New Address to Send Letters to ( Hint! Hint!)

Glad to hear you like my surprise letter! haha thought you would enjoy that. absolutely loved the email I got today! I'm so lucky to have you guys as my family. Like I said in my letter, I can't thank you guys enough. I see every day how lucky I am and I will only see more of it as I go out into the field. I'll tell you more about some stuff I learned about Joao Pessoa in a little. Love you guys so much and the support I have is just unreal so I appreciate it so much.

So i cant believe ive been here for like 8 weeks!! so crazy. i feel old and like i was born here, some new elder the other day asked if i was 24 haha crazy, must be the new scar i have over my eye. im excited to go out into the field and feel like a baby again.  every day is kinda on repeat so i do apologize for the boring letters. lets see what i did this week.. haha well i learned more portuguese, i read and studied all types of the gospel, i ate a bunch of food, i went to the bathroom, and i slept. oh and then i did it all over again! haha but i absolutely love it in here. Itl'll be bitter sweet to leave, im so excited though to go actually teach real people and be able to see that happiness and receive that joy from that. ahh so awesome. 

Because i leave in two weeks, i have a new adress people should send letters too. and i know if you really love me, like i know you all do, youll send me a nice letter. Dont be shy, especially if you dont know what to say, just say what your heart tells you haha.  the endereço is

Elder Spencer Paul Taylor

Brazil João Pessoa Mission

Rua Deputada José Mariz, 515

Tambauzinho

58042-020 João Pessoa - PB

Brazil

(To mail a letter to Spencer, an international stamp costs $1.05)

Dallan, i mean Elder Sheilds is here and safe! make sure you tell theyre family. every wednesday we get a new group of missionaries and they have to go to some meetings in this one room so today i went in there and popped my head in and checked up on him. i will for sure be catching up with him tonight. he looked so happy and truly looks like a studly missionary! hes gonna do so great, so fun to see him here. 

The weather is still about the same. Pretty hot but not like joao pessoa! its been raining every once in a while which is so great.

Guess who is getting mcdonalds later today!! this elder is! im having my teacher go and get me some. its gonna be unreal so all my fellow mcdonalds amigos out there i thought youd be happy for me. not sure if they have sweet and sour sauce though so that will be a huge downer if they dont but i guess ill live. id take sweet & sour sauce over water right now!

  

So about the Joao Pessoa! irmao Israel served there and he tells us stories all the time about it. so fun to hear and gets me so pumped. so basically the city is super wealthy, and has one area in the city which is where the AP's (assistants to the President of the mission) are so i wont be there. other than that it is a very very poor place. which im so happy for because that means humble happy poeple who are waiting to hear the word. plus got the good old favelas (ghetto) and what not there to add some excitement. cant wait. all the time i spent making fun of ryan and parker for having cold showers most likely, well that bit me in the butt because ill have only cold showers there. i wont be able to skype home so sorry about that momma but we'll live right? the bugs there are BIG. he said its common to see barota's (cockroaches) bigger than your name plaque haha so next time your at the river and see one, think about that. the people there are so friendly. half of them dont have teeth i guess but haha theyre all the same in God's eyes right? so that is how i will see them. they have a different accent of portuguese, kinda "hick" portuguese so basically its like ill be in the brazilian Blythe...SCORE! ill be super tan which will be wonderfull cause i feel like im in utah with how white i am right now, but ill be getting so much sun that i will have a tie tan line no joke! gosh im gonna be lookin good with like 4 different tan lines. haha seriously just aboslutely nothing but awesome things said about it there. im so stoked and i know that is where i am supposed to be. up in Natál there are nice beach areas too so i will be getting a perfect both worlds.

Both my teachers here will be life long friends for sure. they are so special to me and just truly have touched me. So cool, the book of mormon has the answers to all questions of the soul and is truly just amazing. like joseph smith said, it is the most true book on the earth. i have gained such a stong testimony of the book of mormon now. every chapter is absolutely beautiful and if you feast in them you can apply something to your life. cant wait to bring this book to all the peoples lives i can in brazil. the people down here are so easy to love. they are some of the nicest and just good people ive ever met. i love them so much, cant wait to get out in the field and gain an even greater love, especially when i can understand everything theyre saying haha. i love portuguese so much, its a beautiful language and i never thought id say this but i am so stoked every morning waking up knowing that i get to go study more and learn more about portuguese and the gospel. haha im sorry mom ive turned into a nerd now, but an extremely happy nerd.  The church is so true, love it so much, so grateful for the blessings i have from being apart of it.

love you all so much, have an awesome week. i hope all of your wildest dreams come true,

 Elder Taylor

ps thank the oniels for writing me, theyve written me twice! so nice of them. and tell grandma and grandpa i love them a bunch, be sure to thank them for the letter even in theyre crazy buzy lives.

hey you wanna send me robbies adress please! i wanna talk to him and hear how things are.