The Numbers are Getting Smaller

Super fast weekly recap go!                                                                          

Monday: Birthday. Dinner at a Mexican Restaurant. Super delicious chicken enchiladas,

Tuesday: District meeting. New DL. Super awkward scripture study class with the ward.

Wednesday: Awesome lesson with investigator John. He's so golden! Just needs to be married. Dinner at Gourmet Pizza. Malibu Magic Pizza is great. Lesson with recent convert Nacho. Also wonderful.

Thursday: Weekly planning. Members from Salt Lake took us to Chipotle. Ward council visits. Took Bishop and RS president to meet John. Absolutely great.

Friday: I honestly don't know. In my planner it looks like we just knocked on a bunch of doors, but not a lot happened from it.

Saturday: Mormon Helping Hands! It was tons of fun. John came to that, too, and was super involved. Delivered tons of birthday cards that day. I guess a lot of people are born on the 26th of April.

Sunday: Good church meeting. Taught a recent convert named Jesse. Taught the Kapadias, an active family. Super cool people. Weirdly enough that was the first time I've been over there.

There you go. The watered down version of my week. Not too shabby, eh? Have a good week, mi amigos.

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Now go, and be Golden,
Elder R. Sage Taylor

Easter and Stuff

Man, thanks to all of you who wished me a happy birthday! It's been awesome to be able to read all the great things from you. But, because of that I just don't have all that much time left. I guess that's an alright problem to have.

First off, two great things happened this week! Both of them were baptisms! The first one, on Wednesday, was for a girl named Lucia that Elder Hevner and I started teaching a few months ago. When the sister missionaries got here we handed her off to them. And then she got baptized this week, so that's always a good thing. The other baptism was for a girl named Emily. Her baptism was also spectacular.

Another great thing, brought upon by a not so good thing, is that we got a car again! This is because Elder Hevner hurt his leg two weeks ago, and after hours of doctor's visits the mission nurse said that my companion shouldn't be riding a bike, so President Van Cott gave us a car. Oh yeah! It's been awesome.

We've been having a pretty decent week in terms of teaching. We taught our investigator, John, twice this week. He totally believes that Joseph Smith is a prophet. We taught him about the Word of Wisdom and when we were going through it he said something to the effect of, "If Joseph Smith said this in 1833 he had to have been a prophet." It's really cool to have a solid investigator.

Well, that's that. Elder Hevner and I just keep trekking. It's been really cool to be able to have him be my companion for a third transfer. That's the only time I get this opportunity.

Have a great week!

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Now go, and be Golden,
Elder R. Sage Taylor

The Beginning of the End

As of today I have started my last transfer. Is it weird? Yes. Am I excited? Yes. Am I staying in Redlands? Yes, so that means I will be here for 10 months. Is Elder Hevner getting transferred? No. What's my favorite soda? Dr. Pepper. Do I like pinatas? It depends on what's inside. 

I failed to email last week. I was feeling kinda lazy. If I wrote that email I would have told you that on Thursday of that week that Elder Hevner got himself into a bike accident. He was turning a corner without his handlebars and his pedal caught on the ground. It made him go over the handlebars, and somewhere along the way he smacked his thigh on the bike. 

Because of that the mission nurse told him to not be moving around all that much. So we didn't. There were better days where we had a lot of appointments and we had members take us to them and teach with us, so they all worked out.

Here's the downside of stuff. It's been two weeks since we've taught an investigator. John has been in Arizona, Lucas has been busy, and I just don't know about the other. The upside, though, is that we've been teaching all the recent converts! Man, teaching them is way better than teaching investigators. It's awesome being able to see new members make connections in new ways. We've just got some great new people in this ward.

I am super stoked to be able to spend the rest of my mission in Redlands. I love this place. It's a strange thought that after this next six weeks I won't be here anymore. It's going to be great!

Now go, and be Golden,

Elder R. Sage Taylor


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