Elder Taylor 27-Feb-2012

Hey how are things going? 

Just to let you know the address I gave you the address for the mission office they'll forward me mail to me. I'm down in Fredricktown it's a smaller area of about four thousand people in the town and fifteen thousand in the area.  There’s a pretty good sized branch here with some great members but its spread out over a huge area.  Last week was really good.

Monday for P-Day we went out to Amish with a member in Mexico. Unfortunately we didn't get to talk about any of the gospel with the people there, but it was fun.

Tuesday was mainly spent packing, but we did see several people who we had been talking to and said good bye to a few members in the ward.

Wednesday was fun met Elder Shivers at transfer meeting he's a really great guy.

Thursday we did service in Farmington with the district following that we had district meeting and talked about the Member MTC which was happening Saturday. That evening we met with Justin and Virginia and talked about belief vs. faith and what the difference is.

Friday we went to a little town of Marquand and tracted and talked with people Elder Shivers had met previously. We then went and met with some members and talked with their daughter Brenda and friend Dennis about the Restoration. It was a great discussion and all were involved and asked great questions and brought great points to talk about.

Saturday we went over to Ironton and met with Cody and talked a little about his concerns about the church. We then went to Farmington and set up for the Member MTC. It went well Elder Shivers and I talked about over coming fears and hesitations. We then heard from President Clark, Sister Clark, and President Shain (stake president). It went really well and I think those that were there got something out of it.

Sunday I met the Branch a lot of good people in it. After Church we went with Brother Adams the branch mission leader and went to Piedmont and met with the Ormans and talked for a while. As we were leaving they told us about a woman named Candi who had been taking the lessons a few doors away but had stopped for some reason. We went over and met Candi she was really friendly and was interested in talking with us. We had really great but scattered discussion about the Plan of salvation, Prophets, the Restoration, and the book of Mormon.  This week looks really promising hopefully it'll go well. Hope you all are doing well and have a great week.

With Love

Elder Zach J Taylor 

                     

Hey Dad,

How are things going? It's good to hear that everyone's doing well.  Talking to people out here is fun. They ask a lot good, irritating and odd questions. Such as: “What about this scripture here in Revelations that says don't add on to the bible.” (I don't like this question not because I can't answer it but that after I do answer, people want to argue and are all up in arms about it and I’m really not motivated to bible bash at the moment.) Or “Are you guys out campaigning for Mitt Romney?" we do get some good ones about why do you follow the word of wisdom? I like the ones about doctrine or my beliefs about the church, but haven't ran into many scriptural questions yet.  Any way it’s really great out here Fredrick town is an awesome little town with a huge geographical area I think its two hours from corner to corner.  

Hope you have a good week and I’ll start sending my favorite quotes/questions of the week next time. 

Love

Elder Zach J Taylor