May 18, 2009

Wow MOM!! How good it was to here from you! Well two things to start off, I don´t have a lot of time today, we have to go teach a man who is getting baptized tmorrow named Abinidad, this will be the second time I´ve seen him, and he´s getting baptized tomorrow! He went looking for the himns one day caus I guess he heard them and lovecd them and then got hooked up with the missionries and is progresing in the gospel steadily! He had a few amily troubles but is moving along quite nicely. We have to make a program for him and get over there later! Also because we have a goal this week to be in the house every day in time and go to bed on time then get up on time exercise etc. Study study with comp and alot more! It was tough this week cause we got to he hosue everyday from 10 up until 11! Haha, a ltitle tired. I got up at 6:30 today like a good boy, did 20 pushups and fell asleep on the couch until 8:30 = P woops, lol. HeheSecondly, I apologize if I don´t include everything, there´s SO O¡OOOOO!o!o!oOOOOOO!!!!OOO much to tell you! I was so excited to get to write you today, and I got nervous caus here we are at 8 oclock almost with a busy schedule! I was thinkign and realized. Wow, they still have no clue what´s going on down here... = O I´m already used to my companions and everything that I didn´t realized you haven´t heard anything. I could fill an email with just Monday and Tuesday. I feel bad. There´s a guy fixing the computer behind me and his heads right by my bum. I just passed gas. Anyway. I read the yellow envelop letter you gave me on hte plane to Guadalajara. Made me cry alot. I actually cried on several occasions Tuesday, a few Wednesday. Now.. yes I had to leave Tiger there... it´s a requirement. ´Don´t leave for the mission without leaving your favorite childhood stuffed animal´ Missionary rule under the section ´communictaion with family and friends´ lol. Im glad you didn´t see it til later, cus is was right there, and you kept walking by, I was waiting for you to go look for something in your car and see it. Lol. I hope it didn´t make you too sad. = ( Well I got to the airport and sure enough there were the assistants. Lol, I didnt´win that bet. And we went tothe offices. Got there at about 10:30. Elder Francis called while I was in the car and asked if he could stay at the offices with me, lol. The next day the mission secretaries wife Sister Keller told me that Francis was a really good friend of mine, Ior I was of him, because while I was gone he would always say I hope ELder Taylor gets back soon. That made me fel good, lol. He´s such a stud = ) The next morning, after a long nightless sleep, lol, we went to my old zone for interviews. President was doing interviews there nd the assistents go to do practices with the missionaries. So I went with them to talk to pres and afterwrds we went to my area, They walked into the room to do the practices and then I walked in afterwards and everyone was like WHOAH!! ELder Talor, holy wow! ELder Hoffman got up and gave me a big old hug. The sister missionaries ot there more than an hour late but Hermana Cuanali was really happy to see me = P I got here to my area and I´m in a trio with Elders Torres and Moreno. Torres has about 10 months and Moreno, this is his first change. They´re both really cool! Moreno´s gota little new missionary spunk to him and is about 5 feet tall. Elder Torres teaches good and talks well but not quite sa often. Smiles and laughs. I kind of just let Elder TOrres do his thing this week, I didn´t want to get here and start correcting anybody. It´s stil tough though. I enjoyed the week thoroughly. We have 4 additional baptisms coming up the additional 2 weeks. Adrianna, who´s impossible to find but is apparantly really excited to get baptised. Her parents are members. And then maria who´s not yet married, working on it, but her three daughters at home are getting baptized. Gabby (15), Brenda (11) and Dulce (8). Theyre so cool. We spend a little time there though, a few hours every visit. Yesterday we played jump rope and then taught the law of chastity, where I really broke down. (tears) I shared an experience you told me while I was home and I broke down, and I think it pierced the others. Gaby is a little teenager and sometimes doens´t listen, let alone wile talking about why she can´t have a boyfriend. But she got really focused and intent when I shared that. I think it hit her. Then again here´s a 7 foot white blonde american guy in your house double your size crying. Heck, I can only imagine. Lol Let´s see. Here´s the plan. About three days