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, April 12, 2010

Very Supportive

dear mommy
Fairfield is pretty good size, they are very supportive, Gladys Knight is coming may 6th and yesterday we had 3 members take each of us out from 3-7 to go and contact people for the fireside. they are both good.The minivan #1 doesn't have a tacometer and #2 it doesn't accelerate very fast. Every morning after we work out we make smoothies and i'm taking this stuff which is pretty much dry steroids called creotine. it puts water in your muslces so you look bigger.
I was thinking about going to the dentist soon, i went in the fall when i was in martin.
Our investigators are doing well, Zach should be getting baptized on saturday.
In fairfield there are a lot of people from Ghana and last night one of the members gave us fish and in Ghana you eat with your hands so we pretty much just pull the meat off of the bones and eat it, he also gave us gizzard.
Miracles lately? i am not sure, probably when i give trainings i am able to think of alot of ideas in a short amount of time which helps me with other ideas to give a good training.
For service we work at a food bank.
take care
wove
elder taylor call

Monday, April 5, 2010

A Very Nice Day

easter sunday was a verrryyy nice day here, sunny and in the 70's. we had dinner with the haurch's (haroosh), it was really good, we had ham, green bean caserole, and some really good 4 layer chocolate cake. easter bunny found me, even a few days early if you know what i mean...
Conference was good, i enjoyed saturday alot more than sunday. i really liked the one about the daughters and mothers, the cowboy story, and elder oaks's talk in priesthood. Chris Armstrong and Mary both came to saturday morning and we had a less active Tim Jackson that came to all 5 sessions which was realllyyy good. For General Confernce we stay out till 10 and just get home as soon as we can afterword.
All my clothing is doing good and not on a bike, we have a brand new dodge minivan that is really nice and very comfortable.
Elder Soto is doing well as far as i know, in the fall he had to return to california to renew his greencard and has been a missionary in the LA mission since then, he is supposed to be coming back soon.
Owen is nuts.I know all of those missionaries except for elder clark, not sure who he is. Zach's baptism is on the 17th, so i will send pitcutes then. April fools package? im not sure about that one, which one had the banana bread in it?

Monday, March 29, 2010

Doing Good

mammy,
i am doing good, how are you doing? how are you doing with keeping your iron up? mike was supposed to be baptized friday but he will be getting baptized the 17th instead. i called one of the missionaries friday just to ask about him and they said he was doing good.tell sister curry you want both pictures she took of us at church, especially the one with the man from africa.
Zach is 11, his grandparents are members and he lives with them, he has a bap date for april 8th i think, chris's dad is a member, chris is kinda nuts, he has a date for may 8th. eric's mom and sister are members they live in texas, he's 22ish. mary is doing well, she has a crazy 14 year old granddaughter that she can't leave home alone so its hard for her to come to church.thanks for package, no cookies, yes nana bread. marc wrote me 2 emials...
give baby kiss
love
elder taylor call

marci deary
i am doing well, how are you doing? how are things coming with the trek prep? i found this pretty sweet ensign from 97 in our appartment that talked about the missionaries, it was pretty sweet. this morning i didn't feel that great so i started reading it and read an article about the wille and martin hand cart companies and all the things that Brigham Young said when he heard about the conditions of the saints. That is probably one of my most favorite things reading about in church history.
we weren't able to get any of the investigators to sacrament. Zach got to church for 2nd hour and chris wasn't awake...however church starts at noon on saturday thats pretty creepy if you have elders that knock on your door multiple times a day...i would be pretty annoyed. the weather here has been pretty good, rainy the last few days. its supposed to be sunny in the 70s the rest of the week though, right in time to take off our suit jackets. i am always excited for GC i wove it, dont let baby get to crazy don't want no diebeties.
talk to you wayyter
love
elder taylor call

Monday, March 22, 2010

To Mommy and Marci

mommy,
marc told me that you went to washington for the funeral, who is dee lake? or i guess who was he. how was the park? did you hang out with kerry and wendy? who's car was it? i woulda shot the thing if it started to eat my car.
Things in cinci are going pretty good, yes i did receive a visit from sister curry yesterday. elder doxey is the short one and elder robinson is the taller. we had one investigator come to sacrament and the other one came just after that had ended. so it was good to have them come. I did get the package thank you, i loved the tape and about peed my pants when i heard gary rogers talking on it. i really enjoyed it. hope all is going well.
give the baby a kiss from me
love elder taylor call

dearest marci
i am doing pretty good today, how are you doing? we use a library that i think is in fairfield...yea pretty sure. i really like fairfield, there is a lot of really good things going on right now and we have some good investigators so its going pretty good. Our main investigators currently is Zach, he is 11, Chris, he's like 14ish..and eric who is 23. we had a pretty good week this past week so everything is going pretty well. dad being the scout master must have rubbed off on you, way to Be Prepared. The brownies were really good, it tasted like there was chocolate chips in them so that made them especially tasty. sorry this is so short, i hope everything with work and dating is going greaaatttttt ;)
love
elder taylor call