Good Week in Guacimo!!!

Buenas Familia!

1)      No I haven´t driven a car since being on the mission haha, everyone down here drives crazy so I would probably crash!

2)      No, we didn´t do anything for thanksgiving. I didn´t even know it was thanksgiving until we had district meeting and all of the Americans were like, "Happy Thanksgiving Elder Taylor!"

3)      My boxes? I received the two packages from you guys like a month ago!

4)     Last Monday we played ping pong because it was raining like crazy here. It´s basically rained all day, every day here in Límon for the last month. Needless to say I got the scrathies in between my toes haha

Well,

Happy Thanksgiving everybody! So this week was good! Why you may ask?

Because we went to the Temple!!!!! The temple here in San Jose reminds me a lot of Newport Beach, but it was beautiful and I loved it! So that was a super awesome experience! Also a couple weeks back, President Wilkinson gave all the missionaries the "Standards of Excellence" for the mission.

These are the numbers that we should all strive for in the mission, like number of Lessons with Members present, Lessons taught, stuff like that, and guess who achieved the standards of Excellence this week???? Elder Cruz and Elder Taylor! We worked super hard this week and it really showed in that. And the last good thing that happened this week... I finished the Book of Mormon! I love the book of Mormon so much.

So yeah Dad, I was thinking a lot about Mormon and Moroni this week, and how much society had degraded for the Nephites. In the epistles the Mormon writes to Moroni, its super sad to see how nasty, and barbarous the Nephites had become, and it made me think a lot about how society is today.

How some people think it is so much easier to follow Satan because the gospel is so hard to live. It´s so sad, but we can learn so much from the Nephites. I also read Pearl of Great Price this week. It was the first time I had done that. I love it too! I just thought it was interesting to see how much that through Jesus Christ, God has created. Countless numbers of worlds, and countless numbers of people, but through an act so simple as prayer we can communicate with him! It blows my mind. He is God, he has done so much, yet he is willing to listen to us, and answer all of our silly little requests, and why? Because he absolutely loves us, with a perfect love! It´s so amazing! We do have a Father in Heaven, and he wants us to choose the right so badly, but due to his love for us, he respects our ability to choose, albeit for Good or for Bad. I love him.

Well I´m glad you had a busy holiday, but sorry you guys were a little sick and miserable! Mom, decorate!!! You love it and it will make the house more happy and festive! And since when did Grandpa have a huge, big screen T.V!?!?! Oh also changes are this Monday, so I will know if I am leaving Guacimo or staying for another change. I love it here, and I love the people here in Guacimo, even when they yell at us and call us false prophets and things like that!

Well love all you guys, and wish you the absolute best this week. Remember that we have a God that loves us, and wants the best for us!

Love, Elder Taylor