1. One of the highlights of the week for me was when an investigator, Rachelle, came to conference and then again to church. She was super busy that week so we didn't get to have a lesson with her but at church she told us how much she had loved conference and that a speaker spoke on baptism and she just started to cry and felt good. So we are really excited to get back with her and teach her, and hopefully ill thing will work out!
2. Mary Johnson is a very nice black lady that we met the other day. She is a single mother and we talked about Jesus Christ and she invited us back! We taught her the restoration and then gave her a Book of Moron and you would have thought we gave her a million dollars. Turns out that she had a Book of Mormon years ago and loved it and lost it one day! She was so sad but so happy to get it back finally after all these years! She then invited us back for weekly visits! So we are very excited to see where this all goes!
3. We had a challenge from our district leader, Elder Cooper, to Open our Mouth to 30 people with our whole district combined! So Elder Farris and I wanted to 1 up it so we wanted to have 20 OYM's as we call them by the end of the week! We talked to everyone and ended up with 25! We almost made the goal for the whole district! So that was awesome and we realized how easy it is to talk to people in the Bible belt about Jesus Christ!
4. We worked hard as I said before and were able to double our investigators! So that was way cool. We went from about 4 investigators to 9! So it was a week of a lot of hard work but it was so worth it! The Lord knows when you work hard and he has been helping us out a lot! The mission is not about numbers at all! But it was good to meet all our goals this week! The first time that has happened for me!
5. There is a quote by L. Tom Perry that I totally loved! He was in an elevator with a mission president and some strangers and said " We are members of the church of Jesus Christ of latter-day saints and we are the happiest people around!" I loved this! Cause we should be the happiest people around! We have such an awesome church and gospel and leaders! We need to take a page out of Elder Perry's book and just be happy no matter where we go!!!
6. I got to go on a trade-off with Elder Cooper, our district leader, this week and man was that great! First off he is just an awesome kid so we had a blast we spent a day together and are already talking about rooming together at college! He also taught me how simple sharing this gospel is! How you can walk down a street and talk to everyone about the church, man it was just so easy! So that really helped with Elder Farris and I in learning how to work smarter, not harder!
7. Brother McDaniels who i have mentioned a few times spoke at church! He gave a beautiful talk he with no notes at all! He was doing it as a challenge from the stake president who told him to just speak on what the spirit wanted him to speak on. So he did it, being a military man he told us about the "last Role Call" they do for MIA or KIA soldiers. That there is a tribute and a sergeant major yells off all the names of the people in his group they all respond but one. He then repeats it and then he realizes that person is MIA. Brother McDaniels related this to the gospel by saying one day the Lord will do this he will call everyones name but it will be our responsibility as members of this church to make sure that they will be at the role call ready to shout back "here Sir".
8. President Bess who is the stake president spoke to us after and just talked about loving people to the gospel. He told us and then challenged the members to each week invite 1 person to church each week and to see what happens. Just imagine if we invited 1 person to church and 25% accepted that invitation! Each week we would have hundreds of people coming to each ward! Sometimes all we have to do is reach out and ask but we are too afraid to do that! No one will stop being our friends because we invite them to church but they might not be happy when we run into them after this life and they say "why didn't you share this thing you knew so well with me"! I don't want to have anyone come up to me and say why didn't you tell me all this!
9. There was a great talk I read this week that i challenge all you who are about to go on a mission or who have been home for a while or for a little longer than a while! (I'm not calling anyone old here) http://www.lds.org/
10. Last off, Elder Farris got bored the other day and remixed Ice Ice baby to missionary references! I do not have a copy of the words yet but i told him he has to write it down and give it to me and i also have to record him doing it! It was so funny and awesome! He is a very funny kid!
I love you all and am so grateful for you!
Elder Taylor
PICTURES
1. me on friend street with out any friends...
2. me and my zone leaders elder olsen and call doing the 1st presidency pose ( thats how they sit in all their pictures)
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