Transfers

i am good, how are you doing? Elder Taylor got transfered, he is training a new
missionary, my new companion is elder beck, he's from malad.
Mike is marrying an LDS girl, his fiancee is the bishop's necice and mike was
the bishops family's, family mission plan so we met him through them. we haven't
set a baptismal date with him yet because he's not really able to come to church
consistently yet but once he does, we will. The other investigator is Jim he's
62, he's getting close but still has some concerns that we are helping him to
overcome.
the class is going well, last night we talked about how the Book of Mormon is
the keystone of our religion. we didn't have too many people, just as long as
mike comes i'm happy.
Last week in the library we were the only white people there, its mostly just
white and black here.
i heard from chris at the start of last transfer, maybe if you talked to his mom
and see if he got the letter i wrote him.
just keep the article about max, i don't need it. Austin Collie i hear has been
doing well, he plays for the colts who are in the superbowl.
hope everything is going well, tell merideth to have me another baby when i get
home.
love
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A Really Nice Week

Happy Birthday, i hope it has been a good one.
as for the valentine letter, i could make prints here then mail them to you, i
took a bunch of pictures at the marshall campus yesterday so if you would like
to use some of those we could do that. i'm not sure what you had in mind for
what you were going to say about me but as long as the bailey's in washington
daughter reads it i'll be a happy camper.
mike is doing very well, they're getting married on the 31st and he came to
church on sunday so things with him are going very well. he told us he wants to
be baptized and he knows it's true so its just a matter of time now.
President Robbins wants all the areas in the mission to start a Book of Mormon
class, we teach whatever we want to, last night we talked about the translation
of the Book of Mormon and how it wasn't something that could have been
accomplished easily.
this week has been really nice, its probably been in the 50's or 60's so a
really nice change from the weather we had been having.
hope everything is going well, will you see if you can find an article about BYU
football and how max hall went off on the utah fans because he hates them so
much? have you talked to chris weixler's family lately?
hope you have a good birthday
love
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Elders Call & Taylor with Brother Cook

At Brother Cook's baptism

Not Sick Yet

i would always stick a sucker in his mouth and he'd be quite. thats pretty sweet about megan m. isn't she pretty cute? anways thats no fun that you and marcy are sick, its been a miracle i haven't gotten sick yet and i never got any shots..shhh.
whats goals do i have for the new year? umm probably try to stay warm at night, its pretty frustrating being woken up because your feet are freezing. right now we are just driving our truck, heaven forbid we have to ride our bikes in the snow. we had to walk all day on thursday because our cars were grounded because of the snow, we probably got3 or 4 inches.
mike is doing well, we'll be seeing him tonight for our book of mormon study class.
1. ask me about the unusual stuff that has happened here when i get back...
2. we tract alot of the houses where students live and things like that, huntington and provo are pretty similar as far as the housing goes.
3. we play with the barborsville missionaries and some members and investigators.
4. when you put God first in your life, everything else either falls into place or falls out of your life, one of the prophets said that
5.im not sure about this week, we have a lot going on so hopefully we;ll be able to find some new investigators.

thanks for the talk
love
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New Year

we went to bed at 10:30 and didn't even think about waking up before that. i thought owen liked movies? just stick a sucker in his mouth and he'll be fine. what did the bullocks have to say? i haven't really gotten sick, im pretty grateful because i never got any of the shots. i got a card from the alexanders, earls, voorhees, and williams.
last week in sacrament the topic was Christ and Christmas, it didn't go as well as i imagined, i was trying to get the point across about how Christ or Heavenly Father gave us the gift of agency so i was reading stuff out of the pearl of great price so thats probably where it went down hill. it is snowing right now and yesterday was probably the coldest i have been in a long time it was below 20 degrees so pretty chilly. i used the scarf for the first time on saturday probably, it did a pretty good job. i went to martin on friday for interviews and exchanges in paintsville, it was alright, i was ready to leave when i got transfered there. the areas in our district is huntington, barboursville, logan, and gallipoise.
1. What was your favorite experience of the past week?
this past week we did a very small amount of tracting and we got 4 new investigators, 2 of those which were from members and are being taught in member homes. the mission goal for new investigators each week is 3 so it was pretty good to get 4. the other 2 were from people who had ordered things from the internet or tv offers.
2. Tell us about one of your favorite investigators.
Mike Napier is one of our new investigators from last week, he is probably 24. he went to bible college, in one of the classes called christianity or cult his group had us in the middle because he knew we weren't a cult or something. he's pretty solid, we had a really good lesson with him on saturday night. i feel the spirit pretty often but when we were teaching him it was a constant really strong spirit that i felt.
3. Did anything unusual happen this week?
we live on a college campus, alot of unusual things happen to us.
4. What are you looking forward to this week?
teaching mike, we're helping him move tomorrow, he's a pretty solid investigator that wants to learn and he understands what he teach him.
5. What is something new that you have learned lately?
i learned that fasting works, we had an area in our zone that had been struggling so we fasted yesterday and they got 3 new investigators and taught probably 16 lessons so it was pretty cool.
6. What do you and Elder Taylor like to do for fun on pday?
we like to play basketball
7. Do you and your companion have anything in common(sports or ?).
we don't like the cold.
8. What do you like to cook for dinner or do you usually have dinner appointments? yesterday i made this amazing hamburger and ate it on a bagel, it was pretty good, i put cajun seasoning on it.
i remember preston pretty well, he was a pretty funny kid. he has an older brother named brett that i was friends with at wasatch but i think brett just got in to hanging out with the wrong kids and things like that, preston might be a little the same way but i don't think he got as bad as his brother.
hope you are happy
love
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