New Responsibilities

yea that was interesting to get that letter from him in the mail, i didn't know that he did that but it was cool to get. I have a lot of responsibilites, on sunday nights i call the areas in my district (paintsville, pikesville, and hazard) and get their weekly indicators or numbers and then i call the zone leaders and report them to them then they call the assistants who then report to president robbins. we have district meeting in martin, it is kind of the central location in the district and works out best for everyone. senior companion is good, i was just really stressed out last week because i had all of these new responsibilites put on me all at the same time but its getting better as i adjust to it. i enjoy driving especially because we have a truck its a chevy colorado. im grateful for whoever created 4 wheel drive because we get stuck in the mud among other places this week as we were driving on back country roads. i think we cover all of floyd county and a little bit of knott county.
thats pretty lucky you went down to st george, i really liked going to that play at tuachan with grandma and grandpa. yea i remember going to that lake thing, wasn't there animals that were down the road from there or something? i've met elder sudweeks once.
he's into trains now? merideth sent me a letter saying that they went to toys r us and she wouldn't buy him a toy and he bit her shoulder, i laughed prettty good about that one.
my clothes are doing good, i'll probably send some of the pants home in a few weeks because suit coat season may start this weekend.
hope everything is going well
love elder taylor call

Changes

yes elder smith got transfered, my new companion is elder johnson, he's from jeroime idaho. hes been out for almost a year, i am now senior companion, district leader over 4 areas and driver of our truck.
things on my birthday went pretty good, thanks for the steak, ice cream, cards, packages, etc... i was pretty surprised when i got all those letters from people in the ward, it was good to hear from everyone. the schwan man was really nice and i asked him if he was going to sing for me and he said he wouldn't and he was only doing that because it was his birthday last week or something.
i haven't been in a ward with a primary program yet or maybe i was in georgetown, i don't think so though. thats cool that you saw the tschaggeny's, i have a lot of stuff i need to do for district meeting so sorry this is a shorter letter but i hope everything is going well
love
elder taylor call

It's Not My Birthday Yet

yea i got the first package on thursday i believe, thanks for the shirts and the general conference talks, im not allowed to listen to talks not by general authorities so im gonna have to send the other one home, that is the same for books we're not supposed to have any books but we can have talks by general authorites.
the assistants were supposed to pick me up around 8 but they were like an hour late. martin is pretty good, i would compare it to summitt county. its pretty country and a little in the mountains, i like it pretty good.
1 my companion is elder t. smith, he is from lehi, i have been learing the area from him because he'll probably get transfered next week. he has been out for a year.
2. he has been here for 6 months, there are some investigators but not a whole lot of really solid ones.
3. i know of at least 3 missionaries that got transfered, im included in that 3
4. martin is a ward but not a whole lot of people come, the stake presidency came yesterday and talked alot about getting the less actives involved in the ward and back to church. its a pretty big area, we have a truck but the miles go by really fast so we bike 15+ miles a day. i would say it is a lot more country than georgetown, everything is a lot more spread out.
i don't think we're supposed to read newspapers but will you cut out all of the byu football ones and put them in a pile or somewhere in my room so i can see them when i get back? i especially want the ones from sunday morning that talk about the games the night before.
thats neat about john parberry being bishop, hopefully he will get a thing going where ward members write to the missionaries(thats what i would do if i was a bishop)
for stuff on the temple im mostly just looking for stuff by brigham young or the older prophets who say things about the temple that general authorites don't say anymore(elder Bendares talk "honorably holding a name and a standing or something like that) he quotes brigham young toward the end of the talk. that was a general confernce talk so hopefully you will be able to find that.
i want to watch bull riding....

i hope everything is going well
love elder taylor call

Last Day in Hebron

mom, president robbins emails us once a transfer so every 6 weeks. the office should be trying to sell my bike but i haven't heard much from them about it. thats fun that you went to the lake with the bullocks on saturday. the next few days should be interesting because im not sure if the office had forwarded any of my mail to hebron when i won't be there.
yes i did hear about byu beating OU, the last team that was in the top 10 they beat was miami (fl) the year after they won the national championship. im going to really miss going to the game in 2 weeks against florida state, they were one of my favorite teams growing up. i didn't find any articles about temples that interested me very much, will you go to lds.org and search for articles about temples from apostles?
how is grandpa vern doing? i hope everything is going well, sorry this letter is so short. my mind is just going really fast thinking of all the stuff i need to get done before the assistants pick me up tomorrow morning. hope everything is going well
love elder taylor call

Emergency Transfer

im getting emergency transfered so hopefully you didn't send that package yet...
my new address is
1004 Hite Rd
Martin, Ky 41649