1. MLC again! so we had a crazy week we had another mission leadership council which was great! These meetings are sooo good and it was really cool because Elder Soares of the presidency of the 70 was there and gave some awesome inspired instruction!!! It was so cool to see a man love us so much and then call down a blessing from heaven upon us! It was way cool and the spirit was super strong!
2. Elder Soares talked about planning and he quoted some super good scriptures. moses:3:5 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew. For I, the Lord God,created all things, of which I have spoken, spiritually, before they were naturally upon the face of the earth. For I, the Lord God, had not caused it to rain upon the face of the earth. And I, the Lord God, had created all the children of men; and not yet a man to till the ground; for in heaven created I them; and there was not yet flesh upon the earth, neither in the water, neither in the air;" This scripture shows us that God is a planner! He plans everything before he does it and that is how we should be. We need to be planning effectively so that we can tell the lord we did our best!
3. Elder Soares called me out in my planning! He was saying that we need to be better at planning so I thought oh man this isn't good, I don't have my planner with me! I had my planner for the next 6 weeks not the last 6 weeks so the new planner was totally empty!!! And of course just my luck he looked at it... and asked my what i did at 1 o'clock on a day that was fully blank! (that day was actually tomorrow so we hadn't planned for it yet) but it was just an awesome experience getting in trouble from a general authority! But it was alright 'cause he gave me a big hug once the meeting was over and I explained everything and he was a little embarrassed! But thats alright. He was a great guy, very powerful!
4. Last thing for Elder Soares! I could probably write this whole letter about him! But he talked a lot about attitude! Attitude determines our altitude. That was super good, he said that as we realize and teach missionaries about the divine nature of our calling we will be more consecrated and realize why we are here and what we need to be doing!
5. Not the best part of MLC was it was Saturday and only a 3 hour meeting which meant we woke up at 5:30 and got home at 9:30 so it was a long day! Lots and lots of driving! It's rough being one of the farthest zone away but i love road trips and we had some super good conversations!
6. So on that drive we were in a mini van! The Mobile North zone leaders have a mini van! And it was us 6 elders talking. The conversation came to a point talking all about what was said and now how do we do it! How do we reach the level of consecration that Elder Soares and more importantly the Lord expects of us! We brainstormed for a while and raelized we just need to do our best and be examples and as we do this then the enabling and strengthening power of the atonement comes in that is when we realize that we did the best and we ask the lord to make us better! I'm so grateful for the atonement!
7. Elder Fortin was one of those missionaries in that car. He has been a zone leader for 1 transfer so the same amount of time as me! Me and Elder Riddle and Miller were all trying to figure out his personality. but on the ride home he opened up and was so smart about the stuff he was talking about it was crazy. He knows the gospel and he is such a good missionary! He's also 26 and talked a lot about how its never too late to get your act together and serve!
8. Transfers. They were way fun and I got to say goodbye to a lot of good friends... it was sad to see a lot of them go! but sadly I'm not too far behind them
9. Cranky old ladies!!! We taught a family history class at the library this week! It was awesome! Except some of the old ladies had some very bad attitude problems! One in particular but besides that it was super fun! Yeah for family history!
10. Roosevelt! He's a new investigator we found this week! He's a super old black guy! The one down side is he needs to buy a magnifying glass to read! Oh, old people!
Love you all,
Elder Taylor
Me and Elder Person. He's a good looking stud muffin
Me and Elder McPerson
A departing AP and DM!
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