November 30, 2009

Kind of a short message, lol. Well, no it´s a good size. Good thing though that way, I already have 45 min. on the computer, I need to get going here. I´m downloading the music sung at general conference so I can listen to it while I type, I´m also uploading some 140 fotos to Walmart.com, so if you want to go check those out! Some fun stuff, it should be interesting. So this week we WERE going to go to the Volcano, but, the family that was going to drive us up there couldn´t go, so we postponed it. Haven´t done much yet today, and now it´s almost noon. I woke up and layed in bed struggling to sleep until 7:30. I refused to get up. I layed down at ... almost 2 aclock maybe this morning. Rolled around most of the morning and then woke up at 6. I got some medicine this last week called Hiperikan, an anti stress medicine. I´m pretty out of wack right now. I need to see Dr. Bigler. Lol. I´ve seen that guy so many times in the last 3 years. Man...since football I go to the chiropractor every 6 months. I hate to say this but does Dr. Bigler have an apprentice or training someone? Because he´s getting kind of old, and I want someone as good as he is. That and a neck/back massage would be WONDERFUL. Too bad its prohibited, lol. Darn. I actually REALLY wanted to go to those little Asian guys in Fiesta mall. You walk in, sit in that little chair and they start woring on ya. Oh that´s amazing. I LOVE that. AHhhhh. SPeaking of Christmas. Mom, remember when we went to Fiesta mall a few years back and bought the cheese stuff for Mike/Todd/Jason/Josh and then had the little chair massage thingy and all the other goodies? That was probably my favorite Christmas. That and the time we got the Chomper game, of which game I WILL beat some day. So this week I didn´t any money at all, last Monday I swapped out $20 you had given me but that didn´t last long, seeing as we bought pizza and I bought. The other elders chipped in but some way or another but all in all it all disappeared. Bye-bye, woo-woo, see ya´. -Buzz Lightyear (Toy Story 1998) (I´m not sure if that´s the year but it sounds right. lol) SO I didn´t eat a whole lot this week, lol. Actually I don´t think I had breakfast once til´today, we went to the bank here in centro and pulled our monthly money out. Then I went over to the Farmacia Guadalajara bought two little cups of yoghurt for 3 pesos a piece, lol. and a big hunk of pan dulce (sweet bread) for 8. Then 4 hershey´s bars for 6.50 a piece. (They were on sale). Totaled out to about 48 pesos or so. The chocolate killed me. Hey doctor said I needed more endorphins, so I bought chocolate, lol, I still feel sick from so much though. I shouldn´t have done that. Speaking of money matters, including the fact that I can not eat again. I´m thinking of swapping out some dollars to buy a USB memory. Scratch that. I need you to send me my USB. Do you know what a USB is? It´s the little memory thing for the Computer that looks like a little bar? Daniel might be able to help you. Invite him for lunch and have him find it. lol. It might be in where my laptop is, it might be somewhere else, I´m not sure. It´s the little bar thin you stick into the laptop for more memory, I have several of them there. I just need...well send me two. Lol. They sell these little rechargeable speakers here that you charge with a cell phone charger and you just stick in your memory stick/card and it plays whatevers on there. So I´m going to download all of the music from the general conferences and stick it on there and then copy all of the cds that the other elders have and throw it on here. +I have the CD player you sent me... so I´m good! Lol. Thank you by the way, it´s been nice to have some music here. I hate it when elders put on wordly music, so when they do (not any more but in case they do) I retreat to the other room and listen to mine. = ) This week was rough, Monday I forgot, Tuesday we went to Tamazula, about 1 1/2 hours from here, and taught a few people. The first picture you´ll see on walmart.com is Sofia, she´s a gal we´re teaching out there in Tamazula with her mom and her brother. They´re doing good and we hope to baptize them here in a few weeks. We have another family too we met on Thursday, Gaby and Rafael. We met them contacting a few weeks back and then all of a sudden we felt we should go visit them. Stopped by and Gaby (the wife) was there with her two kids and they´re pretty chill. We were goin to pass by there on Saturday but they were gone. We´re going to work our butts off to get them to church this Sunday. We