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, July 20, 2009

We Had a Baptism

i am doing good, i don't feel much like emailing but i will do my best.
Bishop little baptized her and brother neitzel will be confirming her next sunday. brother schenk and sister coleman spoke. ben came. the parvinos are the only investigators that stayed for the baptism but we had 7 investigators at sacrament meeting.
i think the parvinos are getting close to baptism, we will probably committ them in the upcoming week. zone conference was 2 weeks ago and we are going on exchanges tomorrow.
what did jaes speak on? im glad i wasn't in the mtc for more than 3 weeks, i would rather be out serving people than sitting in a class room. i have no idea about scott.
i always email meryl so im not sure what she's talking about, i email her every week...
im pretty sure the clothes are on their way to idaho falls, i put marci's address and phone number on the box so hopefully they will contact her about that in the next few days.
hope everything is going well.
love elder taylor call

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Upcoming Baptism

hi everyone,
nothing too exciting has happened this past week, mostly just getting everything finished for sheri's baptism this weekend. everything else beside that is going well. how is/ was washington? how was the tetons? marci i might have some people visiting our ward from idaho falls bring some stuff back with them so you might need to go to their house or something. it'll be a box with clothes and other things that i don't really need so i'll hopefully be able to get that sent back with them. marc- how is the tour going? how is lance doing?
well i hope everything is going well and owen is staying out of trouble, you'll have to send me some pictures next week of the trip and i will send you pictures from the baptism.
love
elder taylor call

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

4th of July

hi mommm
thats funny that you saw those people at the fireworks that i would have called white trash. we didn't really do anything fun for the 4th. just tracted alot but just in the afternoon, we avoided doing it at night time when people would be doing family stuff.
thats fun that you are going to washington, that was pretty fun last year, ( i just looked over as i was typing this and saw a twilight poster.)
i called president robbins last monday and asked him if it would be alright if we emailed monday because our library is closed on tuesday and he said that would be fine and so we did our email on monday.
sheri's baptism is july 19th, her baptismal interview is tonight. we haven't seen the fusons in a few months. they were too lazy but they know its true so thats too bad for them.
i got the talk last monday, right after i had sent the email. i have gotten quite a few ties from the salvation army and goodwill, the salvation army has ties for 50 cents but they dont always have good polyester ones. i have traded some with elder yates and elder steimenger.
hope everything is going well and that you have fun in washington
love
elder taylor call

Monday, June 29, 2009

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

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Monday, June 22, 2009

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