Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Monday, October 21, 2013
Week 5- It is good to get details since they didn't come last week.
In Taylor's words.......
First transfer is almost up! The work here is hastening, especially because of conference! Im super pumped about it, cause we now have so many referals that we do not have any time to go out and tract. Which is great cause tracting sucks. This week I went on exchanges with the zone leaders, he went to davis high. He also made sure that I knew he went to davis high, I just about killed him but I figured it would be hard to have the spirit after I kill someone.... Im just kidding he was pretty cool, we talked a lot about the rivalry and what happens in the games, it was cool to see things from his point of view! We set our other investigator, J., with a date. J. is this super ripped black dude that is a IT guy at the same time, so he is super sick! Our other investigator M. and her family, keep refusing to come to church and so we constantly have to set back their date. Yesterday we had the opportunity to hear from Elder Quinton L Cook. He came to a stake center in Palmdale just to speak with the western half of the mission! He talked a lot about teaching by the spirit. We all got to go up and shake his hand, talk about scary haha. He is way nice but it was super intimidating! We also heard from Rueben Acosta of the seventy. So all of yesterday was just a cool experience in general! Afterwards I got to be in the circle and confer the Melchezidek priesthood on a kid in the Rosamond ward named Dillon. He goes on splits with us all the time and is only a month younger than me! So that was a cool experience, he should be getting his call here within the next couple weeks! Im way stoked for him! One thing that I told my family that I figured out, is that I am not only the only 18 year old in my zone, but I am the youngest person in all of the Bakersfield CA mission. Ya I asked president and he said I was right, so ya Im the baby of the mission! Jokes on them though, I will be going home, less than a month after my 20th birthday! A lot of things happened this week, some super good, and some horrible. But all in all this week has helped me grow, and the hard things needed to happen in order for me to progress and become the missionary I wanna be. No distractions, and being able to have an eye single to the glory of God. Even though its hard, Im really excited to see what the coming weeks are gonna bring! I will talk to you all next week!
First transfer is almost up! The work here is hastening, especially because of conference! Im super pumped about it, cause we now have so many referals that we do not have any time to go out and tract. Which is great cause tracting sucks. This week I went on exchanges with the zone leaders, he went to davis high. He also made sure that I knew he went to davis high, I just about killed him but I figured it would be hard to have the spirit after I kill someone.... Im just kidding he was pretty cool, we talked a lot about the rivalry and what happens in the games, it was cool to see things from his point of view! We set our other investigator, J., with a date. J. is this super ripped black dude that is a IT guy at the same time, so he is super sick! Our other investigator M. and her family, keep refusing to come to church and so we constantly have to set back their date. Yesterday we had the opportunity to hear from Elder Quinton L Cook. He came to a stake center in Palmdale just to speak with the western half of the mission! He talked a lot about teaching by the spirit. We all got to go up and shake his hand, talk about scary haha. He is way nice but it was super intimidating! We also heard from Rueben Acosta of the seventy. So all of yesterday was just a cool experience in general! Afterwards I got to be in the circle and confer the Melchezidek priesthood on a kid in the Rosamond ward named Dillon. He goes on splits with us all the time and is only a month younger than me! So that was a cool experience, he should be getting his call here within the next couple weeks! Im way stoked for him! One thing that I told my family that I figured out, is that I am not only the only 18 year old in my zone, but I am the youngest person in all of the Bakersfield CA mission. Ya I asked president and he said I was right, so ya Im the baby of the mission! Jokes on them though, I will be going home, less than a month after my 20th birthday! A lot of things happened this week, some super good, and some horrible. But all in all this week has helped me grow, and the hard things needed to happen in order for me to progress and become the missionary I wanna be. No distractions, and being able to have an eye single to the glory of God. Even though its hard, Im really excited to see what the coming weeks are gonna bring! I will talk to you all next week!
