I would like to ask for forgiveness from Ashlyn, I didn't forget her birthday... I just forgot to write it in the letter that I wrote two weeks ago and last week. HAPPY late BIRTHDAY! My mind has just really been preoccupied with the work here that I tend to forget what day it is back home and then before I realize it, its a week and a half past my sisters birthday. So I will wish Porter a happy birthday now so I don't forget next week.... HAPPY BIRHTDAY porter.
So this last week, as
I stated earlier was crazy!. On Tuesday we were able to go into Louisville and
have a Zone Leader Council conference, which was long and very much like a
meeting. The highlight of the trip however was on Tuesday morning all 14 of us
zone leaders got together and played some basketball and also a trash can game.
It’s a mix of ultimate Frisbee and lacrosse that's played with a soccer ball.
It was very fun. Then after that trip we were stuck for like 3 days in a row in
the apartment planning for a training that we had to give to our zone. It was
one of those, these are Presidents initiatives, how are we going to get them
across and get the missionaries excited about them. So that was fun and we gave
the training on Friday. Then on Saturday we were actually able to get out and
proselyte some. So I have been a little jumpy and upset about the lack of
proselyting time that we have, but I have faith that the Lord will provide
people for us to teach and baptize.
On Saturday night however was probably one to never forget. We saw a Less-actives name on the roster and his wife is a non-member so we went over there. His wife let us right in and she was way nice and friendly towards us. She started talking to us and then the husband came in and sat down. Right as soon as the husband came in, the wife stopped talking and left promptly. The husband sat there for about like 2 minutes and we tried to break the ice with him, but he wasn't having it. He wasn't answering any of our questions. Then all of a sudden he asked us the question. "Who sent you here?" and it just blew up from there. So to make a long story short, we sat there for about an hour and a half getting railed into by this old has-been Colonel who was in the army. He wouldn't even let us talk and he would only let us answer the questions that he would ask us in a yes-no answer. The funny thing is, they weren't even questions that dealt with the church, because what I got from his rambling was he had a "testimony" (more like a quarter of a testimony), he had just been offended and hasn't come back since. Most of the questions that he asked had to do with our personal life. I felt so disrespected and my tailbone still hurts from him chewing us out so much. I didn't just want to get up and leave and be rude, but finally that’s what we ended up doing. We kept our cool and peace the entire time, but the man was just so unhappy and angry that he was taking his anger out on us I guess. So that was a fun growing experience
On Saturday night however was probably one to never forget. We saw a Less-actives name on the roster and his wife is a non-member so we went over there. His wife let us right in and she was way nice and friendly towards us. She started talking to us and then the husband came in and sat down. Right as soon as the husband came in, the wife stopped talking and left promptly. The husband sat there for about like 2 minutes and we tried to break the ice with him, but he wasn't having it. He wasn't answering any of our questions. Then all of a sudden he asked us the question. "Who sent you here?" and it just blew up from there. So to make a long story short, we sat there for about an hour and a half getting railed into by this old has-been Colonel who was in the army. He wouldn't even let us talk and he would only let us answer the questions that he would ask us in a yes-no answer. The funny thing is, they weren't even questions that dealt with the church, because what I got from his rambling was he had a "testimony" (more like a quarter of a testimony), he had just been offended and hasn't come back since. Most of the questions that he asked had to do with our personal life. I felt so disrespected and my tailbone still hurts from him chewing us out so much. I didn't just want to get up and leave and be rude, but finally that’s what we ended up doing. We kept our cool and peace the entire time, but the man was just so unhappy and angry that he was taking his anger out on us I guess. So that was a fun growing experience
So to tell you a
little bit about my companion, is his name is Elder Wood and he is from Orem,
Utah (all of my companions except for one have been from Utah- Elder Manzano).
He enjoys sports, so that’s pretty cool. This is something that I found out
that is way cool is that both of his brothers and his dad are Green Berets.
That is way neat. He enjoys standup comedy and really likes to impersonate
people. He really does a good one of President Woodbury. It’s the best one that
I have seen yet.
To close I just wanted
to say a few things to Gentry, Ashlyn, and Porter. You were talking about how
going through high school there is a lot of peer- pressure and there is. I was
just thinking about the new Youth Theme and motto for 2013 and the theme is
"Stand Ye in Holy Places, and be not moved." I have thought a lot
about that and what it means to stand ye in holy places. When we think of Holy
Places we often think of places such as: Church, Temples, Dedicated sites, the
home, seminary, Etc; and you could interpret the motto to mean that we need to
go to these holy places as often as possible and spend as much time as we can
there. For it is in these Holy Places that the Spirit of the Lord is and it is
in these places that we can receive revelation, seek shelter from the world,
and gain a stronger testimony. Yes that is the case, but I think that the motto
can be interpreted this way, and I hope that this can come across as a humble
interpretation and not prideful. We are children of God, we have a divine
Potential to become like him and as such everywhere we go should be a Holy
place. We need to live our lives in such a way that it is proper to call every
step that we take a holy step. We need to live our lives in such a way so that
we do not diminish the sacredness and the potential that Heavenly Father sees
in us. We need to purify ourselves so that we can say that we are always
standing is holy places because the person standing in the place is holy. Be
not moved :)
Love you all!
Elder Taylor
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