April 30, 2012

Nope I have not heard anything at all.  The zone leaders are right next to me and as far as they know everything is the same, but they go to zlc this week, so they will find out more then. (about talking on Mother's Day)

 

Yeah, Nathan.  I remember him, haha.  That would be funny if I get sent up there and then I am his trainer, haha.  That would be awesome, haha, but I don't think I will get set there.  I think I will go to Vegas this transfur, in 5 weeks, haha, but anything could happen, haha.

 

Aunt Ange is getting old, haha. 45 haha, I just put that in there to annoy her, haha.  I hope it works maybe she will be mad and email me or something!  That would be a tragedy, haha jk.  No, i love them.  That is so awesome that they where able to do the same thing that I wanted to do and everyone thought was a terrible idea.  I am just full of bad ideas, haha :)

 

I am glad that y'all are doing the reading.  I am not going to send my notes anymore.  It takes too long to type and I took a week off to let y'all catch up in the reading, but I studied other things in this past week.  So I got an awesome gift from one of the members here.  They were going through some old bookshelves and they came across a 1914 edition of the Book of Mormon in perfect condition except for one little tear on the cover, but it is not bad.  I picked it up and was like, "Man these things are awesome."   And she was like, "You can have it."  I was like ok!!  I ran before she could change her mind, haha.  JK on the last part but it is awesome haha.  98 years old.

 

Oh yeah, the members fix my clothes whenever i get holes so i dont worry about them.  Every pair of my suit pants has had a hole but they are all fixed but one.  I would love some socks.  I want Under Armor socks so if you can find some black ones get them.  They look good as long as they are black, so just what ever you can find.  And if it is alright I am going to buy a basketball and a scale today with home money.  So let me know, please.  I still have not gotten the camera chargers that I need to be able to take pictures so I can't send them.

 

So, this week we have a baptisim and then next week and then the week after that, haha.  It is going to be awesome.  It is amazing how when people hear the truth of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ they are ready to change their lives to live the gospel because of the power of the Spirit bearing witness to their hearts of the truthfullness of what we are telling them.

 

we had the opportunity to speek to some youth in the Alamo Ward about missions and why we serve missions.  It was an awesome opportunity.  I felt the spirit as I spoke.  I hope the kids were able to feel the same thing.

 

 

 

April 23, 2012

Dear family, sorry about getting frustrated.  I only had 22 emails this week, haha.

Sounds like y'all have had an awesome week, so far.  Man so we have a bunch of poeple that want to go catch some crawfish and have a crawfish boil, so if you could have bishop send me the instructions on how to do it and then y'all send me what ever I need to do it because these are less actives, haha. So yeah, help me out with that please, haha.  Everyone wants to get Cajun food, haha. and this guys name is Beadou.   haha i know that is not spelled right but his family is from down south in LA, but he has never been there.

Oh, so this past Sunday we got a call from this man that said he had been reading the Book of Mormon and was on 3 Nephi and read how if you take the sacrament unworthy then your soul should be damned and so he read that baptism is by immersion and so he decided that it was time to be baptized.  So we will be doing that on the 5th of May.   haha   It is awesome.  The area has picked up so much.  We were at about 3-4 ltms (lesson taught with a member present) a week and now we have gotten 9 in the past two weeks and are hoping for more this week.  So the area is on the upswing.  So hopefully we will be able to keep working hard and have the area improve. ( not to brag but before I got to the area there where 2 investigators we baptized one of those and dropped the other and now we have 9+ investigators and finding more all the time.  It has been a great blessing.)

Oh, that blanket smells like home.  Still, what did you do to it? haha  My comp was like..."is that what your home smells like?"  and I was like, "yeah".  He was like, "wow smells pretty good."  haha.

I don't know what we can do on Mother's Day yet. I will have to ask the zone leaders what is allowed and then i will have to tell you then.  Ok, sounds good?

Georgia Arnold......There you go Mom.  This is Elder Arnold's mother's number.   hahaha 509-929-1111

Oh and that email was still not here. haha  I don't know what happened, but thank you for mailing it to me. And sorry for getting up set last week. I should not have.

April 16, 2012

Hey, I am your son...remember me ?


Ok, look, I know this sounds like I am complaining, and it is because I am.  But missionaries look forward to emailing family and when you get to the computer and there are emails, but they are like a picture and a letter from Micheal, and one from Jenny and that's it, then it is really frustrating.  I care about y'all and I want to know what is going on.  I can't call.  All I have is email and when I can't even get y'all to take 5 mins out of your week and send me an email it is really really frustrating! Sorry for complaining.


Well, I didn't get one from y'all, and I have to go.  I am not going to make my comp sit here all day!!!!

April 9, 2012

Hello, I am your son.  Do you remember me?  My name is Taylor.  I am your second born.  Any recollection?  I am 19.  I am on a mission in Panaca.  Hello.......anyone there?


Yeah, I got it.  Thanks for it (Easter box).  I love the blanket, haha.  It is really cool.  Did you make it or send it off somewhere?

Hey, family.  So this week has been good.  This transfer is flying by.  I like my comp, so it is way easier to deal with, haha.  But, it has been a lot of fun so far.

Mom, the only way that y'all can help them to learn to forgive is if you forgive them for all the work you are having to go through to help them.  All we can do is let them work it out and love them the whole time.  If you can learn to love them, then they will recognize that love and they will come around.  D&C 64 :9-11

We are teaching a bunch of people, but there are some hold ups that we are still working through each and everyday.  It has been good.  This week we had a ton of lessons cancel on us, and it was kinda frustrating, but we are getting over it each day a little at a time.

  

We had zone conference this week, and it was a lot of fun to be able to go and to be uplifted and taught.  And it was good to see other missionaries, too, haha.  But, I am loving the work here.  We are working hard each and every day.  The ward relations are really improving.  I didn't realize that no one liked my last comp, but there are so many people that talk bad about him now that he is gone.  It kinda makes me laugh, but I try not to let them see, but it is hard, haha.

Well love y'all.  Y'all have a good week.

April 2, 2012

Griffendor

Oh man, conference was awesome.  We were able to watch it with some different families.  We went to one of our investigators house and to a member that we have gotten really close to over the past little while.  So, it has been really fun to be able to get to know the members and our investigators over the past few weeks.  We are having some really good times.  Elder Arnold (who mother should not contact his mother!) is really cool.  I really like him.  We are having a good time.  We are trying to figure out how to teach together better.  I kinda tend to talk too much.  Who would have guessed it?  I know it's crazy, but it happens, haha.  So yeah, that is it though.  So I guess that means the comp is going pretty well, hahha.

Man, I don't think I belong in this family.  They are all so good at music.  What happened to me and I guess the old fart, as in the pops, haha?  That is really funny.  MC is taking up all my time and stuff so I ran out of time.  Oh and Travis, I guess, haha.  Oh, and can you do the highlights, mom?  I can't find the questions fast.  hahha  I am so spoiled haha.

Oh, and so I don't know why, but I have been thinking about becoming a teacher over the past few weeks, and so it is kinda weird.  But, I am kinda thinking it might be a really cool thing to do, so I don't know maybe it will be.