinez family can be sealed in the temple for time and all eternity and that the people that get baptized are on that path. deal? deal. hmm the thing people struggle with the most, i dont really know just leavin their old traditions and customs behind i guess. i dont really know it varies alot. i gotta say if you werent sad and happy right now that im here then i would be a little upset. A. if you were happy i was gone that would stink. but B. if you were completely sad i was gone and wasnt home i would be sad because idk i guess i would realize that your testimony of the gospel wasnt real strong... so im glad your sad im gone but happy im here haha. well i hope all is well there which it sounds like it is, sounds like a party and alot of craziness but thats good. well i love you all too and miss you too but i wouldn't want to be anywhere but here. time is goin really fast and will just keep goin faster!
love you all
taylor

It's not about numbers...

WHAT?!??!?!?!?! NO LETTER!!!! see if i write home ever again hahaha. dont worry about it, i dont think i will die... we can only hope not.sounds like life is crazy but fun there. how was your time out for women? ryker is in weights??? ha he is just a little guy, he cant be big enough for weights yet... oh rayos they are growin up ha. that is sooooo awesome that your all gonna keep gettin up and reading! im so proud of you all!!! it will help you a ton especially to get a good schedule and reading the book of mormon is just amazing anyway! poor elder klien haha i hated that darn chicken coop but i do kinda miss doin that work and believe it or not all the stinky smells, that really arent so stinky. the smell of city is not my favorite....we will stay in touch for sure i love him! he is so awesome, yeah i feel like at times we piggy backed each other in the mtc ha he is so awesome! i would wear a tie or two but i honestly cant think of anything else haha. sorry im not much help...sounds like this next weekend is gonna be a pachanga ha dont have too much fun. we need to tell the ward to post pone the fathers and sons next year til august hahaha. now for time going fast, yeah he is home and i have like 73 days or somethin like that til i have a year...my week was good but crazy ha, the baptisms went really good and i ended up havin one in my last area too. so ummm i think that when i have baptisms im not gonna actually tell you... your probably freakin out right now but i really dont want it to be about my baptisms and the amount. idk tell me what you fell about it and we will see. 77 is cold haha its 100's the other day the thing on elder nervezas bike said 128. we dont have to wear our jackets unless we go to the visitors center.health is pretty good. i drink lots of water.me and elder isom get along pretty good i must say its been nice. yeah i know this guy that grandpa met, i will get a letter written to him, i dont have a ton of time to write we have all sorts to do. sometimes i need a nap too. but i love you all and miss you bunches but times goin fast so no worries.
love you all!
love taylor

Still great weather in AZ!

so sorry this is a day late we didnt get to email until today so yeah... that letter from austin reese was crazy! how awesome would it be if i trained him! That is so cool! WOW things are insane i just dont know haha colter goin to ALASKA what who goes there lol i didnt even kknow there was people there lol jk. that is soooo crazy when keg leaves il have a year left il be on the down hill... kinda scares me. ha im glad everyone liked the candy and stuff. sorry it wasnt much and idk if bridge can even use those books but i saw them and said hey why not ha. im a little behind the times now so they proabably use some crazy books. yeah i actually talked to elder brixey the other day and told him about his bro bein at tthe house and what not. me and elder isom are good ha oh sister cottrell... she is hilarious, proabably one of the coolest people i know. she cracks me up. the other day i was at the vc and we were watchin a movie with some investigators and they give people referal cards so if you think of anyone then you can put them down and she gave me one and i said idk anyone ha i havnt been home in 9 months almost 10 and she goes i want someone! i just kinda laughed and during the movie i thought of dannete but couldnt remember phone numbers or anything so i put your name down and number to call you and obviously she did and you told her stories?!?! you gotta quit doin that haha tellin people how crazy a hick i am she just laughed and said a fourwheeler and car seats to go fishin??? hahahaha the weather here is amazing ha we are hittin 100s and what not its pretty cool i guess lol. wow everyone is growin up so fast just think when madeline will be a junior il be home kalee will be in college with me ryker will have the priesthood.... oh rayos everyone is sooooo old. gosh i gotta tell ya the other day one of the girls we are teaching who is 15 asked how old are you guys and when i said 19 she about died and i asked how come how old did you think we were and she was like no no idk and we laughed and she said in your 30s... i just feel old now. ok so me and president Ellsworth yeah i get along with him ha we had a zone confrence and it was 2 zones and president was there and there was a spanish sister that was sick and he came over to me and asked me to help him for a sec and i said yeah for sure. i had no clue what we were gonna do and we took the sisters into a room and i annionted and he gave a blessing to this sister. there were 6 other spanish missionaries there that i feel have better spanish than me and he asked me. it was super awesome, and i felt the spirit suuuuuuuuper strong. now ramon and his family, they have baptismal interviews tonight and saturday is the day so a year from then they can go through the temple!!!!! we have a couple other progressing but they have things that are slowly stopping them. its sad we had 2 guys that were reallly progressing and they had read to 1 nefi chapter 18 in a week and then a week later we went for an appointment and joe arpillo (idk how to spell his name and dont really care to know) came and deported them... they have families in mexico that would have been able to except the gospel too.. ugh it was terrible. everything else is super awesome here we are workin on finding new investigators and yeah it will be good. its sweet to hear about all the guys heading out for their missions and il see austin soon. well i love you all and hope all is well, let me know if there is something in particular that you want me to send with bro brewer home and when he is actually coming. i miss ya bunches and hope all is well!
love taylor

