My testimony is strengthened every day!

hahahaha ok so i got this email and i know that you are always emailing im just givin ya a hard time when i say stuff about it. ok so best day this week... i have no idea we had alot of exchanges this week and it was crazy ha. yeah i really dont know cuz it was just a weird week. new investigators umm not really we have found a few people that we are gonna try and teach but who knows ha they are pretty flaky and some of our investigators are progressing, but its rough cuz they wont let go of the catholic religion its just part of them. they know it is wrong and everything but they cant let go...hmmm so i felt the spirit the strongest on exchanges we taught a 19 year old and his 16 year old girl friend the spirit was just super strong there. my testimony is strengthened everyday, i just have seen alot of people with bad stuff in their life and we try and share that all that can go away and that Jesus suffered for all of that and when the people apply it its soo amazing because they are happy. well if you looked at all the pics i sent last time there is a temp of 86 degrees and it was actually hotter than that earlier that day, now its about 75 and its 10:23 but here in an hour or so it will be 80's. ummm me and elder chavez are better now we worked it out pretty good there was just alot of crap goin on and yeah i felt like i was babysittin and doin EVERYTHING. its pretty good now plus transfers are here soon. yeah the letter from elder paredes... honestly didnt like him, i trried my hardest and i didnt wanna talk negative about him home or anywhere. i learned mostly what not to do with him especially when training. but oh well i forgive him and hope that he has a good mission. if you see steven tell him i am soooo excited for him! i love you all sooooooo much and miss ya for sure but it is awesome here and im glad to be here. here are some pics.
love taylor

so the first one is a road runner, they are QUICK!
haha the next is elder chavez' foot family during weekly planning lol.

ps. i loved the article that grandma sent out, i remember the day we went to buhl oh so clearly. going into the tribune and the hardware store looking for people she knew... it was a neat experience for me and i know it was for her too.

I love you anyways!

thanks for the email pops i love to get them from ya. yeah scott muir i couldnt beleive that and i didnt even recognize him haha. another cool thing about that day was that jim smith took me through at the end of the session into the celestial room. it was an awesome day! the work is goin alright still a little slow, but goin we are findin people but they are all "catholic" ugh if i got a quarter for everytime i have heard that i would be a billionare, they dont go to church or anything but it is tradition. i love in the book of mormon how it talks about how they had to teach the people about the foolish traditions of their fathers and what not, that is how i feel. they all believe in the bible and the ten commandments and yet they worship the virgin mary and the saints!?! its very frustrating sometimes... but other than that all is well, we have a car that i love haha. it has been pretty hot lately too. i hope your all doin well i love you bunches!
love your son taylor

ps did i ever tell you i think about you alot cuz there is a service master right down the street from our house?


welp no tengo nada de ti momma otra vez... i dont have anything from you again momma, what the heck?!?!? ok so week went pretty good and we are tryin to find new people. i honestly do now know what to say... ummm so the voice recorder i have one that does like tapes but idk if thats what you want. let me know i can do one of those or you can try and find a different one. dont worry about gettin cologne i will get it here, we can go to the mall here which is weird but oh well haha. i got a few pics for ya. ok so the 86 degrees it was actually 91 that day but i didnt have my camera... the hair that im pointin to i pulled out of my head and yes... its grey... AHHHHHHHHHH. well thats all i got for ya sorry i wish i had more for ya but idk what to write.

ok sorry i had to send another email. well mom i love you even though you dont email me anymore haha. just kidding i know it probably just didnt come through. love your son taylor


Ok... I'm not sure what's going on. I emailed at 8am our time and he gets on the computer around 12:00 but he is still not getting it!!! I wait by the computer until 3:30 when I get THIS email... UGH!!! I'll try emailing on Sunday from another computer. poor kid. Thinks his mom forgot him. He did get his dad's and sisters email. What the heck??? -Mindy

No email??????

ok soo you didnt email me..... idk what to do or say so i will send you some pics of my last pday. we went to the dodgers rockies game which was fun. dont have any pics of me hahaha buuuuut i enjoyed the game. well hopefully you email soon or somethin cuz wwell im almost out of time and i dont know what to tell ya. i had leadership training all week and we are gettin a car... ummm we have 4 people that are gettin close i told you about them last time but idk what else to tell ya... sorry. i love you all and miss ya bunches. tell olivia happy birthday and that i love her bunches!!!! love ya
taylor



Just to clarify.... I did NOT forget him! I DID email in the morning but for whatever reason he didn't get it. :( Mindy

Winter, the spirit & scorpions!

