1. We had a great lesson Tuesday night with Travis "Cornbread" Garrett. It went so awesome! I would have to say it was one of the best lessons I had the opportunity of being a part so far! We taught about recognizing the gentle still small voice of the spirit and we also talked about repentance and how in the Book of Mormon, Alma starts out as a really bad guy but is able to change his life through repentance and the Atonement! He loved it and ate it all up! With love in our hearts we committed him to be baptized April the 12th! Which he said he really wants, he also know that it will be tough now that he has decided to make that choice but he is going to push through all the tools of the adversary and get to that date! We are both very excited about him and his future! Hurray for Cornbread!
2. Gratitude is something I learned a lesson on this week! We have an awesome couple in the branch that has taken in a few grandkids that had troubled parents and they raised them. They just told us how they felt so unappreciated and they had to do all this extra work that no one seems to notice. They want their grandkids to be active in the gospel so bad they just can't do it..it was really sad. They care so much but don't get any response that is how I feel sometimes as a missionary but I know that all the sweat and tears I shed will be worth it! and I'm sorry mom and Dad if I was ever an ungrateful teenager, I now am truly grateful!
3. We stumbled across and awesome less active and her husband, The Rexroads. They were very funny. We knocked on the door and the husband yelled "come in if you aren't a serial killer or a weirdo!' So we went in and he had the dinner table set and fed us tacos! He is not a member but loves the missionaries! we had a good visit and got to know him better and talk about his family history! He and his wife are awesome and invited us back for dinner!
4. We have had a sad week in the branch. We have been doing so well lately it seems like Satan was just waiting to stick his foot in the door and mess everything up and he got a toe in this week. We had two super messy divorces go down with less-active part-member families this week, that directly affected the branch. One ended in a shot off pinky, and thankfully that was all that was shot! But it is true the adversary does have a little pull! But it is a good/bad thing he is noticing us! Good in the fact we are doing what we are supposed to enough to get noticed, and bad that he is here!
5. Qe almost got attacked by a dog!!!! Tt was not a fun experience! It was a big black dog at a person's house. We went to the door and it was just barking then when we walked back to the car it went attack mode! I knew something was up so I told elder Peterson to not turn his back on it! It would run full speed and come for us and we would have to jump out of the way! That 50 feet back to the car had to be the longest distance ever! But we survived without any dog bites!
6. we did service for the museum in town and we went out to this big Indian festival out on the river. we did a whole lot of random odd jobs they had for us, like parking cars, pushing the cars we pushed out of the mud, selling stuff, eating food! so whatever they needed done did! it was a nice little morning off to be out in nature do some service and learn about the native Americans in the area!
7. Our branch president got to travel to Tallahassee to meet an apostle, M. Russell Ballard, who said something that caught his attention enough to mention to us! He said that Elder Ballard said that in the 12 stakes that were present there were about 3,261 less active men that had been on missions or ordained in the priesthood, so at one point all of these people were active. He said that something big is coming with the hastening of the work, and we need EVERY priesthood holder that we can get back! He didn't say what it would be, just that in these latter days we need the priesthood to be as stronger than ever before!
8. We got to have a fun day on Tuesday and we got to go bowling! I have learned to love bowling! I now consistently break 100 every round I bowl! By the time I get home I will be a pro! Y'all are on when I get home!
9. I have been trying to keep a more regular journal lately and it has helped me by taking the advice of an apostle, Henry B. Eyring, who has written in his journal every day, but to make it more meaningful he writes how he sees the hand of God in his life that day specifically! That is something I try to do and it is amazing how many blessings I miss just by going too fast sometimes!
10. Me being a history nerd I love the Book of Mormon and how often it talks about this nation! I found a couple articles this week about how God has inspired the constitution. It is amazing his had in this work John Adams said how important religion is to the constitution when he said "our constitution was made only for a moral religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other". I just thought how interesting that was and how many references in 1 Nephi and Ether, books in the book of Mormon, There were to the Lord protecting this nation as long as we were quick to remember him! Interesting things!
I love y'all!
Elder Taylor
I made a pie it was like a big reeses! so good!
I saved a turtle this week!
district picture: Me, elders perterson, payne, parsons, browne and balling (no specific order)-our district
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