Peacock, talks and holes in my pants!

A good week in Florida. We are slowly getting our feet under us and getting to work!

1. I had a talk and talked on conversion! I thought I would have 15 minutes so I prepared all my notes and everything and then last minute they said I had 5 minutes! so i cut a lot out! I was so flustered I lost my talk! So I just went by the spirit and it went great! I felt like it was a great talk! I got a lot of positive responses so that is always a plus! 

2. Our ward mission leader gave us a great talk on perseverance. it was awesome! It was the University of Texas commencement address! You might just want to google it- it's called "adm. mcrowen urges graduates to change the world" It's the life lessons he learned from seal training! If you get a chance, look it up! its great! 

3. We met a less active this week named Leo Williams! He's an old guy and he answered the door and the first thing he said is come on in guys but just so you know, I'm not the best Mormon! haha He is in his 80's. We talked to him about his life and he talked about his wife and it was so darn adorable! He kept saying "excuse me but every time i talk about her it brings tears to my eyes because I just love her so much!" It was the perfect old people love story! old people are so precious! Hopefully ill make it to that point! 

4. I got to give a spiritual though this week in ward council! with ... no time to let me know! The bishop just called on me! so the first thing that came to my head was Moses 6:13 which talks about how Enoch was such a powerful servant of the lord! but before he became this powerful servant he was a man who couldn't talk. But because he had faith in the lord he was able to do so many amazing things! When he spoke mountains moved, armies fled and lions roared! i related it to how the Lord will do that for us as we faithfully fulfill our callings! It was awesome experience because when I started I was nervous but I kept going. I felt the spirit and then it flowed so naturally it was a perfect example of how the spirt works in us! how when the spirit starts taking over its so easy! 

5. We did service for a lady.. there were some bad floods a few weeks ago around here and they destroyed a lot of property! So it was crazy going into a home and the bottom 2 feet of the house was cut out. the sheet rock was just destroyed so they had to take it out! If you were a 2 foot tall person you could have seen the whole house from the front door! It was just cool but sad to see what happens after a storm! Hopefully we won't get a hurricane this year!

6. We saw a wild peacock! what in the world!? I had no idea those things existed in the wild! It was super cool! No super great picture though... sorry! 

7. we have been biking a lot lately! Like a crazy amount. we have been riding so much that I wore a hole through the rear end of my pants! Holy smokes! But that just tells you you have been sitting on a bike for too long! 

8. I did my first turkey bowling last week on pday! I'll be a pro bowler by the time I'm home!

9. i had a major reality check this week! There is a girl in the ward who was graduating and going to byu idaho this year so i was talking to her about it and all. Then she told me she was going fall and spring semester! and i realized that I'll be up there next spring semester! Can you believe that? It was a super big reality check on how little time i have left out here so I better get to work! 

10. So a funny awkward story to end it off! There is a girl in our apartment complex that goes running everyday and I'm trying to be nice to our neighbors so I said hi and then asked if she was going running and she replied yes. Then comes the awkward part. I meant to say "wow even when its this hot?" I instead said, "wow even when your that hot?".... ya awesome awkward moments! So mom you don't have to worry about me getting married soon after i get home cause i can't even talk to girls!!!haha

i love yall have a great week! 

Elder Taylor