hahahaha so for the email you sent before this elder pearson is elder scherbels new comp. so yeah i know him lol he is nice. hahaha winter is leavin here (the little winter they have) and summer is on its way. it is warmin up so hopefully it will start there too. bahhh im soooo jealouse hahaha dad is goin on all sorts of hunts without me. hmmmm... before i forget vaughndavid and rachel getting married when? no one has said anything to me for a while about all that. haha kalees wisdom teeth make me laugh i can only imagine what she looked like. oh well you just answered my question bout vaughndavid and rachel. heck what is this guys phone number and address il get him to write a letter lol. thank you for the money i will find a recorder and hard drive, im gonna try and find a recorder that uses a memory card so thats all i have to send. yeah i need garretts email and address in mexico cuz i haad a letter but he left today and wasnt goona get it at the mtc. everything is good here we have 2 new investigators named jesus and rebecca they are awesome, they came to church on sunday and loved it and we are gonna set a date with them the next time we meet with them so hopefully... ummm the time that i felt the spirit most was we were teachin lupes mom and she was havin a hard time and i just decided to bear my testimony to her about prayer and what not and idk the spirit was super strong the rest of the lesson it was amazing. yes im takin vitamins and what not and exercising. im good now the sickness was a one day thing. im ok dont worry.i see scherbel once and a while but i havnt seen addison or davis since they left. haha i saw 2 chubby black boys the other day and immediately thought of brody and camden. im sooo glad that they know what im doing that really idk just makes me happy. i hope everything is good there and i love you all bunches.
love taylor

so pics we have 3 pets...
scorpions glow in the dark when you shine a black light on them...

Sun every day...

i bet you enjoyed the sun in Vegas for a couple days haha i get it like everyday buuuut sun doesnt always mean warm ha its been kinda cold here really windy and rainy man its kinda like idaho... baaaaaah lol im glad you enjoyed phantom ha im sure it was a blast especially with the girls and everyone. i cannot believe that stinkin lizard is still alive, wow i figured it would die in a couple days ha. thats cool. Dad cut the babies hair??? oh goodness i remember the last time WE cut the babies hair, I, myself taylor,will never cut their hair again A. because they hated it and B. because you wanted to kill me and it was not a good day so i cant believe he did it again. im worried too about rykers hair but i mean he probably saw the pictures of me cuttin my own hair and figured he could do it lol. i cannot believe bridgers birthday is so soon he is growin up fast!!! and olivia too wow it kinda blows my mind. yeah i would do the tape recorder, if you guys want to ha that would be fine with me. i will go get one that holds a memory card and get a memory card today and then you can match it? il try and get the cheapest one. yeah lupe is comin for sure and i told her that you would see her, im pretty sure im sendin some stuff with her so make sure there is room in the back of the car hahahaha. we are teachin her mom and she is comin along a little bit but she was a jehovahs witness and is strugglign with some of the beliefs but i want to see their whole ffamily become memebers and be sealed so im gonna do all i can to help. i havnt heard from jose in a loooooooong time.... i think you shoudl do as much as you want for him mom you were like a second mom to him. so everything here is pretty good language is comin i seem to know a little more each day. the week was ok umm i was sick and that is what the withdrawels were for. im good though so no worries. i am with the same companion, and it is kinda common to be in the same place for so long but il probably get transfered next transfer.i did get the valentines package haha thank you. im glad you enjoed the videos they were pretty funny. im sorry your headed back to snow and im not at the same time, ha i kinda miss the snow ha idk what about it maybe the smell or kinda the fresh feeling idk lol but i miss it. im glad everything is good there and i love you all!
love taylor

p.s. the hard drive i was thinkin about doin that cuz i have a ton more stuff and like i wanna make sure i have EVERYTHING from my mission and if i have a hard drive i can get stuff from members and then the computer at home isnt completely jam packed with stuff and i will be able to have the pics and stuff after my mission like when im married and what not.

Transfers... I'm stayin!

