Elder Taylor 24-Oct-2011

Hello Mom and Dad, how are you doing?

I'm glad to hear the trip up to Washington went well. Seth would like Brother Greiner's classes he is a really good teacher and the people there are extremely friendly. Things down here are going well.

Monday was fun the district got together for P-day and President Clark cleared us to watch Prince of Egypt and play board games, which were great. Afterwards we went and had dinner with the Prince's and they had their friend Joann who is investigating the church over as well. They invited us to participate in FHE and Joann said that she would be interested in talking with us about the Church.

Tuesday was good we talked with Justin and Daniel again and they are asking amazing questions about the doctrine and how the church works. We had dinner with the Rickmans and their family.

Wednesday was interesting we did a whole bunch of running around but most of our appointments fell through. Tracting is interesting you meet a lot of really great people but they don't want to talk about the gospel most of the time. We ate with the Parrish's that evening and talked with them about the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Thursday was fun because we had three transfers in our district. Elder Banks is now the district leader and Elder Purcell is his companion, and Elder Humphrey, in the Jefferson City area, new companion is an Elder Jones. We talked with Daniel that evening and invited her to a dinner the Relief Society had organized at which Elder Solomon had volunteered us to act in a skit about two shipyards.

Friday we spent a good amount of time trying to meet those we had contacted during the past couple of weeks. We did have a good conversation about the restoration with some members that evening though.

Saturday we went to the Temple with the Lloyds. We helped a family in the ward do endowments for their ancestors. We tracted a street called Hassen when we got back which went really well. We met a few people who asked us to come back at a later time. Farther down the street we met a woman named Christina who we talked to and clarified some misconceptions she had about the church concerning the Bible and the Book of Mormon; she asked us to come back and talk to her family this Saturday.

Sunday after church we spent most of our afternoon in Centralia. We talked to David about coming over and teaching next week. My favorite scripture is Galatians 5:22-23:

    22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 

    23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. 

Please tell Seth hi for me and that I recommend that he tries the institute classes. Have a great week.

With Love   

Elder Taylor