It Was Intense

well remember when we lived in texas and the tornado sirens would go off once a month for testing? well saturday night we were walking back to our car from talking with an investigator, the investigators friend said that thunderstorms were coming and there would be golf ball size hail. as we were walking the sirens went off, we looked at each other and started running back to the car. when we got back to the apartment we were taking pictures of the clouds bcause they looked really cool, at this point lightening storms were going on as well. we walked over to the other side of our apartments and lightening struck about 100 yards from where we were standing, it was soooo intense, it was bright red where it struck the ground. about 10 minutes later we could see funnels starting to come out of the clouds, at one point there were "sisters" two coming out. tornadoes touched down in 2 different places in our area. it was soo intense. i ended up having to call president robbins and asking him if we should go to a members home for the night but we didn't have to. when i told him all the had happened he started laughing and was like this is a journal entry day isn't it. but everything turned out alright, it was pretty intense when the sirens were all going off and the lightening struck.
hope everything is going well
love elder taylor call

Hi from Georgetown

hi mom,
yes we are still working with a few investigators that elder lunstrom and i have been teaching. my talk went well, i used a story in an ensign about a less active man and how a man in his ward was able to re activate him. my original bike has not been able to sell yet but i have 20 months for that to happen so im not too worried about it. my new bike is working pretty good, we're trying to ride our bikes more often to save on miles so it is working out pretty good.

the picture that i sent you with the missionaries on the table was at the last district meeting of the transfer, we take pictures at that district meeting. elder janeic and elder tingey are the other ones beside elder lundstrom and myself. elder janeic goes home in 3 weeks, he's from alpine.

mer sent me some articles online about syracuse winning, it sounded like it was an amazing game with cuse winning in overtime, i'll have to go wash that gross taste out of my mouth from hearing them win.

1. yes that is the case that i wanted
2.food is going well.
3. we have a washer and dryer at our apartment
4. she wrote me
5. i should be good on music and talks
6. no we haven't tracted all of it

currently in the book of mormon i think i am in alma 37, last night i finished the book of matthew in the new testament and started on mark.

hope everything is going well
love
elder call

Hi Everyone

hi everyone
merideth, thanks for the package and pictures. you really don't need to send me things that are going to be expensive for you. this past week has been a little rough. last friday we went over to an investigators house to try to set up a date that we could come and see them. she was getting things ready for a party she was having for one of the stylists that she works with at great clips. she was doing yard work and this brick wall thing that is in her yard fell over so we "pieced" it back together. then we asked her if she needed help with anything else and we ended up power washing her patio furniture and her garage. it was alot better than going tracting that is for sure. on saturday morning we played softball at the church but there was only 5 of us so it was a little hard playing with only 2 outfielders.
my companion served in georgetown a year and a half ago so the past week or so we have been tracking down people that he use to teach. one family, ben and sherri seem pretty good. we have taught them twice so far. they have a little boy named hayden that is 2, he's wayy cool and really funny. anyway we have been doing a lot of finding the past few days and trying to stay busy. my companion is a little bit of a number muncher so i have to break him of that.
nothing too exciting going on right now, our investigators are lazy and won't come to church which is pretty frustrating because you can't get baptized until you come to church so we'll see what happens with that. will someone send me some articles either online or from yesterdays USA Today so i can find out who won the national championship.
anyway i hope all is going well
love
elder call

Transfer Three Begins

hi, sorry if im a little cranky in the email, i've been stressed the past few days trying to make it so i can be effective in georgetown with my new companion. his name is elder steminger, he's from ventura california. he goes home in october and georgetown is the first place where he served. i didn't know that i had a small doctrine and covenants. i'll be fine without it, investigators don't need to know about that....im not sure what the black box is so im not sure what to tell you about that. sure i'll take some pictures of the apartment. our investigators are doing well, a little up and down but they're good for the most part. josh and vanessa still have a baptismal date but they are yet to stop smoking so they won't be baptized on june 6th. they need to be smoke and alchol free for 28 days.
hope everything is going well
love
elder call

District Meeting - Elders Janeic, Call, Lundstrom, Tingey

The Day After (Mother's Day)

dear mom, also when you send me those scriptures will you purchase for me a case that has snaps and not a zipper? i think that the zipper weares down the covers of the scriptures. also there is a mini book of mormon in my cuppord thingy in my room on the top shelp i believe. it was good talking to you as well, does dad wear my clothes? i sure hope not...there are some clothes in there that were farely expensive and i don't want them to smell like b.o.how was going to clints house last night? what time did meryl end up calling? i figured out how to send some pictures so i will try now at this time to do so.elder call

Doing Good

hi
i am doing good, yesterday was stake conference at church. we had a broadcast from salt lake. President Monson, L. Tom Perry, Elder Jay E jenson of the seventy, and elder beck of the young men all spoke. it was cool, it was kind of like having another general conference but just for the eastern united states. The p. family came also, we tried setting a baptismal date with them last week but they didn't really accept or reject it but that was good that they came even after our lesson with them on friday night. we also set a date with josh and vanessa. we set the date of like june 6th but for that to happen they have to be word of wisdom free for 28 days and come to church 3 times but they didn't come to church this week because he said that he didn't have any good pants to wear.
this is week 5 of the transfer.
i think we will be calling around 4-6 pm your time, we will probably be calling from our bishops house since they invited us to do that when we had dinner over there this past week. try and find the phone card, it should be in the area around my dresser....
i haven't had to speak at church but i did give the opening prayer yesterday if that counts...just have dad tell stories of how he had a bunch of motorcycles when he wasn't supposed to, he could speak on being obedient? also if you have those scriputes that you bought for me for christmas last year i would like them, the ones i am using are the ones i got when i was baptized and the covers are starting to wear our and come apart so that would be nice if you could do that...
well i hope everything is going well and owen is keeping his fingers out of his nose.
love,
elder taylor call

I was wearing those black new balance shoes when i stepped on the nail. it got me on the bottom of my foot and not my toe. i got another tetnus shot last monday.