Elder Taylor 3-Oct-2011

How’s everything going?

I really enjoyed conference particularly President Monson's talk during the Sunday morning session. It’s good to hear Seth's up and moving that'll be good for him.  This week was interesting.

Tuesday we taught Donna about the Book of Mormon with Brother Sherrow. We just read the Introduction but it really helps explain the purpose of the book of Mormon clearly. Later in the evening we talked with Matthew about the importance of scripture and read Mathew 1 with him and explained it.

Wednesday was an odd day we went on exchanges with the Fulton Elders, so Elder Solomon went to Fulton and Elder Hanson came up to Mexico. Elder Hanson and I went to an appointment we had with Cary who we met out on her front porch and she told us she didn't want to hear the discussions any more. This was a downer but people have the right to choose what they want to hear and who they want to talk to, so we happily wished her a good day and said that if she needed anything to give us a call. Afterwards we tried to visit people we had contacted and less active members but none were home, so we went tracting. Tracting is always an interesting experience most people aren't interested in talking about religion, but we talk to them about what they're doing or see if we can help them in any way. We met with Brother Saxon at the church and talked about whom to visit on the ward roster and talked with Matthew after mutual.

Thursday was taken up primarily by district meeting in Fulton. After district meeting Elder Solomon and I headed to Auxvasse to see Brother Saxon to have correlation meeting with and to go see some members because we don't often get to go to Auxvasse.

Friday was another slow day although we met with David and invited him to conference.

Saturday and Sunday were primarily taken up by General Conference.

Saturday my favorite speaker was Elder Scott's talking in particular the piece about reading and studying the Old Testament because I know I need to improve on that. My favorite speaker Sunday was President Monson's talk about how moral values are clearly defined and the commandments are unchanging.  This week looks promising. We should be moving into our apartment some time in the next week. Mission work is hard, but I'd be kind of disappointed if it were easy. We have a car but because we have a limited amount of miles we can use each month we mostly just use it to get in between the towns in our area and then walk in town.  

Please continue sending you email's I really enjoy reading them. Tell Seth hello for me. Sorry you didn't get to go quilting Mom. Tell me how Waukesha is Dad. Anyway I love you guys; have a great week.

With Love

Elder Zach Taylor