before Salt Lake Called Pres. Watkins to tell him I was coming in, he sent a missionary home a few weeks early cause he wasn´t really working to hard on his last change, so Pres offered to go home, graciously accepted. So they moved the other guy to a different area and shut the area down. It was Rio verde 1 and 2 but with the other missionary gone it was just 1, and I´m in a treo with the other 2 there. Now, next Monday I will become senior companion and open the second area back up. A few options here, Elder Moreno could come with me, I´m kind of hoping, he´s really spunky and wnts to go work. He likes to take my advice and likes to do the things I do, I don´t mean to come out wrong, but he likes to learn and is a great guy. Older than me, he´s 20.That or I´ll get another junior companion or the new guys come in this next Monday, and I might get one of them....Hmmm.... interesting... lol.We really want to go out hard and work this week! We have a lot of goals like doing exercise and doing our 180 contacts, I put together a mini plan to do it, we´re going to plan good every night. And teach a minimum of 40 lessons. It´s so easily possible if we do it right. What I´m learning lately is the power and importance of the Holy Ghost. I just realized too that lastely I´ve felt a little numbe in the mind, usually I´m really concerned with what I´m thinking, and I just realized that began when I realized I need to be more focused on the Holy Ghost and I think it´s Satan´s way of getting me to forget the idea I had, that we´ll know what to do in EVERY SINGLE SITUATION if we just listen to the holy ghost. We´ll know when to be out spoken or quiet we´ll know when to ask a question when we should talk or visit that person. Some people are waiting for a missionary to stand up and say, this is it. SOme will stop listenign to the missionaries if they do that. So how do we know? The power of the Holy Ghost. How do we have the Holy Ghost, obeying ALL of the rules. Which is tough. Not just cause it´s obeying al ot of stuff. But because there´s alot of people here in the mission who think it´s so stupid and unnecessary. Now, I´ve become one who if someones not obeying the rules I don´t hate them for it or think they´re a bad missionary, I love them and see them as a good person. I even look at Elder Gonzalez (both of them) as good people now. Speaking of... Elder Gonzalez the first one, LG if you remember is now my Zone Leader. No problems, the other is Elder Evans and he´s really cool. I mean SUPER cool! One ofthe missionaries I look up too and just adore. Super spunky and smiely llthe time. Well we´re going to et going here soon. Got to talk to Abinidad! I´m nervous, but not as nervous about becoming senior companion, I know everythings going to play out, becaue I know God, I know God loves me and doesn´t give us that which we can´t handle, I know He´s watching and helping everything, I know He provides a way to all things that He asks us to do. I was going to see Ascencion today, but we didn´t have time. We went to city center to meet up with some people to go to Galerias to meet up with some other people and then when to Sirloin STockade. It was awesome, there was about 40 missionaries give or take including Elder Wybrow who´s one of my favorite missionaries here in the mission. He goes home in January. He says at the year mark it goes by so fast, you´re know longer counting up, you´re counting down. I think so too. In any situation when you have the understanding that your time is now limited and you have to make the most of it. You use it pretty good. Hopefully, I´ll have time next week, if elder Moreno and I are together, yes, if not. No. We´ll see. A few last things. President Watkins goes home at the end of this change. We´re all going to miss him. Also this week hés talking with some Area Seventies about the mission boundaries and the misson may switch up a little here. Where I am now, may be going to the future Guadalajara East mission. Right now it´s Guadalajara and Guadalajara South. Next it will be G. and G. East. Nobody really knows though. I´m looking forward to finding out. Also I saw on the map in the offices there a stake on some islands out west of Puerto Vallarta, I never knew there were islands there. There aren´t any missionaries but... I hav ethe curiosity to ask president some day: Anyway moving on. Bummer I missed elder Kelly! Also tell Dad I loved his idea on what he´ll say when people ask him what he does! Lol, tell hIm I lvoe him and to keep up the AMAZING work. Keep visiting. To call trick my truck and to give you a back scratch