need to visit them once, bring a member by, one more visit and then Sunday. Member goes to pick them up. If we play it smart and turn to the Lord in all things He can make anything happen. I´m trying to just stay calm and do the best I can to help them get baptized. We´ve only taught the plan of salvation on our very first visit´, so we haven´t done a whole lot. We need to get in there and really make them investigators. Put a plan and make it happen. Hey, here´s a question. Why do people take so long to get baptized over there? Like this guy helping you out in the garage. John Delp. Hopes he gets baptized soon?? Why not now... have you explained, ´the only way to return with God and live eternally in his presence, receiving the remission of your sins and receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost is by means of a baptism equal to that which Jesus Christ received. Would you like to live to receive the remission of your sins and live with God again?´ ´Well... yes´ He replies. I know that you will receive the peace of heaven in your life and the conflicts and struggles of your soul will be resolved throug the eternal blessings of God by being baptized by the divine authority of the Priesthood. Will you, brother Delp, be baptized for the REMISSION of you sins and open the windows of heaven? Uh... well heck... YES. Good Dec. 19... Done. It´s alot different here I know, but I don´t know... it seems like more poeple should be baptized. Who´s all in that list of yours. Bro./Sis. dean (2) Bro./Sis. Avachuco (2) and ... did Simba ever get baptized? Who else, did the big black guy get baptized? If not, why not? Just a few questions. Well returning to the point. I now have an hour and a half... Answering a few questions. Yes it´s cold as the 9th circle of hell right now. Just at night. During the day you can break a good sweat walking around, other than that its ... its pretty nice. Lol. It´s the best weather you could ask for, It´s even cloudy today, lol. Pretty nice. The new jackets fuzzy and warm and awesome, lol. Good luck in the playoffs, just get determined, just decide, they suck... i´m going to shove the ball right down their jock strap... oh... well, maybe not jock strap but whatever they may have. Spike it to the corner and watch them die. Rather vengeful aren´t I?? Well it sounds like a party over there. Walmart ´s ready for the photos now! Elder Perez will be like a 30-32 I´d say. That´d be awesome if you sent him something. Lol. I have no idea what you´re sending me, but tell Dimitrius that the notebook and address book and everything were stikingly useful and well timed. Thank him for me k! There it is! For Christmas I want 1 box Dunkin Donuts. 2 bags Bass Pro nuts, a little fudge maybe. But I want those dang cookies they used to sell at Westwood...send Daniel or somebody. I need those cookies! Seriously they´re that good! Medium shirt would be fine for him. I want to just keep writing.. Just keep talking. This weeks been weird. Oh I didn´t finish, lol. Wednesday we stayed here and had the Elders go have our Ward miission leader complain for an hour and a half meeting, which lasted approximately an hour and a half while he complained about how horrible we are. Thursday we had to stay here and visited a few people...Friday went to Tuxpan and Saturday was just a waste of time. I made it to breaking point on stress actually. I´m going to talk to some doctor dude today. I started getting little bite looking things all over my body but we think it´s a reaction from too much stress or anxiety or something like that. The little bumps are leaving now, I got some cream stuff for them anyway. That´s funny to here about Julene, I don´t remember her name either, I just say the lady from the Country Club, but dang do those waffles sound good right now. I´m so excited to hear that David is in 2nd Nephi. I hope he´s getting something out it. I want him to feel that it´s true! That´s the goal here! OH how glorious will it be to bring him to the fold of Christ! Did you ever send the fotos of the guys you got?? Well that ´s the jist of it. If you want Busch beans and chili are fantastic items for any box you send. Have the guys put something in that fricking box please. Lol. Well that´s the jist. I ´ll catch you next week! Do wa shididdalyy-do wah! yeah!-Elder Taylor

November 23, 2009

