wow so i have to start off by saying i hate you morgan and whitney! half a mile from the beach you have no idea how jealous i am.. but it wont top my first apartment in blythe cause its gonna be SICK! so happy for you guys. youve worked harder than anyone i know so you guys deserve it. pray for you guys and the baby all the time glad to hear everything is well. except for byu football they need to step up their game i hear.
okay just to answer your questions, im not sure when im leaving the CTM but palavra no a rua (word on the street) is that im outa here october 31 or the week before! same day park leaves for the MTC. but thats not for sure. saturday is my half way mark its absolutely flying by in here its just crazy. you better belive ill do something rad for my half way mark like part my hair down the middle or tie a tie that comes down half way. ill think of something and send you guys a picture to make your day better by getting a good laugh. still love it in here. the language has really jumped this week and it is so fun! i never thought id like being such a nerd but i love it studying all day. too good, i still probably sound dumb to the braseleitos but hey its cool beans. yes we do get to watch conference and i am soooo stoked! how awesome will that be?! watching conference as a missionary here. so fun i cant wait. plus itll be something diffefrent from the normal rutuine which will be super nice.
its actually raining here finally. longest stretch in sau paulo history that is hasnt rained. it was close to like 70 days without rain which is crazyness here. but it feels so good cause its super cold now so finally sleeping feels good.
Dad youll appreciate this. i got some ice cream and guess what flavor i got.. BANILHA! haha when the person asked me in portuguese what i wanted and i said vanilla then he pronounced it exactly how that one guy did for you. i started laughing and the guy couldnt figure out what i was laughing at so i told him it was a brinkadera (joke) but i was cracking up. your the best. and on top of that there was an air show here which was so sick! theres an air base like 2 blocks away so all day we were just getting buzzed with plains and helicopters your woulda been in heaven.
youll be happy to hear im not okay with the idea of me getting small yet, so ive been doing ghetto workouts like curls with my suitcase and all that good stuff. i feel like such a meathead when my brasilian room mates are just watching me. too funny but its been great. plus me and a couple studs have been doing that P90X ab ripper workout. haha i did it last night and i could barely sit up out of my bed this morning it felt so good. im still around 200 and i promise im not getting fatter so im stoked. and if i am and you can tell in my pictures that i am, dont tell me haha you can just all laugh at me but i dont wanna know if im getting fat.
i brought the chair handstand i learned from president vidmar to the CTM. i can do a handstand for as long as i want on a chair, its hard to describe but ya thats whats up. its just like the pillow spinning talent.. pointless but awesome.
my friend i met here who played volleyball at byu just left. such a bummer so now my vball partner is gone. we were having a blast. quicksets and all that fun stuff it was too great. it felt so good to finally have a competitive game the other day we had like all the studs on one court playing and it was awesome. im tryuing to turn my sport competitivness into being a competitive nerd trying to be the best at portuguese. mom youve taught me well!
yesterday we played a whole game of volleyball and they didnt score one point. i aced them litterally every point of the while game i felt so good about myself but then realized i was at the CTM so i couldnt get too stoked. but i just wanted to celebrate!
so one of my teacher ill tell you about is imrao israel. hes the man. he's 5'1 and hilarious ill send a pic home. haha hes so great. he got converted by watching the mormon episode from south park. then he called the missionaries and the rest is history. hes like the cutest person ever as weird as that sounds. such a stud he speaks like 5 languages and is learning finiish now for fun.. who does that?! but he literally gets 3 hours of sleep every night so when were teaching him sometimes in like 2 seconds or like mid reading a scripture hell just fall asleep. its so funny.
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| Elder Taylor with Irmo Israel |
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| Elder Taylor with his other CTM teacher |
this week in TRC (morgan you know all about that) we taught a "real" investigator. usually we teach like kids in the ctm who are about to leave but this week we taught members from the church by. It was so SWEET! it felt so real and we nailed the lesson, thanks to the gift of tounges and all that good stuff. it was so fun to think we just nailed a lesson in portuguese after only being here for not even 4 weeks. coolest thing ever to see. but that just got me soo excited to go teach real people and find them. im that much more motivated to go work hard in the classroom now to be the absolute best that i can.
this church is so perfect. i just cant stress that enough, everything about it is just the absolute best. it makes you so happy. God loves us so much and wants us to succeed. you really can feel his love for you in here.
anyways my time is all up but yea i love you guys a tun! i feel your prayers all the time and when i think my brain is fried and cant study or learn anymore that day i just think about you and all the people supporting me and i can learn that much more.
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I am sitting here reading Elder Taylor and thinking about the first time I visited his father and uncle's apartment because his grandmother wrote me a letter asking me as their bishop to check up on her less active sons. How things have changed since then.
ReplyDeleteLove Elder Taylor! He looks great and after reading his letter he appears to be feeling pretty dang good!
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