Monday, February 9, 2009

Subject: You're a Nut.
I thought putting that in the subject would clear up the subject well enough so I didn't have to talk about it later. All this talk about rain is driving me mad! There has been a few scattered clouds lately but other than that, I was told it DOES NOT RAIN unless its rainy season. And when its rainy season it pours. Everybody tells me its about to your knee quite often. My companion had 3 changes in Puerto Vallarta= before he got here, and he has had 3 changes here. This is his 3rd and then he heads home. We talk alot about what it was like before I left and whats going to happen when he gets back, lol. Its been a ride, but I've made a few of the personal changes I needed to make and now most things are going along quite nicely. I'm tired almost everyday though. There's a few things I'm going to do to change that. But problem numero 1 is that my companion snores... like... a DINOSAUR. It's INCREDIBLE! It is so FRICKIN loud... It challenges dad. I don't really remember how bad his was, so its hard to compare. I put headphones in once and listened to my Zune, it was only at half volume but with headphones and at night its always louder and still almost ALL I could HEAR was his snoring. So I wake up almost nightly and shake him, or yell ELDER!!! And he stops. Now mind my words, he STOPS, doesn't wake up or anything, just stops, leading to a may or may not start again. He did wake up one time, but that doesn't matter. Well, lol. Well here's how the areas going. We have Fernando now, I don't know if I told you his story, I don't want to type it again right now, lol, so if no - just tell me. But he's down to 1 cigarette a day, or less. Yesterday he would just take a little wiff of one, until he got about half way and chucked it. Last Sunday he was at 30, so he dropped 29 1/2 cigarettes a day. He's getting baptized on the 28th. Last day Elder Heldt spends here in the area. After church the next day he goes to the offices with the President and Monday he's on a plane. He told me alot about that, the expression here, is the mission is 1 year and 5 minutes. The first year ... well its slow, but after that mark it just goes. I can imagine it so too. Just the mentality. Just thinking I still have ANOTHER year, ANOTHER year to work. Then I ONLY have 1 more year. That's how it goes. The weeks are insane here. This week was a little slower, we had a little distance. None of that matters and things are fine though. I didn't write anything down in my journal though, the last time I wrote was December 28th, and the time before that was December 8th. Just don't have time. I have 3 letters written that I'm going to give to the Zone leaders to take to the offices for mailing. You still won't get them for a few months. So ... yeah, lol. Thanks Dad, for the letters, its just a treat, a fun thing to have. A little card pop in the mail. Well back to the area really quick, haha. We were walking back from the church one day, we went to visit an investigator one day, a family of 4 (now five) and they weren't home except for the youngest who said to come by another day. Well one of this guy's friends came up and started talking to us. Didn't want to talk in his house, so we just met up in the church. Well we were coming back one day from him at the church, and about to the house. We live next to the Mercado Bolas a round about with a library in the middle and all sorts of stuff around it, we were walking around it cause our house is on the exact other side from where we were, pass a wall and there's a lady who works at a tortilleria standing in front, sees and says Elderes, que buen que les, and then told us how she's been inactive for X years and decided that she wants to start going again with her husband and wants to baptize her 9 year old son... my companion and I looked at each other... OK!!!! =Lol. His name is Andy, 9 years old and he's getting baptized the 21st. Yesterday after church, after we fell asleep for our study time, lol, we went to lunch with a family, one of the counselors to the obispo (bishop=). Well his wife started telling us about 3, 4 or 5 kids in the primary who are over 9 years old who want to get baptized. They're all mas o menos active. They come maybe ... every 4 weeks... something like that. This week we're going to visit all the families to see what's up. That means a few more people at Church!!! Church attendance sucks, at 9 o'clock when it starts, there's maybe 30 people, or less.. Definitely less. By 9:30 there's 80-ish. Last year though at 11 o'clock time they always opened up the overflow. Laziness is pathetic. People going to church is impossible. Have the missionaries and dad give me some hints about how to get people here... kk? Well I have to roll. We're late again. But that's the jist on Jake's life right now. Sorry, more to come...Love ya, milliones... Spanish Jake D. Taylor----- <jacob.d.taylor.MG@myldsmail.net>
Here is his e-mail if you want to drop him a little line or two.....NLT