Aserri!!!!

Buenas Familia,

So yes I got transferred! I'm in Aserri, its up in the mountains just outside of San Jose. It's freezing here compared to the Zona Atlantica though, so I love it. It just kind of stinks because the city is all hills, and all day we are basically climbing up the side of a mountain to get to lessons. My companion is Elder Rangel. He is a genius and seriously is a dictionary of gospel knowledge. He just finished training so between the two of us we have 7 months in the country. I'm senior companion and that is a super humbling experience. Firstly because he has more gospel knowledge than me, speaks better Spanish (he's from Mexico) and is a better teacher than me. So I really have been humbled a lot with him. But I am learning so much from him which is super cool.

Well not much happened this week. I said goodbye to all of my converts on this Tuesday in Guacimo. It's really sad because I had 12 baptisms there, but really only 6 are still active. That really shows the importance of home teaching! Everyone needs to do their home teaching! So Wednesday, I got here in Aserri and we have been teaching a lot, but I don't know, we haven't been very effective. In Guacimo, I planned so we were in different parts of our area on specific days, so we could crank out lessons without wasting time walking. Also all our investigators were close to the chapel so they could walk to church and progress in the gospel. But here we are teaching like 2 or 3 miles away from the church, and all our investigators live super far from each other so we are wasting like 3 hours a day walking!

So that’s gonna change, I know with smarter planning, Aserri is going to be a fountain of baptisms.

Well cool thing is Elder Cristofferson is going to come to our stake here in San Jose, and he's going to give us a special devotional. However, he is giving another special devotional to the mission here also. President Wilkinson told us that something big is going to happen here in Costa Rica if we are having so many visits from the quorum of the Twelve. We'll just wait and see!!! Well sorry that this letter is so short, I don't really have much to talk about. How you are all doing well. Oh also I have a special announcement. President Wilkinson said that for our Christmas call this year we can use Skype!!!!!! So I’m going to need your Skype address, and then we can do that instead of a call for Christmas. Well I hope all is well. Love you all. I know that this church is true, and I know that Jesus Christ is our Savior. I'm super stoked that you guys get to do Savior of the World, and be a part of this amazing performance. I love you all!

Love,

Elder Taylor