Good News

dear everyone-

#1 Brother Clark recieved the aaronic priesthood and was ordained to the office of a priest yesterday.

#2 So in our mission, we set a goal to baptize in every area, every month. so sister parks was baptized in august and brother clark for september. on saturday night as i was pryaing i prayed that we might find someone to baptize in the month of october. Yesterday after gospel principles, President Ralls (the stake president) came in and gave us a referral of a man who was in gospel doctrine and wanted to be baptized. he gave us his info and showed us who he was. we walked up to them and his friend asked if we were the elders that teach people, we said we were. she told us that she had been working with him for over 10 years and he recently moved here and told her that he wants to be baptized. we set up an appointment to meet with him on wednesday. he said that in the visits he wants to cover as much as possible bcause he doesn't want to wait to be baptized. it was pretty sweet, it definetly strengthened my testimony of prayer combined with fasting.
love you all
elder taylor call

Other News:
how was SG? i really liked going to the tuachanh it was a lot of fun. how was tarzan compared to beauty and the beast? was the sg tabernacle pretty cool? is that where they use to hold general conference back in the day? i heard a story about how one of the prophets or apostles were giving a talk there (i think) and in the middle of the talk they saw an angel or something and they talked to them right during the meeting.
were the barrus's our home teachers with brother sanders? i think i remember we would put the fireballs in the sink and watch and wait till all the hot would go away then we would put them in our mouth.
on Saturday night we went and asked some of the senior elders about some less actives and they invited us in to watch college football, don't worry it was really awkward and we left pretty soon. their wives were at the relief society broadcast.
we go to charelston maybe once a transfer? for zone leader council
i love you and hope you are doing well
elder taylor call


Have you ever been biten by a dog? How often do you get chased by them?
one time in georgetown i think this dog was going to bite me but it just ran in to my leg...
that's probably the closest

Larry's Baptism

Ye Elders of Isreal

Happy Birthday!

Buena Vista Countryside

Baptism

larry's baptism went really well, his non-member sister and his neice were able to make it. no one expected them to come so it was really cool. it has been a long time since i have been in a font, and the first time i have ever been on the baptizing end of it. it was a really great experience, hopefully you won't want to miss work so you can stay home all day and read my journal when i get home. i was thinking about my baptism during the talks, i was trying to think back to mine, ( my memory isn' t that great.) i only really remember walking down to the tabernacle, sitting with dad, then talking to a sister missionary after and holding my new scriptures which felt like 50 pounds then going to chuck a rama.
elder alexander is in my zone, he's a district leader, he was an assistant for a while in both missions.
yesterday in student ward we sang a song that i had never even heard before and the tune was making no sense at all, it wasn't my favorite.
birthday was good, i had 4 cakes by thursday night, those members are really great, i really enjoyed it. i really loved the letters and the tape. the pizza was very good, i like nick's a lot. the guy that delivered it was like, "this is from your mom.....in utah." thank you
i really feel the prayers, especailly in general conference prayers.
i love you
elder taylor call

A Birthday Dinner of Roasted Chicken and Chocolate Cake (with leftovers!)

This Week

thanks for the birthday wish. i will look for the package. Tuesday we will be in covington, VA on exchanges but first thing Wednesday I'll look for it.
Jeff is doing good, he works pretty much 7 days a week so it is hard to meet with him. Larry is going to be baptized on saturday at 1pm. he asked me to baptize him so hopefully all goes well with that. they both goto the family ward. we don't have any investigators in the student ward yet but we are working on it.
thanks for all your love and support.
love you
elder taylor call

Pam's Baptism

Virginia

Virginia is doing really well, how is utah? if the members feed us healthy we eat healthy but otherwise whatever goes in the tank works its way through.
i am staying in BV, elder pinner is going assistant and my new companion, elder wright is from dallas, texas.
there are 5 different student wards and i think just one that is a mix of the different wards.
i am the only one in my group from the ocm that came to this mission. is that what you were asking?
thats cool that elder oaks came to church, did he have body guards or was it just him? what did he say?
we stopped teaching mary, she fell through a bunch of times so we are no longer teaching him. pray for jeff though.
i love you
elder taylor call