A Bird in Hand...

Welcome to Week 5 of Elder Taylor's 10th transfer as a missionary. Let us review the past week, Week 4.

 

I'm digging it here in San B. It's a pretty decent place. Totally different from anywhere else I've served, but totally decent.

 

Here's something I'm kind of proud of. To preface that, though, I want to say that being a District Leader gets a little tiring at times. Like on Tuesday mornings when I have to train the missionaries in my district. This time I did something a little different. I asked all of the missionaries to plan a 5-10 minute training to give during District Meeting. It was sweet, because all of them ended up taking about 20 or so minutes and I didn't have to teach anything. It was also a really good meeting. Everybody trained on something different and I felt like I learned a lot. Good times.

 

Elder Alba and I found a new investigator. His name is Jim. We were going over to teach a couple of members one of the missionary lessons, and Jim was staying at their house. So we taught the Restoration and all went well. Jim loved it. The sad part, though, is that Jim was also kicked out of the house this past week, so we don't know where he's at right now. Somewhere west of here, I think. So it was short lived, but we will be sending missionaries over to teach him soon.

 

We also found another new investigator. Sister Bushar, the wife of Brother Bushar. Brother Bushar hasn't been to church in who knows how long. Elder Alba and I stopped by his house for some reason and we found out that he just barely married a non-member a couple of weeks ago and he wants us to start teaching her. So we stopped by their house earlier this week and found out that Sister Bushar wants to learn about the church and attend it as well. What more could we ask for? I'm excited for that.

 

Most of this past week we have just been trying to find lost members. We have mostly just found out that all of the people whose records we have don't live in the houses they say they do. It's not the best thing in the world, but it is something. That's actually how we found Sister Bushar, so it has been giving us some success.

 

Friday I became bespectacled. It is super strange being able to see the world in such detail. It is neat, but I'm certainly not used to it. I don't know how a lot of people can where their glasses all day every day.

 

I had the opportunity to go to a Hawaiian man's 72nd birthday party on Saturday. That was pretty fun. A lot of Hawaiian people and a lot of food. It was super fun, and I got way full.

 

Another night my companion and I went to a member's house to look through a telescope and see planets and the moon and stuff. That was way fun. That's the first time I have eye-witnessed Saturn. What a beautiful little speck in the sky.

 

Yesterday a less-active man and his daughter, that Elder Alba and I have been working with since about the time I got here, finally came to church. That is always one of the best feelings in the world, when somebody you just love finally comes to church. It doesn't happen too often for me, but when it does I get so excited!

 

I'm not sure what this next week holds in store, but by this time next week we will all know. I love all of you!
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Now go, and be Golden,

Elder R. Sage Taylor

Me with my new spectacles!

How cool are they?

These are of the night we were watching the sky

The guy in the background is Robert. He's a member Elder Alba and I have been working with for the past few weeks. He let us use his telescopes.