To start off I´m tired... I´m very very tired. Physically, spiritiually... mentally, emotionally. I´m just tired. I feel pretty bad right now, got up a little late, I got up at 6:20, but layed around and slept a little here and there until 7. Elders walking around in normal clothes. Getting up late, staying up til 1 in the morning. I feel bad spiritually. I haven't been very diligent, I haven´t studied sufficiently. Today we just took my shoe to get fixed and we´re going to wash, write and sleep. And send letters! Lol, woo-hoo! Lol, we´ll see how well that goes! The good news is that I just bought a Hershey´s bar and a half liter of Dr. Pepper for 14 pesos at Pharmacy Guadalajara that´s like $1.25. Speaking of money. We´re pretty broke right now. Two trips to Guadalara, a trip to Colima, going to all the pueblitos here and 2 weeks worth of food... that and a bunch of other crap. I spent a chunk of money in Guadalajara on tacos when we went. Did I mention that we went to the temple over there? I´ve been a bump on a log here with Elder Perez, reflecting on the matter the other day. I realized that I´ve left most, if not all, of the work to him. I dont throw in enough of my own input. I need to talk and decide with him. I already have 43 minutes on the computer. I wrote a long letter to President Saucedo. It´s all going good in the work, well.... mas o menos. It´s good, I just want to keep it going, fix all the little details that we´re missing. We have a lady named Rosalba in the pueblito de Tamazula, that´s progressing with her two kids. There are other possibilities we´re told that can progress. We´re kind of focusing on the pueblos right now, Tuxpan also we sent Elder Nichols and Elder Aulestia (from Peru), they´re working out there now and already have a baptismal date for a 9 year old. They reactivated, or are in the process of reactivating the Llamas family. We´ll see how that goes. Elder Uc and ELder Guevara need to go to Teocuitatlán but for excuses aren´t going so we´re going to kick them into gear. The importance of member work is incredibly vital. It should NOT be left to the elders to watch and care for EVERY need and EVERY problem of there investigators. Ok, let me explain that. They´re in charge. But when the elders are NOT there, the members SHOULD be there, it´s our JOB. We go, if they haven´t read in the Book of Mormon yet, we offer to read with them, we pray with them, we invite them to church, we give them a ride to church. We invite them to family home evening. Invite invite invite. We complain SOOO much about ´oh my friends don´t want anything´ ´oh they´re not ready yet´. DOESN¨T MATTER. We INVITE THEM. They´ll do it. I was thinking about the members in the states, oh we´re beyond lazy fools. I don´t have time I work NINE... LONG ... HOURS ... EVERY DAY! Oh boo hoohoo.... I met a taxi driver who works from 6 am to midnight every day... and gains like 10 a day. I just heard of someone who worked every single day, not even 1 day of vacations for 14 consecutive years just to feed his family, but then couldn´t cause his kidneys or liver or something died on him. Let me tell you about two members here in Cd. Guzman, Jhoana and ´La China´ (La China is her nickname, anyone with curly hair is given the name ´China´... don´t ask why, I don´t know). They study from 6 a.m. til 3 p.m. every weekday in the university, from the which they go straight to the church to help in the family history center, then at 8 teach seminary to the branches young men and women, including traveling to other pueblos to teach family history, while being the branch young single adults leaders and young women´s helpers still have time to have family home evenings with us and visit our investigators. I didn´t mention the time they use for additional school projects and homework and household responsabilites (which all do exist). Any member who is ´too busy´ should ask themselves, how many drops of blood... did pour from my Redeemer for the FOOLISHNESS AND SINS that I commit daily. Then ask, how many have I shed so that others will not suffer that which did He? Something to ponder on, share with all you feel too. Next Monday we´re going to the Volcanes, (volcanoes) which will be SWEET! I have about 100 new fotos (that´s how we spell it here) from last Monday, we climbed the mountains here next to Guzman, it was awesome! I almost died, I lost my balance on the top rock and almost fell. WOO-HOO! I was so excited to hear from David last week, did you ever ask him what chapter he´s in in The Book of Mormon? I´m so stoked, excited, supurbly animated to get those fotos of wing night. Thursday´s eh?? Can´t wait! Tehe, I already mentioned I believe that we only receive mail 1 every three weeks right? 