Your Brazilian Son

Holy cow i am so excited for morgan and whitney!!! (we just told him that we found out that Morgan and Whitney are having a baby boy and his name will be Brox Walker Taylor) That litterally just made me so happy. i cant belive i wont be there to see him but thats what pictures are for and what not. im so happy for them! how awesome will that be. and what a sweet name!! the kids gonna be a stud just make sure he knows uncle spencer. so happy for everything happening in their lives. 

Elder Norton(a friend from BYU lacrosse team) is on my floor so its way fun to be with him here. He's a good kid. he'll do great. just in case you dont belive that im happy here, the first thing he said after we hugged was holy cow you look so happy! and i can for sure agree with him. its so great.

This was such a good week, portuguese wise and everything else. food was so good and yesterday they freaking had mango here!! unreal how good it was! theyve never had mango here before, i munched so hard. but i never knew what would happen if you eat too much mango.. well i for sure know what happens now! haha so worth it though.

Mom i feel for you after all these years of doing my laundry and saying "dont throw your sweaty gross socks down the shoot inside out!" haha i absolutely hate flipping the socks around after i do laundry so i just have to appologize to you and say im sorry i never listened to you. mom always knows best!

Some things are still the same as they were at home. I still toot a ton and i still have my weird laugh. people all the time compliment my laugh just like at home. haha even if things arent funny theyll just laugh because of how ridiculous i sound. i know all you guys were worried id pick up some weird portuguese laugh but dont worry i've still got mine. and some of the brazillians call me "bomber man" haha in portuguese meaning basically "farter man" because just like at home, i just have to rip one all the time. it must be the altitude.. right?

Today we were out eating and this sister missionary was wondering how to prononce the word 'coco' which is two words depending on where you put the emphasis in the word. haha it was too good of an opportunity to pass up. i told her the wrong way to say it, so instead of ordering a coconut burger, she ordered a poop burger hahah i was absolutely dying and so was the waiter and the other poeple who knew what that meant. way too funny, i had to capitalize on the situation.

so yea this week was our half way point in being here in the CTM. absolutely nuts how fast it is already going. the days are like slurred together and all of a sudden its been a week... its crazy. but anyways, for our half way mark i tied a tie that only came down half way down my shirt. and you better believe i went all out with a good old middle part all day. haha and everyone knows how awesome a middle part would look on me cause it really compliments my forehead. so basically i looked muito lindo all day. you gotta get creative in here sometimes, it is what you make it here! our district has all been doing the p90x workouts and its so funny. all shapes and sizes doing it and i love it. Also getting creative, i took the matress frame off the bed and benched some of my elders here while they layed on it. im super sore i feel like such a girl but it was a good time.

so this week was such a good week spiritually too. putting in the extra effort really has helped and i can feel and see the blessings that come from working as hard as you can. some of our favorite braseitos left this week which was so sad. but so awesome, the night before they left we had an awesome devotional. hymns, spiritual thought, testimonies and all the good stuff it was so great to do this the spirit was so strong. these brasilians are such studs!

This week we were teaching a fake investigator with probably 8 people in a group. i had a feeling to share a certain scripture and change the direction of where the group was taking the lesson, but an older elder was talking and i just let him keep talking and went that direction, not listenening to the prompting i recieved. once the lesson was over, the random person then explained that we took the lesson the wrong way and how we shoulda taken the lesson a different way to really find the problem of why he wouldnt go to church. it was exactly the direction i was prompted to take the lesson and he even shared to scripture i felt i needed to share. i felt awful thinking i didnt listen to the holy ghost telling me what to do. you better belive from now on i will abide by every promptig i get, for the holy ghost will tell you all things which ye should do.

i love you guys all so much, hope everythings wonderfull at home! this church is so true and i absolutely could not be happier, the Lord blesses and helps you so much in all you do if you keep his commandments and do what is right. he wants us to be happy more than anything and he has given us a way to make us more happy than anything worldly can, which is this wonderfull gospel. love you all a bunch!

Love
 Elder 'bomber man' Taylor