hahaha ok so im sure your super mad at me cuz i didnt email yesterday buuuuut they changed it on us cuz of presidents day... here it is BEAUTIFUL ha startin to really warm up again and i LOVE it hahah. im so glad Keg got the letter it really wasnt much but im glad that he likes them! I am soooo glad that you go every week to the temple i know it will continue to help and i knew it would help! Yes, satan works in mysterious ways, he can even make things like going to the temple seem bad or like it's causing more problems. I know it is the spirit that you bring home afterwards is what helps. im pretty positive that i will go every week when i get home, especially after i am married. Madeline would love playin in the mud haha! what a goof! i didnt write her last week cuz i thought she was in st george all week. i'll write her today, let her know. That's so great how everyone pictched in for Jose's dinner. i love how that happens, how everyone comes together for a great cause, thats one of the things that i love about out there in osgood, everyone helps each other its amazing its like a giant family. As far as changing what day you write, you can write whenever you have time ha i just like gettin letters from everyone haha so when ever is ok with me. i did get a king cake from the Kleins ha they are awesome! we have to get together with them when this is over cuz idk i just feel super close to klien and i know you do too ha and his mom so that would be awesome. another person i will be hangin out with after is elder davis who sadly is getting transfered.... i wont be able to see him anymore well not for a while anyway...well my life is pretty good i must say i have had a wild week, it rained quite a bit this week and i got sick... 101.3 degree fever and i was super achy it was TERRIBLE i was asked not to go out so i didnt get people sick and i was later grateful cuz at one point in the day i could hardly walk it was crazy! i havnt been sick like that in a LOOONG time. teaching and new people are going slow, we have some people in our branch that have kids that havnt been baptized so we are really workin on them but other than that we are lookin. Transfers......... im stayin haha! they get to deal with me at least one more transfer lol what happened with klien and francis???? as for ctr bikes idk anything about them and no one here has used them, what everyone does is either sees if a missionary there has one or buys one there. i can ask some more buuuut it will be a whole week before i can let ya know. im glad that i am settin a good example for everyone, i love it here and its sooo amazing to do this work. its the only time i will have to do this. as for the questions your answers helped a ton ha i was confused about that stuff and i dont remember the other ones il have to let ya know next time. so how is your weight loss going? still asking for the help and strength to do it? well i love everyone and i miss you all i hope everything is good there, your in my prayers. il send pics next week i forgot my camera sorry.
love taylor

Teaching through the spirit

haha yeah it is crazy we are emailin already i swear a week really isnt a week anymore, time just zips by. haha I know it's different now that my pday is monday. im sure havin that break of chores on tuesday was nice. so yeah, il give ya another 6 months to get used to monday since these 6 have flown ridiculously fast. i wouldnt say I'm freakin out about the time yet, but it seems crazy! now, when you say a year, il probably be freakin out ha. oh yeah there are days that i think oh goodness this is never ever gonna end lol but then there are days that i say oh man i dont have enough time to get done what i need to get done. yeah im sooo glad you have had Klein and Francis for these 4 months cuz i think that's helped you guys out alot. yeah i will see what i can do to cheer Klein up. thats too bad that he is takin it hard, ha i know if that happened to me id probably take it pretty rough for awhile too. i love him and he is a strong missionary and he will be ok i know it. IM SOOOOOOOOOO glad Jose took out his endowments finally!!! oh i knew he would be ok. thats sweet your all goin to phantom! that will be super fun! ok best and worst. well i felt sick on saturday so that was definately the worst besides the investigators that said they were gonna come to church not showin up and cuz we are on bikes and they live forever away we couldnt zip over and say something. best part though was we had some dropped investigators text and ask us to come back over and we did and idk the spirit was super strong and we didnt teach a PMG lesson i felt like we needed to read out of the book of mormon. they really needed it! they had alot of questions that needed to be answered and we wouldnt have found out if we wouldnt have read. of course i am still writin in my journal, idk if i told you but i kinda promised myself that i would be like dad and write EVERY day in my journal. the ball field was AMAZING!!! yeah that was elder davis, so its a long story but i was with the rez elders and we had to go see someone in their ward who just so happened to be the VP of the rez and he had a bunch of ball stuff in his office and i was like i LOVE baseball and we got to talkin and he goes, "Hey would you guys wanna go check out the new stadium for the rockies and the diamondbacks?" haha you can probably imagine what i said UHHHH YES!!!!!! definately one of the coolest things ever. the guy on the rez was super sad but i know that the spirit did testify to him, and i know i still have a language barrier but i CAN teach through the spirit. i havnt gotten that package yet but i hope to soon, did you get my little package with the jump drive in it???? i hope so. the time is flyin and next thing ya know i will be checkin this again to write ya some more. i hope everything is good there and i want you all to know i love you bunches!

love taylor

Pday changing to Monday!

ok so i really dunno what happened last week cuz i emailed it just didnt go through. yeah thats why we are emailin today but from now on it will be on mondays they are changin our pday to mondays for some reason...i idk what the trainin is we havnt been yet. but i am super excited that you will go see Josha and Lupe at Conference! i am gonna send some stuff home that i have aquired with them and you can take it haha then i dont have to ship it lol. idk how long they will be there or where they are stayin il have her let you know over facebook all the info. well we dont have any new investigators really we are tryin hard to find some but its tough no one really wants to progress. jose is soooooo close to goin its sooooo awesome im excited for him, im glad i was a good example to him and i know he is a good example to soooo many people around him sooo thats super awesome! this email is not a very big one but i have pictures for ya so i hope that makes up for it. we got to go tour the diamondbacks rockies spring training stadium it was sweet! im definately workin hard and im not comin home for about 18 months haha so dont worry. i love you all and miss you a ton but i too know all the blessings i will recieve and you are recieving. i hope all is well.
love taylor
ps im gonna send a usb drive home with a ton of pics so you can download them all.

