"They are Christians!"

First off i heared about the fires in California and hope everyone is safe and doing good! I prayed for all yall! Oh, and a week from Wednesday we get a set of sister missionaries, so it will be interesting to see how that goes. Bishop Sims said he raised 4 boys so he has no iddea what to do with a couple 20 year old girls! but all the elderly women in the ward are so excited cause they can finally feed us all!!

This week was super busy for us! We had a huge expo on provident living at our building and the whole county came to check it out. It was all about food storage, do it yourself, disatster prepardness and everyone loved it. But in the front of the gym was the missionaries! We had a huge long booth set up with all these hand out and big displays and everything, even matching table clothes (provided by the relief society of course)! haha But all the women in the ward were impressed with what we had to display! it looked good! MAYBE ILL BE AN EVENT DECORATOR! haha nope... 

Anyways we had hundreds of people unfimilar with our faith come talk to us about our church so they dont think we are as crazy as they think now! My favorite was a lady was walking in talking to her friend about her day, she turns and sees the big picture of Christ and like stopped in her tracks and was like "oh so they do believe in Christ". So that was pretty funny! she had no idea we were even Christians! Elder clifford say 80% of missionary work is publicity and we got a bunch of good publicity this week! it was awwesome! So that produced like a million referrals so we will be busy the next few weeks!

The food of the week! fried okra, taste like fried snot balls! it was gross!!!! deer meat loaf was way good, i liked that one a lot! And then fried froglegs! those were good but not very much meat there! but its amazing how much more food i will try now!

This week during district meeting we were talking about D&C 18 verse 15 It says "And if it so be that you should labor all your days in crying repentance unto this people, and bring, save it be one ^asoul unto me, how great shall be your joy with him in the kingdom of my Father!". we talked about how on our mission that one soul isnt an investigator, or a less active member, but ourselves. Never thought of it but how great will our joy be as we bring ourselves unto Christ! So im working on myself constantly so i can be a better missionary cause im far from pefect!

Yesterday was testimony meeting so ill close with my testimony! I know Jesus Christ is the Son of God, he loves us and did so much for us. Without him it would be impossible to return home to our loving Heavenly Father! The Book of Mormon is the word of God and goes hand in hand with the Bible, and as you strive to read and ponder and pray about the Book of Mormon the spirit will tell you if it is true or not. And the best part is you dont have to take my word for it, you can do it yourself. I love this gospel and I love you all! God be with you till we meet again!

Elder Taylor