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
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