Crisis Averted....Oh, and some good stuff too...

Hello Family and Friends,
This week has been a little up and down. It was a Good week in the End. Well, the worst part of the week was that on Tuesday afternoon we got a call from our Zone Leaders. They called to let us know that a companionship in our district was being split up because they couldn’t get along…that’s a whole other story I won’t tell…anyway as you may have read in past letters we just had transfers and they weren’t going to get split. They then told the Zone Leaders there feelings about the situation, and the ZL’s said they would talk to the AP’s and President Andrus to see what they could do. Well, we got the call that they were indeed going to get split up now, the only problem was that they were going to split up our companionship as well. I was a little upset, to say the least. Well, we ended up not being transferred, because after I talked to the ZL’s, I called president Andrus and talked with him about the whole thing and he was willing to keep things the same. We talked with the missionaries involved and worked out the situation. So that crisis was averted.

Now for the cool news that brought the week back up. We got a new car….well a new car to us…it is a 2006 Mazda 3.…it is silver and really nice. We talked with the vehicle coordinator and asked if we could have the car the AP’s were bringing up to Reno. He asked why we wanted it and we told him because it was cool. Then he asked if Elder Dixon was the District Leader, he said yes, so he told us we could have the car and it was way cool. So now we have nice car….oh, and it’s pretty fast too- but I’ve just heard that-I don’t know for sure…

We also had a cool missionary experience this past Friday, actually we had two. First came with a lady named Devi. You may remember the name because I’ve talked about her before. Anyway, she has had two baptism dates. We went by and visited her and she was doing well, and then she said needed to be baptized, which as a missionary is always nice to hear. Then we went by and visited a part member family. The husband is not a member. His name is Larry. He is really nice and we had a good chat with him. He had somewhere to be at 5:30 and that’s when we showed up, but he let us come and talk until about 6:00. It was such a cool talk. He got to know us better and as he did so he said, “”You are the missionaries that I have been waiting for.” Now, again, as a missionary you really love to hear that. It was a really good day and we had some really good success.

That conversation with Larry really got me thinking. How many people are waiting for the right missionaries? And how will we know we’re the right one? Well, as you have the chance to serve a mission, you know that there are those people you just need to talk to and they are waiting for you to say something. It is so cool to know that you are in the right place at the right time. We just need to keep on talking to people and hope that they will be ready to hear our message. I love being a missionary and all the blessings that come from it. I want to let everyone know that I love them. I hope that you all have good a week. I hope that all goes well and can’t wait to hear from you next week.

Love
Elder Taylor