1. got to say a lot of byes to a lot of good people! Fairhope was a fun place and there are a lot of super legit member there! i also got to say bye to a bunch of the missionaries i got close with while serving in Fairhope so that was a double plus! Goodbyes are always sad but that's alright
2. We left in the middle of district meeting to drive Elder Miller all the way to Tallahassee so that was crazy! It was a super long drive! Elder Miller was going home but because of the holidays he had to leave a day early. But we got to see a lot of the friends that he made on the drive so that was cool! I got some food so i didn't complain
3. I dropped Elder Miller off, said some byes to friends that i had that were going home, sister dyches and elder cooper two missionaries i love and respect a lot! So that was sad but i was happy I could say bye to them!
4. Then I was companions with Elder Swenson for the day! That was way too much fun! I love Elder Swenson. we went to Chipotle and then met up with some tally missionaries and did splits! Because of the time change we couldn't go to bed till an hour later and then at 524 am Central time i get a text saying i have to call a set of missionaries who need to be transferred! so that was crazy!! They were not happy when i called them because they thought they got to stay together after the mission... sad day... I also woke them up super early! But it had to be done! oh well!
5. I was hanging out at the mission home with Sister Smith, the mission presidents wife and I heard she loved j-dawgs so I still had a huge bottle I couldn't use the whole thing in 3 months so i made a small bottle for her! She was pumped and gave me a super big hug! It was way funny! I wasn't expecting her to hug me but hey its tough being the favorite!
6. Got to transfers and it was super nerve wracking because everyone saw that both set of mobile zone leaders got whitewashed... everyone was nervous! Elder Riddle one of the good friends of my mission came up to me he was the mobile north Zl and i was the south and he was super stressed because it looked like we would be comps... but we didn't! We liked each other too much to be comps! So thats good it didn't Happen! But i was excited because the ZLS got moved up to Atmore, super small town where there is nothing going on... but i would have gone where the Lord needed me!
7. President in a meeting Wednesday morning made some Mariana jokes to me so i got super excited about it. President Smith stinks at keeping secrets. But guess where i got transferred to.... MARIANA FLORIDA!!!!! Back to my first area! I was so excited i jumped up and ran right over and gave my new companion, Elder Peel a great big hug!
8. After transfers I went up to talk and to say thank you to President and Sister Smith. She told me a cool story, told me how i was put in Mariana because of inspiration. She told me when they started transfers president moved me to Mariana and said i think elder taylor would love to finish in Mariana, and sister smith quickly said that we couldn't be nice and give missionaries what they wanted all the time! But she said she was amazed as i quickly floated across the trasnfer board to Mariana, she would say we can't do that but by the end of the day i would be back! She looked at me and said Elder Taylor i know for a fact it's inspiration that you are back in Mariana.
9. Wednesday after transfers i went to the church and everyone was going crazy when they saw me! It was sooo funny! I almost gave Danny Sims a heart attack when he saw that it was me! He was so excited but its cool to go back and see how many people actually liked me!
10. The one i was most excited to see was Brenda Clements, someone I taught about 16 months ago, she fell off after I left but now she is totally active, just not baptized! So we will work on that the next few weeks! I'm excited and I think its a big reason why i am back here! I'm so grateful!
11. i sang in the christmas program! it was horrible me elder peel and elder lay the senior missionary are horrible and singing! the sisters sister matihson and dyer were pretty good! they saved the day! everyone in the ward sang and no one can sing so it made it really fun!
love y'all and merry Christmas!!
Elder Taylor
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