3 or 4 weeks some where around there. Interviews and Zone Conferences. I might have you try out the address here: Quintana Roo #81Col. CentroCd. Guzman, Zapotlán, JaliscoMexicoI don´t know the postal address, maybe you could find it on the internet?? Okey dokey. Now for your questions: Yeah I´ll bear my testimony in Spanish if you want me too. I can NOT talk in Spanish when I start to stress about whatever it may be. I completely lose my ability and confidence to talk in another language. But I shouldn´t be stressed out talking to you, I hope...lol. Money for a good Christmas lunch, well it´s about the same price as it would be over there. It depends on what we get. Like 6 tacos for everyone would be like 50 pesos a piece, $5 plus a little more for drinks. Or pizza is like $15-$20 for all of us. plus a little more for drinks. Missionaries came over to play the piano eh? Well tell them they´re losers and there mission sucks and is easy... lol. That´s a joke, but seriously. Who are they? The two I know are obviously gone already, but tell me about those that are there. And have dad write me what they´re currently doing to work. I have some ideas. ----

November 16, 2009

Hey hey. This might be a little short but the jist of the week is that Elder Perez is here with me now, and I´m just pludging along. This week I was SUPER stressed. To the point my brain stops functioning. It´s insane, but it´s getting better. I´m SICK of not doing what I should be doing. Such as this morning for example I didnt read the Book of Mormon. Now I feel out of place and awkward, I had the time I just flitted it away doing nothing. The other elders are changing right now but when they get back we´re going to Parque de las Peñas, to pass around a little. There´s some tenco music in the background and it´s affecting my personality right now. I feel cool... I´m ... bad....lol. I even have my sunglasses on, lol. I dressed normal because we´re headed to the park after this but those are the ONLY terms. I wanted to write and do all that stuff in missionary clothes and then just head over there. Oh well, we´re going to get some pizza with that 20 dad sent me! I´m going to treat the zone. We´re only 8 people. It´ll be cool. I´m going to go get myself an early Christmas present before I leave the area. If I´m here later I´ll just get it then but theré's some stuff I like here too. Lol. It´s a little speaer set that you just plug in a USB memory stick and it´ll play whatever music you have on there. THANK YOU FOR THE CD¨S! I got them, well... I got those, I haven´t received the package they were in but I got the speaker´s, lol. I got the garments, a thousand thank yous. The spandex is VERY comfy. Tehehe. I went to the leadership conference this last week, on Tuesday, and I opened all my packages up and ate the Lay´s Stacks, lol. Got my CD´s and CD player, but the next day Hna. Saucedo FORBID that anybody take their packages until Zone conference... ugh. So I just stole everything I wanted right then and left the rest til later, lol. Zone Conference (which I will refer to as ZC from now on) is on Thursday. We´re teaching a 18 year old Nephew of our Branch President's wife. He´ll be baptized on Saturday. We´re working hard, we have a few other options but we have to keep looking. This area is backed up on Escogidos, Golden people who have been WAITING for someone to pass by because they have been prepared by the hand of the Lord himself. Well, that´s our goal, harvest...we´ll keep seeding but the corners of this field have things that the missionaries just say missed. I love you and have a lot more to say, like the jacket I took too, the irony though is all of a sudden it´s really hot, I´m sleeping without a blanket again...lol, oh well. Everything, thank you.Remember that towel I told you had termites?? I was serious, termies from my bed were eating through the towel, that wasn´t a joke... haha. Well alright, TTY SOON! Thank Debbie and David for writing me, I´m working on letters, lol. And ask David where he´s reading!! For Christmas that´d be awesome if you sent something for my companion, he´s really serious, COOL, but serious, his parents don´t write him he just told me, so that´d be awesome if you sent something!Love you bye!-Jake

November 9, 2009

