I figure I haven't told all you much about the people my companion, Elder Saxton, and I have been teaching. Before I get in to much else, I would love to tell you about these wonderful individuals first.
First I would love to tell you about Donnie. Donnie is an awesome investigator that Elder Saxton and his previous companion found a week or two before I got transferred in to the Redlands. I just came in and taught him most of the lessons and guess what. He's getting baptized this Sunday! How cool is that? The cool thing about teaching Donnie is that he already knows and believes all the things that we teach, so it's more just like telling him about it and him agreeing with us. Sunday will be legendary.
We've got these other investigators, a couple of girls named Kaitlyn and Olivia. They've been taught by the missionaries for almost a year now. They're mom is a member, but they don't come to church too often. The stinky thing is, is that they and their family are actually moving today. They're going to a different place in Redlands, so hopefully where ever they go they missionaries will be awesome and be able to help them.
Another person that we've actually been visiting with is a recent convert named Elizabeth. She and her husband were baptized in March, I think. The sad thing is that Elizabeth was diagnosed with cancer in January and she's just been battling it out for a while. She starts radiation here this next week. It's really cool going over to teach her because she is just a funny person. Pretty sarcastic.
There are other people that I've met and taught a stray lesson to here and there, but for the most part there's not other people that Elder Saxton and I have been consistently working with. We've got a few people who are pretty cool, so hopefully more will come out of us meeting with them.
So here are some highlights of the week. On Wednesday we had a Zone Conference. I actually really enjoyed this one. It was mostly about the nuts and bolts of missionary work and not entirely focused on the doctrine. It was mostly about how we can work with members more because that is the best way to do missionary work. It was also sweet because two of the other zones that showed up were the San Bernardino A and B zones, so that means that Elder Bushman and Elder Alba were there too. It was too legit to quit.
On Saturday the Chaffee family, some of my favorite people I've met out here in California, drove down to Redlands from Phelan to go to the temple and then take Elder Saxton and me to breakfast. It was so much fun! We went to Denny's and really just had a great time. It's really fun to see people from earlier in my mission.
Another day President Van Cott picked us up to interview my companion. We went to his house and after the interview was done we spent some time playing pool with him. It was awesome to spend some casual time with my mission president. I really enjoyed just having an informal conversation and what have ya with him. I'm glad he's my mission president.
Well there you have it, folks. The updated story on the life of Elder R, Sage Taylor.
Now go, and be Golden,
Elder R. Sage Taylor
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