10/7/2013 E-mail

Buenas Familia,

Thanks so much for the birthday wishes!!! So this last week was great! And I absolutely loved General Conference! Best Birthday Present ever!

So for General Conference, usually we just go to the chapel and they have one room showing it English for all the missionaries and people that speak English, and then one room for everyone else in Spanish. This year we couldn't watch it in English, so we had to watch it all in Spanish. I don't really like it because it doesn't feel the same in Spanish, and the translators voices are super funny, but I still loved it. (P.S. Elder Richard G. Scott did his own translation... Imagine his deep voice but in Spanish... it sounded so awesome haha) Well personally, I loved the talk by Edward Dube (don't look back, faith only looks forward...) and the talk by Elder Bednar (If you are not paying your tithing... I invite you to REPENT!) It was awesome!

Also in our area we have a baptism this upcoming weekend. It's a little kid named Aaron, he is a reference from the 1st counselor in the stake presidency, and then we will have one the 19th, and another one the 26th, and we just put one for the 2th! So hopefully we can keep it up and baptize every week from now until the end of my mission haha.

Well, I hope everything is going good at home. I am loving the misison, and I am so happy here. I love the changes that the gospel makes in people, and I love hearing from my converts! It always makes me think of this verse in 3rd John 1:1 "I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth." That is so true. Martin and Veronica, my converts from Aserri are preparing already to enter the temple and get sealed in February!!!!! I am stoked. However, its sad when you find out that your converts have fallen a little out of the light. My two families from Guacimo, Hugo and Yamileth and Diego and Tatiana are now inactive... It's sad, but as missionaries we do our part preparing these people, but it is up to the ward to keep and help them endure to the end! So help out our Recent Converts in the big YL!!!!

Okay love you all, take care! I am always thinking of you all! P.s follow the Prophet and do your Home Teaching!!!!! Love you!

Pura Vida,
Elder Taylor

So I just got your email haha, so I will answer your questions...

1. Today for p-day we are going to play paintball haha, with all the sisters in our zone! It should be fun shooting the sisters... what?!?!
2. In our zone there are more sisters than elders, (13 sisters, 6 elders...) and in our mission there are like 80 sisters and 170 elders...
3. I had a bacteria that was giving me really bad stomach problems, but right now I am taking an anti-biotic to fix everyhting up, no worries I'm fine now!
4. I haven't lost my retainer!!!!!
5. I weigh 170 lbs now. When I got here I weighed 175, I lost about 15 lbs the last couple of months (bacteria baby!) and on my antibiotic I have gained back 10 lbs! I want to get fat, but I can't do it!
6. I am proudly wearing my Perkis Power t-shirt right now as I write you haha.

P.S. Katie's new baby will be named Ryan Taylor Jones. Tell her she needs to do it. If she does, that baby will become President of the United States.

Love you!