Spanish whooped me...

wow the weeks FLY!!! i swear i just emailed like yesterday. well the best part of my week was when i got to go out with the rez elders twice and it was awesome ha i really like talkin with the indians out there, i got a chance to talk to an investigator of ours out there and well i guess my best and worst time happened with them cuz idk when i talked to this investigator it was really hard for me and idk it was rough. we went over and he speaks only spanish and its me and the rez elders and they are english. so we go in and we start talkin and i asked if he thought god loved him and he said he didnt know cuz his son was shot and killed a year ago and he knows who did it and where he lives but the police never did anything to him and the guy is still out there. he is severely depressed and it was sooo hard cuz i tried sooo hard to comfort him and i didnt feel like i could, i mean i guess spanish kinda whooped me that night but i did my best and i tried to bring the spirit and i know that comforted him some but that was pretty rough for me. my new comp is cool. umm not really any new investigators, we are lookin though. josh and lupe are good ha they are awesome. haha yes both Andrea and her sister got baptized and their parents are members but they were less active and the mom is now comin to church but the dad works on Sundays. the language is still movin slow ha but its comin.oh the weather is beautiful ha thats all im gonna say so no one gets mad haha. no i havnt been to the temple in a little while but we go soon. Jarom is going to south africa! That is sweet! thats crazy its so far away, his entry date though. im stoked jose is takin his endowments out finally! i love them both, Bobbie and Jose, but its gonna be hard for him to leave. trust me i know how hard it is to leave a girl home ha... i wish he was at the house more too, i havnt heard from him in a looooooooong time its kinda sad. oh man sounds like the house is gonna be CRAZY thats a lot of kids runnin around. im super glad my advice helped, ha i know that sometimes we do think that. HA he doesnt care about my weight or HA its not important that im slow or what ever it may be, but he does. idk thats one of the things ive learned is to rely on the lord for EVERYTHING ha and im glad you know that now, i think you knew that but sometimes you just feel silly askin for help with that stuff. I know he will help so great job!!! im glad your gettin to the temple ha if it does the same thing for you as it does for me then you need it once a week ha i need it that much but i got work to do and cant go that often. yeah that counts if you go twice in a week to catch up. hows dad been with the temple, is he gettin there? so elder klein got dear johned again??? he did in the mtc so idk whats goin on haha. tell him to mail me and talk to me about what he is havin a hard time with. well im definately workin hard and will continue to do so, i love the peopel and i know that even though some times are frustrating that i gotta keep goin cuz they need this message and wont be able to make it without. i want them to have eternal families as bad as i want mine. well i hope all is well i love you all alot and i miss ya.
love taylor

Crazy dreams and tires that POP!

well first off the dream you had is crazy hahahaha! my church is a couple miles from the temple, not connected to it and my bike is DEFINATELY not a low rider haha! if you came i would introduce you to alot of missionaries ha cuz well i know alot of them. did you get a prescription from matt for some pills??? lol in a tree like tarzan bahahaha nah havnt done that one yet either. yeah i hate it when the alarm ruins dreams ha i had that happen a couple times last week.wow i cant believe all those people got their calls thats crazy! im stoked for them! it is rough sometimes but it is for everyone we just all have to remember that those times make us stronger and help us better appreciate our savior Jesus Christ. haha thats sweet Saiko is an awesome name for the puppy! haha im sure dad doesnt like the poopin in the garage ha i remember him always gettin all sorts of mad when the animals did that ha i can just picture him and it puts a smile on my face. i love that im not the only missionary in the family. My whole family is working to do the same thing i am, to help people make it back to live with their families forever. so with your diet im gonna tell ya the same exact thing we tell people that smoke or drink or anything that isnt good for them, first turn to your heavenly father and ask him for help. i know you may be thinkin thats silly to ask him to help you lose weight or have motivation to do so but its not. 2nd find something to replace eating a great thing is the book of mormon, heck you can still eat too just grab a granola bar and sit down and read for a minute or a while, then 3rd thank heavenly father for that support and help. ha i know if you do that it will help, and when you wake up in the mornings ask for help through out the day. wow well my comps name is elder Chavez, from california he is cool, yeah we get along pretty good. baptism went pretty good with andrea and her sister. my week and the work is startin to go slower, people just arent progressing and so yeah we are kinda doin the same thing scherbel is idk its just been tough and findin new people is gettin tough too. i do have a lock for my bike so dont stress , now i just need steel tubes for my tires bah they pop sooooo much its a joke. everything is good though i just gotta stay workin hard. i love you all a ton hope everything is good there.
love taylor