Author: Elder Taylor

Wowee… This week has been just about superb. First off, we had transfers. That was good fun. I’m enjoying having a new companion, despite the fact that he snores, and I can’t complain about the other new elder in the district. I don’t know if I mentioned this, but before we had an elder here…

That’s the only word that I can describe for right now. It’s not so much the mission that’s got me feeling that way, but all the stuff that I just read in a bunch of emails… I had a record 17 new emails this week… Crazy, eh? Sadly, Cinny, my dog, died this week. There…

I don’t know how many of you know this, but last year my Mom sent me a Christmas tree that is inflatable. As you may have figured out, we put it up this past week. It took about 30 minutes of our time on Friday, which was considerably less time than it took me to…

This week has been undeniably incredible. We didn’t teach as many lessons as last week, nor did we find so many new investigators, but we’ve had some great experiences. First off, this morning we went to hike Camelback mountain, which is in our area. It was rather exciting, though I have decided that when you…

Wowee… This was a great week. We’re not sure exactly what happened, but this week was very, very successful. We taught a total of 19 lessons to investigators, which is the most that I’ve taught in a very, very long time. We also had the baptism of Manuel and Susana Garcia, who were just about…

Well, that is directed to all of you people not currently situated in the lovely, hot state of Arizona. I wouldn’t have even noticed that the time had switched, except that on Sunday morning, as we were getting ready to go to church, I looked at the clock and thought, “That’s weird… We shouldn’t have…

I don’t know how many of you have experienced this phenomenon before, but here in the mission, we call it the ‘Phantom Cell Phone Ring.’ It involves thinking that your cell phone is vibrating, thus indicating a ring. This is shortly followed by a sudden realization that you have no cell phone. As you may…

I did have a really fitting, witty title all ready for this week, but it needs a picture to go with it, and I just so happened to forget to bring my camera to the library today… Maybe I’ll use it some other time. To expound on this week’s title, I need to tell you…

This has been a jolly good week. Actually, there hasn’t been much worthy of report, except that we had one of the most entertaining dinner appointments ever yesterday. You see, we recently had a family with six daughters move in to one of our branches. We had dinner scheduled with them. Anyway, we showed up…

I learned one very important thing this week, apart from everything that was said at conference. That one very important thing is that it is not good to use random salty-looking substances for cooking, even if you were told at one point that it was sea salt. You see, my companion decided to make a…