Mission Scripture

Yea, I know that I am nothing; as to my strength I am weak; therefore I will not boast of myself, but I will boast of my God, for in his strength I can do all things; yea, behold, many mighty miracles we have wrought in this land, for which we will praise his name forever.

Alma 26:12



Missionaries

Missionaries
Elder Taylor & Hermana Meryl

MTC

MTC
Goodbye at the MTC

About Me

I am a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. The Ohio Cincinnati Mission was dissolved and I have been reassinged to the West Virginia Charleston Mission. I am currently serving in Salem, Virginia. I am enjoying sharing the gospel. It is wonderful to watch people's lives change as they accept the gospel. I have learned that the Lord always listens to us and answers our prayers. I have enjoyed helping people. The service that I have given has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my mission.















Monday, November 30, 2009

Thanksgiving Was Good

thanksgiving was good, the football game wasn't very good, we got killed. we played mostly with members but with some investigators as well. where was richard and chelsea? at her families? yes my box arrived, thanks for the picture book.
i would preferably hand write my testimony but however you want me to get it to you let me know. let clifford know that i am doing good and whatever other information you would like to disclose.
you should ask elder best's mom about the ties that she sends to missionaries. elder durling goes home in probably april and i think he gets more and more trunky as the days go by. he likes the city better i think. hope all is going well, don't let merideth spoil owen too much, you too.
love
elder taylor call

Saturday, November 28, 2009

This Week's Thanksgiving

i am doing good, how are you? i will be sure to look for the package...
on thursday we are going to a members home to play football at noon and that is about all that is set in stone for right now. their name is the mckinneys, they have a son that lives up in the neighborhood by brighton pointe that lives by where meryl took guitar lessons.
marc hasn't changed since i was little, except for the dark rimmed glasses he wore.
i spoke in the ward here last transfer, it was probably my 2nd or 3rd week here, i talked about the conversion story of the parvinos and probably of the importance of member help.
you should have told the lady at the post office that she was dumb for thinking that way and she's going to miss out on alot in life for having an opinion from one person.
we have not had snow in martin and heaven forbid that changes. it snowed in georgetown but im not sure if it stuck on the ground.
georgetown is in the cincinnati east stake and martin is in the hunnington stake. i wrote the parvinos a while back but haven't heard anything from them.
elder james is not in hebron anymore.
it is because there was a change in the bishopric so president robbins would like their contact information.
thanks for molly's address, that sounds like the right one, the road sounds familiar. look in the back of the ensign in the relief socitey talks and she is there standing up singing with other girls that i know that went to skyline.
phone calls are only supposed to be to family members so that way if the girls come i can talk to them too.
the post office in cincinnati sent mail back to people becasue they are dumb so that is why they aren't forwarding it anymore.
for service we help a community center do yard work and other stuff like that.
i've gotta get going but if you have more questions then ask next week
love
elder taylor call

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Doing Good

i am doing good, how is my mom? i did meet the urbach's, will you ask her if she knows or is related to the little's in the georgetown ward? i think i saw their daughter talking to her. elder robinson is one of my zone leaders, i'm going on exchanges with them this weekend and elder dastrup went to bigham i believe....
this past weekend 2 investigators i taught in hebron got baptized so that's pretty good.
yea i got that email about meryl, thats good that she is fine. the lights on my bike are good. will you email president robbins the new stuff about our bishopric and the phone numbers that you use?
can you get me molly's address? i have a story for you after i get that...
can girls come over to the house to talk to me on christmas?
love
elder taylor call

Sunday, November 15, 2009





SSister Call, Robinson & Dastrup,
Sisters I was able to make contact with each of your sons today, and even got
them to let me take some quick snap shots of them. I will e-mail them to each of
you privately. Your young men are doing great and look awesome. They truly seem
to love what they are doing and the people. I am sure they felt as awkward as I
did going up to them, but I told them it was for their mom's and that we need to
know from other mom's that they truly are being taken care of. Again, what
wonderful young men you have and what an awesome opportunity it was for me to be
able to met them and to serve you by doing this. Thank you all so much for
letting the saints of the Cinn. Ohio Mission have your sons for such a short
period of time. They have touched so many already. You should all be very proud
of each of them.

Monday, November 9, 2009

Hello

things are going well, we were able to have a good last few days of week this week. we got a referral from a member, the ladys name is sophia and we taught her 3 times in 3 days this weekend. she has a lot of questions and reminds me a lot of the parvinos.
right now we are just driving the truck, we try to ride our bikes to service to save on miles but thats about it. riding a bike with a suit coat on is not my cup of tea. Elder Durling has been out almost 19 months. the best thing this week has probably been finding sophia, she seems like she has a desire to know which is probably the most important thing.
thats cool that you talked with cliffs mom yesterday, everyone here is nice to us but they don't really want to listen about the gospel. they'll sit and talk to us but no talking about the church. i'll email the picture of cliff and i next week, i wasn't planning on sending any pictures today. i will send you the card today in the mail.
does owen have a big head? in those pictures mer sent his head looks a little big. how come he's not wearing any pants? you guys would get mad at me when i would take his clothes off and now you're doing it...
is the guy from england the one that has a daughter named river? umm welp, i guess i'll talk to you later. i hear your having a girl in 9 months? are you gonna name her after an actress?
love elder taylor call

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Transfer Week

things are going well, we got a phone call sunday night and elder johnson got transfered. my new companion is elder durling, he went to jordan and is from sandy. martin is starting to pick up and we had 1 investigator at church.
thanks for the pachage, i got it monday morning and put it in the fridge, i have only eaten some of the banana bread thus far. the exchange in hazard went well, we had a productive time and were able to accomplish much. i go on exchanges with the senior companion in each area then i go on exchanges with the zone leaders. in martin i know my way around pretty well. i am in charge of district meeting, we mostly just train each other how to be better missionaries and refine the things we are doing to accomplish our purpose.
the other two elders were elder smith and elder bentley. i took gloves with me but i want some that are warmer. im not sure about snow but i will keep you posted.
i was able to go to the dentist, he said that i had a filling on the tooth but it broke down and so a cavity had formed under neath the filling so right then he drilled and filled so i am much better now.
you can write whatever you would like on the blog, i won't be reading it so i don't really care. thats good that you were in control of the situation with the j dub, usually they like to take control and then change what you have said to contradict your beliefs. i haven't gotten my shot yet but i probably should soon.
hope all is going well.
love elder taylor call