Did all of you have a good
Thanksgiving? I sure did!
Let's do a day-by-day play-by-play.
Tuesday was pretty nice. We were going to have our usual weekly District Meeting, but the church building we normally meet in was having their carpets cleaned. Also, our zone leaders lost their keys to the other church building that we could have gone to, so instead of
District Meeting we ended up having District Eating. We went to this place called Johnny D's. Not too bad, but overpriced. There were a lot of missionaries there, and it was fun, though.
Elder Jackson and I have started teaching this short little black guy named Leotis. He's 69 years old and he's been singing blues and gospel music for a very long time. This guy is pretty funny. He's also very deaf, so teaching him is kinda hard. He's not completely deaf, but we have to repeat ourselves a handful of times before what we say actually reaches him. We've been wanting him to come to church, but I guess he is in very high demand and is always going to a different church every week so that he can sing for them. I haven't heard his singing yet, but I'm pretty sure it is A+.
Here's something interesting. We had a Seventy come to our mission about 5 or so weeks ago, as I'm sure you'll remember. He told us missionaries that we get what we look for, in terms of investigators. Like if you're looking for a man who can be a Priesthood holder, that's who you'll find. So Elder Jackson and I have been looking for black people. And guess what we've found? Black people. Cool, huh?
Wednesday I was on exchanges in my area, Sunset Hills, with Elder King, one of the quietest missionaries in the whole mission. I took it as a challenge to try to get him to speak as much as possible that day. I found out he is a Kingdom Hearts fan, which is one of my favorite video games, and that is what we talked about all day long. And he talked a lot. So I consider that a win. We did some alright work that day, not a lot of people wanted to talk to us because it was the day before Thanksgiving, but we made sure that all of our investigators were doing well for the holiday.
Now, Thanksgiving. That was super fun. We started off the day with a Turkey Bowl. We wanted it to start at 7 o'clock so me and my companion would be able to get in some decent playing time before we had to go to our breakfast appointment. A few missionaries made it at 7, but no one else came! At around 8 o'clock the rest of the missionaries in our zone, and a handful of members showed up. It was super fun and I actually got the ball passed to me a few times, which is rare, but we had to leave before the game ended. Ah well.
For breakfast we went over to the Johnson family's home with the other Johnson family and some other family from a different ward who I don't remember. There was tons of good food, lots of bacon and sausage and waffles and stuff. We played some Kinect Bowling, which I bowled a 127, for your information. We played basketball out back for a little while. At that time is around 1-2 so we went home to shower then headed off for dinner.
Dinner was with the awesome Berry family. There were a total of 25 people there. That was pretty fun too. Lots of cool people to talk to and lots of stuff going on. Don't worry; I got half of a pumpkin pie to take home, so I'm a pretty happy camper.
I don't have a big recollection of Friday. I know that morning I started doing Insanity. That's pretty tough stuff. We also went and helped the Nohs move out of their house. They are the people whose house we are going to be moving in to some time. At least I hope we are. It will be a big improvement over these apartments we are living in. I think we also taught Leotis again that day. He is a funny guy. I don't know how much he comprehends what we are saying. I say we are going to be reading from the Doctrine and Covenants and he's just says "Amen." He's funny.
Saturday kind of stunk. Elder Jackson sometimes doesn't want to do too much, so he just napped a lot. We played basketball in the morning with the zone, but we didn't do anything for a while. I finally got sick of it and said we were going to see a potential investigator. She wasn't home, but we talked with a different old woman for a while who was extremely nice. Then we had dinner with the Hansen family. That was so much fun! They are extremely funny people. I've got a picture of one of the kids that you HAVE to see.
Sunday was pretty alright. Church was church. Nothing too spectacular to write about, but I did end up having a good time, like I normally do.
Today has been fun. Since today is one of our zone leader's last p-day we had a fun time just playing basketball and volleyball and eating pizza and soda. I'm gonna miss that dude. He is actually my mission Grandpa. He trained my mission Mom, Elder Pettegrew, so I actually got serve around my Grandpa for a while. Cool, huh?
Anyway, that's kind of how my week has been. I've really enjoyed it. This is the last week of the transfer and I'm kind of freaking out about it. This transfer has absolutely flown by. I can't believe it. I also hit my six month mark on Friday, and that is crazy.
Let's do a day-by-day play-by-play.