Wow...this message was a little bit of a shocker! I didn´t expect that. I love President Saucedo, I feel like we have a personal relationship which I really like. I was just listening to the music we sang in the MTC choir when we went to General Conference, it´s available on lds.org. Woohoo!! Now I¨m watching and listening to ELder Eyrings talk on the Book of Mormon. My mind is fried right now. Today ... is a hard... day. Patience, patience, patience and charity charity charity. I ... am SOOO... sick of missionaries. Not missionaries I love being an Elder, I had to stop and take a step back and just listen intently to the voice of the holy spirit. I was in the church reflecting on all that happens here.. (*sigh*)... but then I realized, the privilege to testify and declare the word of God, here in these latter days to the children of God, my soul is ensaddened by the things I see and those who deny the message and those who choose in contrast to the laws of God. I fail myself and I mourn now for my thoughts and the things that penetrate my heart. But I rejoice in the opportunity I have had to bring souls to Christ, though I may rejoice in very few fruits right now, I know those effors will bring forth miracles in the years to come, until I leave this earth those efforts which countless missionaries have put forth will bring forth treasure unto the Lord. Souls of righteousness having partaken in the ordinance of baptism, having received the remission of their sins and finding the truth which their souls longed and poured out for. It´s fun to think about. This morning, well first off, today´s the day of changes and I´ll be with Elder Perez, not the same one I just had, but my old zone leader, he´s coming here. I was NOT too excited in the beginning. Some Elders have THEIR way and aren´t very receptive to ANY other... we´ll see how this works, I won´t accept selfishness anymore though. I will suffer what the Lord will have me suffer, my Lord will help me. However, if there is anything I might do do establish a kind loving relationship between us that would be fantstic. I´ve learned that I really do train leaders... lol. My first junior companion Elder Oakes is a district leader right now, Elder Nichols also just went from Junior Companion to District leader, Elder Harding is senior (to my knowledge) and Elder Perez, the first, is senior again. So that´s the jist of it. I understand Elder Nichols is stressed right now, but jeez, Elder Mireles and Elder Danielson (who were one companionship) are both going to Manzanillo so either Elder Nichols or I have to take over their area, it´s going to be me now I decided, but there was confusion and later tension over that.
I just wrote like 15 minutes worth of what they did to piss me off, but I´ll just settle it that there were several annoyances this morning but I feel better after having written them, but I´m sure you really didn´t want to know.
Well we were supposed to baptise Jorge and his kids this week, but he REFUSES to believe in the Book of Mormon, we´ve explained it four times. We tell him where it came from how it got there, everything 4 weeks now. Now he comes on Sunday and the other Elder says ´The book of Mormon is more perfect than the Bible´ which is true. And Jorge, is jsut dumbfounded; ´How is that possible, have another book MORE PERFECT than the Bible´. He told us that yesterday and I said out loud. Jorge, we´ve talked about this 4 times... then I went on to ask what the problem was. He reads a chaper here and there, and is reading a little bit more, but it has to be for the wrong reasons. His intentions might be the problem. Telling you about my investigators helps me think, lol. Erika went to church 2 weeks ago, but her dad´s a JW (Jehovah´s Witness) or as we say here TJ (Testigo de Jehováh) and won´t let her go to church (supuestamente; supposedly) so that´s a problem and then we have other families that are AWESOME just wicked hard to find and bring to church. Lol
We´ll see what happens with Elder Perez, now.
Well I just saw that I have an hour already, I got distracted with Elder Holland's talk this last month, it was AWESOME! Testifying before the judgment bar of God of the divinity (think about that word for a minute) of the Book of Mormon.
Well I´m going to go take my laundry out of the chugga chugga (washing machine shaped like a soda can) which I put in there at 12:30, it´s not 3:30, I should probably get that.
To asnwer several questions, I HAVE written several letters, I just haven´t sent them...that´s the difficult part.
OH that will be AWESOME if I get to see them here soon, as in a picture I mean. Lol. Tell them I want a Christmas package. THEY CAN AFFORD IT! Lol, tell them I´ll do my best with the letters. Haha, I´m working on that. I still have the stuff I bought you I just have to send it, lol. Well off I go! Hopefully next will be better organized and writen, lol!