for me. And I´m really thirsty so go make yourself a limeade.I feel bad again. I just killed a little gnat thing on my arm. LolWell I didn´t get any emails from the guys yet, but that´s ok! I´m goign to try and squeeze in letters in the evenings if we do get home on time! Lol. Naturally I felt a little odd today with all the elders but then I realized theres alot of people here who enjoy my presence as I enjoy theres. We already made plans to go to OUTBACK STEAKHOSUE FOR MY BIRTHDAY! LOL. We´re going Monday the 8th, I may need a little money for myself this day. HEHE! = P I´ve never been so excited for one of MY birthdays, but hey, Outback Steakhouse with all the cool missionaries of my choosing, hey man, heck yeah! LG as dad says.I love you so much. That Oregon trip sure was something! The whole 5 weeks I learend so much and know so much more that I lvoe you all beyond the bounds of anything. I wrote down in my goal book I´m going to polish dad´s shoes when I get back! Lol, thank you so much for doing that dad. And mom for preparing every little thing with such tender love and care.Now I erally need to hurry caus The Holy GHost just helped me remember two things.1. I left some stuff in the houes. That Arizona Cardinals cup you gave me, with a bunch of stuff inside. If you could find that, lol. My shoe plish and lint brush, in my closet by the tshirts side. ANd yes my contact case, lol, but I have another one. An extra would be good though! Lol. I listen to Honey You bear everynight and think of you, lol. 2. We helped a member move the other day, and as we were going up a rediculously hill. Super Steep and Super long, lol. I was sitting on the tail gate of the truck with a bunch of stuff behind me. One hand on the railing nd one hand holding a 5 gallon jug of water, lol. You know I´m not bright. The jug slowly... steadily...quietly...and quite maliciously began to slip. I Tried to save it but pulling it back pushed me forward. I tried to get back but the jug kept going. So I pushed the jug back as far as I could and jumped out of the truck to see if I could save it. I landed on my hands and toes as in a sprinters start position and took off within a few seconds as the jug from the truck came pounding out and down the hill too. I grabbed it and barrelled up the hill carryhing the 5 gallon jug full of water, now uniquely dented in the botton corner. I ran up to the trucks window as the driver realized the trunk was 33 pounds lighter. I slipped the jug in the window onto the seat as he asked if I was ok, with a hint of franticness and not having fully realized what happened, I replied with a slight humor, yeah I´m fine but the jugs not as much retiring to the back of the truck again. We did about 2 more trips after that one. ANd helped until we had to go eat. Now we´re late so I´m out of here!I LOVE YOU BOTH AND EVERYONE ELSE TOO!-Jake!-----Original Message-----From: Nora Taylor <norataylor@earthlink.net>To: jacob.d.taylor.MG@myldsmail.netDate: Mon, 18 May 2009 08:02:25 -1000 (GMT-10:00)Subject: Hola Mi BambinoHi Jake: I'm at a cyber cafe in Maui and I hope you get this....its Monday am here but 1:00 pm in Guady. I'm anxious to here about where your new area is, companion, and how you are feeling....health wise. I have been having fun here. Rena and a couple others left yesterday and Cindy flew in from Oahu so we were taking a walk this morning and I found this place. She brought her laptop but we couldn't get internet last night at the house. The weather is about 85 here but really humid so it feels hotter.....We went to Ruth Chris Steakhouse on Saturday night and it was the best steak I ever had. Rena and I split a petite filet.....mmmmm. I sent this email to two addresses because I couldn't remember if you were .com or .net......We have played tennis twice and there are homeless people living by the courts but they are harmless. Have you seen Ascension or Lucy yet or Hoffman? Cindy wants to take me on for a Scrabble game when we get back....she always beats me with those little words on the triple score. Jason called my cell this morning wanting my massage lady (Diane) number cuz his back is out. It was 5:00 am here so I didn't go back to sleep. I called Dad and told him to write you on the email so I hope he did. Anyway, I only have a couple of mins. left so will sign off for now and write when I get home later this week. I hope you are adjusting back to missionary life ok and having good experiences. I love you sooooooooooo much and Cindy says ALOHA!!!!! Love, Mom, Madre, Mamacita xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo