How is my favorite fan club doing? Have I ever told ya'll that I
love you? Well, if I haven't, I will now. I love you! If you are reading
this, I love you. I hope today is super awesome for you and you get all
that you've been wishing for.
Now, my week in review. Monday last week was pretty nice. We had a
Zone Activity where we played this super fun game called Gatorball. You
play it with a soccer ball, and the goal is to hit a chair to get
points. You can only kick the soccer ball until it has become air bound,
at which point you can catch it and run with it in your hands. If you
hit the chair with a kick you get 2 points, if you hit it with a throw
you only get 1. It was way fun. That night we also had a lesson with
Carla and Roland which went well. Their baptismal date is coming up on
the 13th and Roland still hasn't quit smoking. He has until Saturday to
quit. I sure hope that he will be able to be baptized.
So let's see about this last Tuesday. There is this one guy, whose
name is Arturo, who we found tracting. He told us that he was baptized
when he was 16 when he lived in Guatemala. Since he moved up to the US
he hasn't been to church, so we started teaching him. He is a super nice
guy. He didn't come to church yesterday, but hopeful while we keep
meeting with him he will have a desire to do so. That night we had
dinner with the Mills family. They are a super funny bunch. While we
were they told us about this thing called a Faith Rocket. It's where you
get a tea bag and empty it of its contents. Then you put it on your
hand and stand it up on the end you cut off and you light it on fire! At
the end right before it reaches your hand it is supposed to fly up and
not burn your hand. So I did this three times, and all three times it
didn't fly up, so it started to burn my hand. I have a video of it. I'm
gonna try to get it to ya'll. Hopefully I will find a way.
Wednesday was was alright as well. We got a new investigator, whose
name is Josh. He is the boyfriend of one of the girls in the ward. I've
talked to him quite a few times before we had a lesson with him, but
now we are teaching him. Super cool stuff. Oh yeah, I forgot. I went to
see a doctor at his home that morning. My foot has been hurting me since
before I went into the MTC, but this past week it was super killer. So
this doctor told me that I have Planar Fasciitis. I'm not sure if you
spell that way, but whatever. I'm not sure if any of you have heard of
that, but it really isn't that bad. It just means that my foot is going
to hurt and there's nothing you can do about it. So whatever. I'm just
not supposed to play basketball and sports and stuff for a couple of
weeks.Uh. So that night I wasn't able to play basketball with the ward.
Ah well.
I don't really recall what happened on Thursday. I think we got a
referral for Robert McCoy. Remember that weird dude I told you about who
Elder Smith and I tracted in to? Well, we got a media referral where he
requested missionaries to come over. So Elder Pettegrew wanted to go
over, even though I really didn't want to. We went and talked to him for
about 20 minutes and now he is an investigator. Woohoo... He even came
to church yesterday. I sat by him all day. It was strange. But if he
wants to learn, who am I to deny him that privilege?
I'm not sure what day this next even happened, but I really have to
tell you about it. So there we were, tracting a street called Walnut.
We knocked on a couple of doors, and had no luck. This next house there
was a guy already outside, so we decided to go talk to him. Well, he
started to tell us that he didn't believe Christ was anything special
and that the things in the bible aren't anything that He really said.
Then he started to tell us about his beliefs. Apparently we are all
created by Grey Aliens. And Sasquatches exist. So the Grey Aliens came
down to Earth and mated with the Sasquatches, and thus humans were
created. This guy, who Elder Pettegrew and I call Crazy Al, because his
name was Al, told us that he and his family were abducted by these Grey
Aliens and that he isn't scared of them any more. And very soon these
Grey Aliens are going to have a Disclosure where they are going to let
the entire human race know that they exist and that they've been in
control of the government the whole time. Whatever. We've had quite a
few laughs about this guy.
Friday was a super awesome day. There was a Recent Convert temple
trip to do Baptisms for the Dead scheduled that night. We had scheduled
an appointment with an investigator for that evening, a half hour before
we were supposed to leave, so we weren't going to make it.
Fortunately/unfortunately she wasn't home, so we were able to make it to
the temple trip! That is a rare treat for a couple of missionaries to
do. We went to In-n-out for dinner, which was a total plus and we went
to Dairy Queen for ice cream afterward. I was way glad I went.
Saturday was kinda different. The tail light on our truck was out
for quite some time, so we went out to Victorville to get it fixed at a
Pep Boys. Since it was Saturday and we had a couple of hours to blow
before Pep Boys would get to our car, we went to the swap meet where
Jenny, the woman who just got baptized, and her dad work at. That was
way cool to see them there, and they absolutely loved it, so everybody
wins! We also went to Wal-mart for a second. Then when we were able to
make it back to Phelan we went to see Ilich and Blanca. Now, this is a
strange story. I guess Blanca is pregnant and moved back in with Ilich.
Ilich's mother moved to the other house that they have on their
property, which is going to help them out immensely. I guess Blanca
never even moved. I really am not clear on how everything worked out,
but they are back together. They even came to the temple trip on Friday,
but only Blanca could do the baptisms. Its cool to see them trying to
work things out.
That night we had a Break the Fast Dinner for the ward's 40 Day
Fast. I'm not sure if I told ya'll about it, but it was way nice and we
had plenty of missionary miracles, like being let in to houses and
teaching them. That was a fun time and it was nice being able to eat
after 40 days. You have no idea how hungry you get when you don't eat
for that long.
Yesterday was pretty average. Church and stuff, you know. We
tracted Easy Street. No one was home. Sad day. Church was just as good
as you could have hoped for. Nothing too exciting, except having Robert
there. We had dinner with the Tuckers, he kept putting on the Angels
game, and told me "not to watch it". I watched some of it. The last I
saw they were down 7-8. Did they end up making it? Hmm.
Nothing to report about today. I've only been to Stater Bros. and
eaten at Taco Bell. I'm going to go to Wrightwood to watch The Best Two
Years with the missionaries up there once I'm done email you guys. Good
news, General Conference is this weekend! Everyone who reads this had
better watch it, because I am super excited to watch it. I'm just
worried that I might feel trunky because of it. Last conference was
awesome because Lukas, Isaac, my dad and I were all able to watch the
Priesthood session together. Not this time, though. ):
Thanks for being awesome. Feel free to email me or write me! I do accept packages.
Email:
Address:
Elder R. Sage Taylor
6541 Woodruff Place
Rancho Cucamonga, Ca 91701
Keep up all the good work, my friends!
Now go, and be Golden,
Now go, and be Golden,
Elder R. Sage Taylor
Random Pictures and our Temple Trip
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