wanna hear something kinda cool?! I HAD MY FIRST BAPTISM this sunday!! ahhh so freaking cool! so fun it made all the hard work in the CTM pay off even though i didnt find the person i baptised. we have a couple more with baptism dates, with people that i have actually found so i cant wait till that happens. i love and hate the language so much haha. its the most frustrating thing ever not being able to be ME right now, (well atleast say some of the stuff i want without sounding dumb) i cant express myself perfectly yet and its rough! someone spoke english the other day and i was so stoked to finally talk in english for once but the language really is coming along super good. i get compliments all the time that people say how good my portuguese is for learning for just 2 months. i know that it is truly a blessing with the gift of tounges i have such a strong testimony of that. all because i tried my hardest, and just like as promised, Heavenly Father will make up the rest. when im teaching a lesson or something on the spiritual side of things my portuguese is even better. it really is amazing how much the hand of our Heavenly Father helps us missionaries, and other poeple too! He helps everyone, wether they realize it our not. thats the beauty of this gospel.
so yea my comp just had his 26th birthday sunday! weird to think that he is older that morgan but he is a great elder. i will learn a whole lot from him. so stoked.
im finally getting my tan back too! gosh it feels so good. i use sun screen though cause literally it is just too much sun to handle right now without it. im lucky i dont sweat that much, i never really have. haha poor elder gomez is always sweating and im dry. i will take the words of bro koeliker, haha i can for sure see how a person could get gnarly crotch rot. and like you said, i have enough rash issues as it is.
i take 3 showers a day. and i still feel like thats not enough. lunch is the big meal of the day. the members no how to feed you even though they dont have that much money or anything but they are soo giving. so cool the people here are really great. so after lunch we have to go back home and rest for a little over an hour in our house (a mission rule for our area) because its physically draining on us with the heat. so i just go study or read or be a nerd or something and its good. i dont have any complaints about it here. my house is not the greatest but like i think i said last week. im not here in brazil to have a 5 star house haha.
the roads and stuff here if they're not dirt are cobble stone. cars are super expensive here so not too many people have cars. youll be able to see it in the pictures. im in one of the more poor areas of mossoro but its great. i will not be getting fat while im here thats for sure. so the sun rises at 5 and sets at 5 too. its crazy. like really its day time at 5 and night time at 5 its the weirdest thing but once the sun goes down life is good. life really is good! missionary work will be so hard but soo beyond rewarding. just in this first week or so here ive grown a ton and i can not wait to keep growing in every aspect, haha yes even height so watchout dad and luke theres gonna be a new short person in the family and its not gonna be me.
heres a story youll enjoy about getting a new investigator.. so me and the comp were just walking down the road and some lady comes running after us and goes, hey so my daughter really really wants to talk to you guys! we were like oh sweet! whatup baptism! (people here are straight up with you its great, theyre not afraid to say anything) then she points to me and goes, "elder shes seen you walking around here and really wants to talk to you." haha i was like whaaat?. the mom was like "ya she really wants to talk to an american she was too nervous to come talk to you." haha talk about an easy investigator right?! but she's on the investigator list now. we went and talked to her (shes like 17) and she just wanted to talk to me and i told her the only way i'd speak was if i could share a message with here so there was a nice window for the first lesson right there. it was a great lesson.
so everyday i get more and more thankful for the blessings i have in my life. dad i cant thank you enough for everything and mom you too. so we were eating at a members house who lives in a favella (ghetto, slums). literally houses and everything are made out of sticks and mud like little houses or something we would make at lake powell for fun. its crazy. just a whole different world. but the fam just makes this hugeee meal and it just blew my mind how much they were willing to give to feed the elders, to go above and beyond what they had. people here are willing to go without eating just to feed us it really just breaks my heart. i may not be able to provide them with physical money or things, but what i can provide them with is spiritual blessings which are way more importnat and meaningfull. i love sharing my testimony with the poeple here and love having them grow closer to our Heavenly Father.
my time is running out im gonna send some pics but i love you all a ton! i feel your prayers.
Love Elder Taylor
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| Means of transportation? Its like he is right out of the movie "Nacho Libre!" |
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| Elder Taylor's first apartment |
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| Elder Taylor's first baptism! |
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