A Really Good Week

This has been a really good week, especially with it all ending yesterday with having 5 investigators at sacrament meeting. What made it even better is that some investigators came which we weren’t really expecting to be there and if them coming wasn’t enough they also paid tithing! Also yesterday seeing another investigator of ours looking at the baptismal clothing for her baptism in 3 weeks. I feel safe to say that since we have started to pray for miracles they have been happening. We are teaching almost zero people that smoke or drink and all they need to do is accept the gospel and they can be members of the church. We are also finding many people who are prepared and have already started living lives before we ask them to change. It is so amazing what the Lord can do as we ask for help and are obedient.

Georgetown is Great

hi mom,
everything in georgetown is going great, i will be here for atleast another 6 weeks. our investigators are doing good, we had 5 of them at sacrament yesterday so things are going very well. we haven't been able to teach rob, he didn't keep the appointment we set up with them so we'll try to get in touch with him sometime this week hopefully. i'm not sure how ben is, he doesn't want to meet with us, i think i told you that but sheri is doing great.
the parvinos weren't able to make it to motab but the bishops mother in law is a nonmember from california so we used her as our investigator. the tie i was wearing i got at the goodwill down in maysville, i got 4 or 5 ties that day, they cost 1.50 or something so i bought a couple. i have like 35 ties now, i think i had 13 when i left. we go on exchanges probably once a transfer.
that's interesting that you saw and talked to mrs. marchant, that was a looooonggggg time ago. what temple open house did you goto? oquhir hills?
will you send me a copy of that cd by elder holland? meryl had asked someone to a few months ago and i never got it so if you could do that i would really appreciate it.
hope everything is going well.
love elder taylor call

The Package

thanks for the package. im not sure why you sent me proclamations to the world, we give those out for free...and each companionship has a picture book as well. thanks for the tie and a polyester one. polys are best, i'll go into further detail about that later but thanks for the package and the nana bread

Motab

the lang family is doing well, they were going to come to motab but decided to go to myrtlye beach instead...her date is still on but we haven't seen them since last sunday..
the choir was amazinggg, it was nice seeing sister curry. it didn't rain but it was very muddy, i guess there was a dave matthews concert there a few days before and everyone at the concert pulled up all the grass and was throwing it around so it was pretty muddy where we were at.
the exchange was alot of fun, i really like elder yatez, he played basketball at utah state before his mission but we had a really fun time. is grandpa's cousin norma peterson? an elder serving in cincinnati told me that my cousin was in his area and i had no idea who she is. is she a member? i don't think i'll be transfered because president said he was going to try to keep missionaries in an area for atleast 6 months but i am not sure.
we don't have a song
i didn't hear from chris, i wrote him on monday though. hopefully i've been writing to the right address.
we eat at members homes maybe twice a week. we sometimes eat at our apartments. i don't need money.
thanks for the letter
love
elder taylor call

My Weekly Report

Dear President Robbins, This past week we had two really neat experiences, the first was with a man named rob, we had been trying to see him and set up appointments with him for a while and the appointments we had set up he didn’t keep. So Saturday night we went over to his house and taught him, his wife, and his daughter. We taught them a first lesson and when we were talking about the Book of Mormon he said, “I’ve never read the Bible, but I will read this (Book of Mormon.) It was pretty cool to see the sincerity he has and the wanting to know attitude. The second experience was when we were teaching a family and the wife has a baptismal date but the husband is struggling with word of wisdom issues and other things. I kind of want to liken it to the story of amalickah and lehonti. Over the past few weeks when we ask him to do things he says he’ll think about it, he’ll think about it then this past week he said that he would pray about it. So not so much in a bad was as was Lehonti and amalickah but being persistent it helping.

