Service, Service, Service

I'd really like to just let all of you know that my mission is awesome. Yup. You heard it. This past week with Elder Bushman has been legiticus.

I'm looking over at my companion's computer screen, and he's written a freaking novel about this past week. I will be a lot more brief. 

As the title of this letter suggests, we did a lot of service in the past week. If you will recall we helped set up some pretty elaborate Halloween decorations for some families here in Redlands. Well, wouldn't you know it, they needed them taken down as well. So we helped with that as well. It was actually a good time. We spent parts of 2 days helping take down a maze and a pirate ship and a very convincing fake fence. It was really neat being able to get to know the families whose houses were decorated. They sure loved the missionaries after that experience.

We also had an awesome opportunity to serve food as part of the Redlands Extravaganza, which celebrated Redlands' 125th Anniversary. So pretty much I just stood behind a table and gave people a roll to put beef on for a couple of hours. If nothing else, it was a great way for people in Redlands to see missionaries. 

In the work department, it is a lot easier to get stuff done with a Chevy Cruze! For example, yesterday before church we went to see all of the investigators and so forth that we've been working with to invite them to church. Without that we wouldn't have had Latisha come. Already I'm seeing all the blessing that you get when you serve in a car area. I know I've served in two before, but I love it.

Speaking of Latisha, our investigator, she has a baptism date set forNovember 30. I'm hoping that she will prepare herself to be baptized that day. That would be stellar!

Elder Bushman and I had a pretty neat experience the other day. We stopped by the house of a couple of investigators, Rachel and Clyde. They don't have electricity and water for whatever reason, so we met in their house for about an hour with candle light. They've been going through some rough times and we told them that accepting the gospel will change things. We then asked Clyde to pray  and he prayed for a good 8 minutes. It was really neat.

Directly after that we were getting ready to leave, so we jumped in the car and this other car pulled in front of us and backed up so that we could leave by pulling forward. It ended up being a woman that we've talked to a handful of times and she saw us and she said that God led her here. I guess she really wants to meet with us. Hopefully some time soon.

Well, good evening, gents. I hope you have enjoyed Storytime Theatre.

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Now go, and be Golden,

Elder R. Sage Taylor