Tuesday was pretty nice. We were going to have our usual weekly District Meeting, but the church building we normally meet in was having their carpets cleaned. Also, our zone leaders lost their keys to the other church building that we could have gone to, so instead of
District Meeting we ended up having District Eating. We went to this place called Johnny D's. Not too bad, but overpriced. There were a lot of missionaries there, and it was fun, though.
Elder Jackson and I have started teaching this short little black guy named Leotis. He's 69 years old and he's been singing blues and gospel music for a very long time. This guy is pretty funny. He's also very deaf, so teaching him is kinda hard. He's not completely deaf, but we have to repeat ourselves a handful of times before what we say actually reaches him. We've been wanting him to come to church, but I guess he is in very high demand and is always going to a different church every week so that he can sing for them. I haven't heard his singing yet, but I'm pretty sure it is A+.
Here's something interesting. We had a Seventy come to our mission about 5 or so weeks ago, as I'm sure you'll remember. He told us missionaries that we get what we look for, in terms of investigators. Like if you're looking for a man who can be a Priesthood holder, that's who you'll find. So Elder Jackson and I have been looking for black people. And guess what we've found? Black people. Cool, huh?
Wednesday I was on exchanges in my area, Sunset Hills, with Elder King, one of the quietest missionaries in the whole mission. I took it as a challenge to try to get him to speak as much as possible that day. I found out he is a Kingdom Hearts fan, which is one of my favorite video games, and that is what we talked about all day long. And he talked a lot. So I consider that a win. We did some alright work that day, not a lot of people wanted to talk to us because it was the day before Thanksgiving, but we made sure that all of our investigators were doing well for the holiday.
Now, Thanksgiving. That was super fun. We started off the day with a Turkey Bowl. We wanted it to start at 7 o'clock so me and my companion would be able to get in some decent playing time before we had to go to our breakfast appointment. A few missionaries made it at 7, but no one else came! At around 8 o'clock the rest of the missionaries in our zone, and a handful of members showed up. It was super fun and I actually got the ball passed to me a few times, which is rare, but we had to leave before the game ended. Ah well.
For breakfast we went over to the Johnson family's home with the other Johnson family and some other family from a different ward who I don't remember. There was tons of good food, lots of bacon and sausage and waffles and stuff. We played some Kinect Bowling, which I bowled a 127, for your information. We played basketball out back for a little while. At that time is around 1-2 so we went home to shower then headed off for dinner.
Dinner was with the awesome Berry family. There were a total of 25 people there. That was pretty fun too. Lots of cool people to talk to and lots of stuff going on. Don't worry; I got half of a pumpkin pie to take home, so I'm a pretty happy camper.
I don't have a big recollection of Friday. I know that morning I started doing Insanity. That's pretty tough stuff. We also went and helped the Nohs move out of their house. They are the people whose house we are going to be moving in to some time. At least I hope we are. It will be a big improvement over these apartments we are living in. I think we also taught Leotis again that day. He is a funny guy. I don't know how much he comprehends what we are saying. I say we are going to be reading from the Doctrine and Covenants and he's just says "Amen." He's funny.
Saturday kind of stunk. Elder Jackson sometimes doesn't want to do too much, so he just napped a lot. We played basketball in the morning with the zone, but we didn't do anything for a while. I finally got sick of it and said we were going to see a potential investigator. She wasn't home, but we talked with a different old woman for a while who was extremely nice. Then we had dinner with the Hansen family. That was so much fun! They are extremely funny people. I've got a picture of one of the kids that you HAVE to see.
Sunday was pretty alright. Church was church. Nothing too spectacular to write about, but I did end up having a good time, like I normally do.
Today has been fun. Since today is one of our zone leader's last p-day we had a fun time just playing basketball and volleyball and eating pizza and soda. I'm gonna miss that dude. He is actually my mission Grandpa. He trained my mission Mom, Elder Pettegrew, so I actually got serve around my Grandpa for a while. Cool, huh?
Anyway, that's kind of how my week has been. I've really enjoyed it. This is the last week of the transfer and I'm kind of freaking out about it. This transfer has absolutely flown by. I can't believe it. I also hit my six month mark on Friday, and that is crazy.
If you have any comments, questions,
or concerns, I would please ask you to visit http://eldersagetaylor.blogspot.com/ . This is my
new blog that my lovely mother set up for me!
-Now go, and be Golden,
Elder R. Sage Taylor
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| I like the one with Elder Jackson in the background. Pretty freaky. |
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| One picture is of me with shades on. |
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| This is a planner cover I've made. |
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| This last one is one of the Hansen children. His hands are pretty messed up. |
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