Hey everyone!!!! Rose Park is amazing! There are SO many people in our area that speak spanish. Pretty much like 80%. I's crazy! It's a lot of work to do but I am up for the job. We had our first couple days of tracting this week....it's hard. I don't really like it but I guess I better get use to it. There are so many people that are so rude but I just have to brush it off and moveon. My companion always says. Recuerde Hermana, el es un hijo de Dios! And it's true I just have to remember that. The thing that is the hardest is that I know that these people that I'm talking to NEED this Gospel. And they just wont take the time to listen to it or let it touch their hearts. But their time will come soon enought when they are ready to hear. Here is what I wrote to the president this week about the people that really are ready willing and ready to hear the Gospel:
I have only been here a week and I already love this work so so much! It is amazing to see the change in people as a result of the amazing knowledge of the Gospel.
While teaching this week I have seen the difference that it makes to constantly refer to and tesify of the restoration. THe spirit testifies even stronger when I use the Book of Mormon and testify of the restored Gospel.
One of our investigators that we are teaching is named Irene FLores. She has 4 super cute little daughters but is not legally married to her husband. She has such a strong desire to get married and baptized but her husband works days and nights. We fasted with her this week so that her husband could have some time off of his jobs to get the neccessary paperwork done and to be able to attend church on Sundays. She is SO ready!!! And it's so exciting to see. We will continue pray for her and her husband! AAAAND she came to church on Sunday with all 4 of her girls!
We also have another inversigator, Alvino that we have been teaching. He has committed to come to church on Sunday. He said he will do everything possible to come. He's planning on going into work early so that he can get off earlier to make it to church.
Another family is THe Maria Lopez family. She is a less active recent convert. She has 4 children, the oldest was baptized with her and we are working on teaching the 2 younger ones that are 8 and 9. She has committed to prepare them for baptism in the month of February!
Most of the other people we are teaching have legal problems either with needing to get married or needing to get divorced.
Everyday in my personal study I come across something that will help one of our investigators. It's amazing how the Lord works! He knows exactly what we need and when we need it!
I love this work and I love the people!!!
While teaching this week I have seen the difference that it makes to constantly refer to and tesify of the restoration. THe spirit testifies even stronger when I use the Book of Mormon and testify of the restored Gospel.
One of our investigators that we are teaching is named Irene FLores. She has 4 super cute little daughters but is not legally married to her husband. She has such a strong desire to get married and baptized but her husband works days and nights. We fasted with her this week so that her husband could have some time off of his jobs to get the neccessary paperwork done and to be able to attend church on Sundays. She is SO ready!!! And it's so exciting to see. We will continue pray for her and her husband! AAAAND she came to church on Sunday with all 4 of her girls!
We also have another inversigator, Alvino that we have been teaching. He has committed to come to church on Sunday. He said he will do everything possible to come. He's planning on going into work early so that he can get off earlier to make it to church.
Another family is THe Maria Lopez family. She is a less active recent convert. She has 4 children, the oldest was baptized with her and we are working on teaching the 2 younger ones that are 8 and 9. She has committed to prepare them for baptism in the month of February!
Most of the other people we are teaching have legal problems either with needing to get married or needing to get divorced.
Everyday in my personal study I come across something that will help one of our investigators. It's amazing how the Lord works! He knows exactly what we need and when we need it!
I love this work and I love the people!!!
Ok so I'm going to try to answer all the questions that I got in emails this week, here I go:
BTW I love the questions...Keep 'em coming!
mom- I'm going to buy black boots today at Walmrt because they hav the sam exact one as target...but even cheaper!! YAHOO!
I got my comforter and pillow last night!! Thank you so much! I dont thing I've ever slept so well in my entire life! And yes if you could still send those other clothes, that would be fantastic!!! And Luna bars would be great!! I usually just eat stuff like that during the day. We dont have time for lunch ever.
- I love that Kristen Stewart and Kuch know Rose Park! It's a pretty great place. (oh ya...our zone is leading the entire mission in number of baptisms!!! We already have 21 and we have 12 more on date for January)
- My companion Hermana Hernandez is great! I'm not gonna lie, there is definetly cultural differences between us but all is well. she know SO much about the Gospel and is such a great teacher. She is a convert of only a few years. Her family are not members and she barely has any contact with them at all. Her mom passed away a couple years ago and she said that her family was destroyed but she came to know the Gospel. She has such power behind what she says when she teaches because she has experienced so much of it first hand!
- We visit so many people in one day...it's crazy!!! We constantly get lists of referrals from church headquarters that we have to check. We have to contact them and report back within 24 hours. We're always crazy busy. We're usually literally running between appointments!
- There are a lotof other languages here. There is a whole GINORMOUS Tongan ward! They are super funny! I didn't realize how many Tongan people there are here. We have also come across a ton of peple that speak Russian, Arabic, Albanian, and other languages that I cant quite remember! But the ward that we attend is Spanish speaking only. But our area covers a whole stake.
- When we have time without any set appointments, we tract
- Oh my goodness the food!!!! The food that they feed us is amazing! I can tell that I'm going to have to use my 30 minutes of excercize every morning very wisely! The Mexican food is amazing and they just want to feed us more amd more and more and more
- I've only had to drive once in the snow so far! Ans they take very good care of the roads here. It's not bad at all. And yes Hna Hernandez has to back me out every single time I put the car in reverse. It's pretty awesome!!
- Oh ya....I got my hair cut this week! I actually really love it! I'll send somepictures out with my email next week. I havent taken any pictures yet because my camera broke:( But we got special permission to go to Best BUy today so I can buy a new one! SO I'll take a buch of pictures and send them to you next week
- One cool thing is that on Feb 3rd we get to spend all day from 8am to 8pm in the temple!!! Because the mission made its goal of 2009 baptisms last year!!!
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I have noticed tht I've already started that super akward way that missionaries talk/ form their sentences. It's so wierd. I dont know how it happened. At first I thought, I need to stop this so I dont go home talking loke this. BUt then I realized that I love it!!! I want to keep every aspect of this missionary me with me forebber y ebber!
I love you all soo so soso much! And I love this Gospel with all of my heart! It is my whole life!
COn Amor, Hermana Taylor
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