I'm sad to hear that a good friend of mine, Ginger, (who I mentioned a few weeks ago) passed on. Oh how great is the knowledge of the plan of salvation and how much it blesses us knowing it! (and teaching it to others!) She has returned to her father in heaven and is now in a great place! I also just heard for my last companion that 2 of the people we were teaching will be baptized on Christmas day! I'm also grateful for this great week and a pretty good top 10, if i do say so myself!
1. We had an awesome lesson with a single mother, Katrina! we just dove in and the first thing she asked was where hell was. So instead of teaching the restoration lesson we answered a lot of her questions about what the purpose of life is! So we talked for almost 2 hours! She had some pretty good questions and she seemed really receptive. she is our only really solid investigator! But it went well, we taught a lot but it was hard to avoid some deeper stuff that she was talking about! It went well we are excited to meet with her again soon!
2. Mary Thames is a lady that the sisters we replaced were teaching! We met with her last Monday and talked to her for a while. She found the missionaries because she just flagged them down one day and said "I need to talk with you guys!" So that is cool and we hope to see her progress soon!
3. Ralph chambers is a less active member that we have seen a few times. He loves the missionaries but has a little bit of a word of wisdom problem! and a little bit is an understatement! But that is alright, we can still work with that! He is a great guy, he always tells us that our missions are so great and we learn and grow so much from them. It's like he went on a mission but so far we have no idea if that is true!
4. Brother Siezmore is an old branch president that we see often! He has parkisons and is in a nursing home but he loves it when we come and visit him! It has been kind of amazing how much he has gotten better since he has been getting visitors! It is like a life change! He is a different man! But whenever we come in he plays and jokes with us and then has us read him scriptures because his eyes are bad! But he is so sweet and so nice and he just loves the gospel so much!
5. On Sunday we had branch Thanksgiving dinner! You would have thought there was a turkey for every person there! There was so much food! It was crazy, we ate for an hour and that food disappeared fast! But it was a good little social for being a small branch. A lot of people showed up and a lot of people but man i was stuffed! I also decided i need to marry a southern girl that can make me chicken and dumplings! Boy is that stuff good. I love my dumplings!
6. Elder Milne and I were reading in preach my gospel this week and stumbled across something that i loved! it says "heaven is the continuation of the ideal home"! I really liked that! To know we can still have heaven on this earth but it all starts in the home! It is amazing how everything goes back to families. That is what god wants for us, to be happy in our families! Families are awesome! I have a pretty darn good one!
7. Brother Marion Johnson, the branch patriarch was telling a story and said something that he has applied since he was little and it is a great example of diligence! He said, "Its alright to try and fail. Try and fail but never fail to try again" It was great and goes so well with the gospel! Sadly God only has us imperfect mortals to work with so I'm glad he is forgiving! He doesn't care how much we fail or how often, all he cares is that we keep going instead of sitting in the dirt and waiting for something to change!
8. The other day we were looking for a less active's home and thought we found it . It was 530, so dark, and we knocked and saw a dog that was pretty big that sketched me out then an even bigger dog came out of a dog house! It was more of a horse than anything else! Elder Milne said "oh... big dog time to go!' So we jumped on our bikes and ran ! Luckily the dog was chained but we aren't huge fans of ginormous dogs!
9.There are two members I talked about last week, Joe and Kenny Roy, they are cousins but act like little kids together. Joe just broke his back so he sat out in the foyer during sacrament and as the talks went out, kenny roy stole candy out of his wife's purse and threw it to his wounded comrade out it the hall! It was pretty funny especially since they are both in their 60's and looked more like 6.
10. The most awkward moment of the week was when Elder Milne told a member that for his talk he should talk on the law of chastity. So we go t there on Sunday and he gave a 45 minute talk on chastity... oh boy it was tough! The branch president told him to wrap it up! So we all blamed Elder Milne for the awkward sacrament!
Saturday will be a long day for us. Alabama is playing the Auburn Tigers and boy the town will clear out for that! It's better than Christmas, especially this year! A few members have invited us to come watch it! My vote is for Auburn cause who really likes Alabama?
Love you all,
Love you all,
Elder Taylor
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