It's Going Well

everything is going well, our sunday was good, we were able to finish out the week strong and we were able to teach 20 lessons this week (its kind of a goal every missionary tries to achieve each week, its kinda difficult to reach.) Shari was able to come to church but her husband wasn't able to make it, i think he was doing yard work or something like that. we set a baptismal date with her of july 19th. they need to be able to come to chuch atleast 7 weeks and not have any word of wisdom issues so that is when that would be.
you sent an email to president robbins? that is interesting. we are not allowed to go on any websites other than myldsmail.net
1. i do know elder grange, he is in my distict, i will be seeing him tomorrow, we're going on exchanges so i'll be in maysville for tuesday and wednesday.
2. i've heard of elder sudweeks but i din't think i know him.
3. i saw sister bledsoe for like 30 seconds when we got to transfer meeting she was getting on the transfer van so i didn't talk to her.
4. i don't know elder robinson either.
5. try and see if hermana hunt's partents are on there, she lives in pepperwood and her family sat in front of us when we were at the mtc and her and meryl are pals.

the adams elders are in our district as well, one of the elders, elder mortenson is from seattle.
will you try and find out where eric greene served? or get me his address so i can write him.
hopefully we will be able to go to motab, we can only go if our investigators go so we were planning on going but then last night ben and sherri told us they would rather go to mertyle beach so hopefully the parvinos will be able to go so we can go.
where in cincinnati does his cousin live?
i have not heard from chris, i will probably write him today, i wrote him a while back but haven't heard from him.
hope everything is going well, thanks for the letters and the news articles.
love
elder taylor call

hii

hi everyone
hope everything is going well, thanks for the letters and the post cards. this past week has gone pretty well, on wednesday night we went over to teach ben and sheri. towards the end of the lesson i invited her to be baptized, she accepted then she started crying because every time she thinks about being baptized she starts to cry. also this past week they made the rule that investigators have to come to church atleast 7 times and be free from any word of wisdom related issues for 28 days so the soonest she can be baptized is in 4 weeks i think. her husband smokes and he's not quite ready yet so we are still working on him. everything else has been going pretty well, president robbins used part of my weekly report last week in the sharing email this week, "As you talked about in Zone conference about receiving personal revelation I can already seeing it help our work. It has been really cool to see the thoughts enter our minds of questions we can ask people and investigators family members that we should teach. We have seen lots of success as we try to involve the members more, last night we taught a lesson at a members home and that helped a lot because not only was the spirit present in the home but the members were able to teach by the spirit as well." everything else is going pretty good, this morning there was probably a million missionaries on myldsmail so it was taking forever so that is why you aren't getting my email unitl now.
love elder taylor call

Pictures from the Storm

It Was Intense

well remember when we lived in texas and the tornado sirens would go off once a month for testing? well saturday night we were walking back to our car from talking with an investigator, the investigators friend said that thunderstorms were coming and there would be golf ball size hail. as we were walking the sirens went off, we looked at each other and started running back to the car. when we got back to the apartment we were taking pictures of the clouds bcause they looked really cool, at this point lightening storms were going on as well. we walked over to the other side of our apartments and lightening struck about 100 yards from where we were standing, it was soooo intense, it was bright red where it struck the ground. about 10 minutes later we could see funnels starting to come out of the clouds, at one point there were "sisters" two coming out. tornadoes touched down in 2 different places in our area. it was soo intense. i ended up having to call president robbins and asking him if we should go to a members home for the night but we didn't have to. when i told him all the had happened he started laughing and was like this is a journal entry day isn't it. but everything turned out alright, it was pretty intense when the sirens were all going off and the lightening struck.
hope everything is going well
love elder taylor call

Hi from Georgetown

hi mom,
yes we are still working with a few investigators that elder lunstrom and i have been teaching. my talk went well, i used a story in an ensign about a less active man and how a man in his ward was able to re activate him. my original bike has not been able to sell yet but i have 20 months for that to happen so im not too worried about it. my new bike is working pretty good, we're trying to ride our bikes more often to save on miles so it is working out pretty good.

the picture that i sent you with the missionaries on the table was at the last district meeting of the transfer, we take pictures at that district meeting. elder janeic and elder tingey are the other ones beside elder lundstrom and myself. elder janeic goes home in 3 weeks, he's from alpine.

mer sent me some articles online about syracuse winning, it sounded like it was an amazing game with cuse winning in overtime, i'll have to go wash that gross taste out of my mouth from hearing them win.

1. yes that is the case that i wanted
2.food is going well.
3. we have a washer and dryer at our apartment
4. she wrote me
5. i should be good on music and talks
6. no we haven't tracted all of it

currently in the book of mormon i think i am in alma 37, last night i finished the book of matthew in the new testament and started on mark.

hope everything is going well
love
elder call