-Jake

November 2, 2009

WISH I had bought that big bottle of Hersheys syrup. Lol. I did just buy a little bottle of Hershey´s strawberry syrup, I used it for strawberry milk and put it on my pancakes. Lol. We got 1000 pesos for our mid month ´ajuste´ so I had a little to slurge afterwards... lol. We also bought brownies. That was a story in it´s own. Before I forget it. We made one batch last night. With the brownies that Elder Povey had bought. They FINALLY get done (finally because it took for frick dang forever...) and then Elder Tygard walks over and woop. Takes 1-3 of the whole plate. Then Elder Povey walks over and woop...another 1-3 of the plate. I told him, ´woah, elder they´re like 6 other elders that are going to grab some,´ to which he replied, rather gruffly. ¨No there´s not, there´s only 4 of us. Referring to that he wasn´t going to share with the Mexican elders. That made me really sad. He then mentioned how there was ´more brownie mix´ referring to MY bag. I snapped, NOT ANY MORE THERE´S NOT. Grabbed it and hid it upstairs. Behind my socks. Lol. 2 ELders didn´t get any and 2 got just a little witty bit. Well you´re next question is the piano. I do, actually I play in sacrament meeting again. It´s weird because I haven´t played since my second area. Lol. ALMOST, a year ago. December/January. Last week, daylight savings started and we didn´t know so we got there an hour and a half early. I went to practice the songs for that day. Lol, so it worked out well. Lol. After I practiced for a little bit I played a few ´Groban´ songs, by request of Elder Danielson. Nobody really payed attention, if they liked it I couldn´t tell. Lol.
Lastly that IS Elder Nichols, sorry. He´s in a few of my pictures, you just never know who it is, lol. Elder Danielson is the Somoan looking dude in a few of them and the big white elder with glasses is Elder Povey, the skinny Californian is Elder Tygard, he´s from the Sacramento area.
Well I´m supremly happy to hear that TT, or Koopa Troopa (the turtle) is still around. I´m thinking it´s because the water is much lower, it´s a bit of a high climb. There´s no Chlorine in there, right? He probably likes it. It´d be fun to throw another one in there, do you put the little fish in for him to eat? Well have you heard from any of the guys lately? David, Daniel, R.J., Jon, Joel, Nick, Ben. (not in any particular order of importance). David tells me the wing night is still going pretty good on ... Wednesday´s now I believe. Lol.
I appreciate you lately, really. Thank you so much for writing and expressing your desires and hopes for me. It´s comforting you know. Thank you for sending the several packages too, lol. I really hate and I´m very embarrased to ask you to send so much. But thank you, the CD´s I think are going to make a difference. Honestly, there are no longer CD players. All Ipod and MP3 stuff. I looked...Lol, I searched for that sucker. I lack music in my life, I miss the edifying, uplifting influence and nature of music. I could use that at this point in my mission. I was thinking the other day and kind of realized...I really am over the hump. I only have 13 months. But still. By Christmas, well at the end of Christmas I´ll have 9 months. Split that in to 3 periods of 3 months. It´s not that much time. Especially since we´re thinking by months now, the days go by pretty quick. The time is unexistant. It´s incredible, honestly.
Well Saturday we had a conference with Elder Benjamín de Hoyos, from the 1st Quorum of the Seventy. He´s in the area presidency. He was amazing. It was actually kind of funny, because President Saucedo was talking and then Elder de Hoyos just gets up and takes over. Just starts going and then a 40 to 50 minutes later, I think, finished up. He talked about ... what did he talk about...:
Salvation isn´t cheap
How to search for ´golden´ investigators, 2-3 golden boys a week. That will be baptized.
Use the area book.
How to use the members, have them pass by, get to know them, pick them up for church.
Find needs of our area. After we´ve believed and after we´ve planned, put it in the Lord´s hands. Let Him guide us; He needs to know where we´re going to be if wants to put his children and us in the right spots at the right time.
