Does it feel like two years to you? This time has gone by incredibly quickly. It feels like just a few weeks ago I met Elder Smith and was heading to Phelan. But now I'm leaving Elder Hevner and about to board a plane to Salt Lake. Man, how time flies.
I still have a whole week left, but seeing as next Monday is Memorial Day, I won't get an opportunity to email home. I'll give you a week in review and a week in preview.
Tuesday was almost the lamest day ever. The first part, Zone Meeting was great. Elder Hevner and I got to train the zone about the things we learned from the head of the proselyting department taught us all. But instead of doing that we just had everybody there just teach everybody, so it was pretty easy on our part. It was great.
The reason Tuesday was so lame is because we had to take our Corolla in for an oil change. We thought that should take too long. We went to the Pep Boys we were told to go to at 2 O'clock. We didn't leave until 7. That is WAY too long. We asked our dinner appointment to come pick us up so that we could actually have some food that day. I can tell you, spending time at Pep Boys and the surrounding area is not fun.
Thursday was a pretty decent day, though. We managed to teach two lessons, and do our weekly planning. We taught a 70-year-old woman the Law of Chastity. Her home teacher almost fell out of his chair with laughter that we were going over that. But, it was the last of the missionary lessons we needed to teach her, so I'm glad we did it. The other "lesson" was we watched the movie Mountain of the Lord with a family. They need to get to the temple and so we watched that with them. It was great, actually!
I was on exchanges with Elder Reber in the Lugonia Spanish Branch on Friday. I never really get anything out of Spanish exchanges. Do you know why? Because I don't speak Spanish. I just sit there and make sure Elder Reber isn't alone. Totally awesome. The cool thing about that day is that the Redlands airport was having an airshow that day and an awesome jet was flying around the city for a good amount of time and we got to see him do awesome tricks. How lucky are we?
I became more tan on Saturday. In the morning we and the sisters did service at the less-active lady's house. In the sun. It was warm. No big deal though, because I look fabulous now. Haha. We also saw a couple of other people like good ol' Clarence who is one of the funniest people ever. We also talked with man who's going into surgery on Tuesday and is kinda nervous. I don't blame him.
Yesterday was interesting. I thought church was great. All three hours were awesome. After church a family wanted us over for gumbo. I've never had gumbo before. I realize that I don't like gumbo. I thought it kinda looked like what would come out of a garbage disposal. We then had a second dinner with fettucine. That was better. I ate a lot of that. And cheesecake. Then we got to spend time with an awesome family, the Childs. It was fun there.
Here's this week for you, just in case you're curious:
Monday - P-Day and Red Robin with the Williams for dinner
Tuesday - My last District Meeting and last BoM Study
Wednesday - Departing Temple Trip
Thursday - Weekly Planning for a week I will not participate in
Friday - Nothing...
Saturday - Redlands Zone Conference
Sunday - BBQ with the Bairds, Reichmanns and McDonalds. And Departing Devotional where people I invited from all of my areas can come and say bye to me.
Monday - Get picked up and spend the day with departing missionaries and such.
Tuesday - Utah!
Well, my friends and family, I can't wait to see all of you! In just a week I have the opportunity to see and smell all of you! Enjoy your week, because you know I will!
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Now go, and be Golden,
Elder R. Sage Taylor
Monday, May 19, 2014
Monday, May 12, 2014
Lots and Lots of Corn
Good news everyone! Lots of good things have happened this past week. Kind of unusual, right? Not really, but I like good things.
Let's take a look at last Tuesday, shall we? To start off, last Saturday we had an elder go home and then two of our distict leaders were put together as companions. So on Tuesday Elder Hevner and I split up so that Elder Robison could teach his district full of sisters. Sister Shin, my friend from Jordan High School is in that district and it was super cool to see her. It's not often you get to see people you knew back home in California.
That day we also met with this really nice guy named Aron who just wanted to talk about Christ. It wasn't that he wanted to teach us or he wanted us to teach him, he just wanted to talk. Not bad, but kinda frustrating. That night we also had our weekly Book or Mormon study class. It was a member of our ward's birthday so we had ice cream cake while we were there. It was very good times.
Wednesday was a pretty cool day. Elder Hevner got to to go San Bernardino 4th ward on exchanges and I got to be with Elder Langi for the day. The head of the proselyting department for the church was in our mission for a few days and he spent time in the San B 4th ward with those elders there for a day. Then the next day was exchanges so I got to hear what that man had to say about missionary work from Elder Langi. It was a good day and I got to learn some stuff.
