1. So I decided to start this weeks report with a funny note! I realized I will be a horribly awkward return missionary! Yesterday we were at dinner (lunch in the south) and a grand daughter of a member was sitting on the same bench as me and boy did i feel awkward the whole time, it was no good. I was sitting as far away as i possibly could get myself, it was a little comical. And when she would talk i wouldn't even look at her. The other missionaries made a comment on how awkward I was so it was a great experience! You ladies watch out on in 14 months cause the awkwardRM's are coming
2. We were able to try a southern delicacy yesterday! a member thought it a good idea to fry up some dear heart! So we had deer heart and it was surprisingly good. Tasted like chicken gizzards. I have never heard of those but that's what the member described them as. It did have a faint chicken taste in there.
3. We got to go back and see a lady we met a few weeks ago. Her name was Mrs. White and she was an interesting lady. That is to say the least. She is very funny, she is in her 80's and was constantly yelling and saying hallelujah. I wish y'all could have just seen this lady, she was a riot and made me laugh pretty hard. She was a sweet woman though and hopefully she can accept the gospel!
4. This year our mission is working on being missionaries of uncommon valor! That is the mission wide theme and I love it! Our goal is to do the things that other missionaries won't always do, the things that are hard. It is something i really like and enjoy. We are triyng to stretch as far as possible and become great missionaries! I think it will be great for this mission!
5.We had a zone training meeting where the zone leaders spoke to us for a good while and they made a scripture connection that I had never realized before; it was amazing. So we know of the story of the brother of Jared in the Book of Mormon. How he was a problem solver and asked the Lord to touch the stones, which gave them light. We realize that Jared thought of this himself and that he was probably looking to the best source of inspiration the scriptures We read in Genesis 6:16 it talks about how Noah built his ship and put windows in them, but if we look at the footnote in the LDS version of the scriptures it says "HEB tsohar; some rabbis believed it was a precious stone that shone in the ark." from this we see that Noah didn't have windows in his ark but actually he had rocks like the brother of jared to glow in his ark! It was a cool little scripture bridge that i had never found before!
6. There is a something our mission president, President Smith said that I love about persistence. He says "success does not come till the second mile" The first part will yield no results but as we keep going and working so hard we will receive what we need! We will get the blessings that we are wanting. This is very comforting to me.
7. Robert Wilson is a great guy we met the other day. We have taught him twice and he seems to be a great guy! He is a baptist but nothing very solid, he just goes to whatever church that is going on at the time. So no solid foundations. But he has been pretty open he has had a pretty rough life. He is a cancer survivor and also a heart attack survivor, which is amazing. He knows that God has a reason for him to still be here and I hope that this gospel is it!
8. We had a great talk this Sunday on conversion. It was so good and much needed. We talked about the need of conversion over testimony and how important that is. Conversion is so much deeper then testimony. it is so meaningful. When we are converted we live the principles because we know they will bring blessings. You can not be converted to anything you are not living. Also conversion is slow, it does not come over night but is a painstaking process of compounding righteous decisions. We should constantly be striving for a deeper and more meaningful conversion, that is so important to all of us.
9. Last Monday the strangest thing happened. I baked all day, I made about 60 cookies for two elders birthday and then I made dinner. My cooking skills from my younger days are slowly coming back to me and it is amazing! It is so great and we are eating a lot better now because of it!
10. TRANSFERS came through and it was not what anyone expected! It turns out elder Milne is leaving and I am staying and we will both be training brand new missionaries... So this will be a very interesting experience! I loved training the first time around and now I am excited to see what it will bring this go around! Always exciting things happen here in little Monroeville Alabama!
Elder Taylor
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