Way Rad Week!

Queridos Amigos y Familia,

First to answer questions haha

1)      Yeah I can ask our lunch lady, the thing is some meat is way expensive here ( I ate a 16 dollar steak today... way good!) So we´ll see what happpens! It´s like a mountain of white rice every day haha, I love/hate it

2)      Yes, I´m still with Elder Nape in Guacimo. Nowadays, training lasts for two transfers (3 months) so I´m only halfway through.

3)      No new ones haha

4)      Yes, I´m sleeping good haha buit it´s just ridiculously hot here during the night

5)      No, I don´t exercise, there really isn´t time and I´m always walking so it´s all good

Okay, so my week...Was RAD!

We are baptizing a family this weekend!!!! Hugo, Yamileth and their two daughters Yanysell and Yanicxia. They are so rad! But Hugo is a bum head sometimes and just asks questions to see how we respond. This week we were fasting for one of our investigators and he was like, "You broke your fast when you took the sacrament" and we were like whatever Hugo, come on! Haha but I love him and have a sweet relationship with them. I´m super stoked to see them in the temple in a year, and I have faith that they can make it! So yeah way stoked about that because during a lesson with them I asked if they were willing to take upon them the name of Jesus Christ and boom I just felt the Holy Ghost so incredibly much it was amazing, and they are so willing!

Another sweet thing, so we are teaching this family, Natasha and her two daughters Edihth and Floribeth. They were super iffy about baptism and wanted to be super sure but something amazing happened. So we were teaching them and all of a sudden Edihth (she´s 18) stopped us and said that in a past lesson she had felt this unexplainable feeling in her chest of pure joy and she just wanted to cry but didn’t because of shame! And we were like yes!!!! She is feeling the Holy Ghost!!! And so it was sweet because I opened up to Doctrine and Covenants 9:8 i think and read to her where it reads, " and if it be right, you shall feel a burning in your bosom." And she just started bawling and it was just amazingly sweet! And then we challenged them to baptism and they were stoked and we were stoked and it was just spiritually edifying! Also Natasha was saying that she needs to be totally prepared and doesn´t know if she is and Edihth said, "You don´t need to be totally prepared, the Lord will prepare us!!" And we were just on top of the world because she will be such a strong and awesome member! SO we had 2 sweet sweet sweet lessons that just made my whole week!

Also we have two more families that really want to be baptized. Freddie and Monica, and Diego and Tatiana. And what was super sweet was that Diego really didn´t want to marry Tatiana ( lots of problems with the law of chastity here) and then we were teaching him like a couple days later and he was like, " Elderes... I got an answer. I want to marry Tatiana" So again we were just like YES YES YES!!!! So stoked! So this week was super sweet!

Oh also, another funny story...So I was on splits with one of our Zone Leaders in Guapiles for a day this week. Guapiles is this super awesome city maybe 30 mins away from Guacimo. Well the night I was there they had Carnival!! And so we were walking and seriously we saw the parade, drinking, marijuana (huge problem down here) and all the just disgusting filth and instantly I thought, "Great and Spacious Building" The spirit was not there and I was super afraid because we had to walk through it and I just felt icky! So yeah, it´s interesting to see the personal change within  myself, to recognize that I have no desire to do the things of the world. It´s also kind of sad to see how inicuo (wicked) the world is becoming. Oh well, that’s why we’re here as missionaries, to change that!

Well I want to know how everyone is doing! And I would like pictures from the wedding, but you can mail those because I can´t print stuff out! Let everyone know that I love them! Oh and there is a new hermana in our district from Argentina and her accent stinks hahaha, just kidding! Okay well love all of you, and want to hear how everyone is doing!

Les amo muchisimo. Con Amor,

Elder Taylor