The next day was MLC, but it was a massive MLC. Since Brother Hemingway, the head of the proselyting department, was down here he wanted to instruct us missionaries. Normally the zone leaders and the sister training leaders are those who attend, but this time district leaders and other missionaries with "leadership potential" were invited as well. So I got to see almost all the elders I've been roommates with in the past 9 months. All of them were doing great. It was kinda sad thinking about how that was the last time I'll see some of them, at least for a while.
The trainings from Brother Hemingway were great. Mostly they focused on planning effectively and teaching simply. I learned a ton from it. The only hard part about it was knowing that I don't have all that much time to effectively put it into practice. I'm sure that other missionaries will be able to use the things they learned a lot in the future.
I also went on exchanges on Saturday. The plan was for me to go with the two district leaders and their companion would go with Elder Hevner in our ward. So I was with Elder Bush and Elder Robison. We planned for the next day, slept, woke up and studied. During our study time Elder Robison got a call that he was being transferred to Yucaipa at 12:30! It was weird that during exchanges he left. Then it was just me and Elder Bush. That elder is such a fun loving guy that we just had fun the rest of the day. We taught lessons, but for the ward that Elder Robison left from, and tried talking to people in Elder Bush's ward, but not a lot went on. I just really enjoyed myself that day.
Mother's Day was awesome. I got to talk to my family and most importantly my mother! I think yesterday was my favorite phone call of my mission. It wasn't quite as serious as the other and it was cool to think that I'd actually be seeing them all in just a couple of weeks. Not bad, I say. Not bad.
Well, friends, family, and others who happen to read this, Just a couple of short week-a-roonies until I set foot in the land of mountains. What will we do? Who will I see? What kind of adventures can I expect? Who knows? Have a great week!
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Now go, and be Golden,
Elder R. Sage Taylor
Let's take a look at last Tuesday, shall we? To start off, last Saturday we had an elder go home and then two of our distict leaders were put together as companions. So on Tuesday Elder Hevner and I split up so that Elder Robison could teach his district full of sisters. Sister Shin, my friend from Jordan High School is in that district and it was super cool to see her. It's not often you get to see people you knew back home in California.
That day we also met with this really nice guy named Aron who just wanted to talk about Christ. It wasn't that he wanted to teach us or he wanted us to teach him, he just wanted to talk. Not bad, but kinda frustrating. That night we also had our weekly Book or Mormon study class. It was a member of our ward's birthday so we had ice cream cake while we were there. It was very good times.
Wednesday was a pretty cool day. Elder Hevner got to to go San Bernardino 4th ward on exchanges and I got to be with Elder Langi for the day. The head of the proselyting department for the church was in our mission for a few days and he spent time in the San B 4th ward with those elders there for a day. Then the next day was exchanges so I got to hear what that man had to say about missionary work from Elder Langi. It was a good day and I got to learn some stuff.
The next day was MLC, but it was a massive MLC. Since Brother Hemingway, the head of the proselyting department, was down here he wanted to instruct us missionaries. Normally the zone leaders and the sister training leaders are those who attend, but this time district leaders and other missionaries with "leadership potential" were invited as well. So I got to see almost all the elders I've been roommates with in the past 9 months. All of them were doing great. It was kinda sad thinking about how that was the last time I'll see some of them, at least for a while.
The trainings from Brother Hemingway were great. Mostly they focused on planning effectively and teaching simply. I learned a ton from it. The only hard part about it was knowing that I don't have all that much time to effectively put it into practice. I'm sure that other missionaries will be able to use the things they learned a lot in the future.
I also went on exchanges on Saturday. The plan was for me to go with the two district leaders and their companion would go with Elder Hevner in our ward. So I was with Elder Bush and Elder Robison. We planned for the next day, slept, woke up and studied. During our study time Elder Robison got a call that he was being transferred to Yucaipa at 12:30! It was weird that during exchanges he left. Then it was just me and Elder Bush. That elder is such a fun loving guy that we just had fun the rest of the day. We taught lessons, but for the ward that Elder Robison left from, and tried talking to people in Elder Bush's ward, but not a lot went on. I just really enjoyed myself that day.
Mother's Day was awesome. I got to talk to my family and most importantly my mother! I think yesterday was my favorite phone call of my mission. It wasn't quite as serious as the other and it was cool to think that I'd actually be seeing them all in just a couple of weeks. Not bad, I say. Not bad.
Well, friends, family, and others who happen to read this, Just a couple of short week-a-roonies until I set foot in the land of mountains. What will we do? Who will I see? What kind of adventures can I expect? Who knows? Have a great week!
--
Now go, and be Golden,
Elder R. Sage Taylor
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