A Super Hot Week in Rose Park!

So this new area is absolutely amazing!!!! There are SO many people here that speak spanish.  It's actually really frustrating because we don't even know where to start.  Yesterday we recieved 18 referrals of people who want us to come teach them.  It was super awesome!

 

The ward here is absolutely amazing! Everyone is super nice and really excited to have sister missionaries again in the ward.  We had a baptism on Sunday.  The cutest little family ever.  They have a little girl and a little boy and they just attack us every time they see us.  They love uS......and we love them!

 

I had the wierdest out of body experience the other day.  I was in the car and I looked down at my name tag and saw my name and I thought what the heck? I've never seen that word before.  Why is that on my name tag?  Is that really my name?!?!? It was the wierdest thing!  I've never had anything like that happen to me before.

 

I'm sorry that this email is so short but I don't have very much time and my time is already up for using the computer.  There is a whole oom of angry elders waiting to use it!

 

I love you all so so much! I love this work.  Thetime is going by faster than I ever imagined it would.  I want it to slow downso I can be out here even longer doing the Lord's work.

 

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con mucho amor
Su misionera de Sion
Hermana Taylor

Transfers

So we had transfers again yesterday!  I a m still with Hermana Arce and I finally got transfered out of the Rose Park North Stake.  I got transferred all the way across the street to the North Park Stake.  It's literraly on the other side of the street.  There is one double yellow line that seperates the 2 areas.  So I'm still in the Rose Park Zone and officially crowned and the Queen of Rose Park!  I was in my first area (my greenie area) for 4 transfers=6 months.  BUt I'm super excited about the new area that we're covering!  There is SOSOSOSO much potential here.  There are so many people just waiting to get baptized...literally!  The Elders just couldn't get to all of them because they didn't have a car so they literally just didn't have the time to get to everyome!  I'm super excited to be working here.  THe branch is called the Mount Ensign 2nd Branch!

 

We actually have a baptism this weekend!  His name is Jesus Molotla.  His wife was also listening to the lessons with him but hasn't decided that she too wants to be baptized.  SO yesterday when Jesus had his interview, his wife Nancy came with him.  She figured she would have her interview too so she would be all ready to be baptized when she felt that the time was right!  After her interview she just decided that she wanted to get baptized with her husband so she'd getting baptized too this weekend!!! I am so excited! This family is SO amazing!  It toally amazes me how the Lord puts people in certain places because He knows that they will comeinto contact with the gospel!  I know that's why there are so many hipanics here in Utah! This couple that is getting baptized this weekend has only been in the states for 5 months and they are already being baptized! It SERIOUSLY amazes me!  I love it so so much!

 

We have an amazing zone this transfer but I was super sad that my 2 amazing zone leaders  ,Elder Watt and Elder Blanco, left to serve in other areas.  It is the last transfer for both of them so they got to pick where they wand to serve.  BUt on Mondy before transfers they gave us an AMAZING training in ZOne Meeting.  It was all about families.  Because us as missionaries need to be focused on families.  President Sonne always says: "We teach to baptize and baptize to seal!"  That is really the goal that we have for every person we teach: to enter the temple and be sealed with their families.  But they also talked about our own families and that we should work hard so that our famly can recieve blessings from the Lord.  Then they shared a scripture that I absolutely loved: 

Matthew 19:  29 "And every one that hath ^aforsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my ^bname’s sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit ^ceverlasting life." 

So, the families that have missionaries out are forsaking something (son or daughter) for the Lord's sake and they will recieve blessings hundredfold and eternal life! That's a pretty great blessing!  I absolutely loved that!!!!!

Bueno pues, Quiero que todos sepan que les quiero muchichisimo y les extrano como loco!!!!

Well, I want you all to know that I love you so so much and I miss you like crazy!

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con mucho amor
Su misionera de Sion
Hermana Taylor

7 Months Have Come and Gone

I seriously cannot believe it!  I've already hit my 7 month mark! And this next transfer I'll hit my half way mark.  Time is flying by faster than I ever thought it would.  
 
We had a baptism on Friday! 4 little kids got baptized and it was amazing!  I attached pictures from the baptism...it looks like I'm pregnant in the picture but I promise that it's just my blouse, it has a ruffle and kind of looks like a maternity blouse.
 

Saturday there was a stake carnival that we went to...it was cold and rainy but we got our cotton candy and that's all that mattered to us!

 
We're still receiving so many blessings.  Things are really starting to look up.  We're teaching a hand full of people that really are interested in learning and progressing.  
 
We had our last interviews with President Sonne but it really wasn't an interview.  He and sister Sonne came to our apartment to say goodbye to us.  They asked us if we had any questions, they gave us their new home address and some cookies and then they left.  It was so sad.  When I went to shake President Sonne's hand he said, "nope, this time I can actually give you a hug!"  I loved it so so much! I 've wanted to hug him since the first time I met him but I couldn't.  He is such an amazing man.  He was the most perfect mission president.  I've learned so much from him, grown so much, and come so much closer to the person I want to become because of him!
 
Well, I'm sorry that this letter is so short.  I don't feel like there's much to tell about this week.
 
I love you all!
 
HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!!!!