Our purpose as missionaries. Language of the Spirit. Alot of awesome stuff. He compared missionary work to a tortilla machine. Lol
You have your automatic machine, but the man who owns it, can´t just put all the maza up in the feeder and go on vacation, head out for a few hours. Crap happens, the machine gets blocked, accidents, stuff breaks, falls out of place. The man has to work and adjust the machine and all the settings so that on the other end of that machine a little collector starts popping out little bags of tortillas. Converts also, we have to constantly be adjusting and modifying the part, if we just leave it there to do its ´routine´, the tortillas will stop coming out right and it won't work. If an investigator isn´t doing it right, don´t get to the end of teaching him/her, just ask God, if it´s right pull them off the teaching belt and throw them back into the mold to pop out later.
I´m falling asleep here at the computer, lol. About 5 minutes I just dazed, haha. Well, This week was curious.
All of Monday-Thursday was 100% Elder Mireles and I, on ´divisiones´ Elder Nichols was forced into going with Elder Danielson to the pueblos outside the city. Then Friday we were in the house actually for a while getting ready to leave to Colima later, then Elder NIchols and I went to the food, went to go eat with our Ward Mission Leader. And then we went to a few people really quick for about an 1, more or less. Then we had our junta (meeting) with our ward mission leader, lol Afterwards, Elder Mireles and I were back together for the evening. We went to Colima at 10 got there at 11:30 or so, to the house there at 12. I slept in a really skinny hammock and froze my butt cheeks together as well the fact that I didn´t sleep AT ALL ANYWAY! Lol. Ya que (oh what do you do...). Woke up and got ready for the day, cold shower, didn´t eat. Then we went to the conference. All of this while Elder NIchols, Povey, Tygard and Danielson stayed in a hotel and went to a nice restaurant for Dinner AND Breakfast. Oh...I was going to go, but I felt like I should ask permission to stay in a hotel, so I called Sister Saucedo the President's wife, well him, but she answered and I asked, ´can we stay in a hotel´ she wasn´t really up for the idea. To make the horrendously long story short, she wanted us to stay with the other elders. The four of them went to the hotel and I stayed with Elders Uc, Lopez and Mireles.
It´s not happy right now. There´s race problems, I´ve have a HORRIBLE attitude lately, for everything that´s going on. I just get sick of the crap that these women are dishing out. Gosh it´s pathetic. Divisiones for a whole week, and then at the end of the week...ok well understand this, Elder Nichols and I have NO investigators outside the city here...the other two yes. Here in the city we do have people and they have people so it´s all there work with Elders Danielson and Nichols and half and half with Elder Mireles and myself. I´m getting a small small portion of our work done. Then at the end of the week he has the nerve to say. Well you´ll have to talk ith Elder Mireles to see what counts for us too, (in addition to the lessons he taught with Elder Nichols, he says this...), because all of the people you taught of our investigators count for us. He´s trying to divide the work 75/25, NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. I thought. He tried to snicker onto me as though I was the bad guy as all these kind of people do, saying well if you´re really worried about having bad numbers, or worried about numbers (one of the two) take them, whatever. Which I very soon learned. He had like... 10 or more lessons with Member and 4 others. 0 contacts. I don´t remember what we had, it was very unorganized. I think I should see a chiropractor, I have back problems, right now.
Well to cut it out short cause I just saw it´s been an hour, lol. There´s problems, but I´m happy, cause Elder Nichols is awesome and our area is being blessed. I mourn for my sins and the confusion I bring upon myself, trying to know what is the best think I should do in whatever moment. Hour and 2 minutes, now i¨m late...grr... lol. Well give a big shout out to my boys! Lol, and Carrie too, tell her I said thanks for the wonderful email, that made me feel very special, like I had done something. Thanks Carrie! CCC (continuous conversation Carrie).
Wel mom I really love you, I´m glad you liked the Mother´s day card thing, it took quite a few extra pesos here on the computer to do, lol. Did the song play while you saw the video? or no? you had to listen to it separately? Thank you for sending the jacket, I asked for it cause it rains alot here, well every once in a while and it´s a good light rain jacket, and it´s a little chilly here too! Lol. Well I´ll talk to you in a week or so!
-Jake, Elder Taylor