Tudo Bem!
well look whos finally in the real mission field! i am serving in the state of Natal and more specifically Mossoro! its like one of the most north missions in the joao pessoa mission. more north means more hot! haha it literally feels like the river in the summer. its the exact same just take away any air conditioning but hey thats good for me. i dont know where to start sorry, haha so i left two days ago from the ctm. which was so great we had such a good time there. i was so sad to leave my district we all grew so close and i really will have some life long friends from that. so stoked with the ctm experience, it really is what you make it and i had a blast in there and learned a ton.
so my plane ride was about 4 hours to joao pessoa, it was a great time haha the plane was on the smaller side so everything was super squished but it was great. after my plane ride pres and sister hall as well as some zl´s met us at the air port. okay pres and sis hall are absolutely awesome! they are soo nice and so great. i hope i get to build a good relationship with them. so after that we took a nice hour ish drive to the mission home. what a nice area that is in! all the elders here are so great, its a little frustrationg not being able to rip portuguese with them but i know it will come. patience is key here! so we had a wonderfull dinner at their apartment and it was soo good, had a rad testimony meeting and then we all hit the sack at a different apartment. haha probably 14 elders all sleeping in a tiny room with no ac or fans. it wasnt the best night sleep ever but i servived.
i got to see my friend elder Chauncy here too which was soo fun! he~s already had serveral baptisms and is doing absolutely awesome. so fun to get to talk to him. the next morning we left at like 5-30 and headed to the beautiful hot place of mossoro. after 10 hours on a 2 differnt bus´s, we arived in the city. then the 1st counseler came and picked us up and took us to our apartment.
haha next week ill try to send pictures home. not exactly a 5 star place but thats not what im here for right? youll enjoy the pictures. i wont spend too much time in it anyways. but neverthe less i am stoked! dad youd be proud of me, my comp was saying how the shower is aweful and its broken. i was like oh it cant be that bad. haha it litterally was coming out of the wall drip by drip.. so i used my fixing skills and took apart the thing and got it working again.. good as new! he was stoked because for ever hes been showering with the drops of water coming out, cold drops of water might i add. haha no hot water but itll help me man up a little bit. We freakin have a mango tree in the backyard, haha looks like ill be having the runs for two years straight with all the mango i will eat. i will have much more about everything and whats it like next week so i might have to leave you hanging on some questions you have but haha hey i dont even know yet.
its just me and my trainor here. my trainor is great and am so excited to learn from him. he is turning 26 this sunday, so hes a little older but i figure thats when the most studly missionaries go out huh dad? haha but really he is an awesome person. i will kill him once my training is over with. for you non lds people that doesnt mean literally kill him, but he will finish his mission after the 12 weeks i serve with him. cant wait to pick his brain about the gospel, portuguese, the people, everything! missionary work will be one of the hardest things ive done in my life no doubt, but not even a question as to if its worth it or not. i cant wait to find someone and baptise them and bring them into this church. to watch their lives change in a whole different direction for the better, seeing the hand of the Lord truly touch their lives.
i dont know a whole lot about the whole city or anything. todays really my first day out in the field. just finished with a zone meeting which was way rad and now i get email, lunch at a members house then its off to the races. ill be teacher a couple pesquisadors later on today, and will do some proselyting. a little nervous but thats figured, ive only been speaking potuguese for 9 weeks. but i know i just need to replace any fear i have with faith, because fear is the opposite of faith and one of the most important things we can all have is faith in Jesus Cristo and our Heavenly Father. i dont have a whole lot of time so im sorry about any details i missed. usually pday is on monday im pretty sure, so you can expect emails then. i get mail like once a month ish out here so ill be looking forward to when i get those letters. ive felt your prayers touch my life and i have to thank you so much for them, they really help me out because i know i cant do this work alone. i know without the hand of our Heavenly Father that i wouldnt be able to be doing the things i am doing here. i know without the dom do espirito santo, my words and all words of the missionaries wouldnt peirce the peoples hearts. i am so excited to grow closer to my Heavenly Father every day, to study, to learn, to feel the joy, the hard work, and all the other awesome things i will experience on the mish. these next few weeks especially will be hard but thats where i will grow the most. an aweomse thing my ctm instructer said was, anytime we have a hard challenge or struggle, push through it with faith, just smile and know that a blessing way more rewarding than the challenge is right around the corner. i know that Heavenly Father blessed our lives more than we know, i really do know that and see it happen every day. he loves us so much and if we put in the effort, he will take care of everything else.
love you all a ton,
Elder Taylor <3
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