June 1, 2009

Alright well I´ll do my best to answer the questions. Elder Hoffman is NOT with Gonzalez, but as he says in his own words before telling me who he´s with now, he´s going to have a big trial. He´s with Elder Archibeck, from Monterrey, who ... quite frankly has the worst rep in the mission. I love the kid, nice guy, likes to work, in his own way, and although weird, polite, at times. Lol. talks and eats alot. I did divisions with him once and met him in my third week in the mission. Nice guy. Elder Oaks is from Millenium, it is to Boise like Chandler is to Phoneix. Lastly, I am in what is called ´Rio Verde´ in the zone ´Mirador´. It ... is... SUPER ... small... We have to do contacts always, and I´m pretty sure in the next five weeks, we´ll talk with the same people 5 times. I´m not looking forward to that. That´s great that you´re listening in Spanish! My spanish is going down, and we had a chance to visit Ascencion last week! But.. she said my companions accent of three months is better than mine.Which made go... huh? I don´t agree, he speaks good for three months. Well I don´t have a lot of time. The truth is Elder Oaks and I aren´t getting laong too well and we barely talked to each other today. I´m making plans to talk to him during planning. But because we´re already getting up to go I wanted to share some of the good stuff that happened. We found a family, who really aren´t that poor, but don't really care we believe to spend money on the house as much, but they called us over because we´re tall and we talked to them they went to church and are going to the activities this week with us! Proably next week they´ll go to church also! Hopefully we´ll even put a baptismal date with them, we need to see if they did their prayers! We also had a guy yell at us at 8 o´clock last night, who´s friend told him, when you see the elders ask them for advice, they´ll know what to say. I thought of giving him a book of mormon and he responded ´you left me speachless´ ... uh... we replied, is that good or bad I said, lol. It´s not good or bad, it´s perfect! Whew...lol. We´re going to go back and find him, see what he says and teach. We also have three little girls that are going to be baptized this week. Saturday, day after my birthday! Their parents aren´t married yet, but are working on it. We also have two baptisms pending, Briand a 9 year old, whose parents are members and Adrianna 20 something, she wants to get baptized but is impossible to find, her parents are also members of about 3 years and a few of the kids have popped on, but she wants too. We´ll see. I don´t know honestly, what my comp has against me or if he does, I don´t really want to talk a whole lot about this either. But every hour, every day, criticizing mocking degrading. ¨Oh you haven´t practied very mch have you, you´re not very good at teaching.¨ My Spanish is so much better than yours for just three months.¨ I don´t want to list any more. But it´s so hurtful and it makes me feel like crap, to the point that leaving gets in my mind. I want to be here tough, I want it to work out. I need to make the sacrifice to make it work. It´s always but I don´t want to do that, I don´t feel like doing that rigt now. I just go and we find something else to do, and we´ve had incredible success up til now, but I know we can also do better. I just don´t want to walk in the streets upset still, I don´t want to walk into a lesson knowing the spirit could be stronger. Alot more I could say, but we´re going... I just want to say I love you and I really need your help and prayers and support more than ever. Pray that I´ll be humble and have the guidance I need.Love YOU! -Jake D. Taylor