Saturday, October 12, 2013
Week 4 Update
Monday, October 7th Letter
"Last friday marked the exact month that I have been out! I swear my parents kicked me to the curb yesterday at the MTC. Its crazy how fast time goes by! I have learned a lot about what goes on in missions, a lot of it is truly amazing...while some of it seriously scares me! My mom requested that I tell everybody about the ward I am in. Its basically the best ward in the history of ever. The members feed us like kings, the bishop is Bishop Meyers, he has a 16 year old daughter that my companion is basically obsessed with.......he is almost 20. The people of the ward, like I said, treat us like kings! There are several families from Utah, I dont exactly know why they came from awesome Utah...into Rosamond, cause Utah is way better! I had the opportunity to give my first priesthood blessing this week! That was like the craziest experience of my life! I had no idea why the man wanted one, but as I started the words just came out, I honestly cannot remember what I told him! Its cool to see how the spirit uses us as tools! It is the best feeling! We had ZTM this week, that was awesome, I figured out that I am the only 18 year old in my entire zone of 40 missionaries. Ya Im a boss... It also means that they had time away from home before they came, so homesickness isnt as much of an annoyance to them as it is for me. I love working though! Its so freaking tiring! I can do service work for a member all day...like honestly its easy. Although as soon as I go out tracting for 10 minutes I start falling asleep as Im walking. Its so ridiculous! Conference was the best ever, because for the first time in my life, I actually paid close attention to all 10 hours of conference! My favorite talk was President Uchdorfs in Priesthood session, I could have sworn he said Elder Carper in the talk haha. I also loved President Mckonkies talk about teaching, Elder Christoffersons talk about women. Especially President Monsons talk about his wife. I hope you guys enjoyed conference as much as I did! Its crazy now, because while in High School, Mondays were of the devil! Like I despised mondays, but now I live for Mondays cause its P-day haha. Crazy how that works now! I hope everything is working out for you guys as much as it is for me here! I love being here, its basically the best! "
For the record, Taylor ran from the car; he wasn't kicked out. The picture from the first post supports this claim. :)
"Last friday marked the exact month that I have been out! I swear my parents kicked me to the curb yesterday at the MTC. Its crazy how fast time goes by! I have learned a lot about what goes on in missions, a lot of it is truly amazing...while some of it seriously scares me! My mom requested that I tell everybody about the ward I am in. Its basically the best ward in the history of ever. The members feed us like kings, the bishop is Bishop Meyers, he has a 16 year old daughter that my companion is basically obsessed with.......he is almost 20. The people of the ward, like I said, treat us like kings! There are several families from Utah, I dont exactly know why they came from awesome Utah...into Rosamond, cause Utah is way better! I had the opportunity to give my first priesthood blessing this week! That was like the craziest experience of my life! I had no idea why the man wanted one, but as I started the words just came out, I honestly cannot remember what I told him! Its cool to see how the spirit uses us as tools! It is the best feeling! We had ZTM this week, that was awesome, I figured out that I am the only 18 year old in my entire zone of 40 missionaries. Ya Im a boss... It also means that they had time away from home before they came, so homesickness isnt as much of an annoyance to them as it is for me. I love working though! Its so freaking tiring! I can do service work for a member all day...like honestly its easy. Although as soon as I go out tracting for 10 minutes I start falling asleep as Im walking. Its so ridiculous! Conference was the best ever, because for the first time in my life, I actually paid close attention to all 10 hours of conference! My favorite talk was President Uchdorfs in Priesthood session, I could have sworn he said Elder Carper in the talk haha. I also loved President Mckonkies talk about teaching, Elder Christoffersons talk about women. Especially President Monsons talk about his wife. I hope you guys enjoyed conference as much as I did! Its crazy now, because while in High School, Mondays were of the devil! Like I despised mondays, but now I live for Mondays cause its P-day haha. Crazy how that works now! I hope everything is working out for you guys as much as it is for me here! I love being here, its basically the best! "
For the record, Taylor ran from the car; he wasn't kicked out. The picture from the first post supports this claim. :)
Routine is established!
September 30 Update
Taylor realizes that he didn't have mom and dad on his group address. We are finally in the loop:
"The work just keeps getting better and better! The goal, is to get so many referrals from members that we don't have time to go out tracting (which is a very inefficient way of finding). The members are still feeding us a ton! I can literally feel my pants getting tighter....ya Im pretty excited about it haha. My new favorite thing is fruit golfing, we have a random driver in the apartment, and then we found a bunch of rotten fruit! So naturally, we went golfing! It was super fun...and messy! Actual missionary work wise, we have had some solid success this past week! We have had 3 new investigators, and we now have 5 investigators with a baptismal date! We were super excited for it! Other than that there isnt really a whole lot to report! I hope you all are doing awesome! Im trying to represent that Utah steeze over here...but when people find out that Im from Utah they laugh at me...and call me a greenie so I guess thats awesome haha! I dont understand how you can have a bad companion, cause me and Elder Howe are the exact same person! Its always so fun! Yesterday while tracting I had to say "Supercalifragilistic Expialidocious" in my door approach! As you can imagine...It didnt go well and the lady laughed and threatened to shoot us cause she hates mormons! Good times right? I really love it here! The weather is cooling off, the people are getting nicer since now not everyone has heatstroke 24 hours a day! "
Taylor realizes that he didn't have mom and dad on his group address. We are finally in the loop:
"The work just keeps getting better and better! The goal, is to get so many referrals from members that we don't have time to go out tracting (which is a very inefficient way of finding). The members are still feeding us a ton! I can literally feel my pants getting tighter....ya Im pretty excited about it haha. My new favorite thing is fruit golfing, we have a random driver in the apartment, and then we found a bunch of rotten fruit! So naturally, we went golfing! It was super fun...and messy! Actual missionary work wise, we have had some solid success this past week! We have had 3 new investigators, and we now have 5 investigators with a baptismal date! We were super excited for it! Other than that there isnt really a whole lot to report! I hope you all are doing awesome! Im trying to represent that Utah steeze over here...but when people find out that Im from Utah they laugh at me...and call me a greenie so I guess thats awesome haha! I dont understand how you can have a bad companion, cause me and Elder Howe are the exact same person! Its always so fun! Yesterday while tracting I had to say "Supercalifragilistic Expialidocious" in my door approach! As you can imagine...It didnt go well and the lady laughed and threatened to shoot us cause she hates mormons! Good times right? I really love it here! The weather is cooling off, the people are getting nicer since now not everyone has heatstroke 24 hours a day! "
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