This week was a great one! Things have been changing slowly but surely.. we have a few people to teach, but still looking for more and more cause it is hard to fill our days!!! but that is alright! ! do have a full top ten!!!
1. So one of the moments that supplied the best laughs for the week was when Elder Bochenk was trying to fix something on his bike at a memeber's house and ended up ripping a huge hole in his pants. It was priceless. Then he had to get on his bike with the big hole and ride home with it!!! He was embarrassed!
2. President Smith spoke at our church on Sunday! He is such a great speaker; one of the things that he was taught in the MTC was to not prepare anything but to just go out and listen to the spirit, so he did an amazing job! He was so good and did it all without a single note! He talked all about John the Baptist and how the scriptures talk about there needing to be a restoration of all things, and how john would prepare the restoration of all things! Just interesting stuff.
3. Sister Smith spoke also, she talked all about how when they where mission president and wife the first time in the Marshall islands that one of their daughters got in a horrible accident with her daughter. The Smith's daughter was given 1 day to live and it was a three day journey from the Marshall islands! But Sister Smith made it and her daughter ended up after almost 3 years making a full recovery from the accident. Don't worry, the baby didn't have a scratch on her! Which was a miracle.
4. we went out and did service at a farm in our ward it was great. The Dudleys are about in their 60's and are converts of three years! They are so great! They really love the gospel and each other, it is so great to see! Brother Dudley wishes more than anything that he would have been baptized sooner so he could have done more service in the church but he is a great man always offering to feed us or pay for groceries.
5. Banana spiders! These things are huge... I will send a picture of a spider compared to Elder Vawdrey's face. they are usually the size of a FIST! Man they are crazy big and usually super bright colors!
6. Christine is an awesome lady we met during service! We do service like twice a week. She is the manager of the habitat for humanity restore that we serve at! She is solid but funny thing... she has no idea she is taking the lessons! We just talk to her about religious stuff and what we believe. We have taught her all the restoration and plan of salvation and she loves it so we will see what happens in the coming weeks!
7. Belinda is a nice black women that we are teaching! We talked with her about the church and it would have been a great lesson but she did have a drunk girl friend over so that was a little distracting cause that lady was out of it but it was a good laugh! Belinda told us to come back when she doesn't have Allie, her drunk friend over but she had been reading the Book of Mormon and loved what she had read!
8. sham wow theory is something we talked about in companion study! It was pretty great! It was all about the attitude of sham-wow spokes men! In reality they are selling a rag that is a sponge and they make it sound like it is the coolest thing since sliced bread. But it really is not, and we need to have the same attitude about the gospel because it really is the best thing ever!!! it is so great it will change peoples lives, so be excited about it!!!
9. My interview with president was really great! It was a highlight of the week! I love that guy he, is so great. One thing we talked about was me being a little shy! Me, shy? Ya right. I know that's an odd concept but it is true. I also told him about feeling inadequate at times and he said join the club, that's how I feel every morning! He went on to give me some scripture when the Lord calls specific people to the work like Moses Enoch and Jeremiah! My favorite is Enoch cause his response to being called is, "I'm just a lad!!!" Then the lord promises that as Enoch opens his mouth it will be filled and later on in moses it talks about the power in Enoch's voice it says in Moses 7:13 " And so great was the a faith of Enoch that he led the people of God, and their enemies came to battle against them; and he spake the word of the Lord, and the earth trembled, and the mountains fled, even according to his command; and the drivers of water were turned out of their course; and the roar of the lions was heard out of the wilderness; and all nations feared greatly, so powerful was the word of Enoch, and so great was the power of the language which God had given him." so as we do what the lord wants he will provide a way!
10. I'll end with some Bishop sim-isms cause he is so great! haha he was telling a story about how big these guys where and said they where so big "they could hunt a bear with a switch" its way better if you read these in a southern accent by the way! he then said "cut up" which means when a kid acts out. It was just really funny!
Love you all and am so grateful for you in my life and the influence you are in my life!
Elder Taylor
And the Banana Spider:
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