I'm sending my delicious
weekly email on Wednesday this week because we got to go to the Redlands Temple
today! Super exciting. Then we had Cafe Rio for lunch. I am a super happy
missionary right now.
Last Tuesday was my 5 month mark! Goodness gracious. I have been out for a while, but it still feels like nothing compared to the 19 months still have to go. I'm having trouble remembering what happened each day this week, so I'm going to give you the highlights reel instead!
Elder Jackson and I have found two new investigators so far. The first one is Tramone, a big ol' black guy that really likes to smoke weed. I think we will be dropping him soon, but he is super funny. I don't really want to tell ya'll about the things that he has told Elder Jackson and me that we should do about life, but suffice it to say that we think he was in a gang at one point and he talks about stuff like that. He's a pretty good guy though.
The other is Andre, who is also big and black. He seems super prepared to hear the gospel. He stays at home to take care of his mom who has two broken hips, so that's the only thing that is keeping him from coming to church and really progressing in the gospel. On the first lesson, as usual, we extended an invitation to be baptized. He told us that he has already been baptized. We retaught the thing about us having the only authority on earth to baptize and he accepted it
without hesitation. I am excited to teach this guy.
Halloween was alright. We really didn't do much. In the middle of the day we had interviews with our mission president, so that took up some time. We also needed to be home by 6 o'clock, so we watched a pretty great movie called 17 Miracles. If you haven't seen it, I would encourage you to do so. Super inspiring and really well made.
Elder Jackson and I tracted some apartments, that's where we found Andre and Tramone. We also found 3 lost members, each in a different apartment. Apartments are where it's at! We had a ton of contacts that day just because of Elder Jackson's great idea to tract those complexes. Total gold mines.
Monday, as in two days ago, we worked all day long, pretty much non-stop. We only took one break for lunch and didn't even see any members and tried to get tons of work done. The sad thing is that we don't have any numbers to show for it! Everybody we tried to see wasn't home and some missionaries who found some potential investigators in the past wrote down a ton of wrong addresses, like the addresses didn't even exist! How frustrating. I was super tired
that day because we got lots of biking in. AND I'm looking pretty tan.
Nice, huh?
Now for a funny story. We were out biking at night sometime this past week, when there came a huge white husky right up to Elder Jackson's bike. We were both terrified and stayed very still. It just stared at my companion's bike for a minute or two then decided to walk off a little ways. When it was a reasonable distance away, Elder Jackson started pedaling away then the dog started chase him! He kicked it in the face and kept riding. It stopped, but the bad thing was that I was behind Elder Jackson so when the dog stopped going after him it started to try to get me! I was so scared. It actually snapped at my leg, but didn't get me. I was way scared during the event, but looking back, it wasn't that bad.
Probably the only down-side to being in Apple Valley is that the dinners just aren't as good. I eat more, which is weird, but I don't enjoy it as much. No one out here knows how to make gravy, either.
People do make good Mexican food, and not good Mexican food.
Hmm. I just want to say that I love all of your beautiful faces. Stay chaste.
Now go, and be Golden,
Elder R. Sage Taylor
Last Tuesday was my 5 month mark! Goodness gracious. I have been out for a while, but it still feels like nothing compared to the 19 months still have to go. I'm having trouble remembering what happened each day this week, so I'm going to give you the highlights reel instead!
Elder Jackson and I have found two new investigators so far. The first one is Tramone, a big ol' black guy that really likes to smoke weed. I think we will be dropping him soon, but he is super funny. I don't really want to tell ya'll about the things that he has told Elder Jackson and me that we should do about life, but suffice it to say that we think he was in a gang at one point and he talks about stuff like that. He's a pretty good guy though.
The other is Andre, who is also big and black. He seems super prepared to hear the gospel. He stays at home to take care of his mom who has two broken hips, so that's the only thing that is keeping him from coming to church and really progressing in the gospel. On the first lesson, as usual, we extended an invitation to be baptized. He told us that he has already been baptized. We retaught the thing about us having the only authority on earth to baptize and he accepted it
without hesitation. I am excited to teach this guy.
Halloween was alright. We really didn't do much. In the middle of the day we had interviews with our mission president, so that took up some time. We also needed to be home by 6 o'clock, so we watched a pretty great movie called 17 Miracles. If you haven't seen it, I would encourage you to do so. Super inspiring and really well made.
Elder Jackson and I tracted some apartments, that's where we found Andre and Tramone. We also found 3 lost members, each in a different apartment. Apartments are where it's at! We had a ton of contacts that day just because of Elder Jackson's great idea to tract those complexes. Total gold mines.
Monday, as in two days ago, we worked all day long, pretty much non-stop. We only took one break for lunch and didn't even see any members and tried to get tons of work done. The sad thing is that we don't have any numbers to show for it! Everybody we tried to see wasn't home and some missionaries who found some potential investigators in the past wrote down a ton of wrong addresses, like the addresses didn't even exist! How frustrating. I was super tired
that day because we got lots of biking in. AND I'm looking pretty tan.
Nice, huh?
Now for a funny story. We were out biking at night sometime this past week, when there came a huge white husky right up to Elder Jackson's bike. We were both terrified and stayed very still. It just stared at my companion's bike for a minute or two then decided to walk off a little ways. When it was a reasonable distance away, Elder Jackson started pedaling away then the dog started chase him! He kicked it in the face and kept riding. It stopped, but the bad thing was that I was behind Elder Jackson so when the dog stopped going after him it started to try to get me! I was so scared. It actually snapped at my leg, but didn't get me. I was way scared during the event, but looking back, it wasn't that bad.
Probably the only down-side to being in Apple Valley is that the dinners just aren't as good. I eat more, which is weird, but I don't enjoy it as much. No one out here knows how to make gravy, either.
People do make good Mexican food, and not good Mexican food.
Hmm. I just want to say that I love all of your beautiful faces. Stay chaste.
Now go, and be Golden,
Elder R. Sage Taylor
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