First off you must read this whole email in an Irish accent! That is how you truly celebrate Saint Patrick's Day!
1. We had an awesome busy week! I think we taught about 14 lessons which is a TON for this area and us! Elder peterson and I were very happy about it and despite the rain this week we had some good success! We were very excited but we were sure not to boast in our own strength and recognize this is all blessings from Heavenly Father!
2. I learned a lesson this week that the gospel is for service and work and not entertainment. It is so true. We do all we do not necessarily to entertain ourselves but to serve other children of God. We don't come to church to listen to cool music for 3 hours or talk with friends like some of the other churches but we do it to be nourished so we can defend ourselves from the firey darts of the adversary in the next week! Living a gospel life can be hard but it is so worth it!
3. Brother Brewer is a member of the branch who we spent a good amount of time with yesterday. He is so humble and so nice you probably couldn't find a man better than him. He is constantly looking for way to help others and most of the time you find him at church entertaining a crazy group of kids, he loves children even though all his are grown and moved away, he always looks for the best in them. This week he gave a talking telling the branch to lovingly repent! This guy is so great!
4. Us missionaries had a meeting with the branch president this week about how we could be most effective. He told us that we need to be bold with the members because we are so transitive. we need to challenge the active member to change and become better. That it is our job to show them what they can become and try to help them achieve that.
5. There is a wonderful scripture that was shown to me this week. It is D&c 78:18 it says "Andye cannot bear all things now; nevertheless, be of good cheer, for I will lead you along." It is amazing the Lord's counsel there. We can't do all things ourself, there is no way we ever could do all things ourself! But we have the opportunity to be happy chose to be happy! And as we do that we feel the spirit more in our life and the Lord will lead us! Don't worry Be HAPPY!!!!
Now a few funny things, we had a funny week!
6. Yesterday reminded me of a favorite scripture. As we left a house on a huge farm with cows and horses running along. the rain was just so light and everything was so green that it was so beautiful it was amazing! The worda of Alma 30:44 came to my mind "The scriptures are laid before thee, yea, and all things denote there is a God; yea, even the bearth, and call things that are upon the face of it, yea, and its dmotion, yea, and also all the eplanets which move in their regular form do witness that there is a Supreme Creator." You can not look at something so beautiful and deny there is a God! It is impossible! The beauty of this earth could not have been created by chance, it all had to come form God!
7. Last p day i was so tired i decided to take a nap! It was time to get up and get moving so Elder Peterson decided to come wake me up. Which he did but it didn't wake me up all the way, i jumped up and he was in shock cause of my reaction just staring at me... we sat there and I thought he had just been sitting there watching me sleep it scared me pretty bad! It was just one of the many awkward situations you run into as a missionary!
8. Elder Peterson also had another highlight when we were talking to an old guy, whose dog really liked him. So he wasn't paying attention but this little dog walked right up and peed all over him, I had to do my best not to laugh when we were talking but it was just way too funny to resist!
9. We were trying to contact a lady that we had talked to a few weeks ago who seemed interested. As we knocked, a little boy about ten, rode up on his bike with training wheels and yelling at us! He told us he lived there and we were never going to get into that home because no one is ever going to get him in church! NO ONE! It was more comical than anything! I really want to get that kid in church just to make him mad!!! haha
10.Our branch out here is a lot of good people but they are old country folk which means sacrament singing does not sound good at all. It also doesn't help they always pick the songs no one knows... but the branch president stood up and said "remember if you cant carry a note just sing louder" and that's what it sounds like! Nursery normally sounds better but it's good people trying their best and when the snickering laughing stops you can always feel the spirit so strong.
I love you all,
Elder Taylor
these trees are so pretty.. they just smell really bad
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