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con mucho amor
Su misionera de Sion
Hermana Taylor

Much Love from Hermana Taylor

So last week was a super hard week but it looks like we've overcome the trial of our faith and now are receiving the blessings....which are falling form the sky like a Utah summer rain storm!!!!  In all honesty, we're receiving so so so many blessings.  Last week we didn't even have any progressing investigators and now we have 4 baptisms this weekend, 2 people with baptismal dates, and a whloe handful of progressing investigators!  The Lord has been so good to us!  So far it seems as if every transfer has had a theme or something that I have to learn and this transfer's theme seems to be a combination of patience and seeing the answers to my prayers.  I don't think I've opened my eyes enough to see as many answers that I've received to my prayers in my enitre life as I have in these 3 weeks! (i'm not sure if that sentence actually made sense but you all know what I was trying to get out).  This much of this email has already taken me a long time...it seems like every week it takes me longer and longer to write these emails...It's so hard when I'm thinking in spanish and have to write in english! 

Our whole zone is focusing on learning more about Jesus Christ and so I've been studying a lot about Christ.  This week I studied a scripture that I LOVED.  It's Alma 7:11-13

 

11 "And he shall go forth, suffering pains and ^aafflictions and ^btemptations of every kind; and this that the word might be fulfilled which saith he will ^ctake upon him the pains and the sicknesses of his people.

  12 And he will take upon him ^adeath, that he may ^bloose the bands of death which bind his people; and he will take upon him their infirmities, that his bowels may be filled with mercy, according to the flesh, that he may know according to the flesh how to ^csuccor his people according to their infirmities.

  13 Now the Spirit ^aknoweth all things; nevertheless the Son of God suffereth according to the ^bflesh that he might ^ctake upon him the sins of his people, that he might blot out their transgressions according to the power of his deliverance; and now behold, this is the testimony which is in me."

 

I've read these scriptures many times but I've never really studied them and I learned so much about Christ through reading about His atonement.  The part that caught my attention most was in vs 12 where it says that He loosed the bands of death that bound His people.  I didn't understand what that part meant so I read the foot note which took me to Psalms and it said:  "Precious in the sight of the Lord is the ^adeath of his saints."   And that made me think a whole lot.  From that, I understood that Christ rejoices every time someone that believes in Him dies.  And I found out it's because part of the atonement is the Resurrection.  Before He performed the atonement, we could not be resurrected but now we can, he litterally loosed the bands that bound us and now we can live again after this life.  So, he rejoices every time that one of us dies because that huge sacrifice that He made fo us, the atonement, is working and we can be resurrected.  I don't know if I explained that very well through writing it.  I'm kind of distracted right now and I'm thinking in Spanish...I'm sorry.  But it totally opened up my eyes! I loved learning that this week.

 

Well, I'm sorry that I don't have that many new things to share with you this week.  It's been a great week!  Super busy!  But good!  I have my last interview with President Sonne on Friday :(  He and Sister Sonne are coming to each missionary's apartment individually!  I am going to miss them so so much!

 

I love you all so so much! Have a great week!

con mucho amor
Su misionera de Sion
Hermana Taylor

A Week of Trials and Blesisngs

SO this week has been one long learning experience!  To start off the whole experience: we don't have that many investigators right now  because everyone we've been teaching got baptized, which is amazing!!! But now we don't have anyone to teach.  So we've been tracting A LOT and it is so so hard.  It's really not the most effective way to find people but we don't have any other options right now.  It has been a huge trial of my faith!  It makes it so much harder to do everything especially get up in the morning. But I learned that God gives us these hard times to prove to him that we really are strong enough to push through.  Pretty much the whole week was like that: hard and really really long.  But then on Friday the Zone Leaders called us and said that wanted to work in our are for about an hour.  So they came and helped us tract also.  By the end of the hour, they had found 9 people in our area that are interested in learning about the gospel.  It was SO amazing! It was such a clear answer to my prayers!  The Lord was just waitig for us to prove to Him that we really do have faith that He is preparing people in our area for us to teach! Our zone leaders are so amazing!  I never want to go to another zone and have other ZL's.

 

We also went and vistied all of the bishops on the stake to ask for referrals.  Now that we've received all of these referrals from the ZLs and the bishops, we have to go visit all of these people and see if they are really interested in learning and start teaching them.  And that is another trial of our faith because nobody has been home!!!!  We just have to be persistant!!! It's hard and discouraging but we have to endure through it with a big fat smile  

 

So that's pretty been the whole week: tracting and checking referrals of people who aren't home...it's been a bummer but the thing that gives me hope is that i know that this is God's work and He has blessings waiting on the other side of this!  I just can't wait to get to that point.  BUt the thing that i have to focus on right now is what i have to do to prove to HIm that I have faith in Him and in His son Jesus Christ!

 

Memorial Day was pretty fun! It was pretty much all a regular day except for that we went to a huge BBQ for lunch!  The whole entire zone went to this park where all the polynesians were having a giant party.  THere was super loud musoc blasting and when the DJ saw us walking up he was like "Look everyone, our VIPs finally arrived: THE MISSIONARIES ARE HERE!  Make room for them at the front of the line and let them get their food first!"  He made sure that we had everything that we needed.  He made everyone who had drinks left in their coolers come gives us their drinks!  ANd for about 15 minutes he made a huge deal out of the fact that we were there and that we were the VIPs.  There were about 400 polinesians there and eveyone gave us food.  THey also gave us free shirts that say I am from Rose park!  I guess they have this party ever year and they call themselves the rose park family!  It was really fun and we left there really full!

 

Well, I'm sorry that this letter isn't very exciting! It just hasn't been a very exciting week! Hopefully this week will be a little bit more exciting! I love you all so so much! Have a great week!
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con mucho amor
Su misionera de Sion
Hermana Taylor