hahaha im writin dad this week, haha oh the emergency transfer was just a weird deal! Elder Cuenca and I were way good together. everyone has little things ha but it was a really good time with him! My new comps name is elder isom he is from grantsville utah he has been out 18 months and yeah. so far things are pretty good nothing bad. we lost our car cuz an elder got hurt and they needed it so who knows how long we are on bike. i liked the trio thing it was just tough covering both areas...yeah elder nerveza was in my mtc district and he is from hawaii and elder monohan is from pensylvania. im not completely sure about byu hawaii but idk its a thought. so il talk a little about the guy and his girls well you know our last baptism? well that was his wife and one of thier daughters. but now him and his other 2 daughters are going to get baptized! on june 4th!!! thier names are ramon is the dad cynthia is a daughter that is 12 and juliana who is 8! im so excited, a year from june 4th i will be going through the temple with that family for them to be sealed for time and all eternity!!!!!!!! in spanish it is way different, i like it ha its another 120 pages though.the pics of kalee did come through, she looked awesome!!! now for your diet, you can do it! mom its not just you, you have tons of help you just gotta use it. well i didnt answer everything but i gotta write president so il write more next week!

love taylor

oh ps i used my card to get a little girl a birthday present and some stuff so she could have a sweet birthday!

In a Tri this week with a new comp on Wed!

im so very proud of you mom for not emailing WAY early. ha i was a little worried tho when i saw there was no letter from you... im sooooooo excited for blake that is sooooooo coool!!! kalee didnt tell me about districts but im sure il hear soon.i can look at attachments but there wasnt one ha, im super glad she had fun tho.im so proud of maddy and her yellow card hahahahaha no she is a good girl! i was so suprised to hear about bridger and piano, i cant even tell you how happy i am for him to play and that he loves it. he will never regret it. ryker is gonna be 11, what the heck he will be passing the sacrament when i get back... i dont even know what to say about some of those kids back home... i honestly want to cry cuz i know what its gonna do to their lives.i work with people every single day that have nothing and are barely scraping by beccause of that stuff, the worst part about it is that its soooo easy to fix. ughhhh idk... im so happy and proud of kegan, i hope he liked that stuff it wasnt much but idk it was something. i want him to do awesome! he is an awesome kid! camden still has that darn blanket?!?! im happy about the bat and ball though! sorry the stuff i sent wasnt much but i thought that you would like it, i love elder holland and the book of pictures i love a ton! well my comp got transfered early and im in a tri covering both our areas... but i get a new comp on wednesday and im staying, my allergies are ok no worries.we eat a ton everynight but mondays yes, its ridiculous haha i wish they didnt feed us quite so much. ummm we teach about 20 lessons a week or so.i dont think i had a best day this week, it was an odd week and im still not quite sure how i feel about it. well scripture study is good, just restarted the bom but in spanish cuz i just finished it in english, im in 2nd nefi 6 i think so im doin ok, i wanna finish it by my birthday in spanish. i cant even tell you how proud i am that you are finishing it tomrorw!!!! that is sooo awesome! haha idk about the accent but i can speak ok now i still got a looooooooong way to go. i love you all bunches and i hope everything is good! i will hopefully have some stories next week for yall!

love taylor

Great to hear from everyone!

The phone call was great! No, you werent discouraging at all, it was super good to hear everyones voices again. itr was super crazy to hear camden and brody jabbering away like there was no tomorow. ha idk why you think the other kids listen to me so much but im super glad if they do, i want to be the good awesome influence and big bro that i should have years ago. ya i was calling from a cell phone but they bought 3 dollar calling cards for us to use anyway, but we tried to pay them back but they wouldnt have any of it haha they are super awesome. the guy actually gave me a suit the other day too, its way nice. they are awesome!! so the baptisms it was maria martinez rodriguez and her daughter yaritza martinez. OK, i will try and share more experiences in my emails. i have no clue about stuff to send with bro brewer to be honest i just kinda fly by the seat of my pants when it comes to my needs but i think everyone else is good really idk ha when is he coming? elder monahan is way awesome he is an elder in my district that i have really gotten along with, he still has a year left. he is from pensylvania and is just way cool, he has tried to talk me into goin to byu hawaii... but idk about that. it was pretty good timing though and kalee knows about the WHOLE cookies and thats what she will get one day ha she has never settled for half a cookie and wont. i am super glad that all is well there and i love you all sooooooooo much your amazing!!!
love taylor

Beautiful hike in Arizona!

oh goodness time is not on my side today... i want to say sorry for 3 things first about emails, we went hiking today and it was amazing but its gonna make my email short. 2 sorry if you dont get your mothers day gift this week idk when it will make it. and the 3rd... i cant call on sunday... just kidding dont kill me and dont freak. we will probably call that night probably around 6 or 7 i think. i read kegs!!! the phillipeans is sweet he will do awesome, if you see him tell him im gonna write him next week cuz i had no time whatsoever today, actually call him please and tell him how stoked i am for him!!! im so glad bub started! i dont remember what i did for the egg drop but i think if you took like a a milk jug or something of that size and padded it super good with like toilet paper then put an egg in the middle and finish filling it, that might work, idk im sorry. the out house sounds cool. i cant even tell you how excited i am for vaughndavid, my heart just idk swells would be the best word but no i havnt gotten the invitation yet, soon. ha the whole Kalee thing i kinda knew i would be right. idk its weird even though we were at each other all the time we have kind of a bond and we know each other really well. il tell you about elder monahan another day ha i dont have time, and bah im sorry send all the questions again next week cuz i have no time. i love you all soooooooooooo much and i will talk to you soon. love taylor

the hike was beautiful, kinda cold though.