Look who's still in Mossoro!

Happy Valentine' s Day from Mossoro

Look whos still here in mossoro with elder cezar! so stoked about this. i think after this ill be out of here, but im stoked i got atleast one more in here in this area. should be an awesome transfer. 

so i just read an email of the mission and in July our mission will divide! dont know to many details yet but most likely it will be mission joao pessoa and mission natal. id be in the mission natal right now if it divided. but yea because of all the missionaries coming. so cool, and like you said, the day of our savior coming is knocking at the doors. 

this week was way good! ill throw out some random recap of things that happened. so youll love this. take a wild guess of what i ate this week?! haha freaking pig intestines!! they call it bushada here and gosh i wish i had a picture of it. porbably the grossest thing ive ever seen. elder cezar had to leave the table because he was starting to gag haha. so it wasnt the worse thing ever  but i wont be asking for more bushada any time soon thats for sure. 

"Love the fruit here!"

This is probably one of the cleanest bathrooms he has used since he got to Mossoro!

Elder Taylor and Elder Cezar, his companion.  (Editor not sure who is in the middle!)

My zone...

the pope resigned right?! me and elder cezar came to a conclusion that he must have read the book of mormon and prayed about it. so well be looking for his baptism date soon. i gave a talk in church on the spot. it turned out to be a great talk and i didnt have anything to look at or read, only my scriptures so the whole time was some solid eye contact with the crowd. the only problem was that there was 3 moms (some not the most atractive people ive ever seen) breastfeeding there babies. and they dont have any shame here so they just sit there with everything hanging out. so that was a moment when i was giving a talk where i was thinking , "Im definetly not in california right now" 

this week has been raining. believe it our not! its been the best. not a million degrees haha so only 900,000 degrees. obviously we never thought itd rain here so we didnt have any unbrella or anything the first day. so we leave for lunch and after we eat, it just dumps. we were about 20 minutes from our house and 10 minutes from the chapel so we ran to the chapel but it was for no use, we were absolutely drenched to the bone. we didnt have time to change our clothes or anything so we just went back to work after we left our scriptures in the church. still raining and soaking wet we worked until it was time to go home. haha it was a good day though. 

Streets of Mossoro

Some people we met on a ranch.

this week we met some great families knocking doors which was a blessing,so were excited to start teaching them and let the same thing that hapened to Samira happen to them too. Samira will get baptised next sunday and she will be so firm in the church were stoked about that. so fun to see the holy Ghost truly working in the person. its that moment where all the hunger, heat, sweat, tired moments seem like nothing. its so fun because really it just strengthens your testimony too which we can always use. i love having the opportunity to bare my testimony every day to people that i dont even know, but Heavenly Father knows them. one thing ive learned here that i had to change at first is that i dont get to choose who i bare testimony too. i dont know the situation and readiness of the person, only Heavenly Father. so now i love baring to everyone we teach and just let the Holy Ghost do His job if the person is ready to hear the word and change there lives for the better. i know that we can always trust on the Holy Ghost. and what a blessing we have that becase of the convenants that we made at baptism, we, if we are worthy, have the right to have the Holy Ghost with us at all times and in all places. what a blessing that is. i love explaining the holy Ghost as like a true friend. so great because really He is like a real true friend to us and as we read in the scripstures, he will help us in ALL things that we do. 

hope you all have another beautiful week. think about the sacrament prayer and remember the covenants which we have made, and remember that we are promised to always have to Holy Ghost to be with us in everything that we do.

Love Elder Taylor

Elder Taylor showing off his cooking skills!

Tasty dinner...