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.















Tuesday, August 31, 2010

A Really Good Sunday

we had a really good sunday. we were able to get some new investigators and we and pam's confirmation.
thats cool that tonys farewell went well. how are the jones's doing?
im glad that you had a good time at elder smiths farewell.
pam's baptism went really well, i'll send some pics soon.
1. we have some really good appointments tonight with some W&L students. yesterday in the student ward a sister that got home a few weeks ago asked if we ever need help teaching so she is coming with us tonight.
2. we do spend time tracting but yesterday we got some referrals from members so we were able to teach them.
3. on sundays we are at church from 8-4 2 wards.
4. we did a lot of work at both floods. enough to make us exhausted.

sorry it was short.
i love you
elder taylor call

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Travels

Of course owen is a good traveler, his carseat looks like a cow! mine looked like a burnt buffalo skin. Atleast owen wasn't eating a bunch of fruit then go poop down the slide in the carseat. Where did you go to see Lion King? I kinda remember going to see it at the drive in, i remember more when we bought it at Sams Club on VHS.
Wasn't Jordan going to be a pilot? What has Megan been up to?
Pretty sure that school starts on monday. Yea so Sasha is in my ward so it's a little interesting... On saturday we woke up at 430 and drove 200 miles to Charleston. Elder jenson shook all our hands (district leaders and zone leaders). he first talked to us about music, he read the prelude in the hymn book which i had never read, it was really cool to see how much music invites the spirit. i don't remember what he talked about after that, good thing i took notes, the dullest pencil is better than the sharpest mind. he told us that on thursday he shook the first presidency's hands in the temple then we shook the hand that shook theirs on saturday. it was really good. Long story short, i drove 400 miles and was exhausted by the time we got back.
Pam is still planning on getting baptized on saturday at 6:30, she is doing really good, we are really excited. Larry is going to get baptized General Conference weekend so he's doing really good as well. they both come every week and are progressing really well. Mary's baptism will either be pushed back again or she'll be dropped. We don't think she is very committed or willing. She hasn't been keeping appointments.
Elder Smith's first name is Travis. Where is everyone in the Ward going on their mission.
wove you
elder taylor call

Monday, August 16, 2010

Memories

i am doing great, how art thou?
thats stinky about wendys dad. what is jordan and megan doing these days? did megan get the letter i sent to her? wait did you drive all the way to the dub? and owen was in the car seat the whole time? i would have died? i miss the brown car seat, i would stick animal cookies inside of it. i wasn't much for the blue one. all the car rides i went on i always remember eating sixlets then throwing up in the back seat of the van. and i miss going poop and standing on dads shoes on the side of the road.
school starts pretty soon, student ward was...different. feels like utah.
on saturday we get to go to charleston and meet with elder jay e jenson of the presidency of the seventy. im pretty excited.
i love you
elder taylor call

Monday, August 9, 2010

BV is Buena Vista

bv is really good, i really like being in provo jr. currently we proslyte in lexington but we live in bv, when school starts we'll cover a student ward but currently just a family ward.
thanks for the package, i was looking forward to the package (the florida shirt) for the past month. gracias por la ropa.
meryl told me about the date she went on, how did she get to magna? tell her to set a goal for how many boys to talk to each week and then each transfer. is grandpa verns truck still waiting for me?
did you get to talk to chris's mom? i wrote them a while back so hopefully they'll write soon.
church today was really good, we had a mission president that was recently released speak to us and his wife then the current stake president. we had two investigators come (pam p & larry c) they both have baptismal dates and are doing really good in their progression toward baptism.
let me know how wa is? is meryl going? is the baby? send me pictures of everyone. is reese going?
i love you
elder taylor call

Monday, August 2, 2010

Buena Vista

bv is great. svu (southern virginia university) is across the street from our apartment. VMI (division 1 lacrosse) and washington and lee (division 2) are both in our area. i really like it here so far, its like byu jr. all the people in our complex are members.

i don't have a lot of time today
here is my new address
270 w. 30th st. apt. F3Buena Vista, Va 24416
BV is provo jr
i love you
elder taylor call

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