Sweet Home Alabama!

WOW has it been an eventful week! My first transfer! New area new comp! New everything! Here is my week!

1. So the other day we found that we are now a pilot mission for Salt Lake! Our mission president has been hitting family history hard! And really wants us pushing that for teaching and re-activations and even finding! So we have caught the eye of Salt lake! So everything we do relating to family history is being reported back to Salt Lake to see if they want to do this WORLD wide!  So it is exciting times in the Florida Tallahassee mission!  

2. We have an district activity every 6 weeks were we get to go do something fun! So this week we got to go bowling again which I won again! Ya im really good, I know! I think I'll just give up on this whole college thing and be a professional bowler! I like that! after that we went and had my last lunch in Marianna we got some soul food! That was good, I got some deep fried ribs! Oh man oh man were those good! Never thought of that one before but that was great! Try it if y'all ever get a chance!

3. Transfer day was Wednesday and that was a crazy crazy day! I rode all the way out to Pensacola, Florida ready to go to Mobile, this big city! Instead the zone leader directs me to Monroeville Alabama! It was a totally change up of what I was expecting! Going from big city to a Podunk town!  Man that was a huge adjustment! It is similar to Marianna but it is way more spread out! Well, that was unexpected. So we get in with a member, Brother Fralic, and we drive for about 2 hours to his house, oh we replaced sister missionaries by the way. And we helped him out till he could take us back to the church to meet the branch president and all. During that time we helped him cut off dear antlers, I got a chunk of deer brain flung at my eye! Not very fun stuff! Then we helped him worm cattle he gave the medicine and stuff . Tt was quiet an odd day ending with the tiny trunk or treat meeting half of the ward in the parking lot of the church. Most interesting transfer that I have been on!  

4. So now a little about Monroeville! If you are from this town you don't say Monroeville it is Morovlll that is how everyone says it! It's like they start talking and they finish with a mouth full of something! It is so funny! But it is a huge area, twice the size of Marianna and we only have one car! So I will be biking a lot! The other day we biked about 20 miles and man was that a work out! But we do have a sweet mission truck cause there are so many dirt roads! Crazy little town of morovll!

5. History of the town this is one of the oldest towns in the great state of Alabama! It is also the home to two famous writers! Harper Lee and Truman Capote! It is way crazy how much they love those two writers! This town is where the book To Kill A Mockingbird was placed, just under a different name! They have a huge museum in the center of town and they have the court house will they filmed that movie! So To Kill A Mocking Bird is the pride and joy of this little town!

6. Elder Milne is my new comp! He has been out for about 6 weeks! so he is still a little green but that is alright! He is an awesome kid! Super goofy so we get along just great, we don't get too stressed, we just laugh a lot! He is from Logan Utah (im sorry for him) and just graduated! He has some sweet super man and batman sheet that he sleeps with every night and man I'm jealous they are cool! He is also a diabetic and has Asthma! so he has a lot of health stuff but he takes it fine! He has a scholarship to play corner at Dixie so he is a solid little athlete!

7.  We had a solid week for being so out of it! We taught a ton of new people so I am grateful that things are working out and that we are getting off to running start. We got 5 new investigators this week so that was a totally blessing! Let's hope it continues that way! The lord has work for US to do!!!

8. Whitewashing is hard! Sometimes I have no idea what I am doing! actually a lot of times, but that is alright, it is learning! It is also hard to be training under these circumstances but it is alright, I am learning and growing The Lord and President Smith must trust me a lot to let me do this! So lets pray that I come through with this!

9. We have two super solid elders helping us getting started and man is that a blessing but it is super weird! I am the oldest time wise,  I have been on my mission the longest of them all! It was weird to find that out! They are way cool, Elder Garn and Elder Parsons! So we have been rolling around town in a group of 4 as we learn the area! It is really nice of them! They are really good missionaries! And super helpful I am grateful for them!

10. In the little branch of Monroeville there are about 50 people that come every week. Of those 50 about 10 are redheads so I fit in perfectly! Man everyone loved me cause of my hair so it was a good start! The branch building is super small it is crazy there are about 8 rows of pews and that is it! And it was barely full! So we have a lot of work to be doing.. I'm excited!

Elder Taylor