Does it feel like two years to you? This time has gone by incredibly quickly. It feels like just a few weeks ago I met Elder Smith and was heading to Phelan. But now I'm leaving Elder Hevner and about to board a plane to Salt Lake. Man, how time flies.
I still have a whole week left, but seeing as next Monday is Memorial Day, I won't get an opportunity to email home. I'll give you a week in review and a week in preview.
Tuesday was almost the lamest day ever. The first part, Zone Meeting was great. Elder Hevner and I got to train the zone about the things we learned from the head of the proselyting department taught us all. But instead of doing that we just had everybody there just teach everybody, so it was pretty easy on our part. It was great.
The reason Tuesday was so lame is because we had to take our Corolla in for an oil change. We thought that should take too long. We went to the Pep Boys we were told to go to at 2 O'clock. We didn't leave until 7. That is WAY too long. We asked our dinner appointment to come pick us up so that we could actually have some food that day. I can tell you, spending time at Pep Boys and the surrounding area is not fun.
Thursday was a pretty decent day, though. We managed to teach two lessons, and do our weekly planning. We taught a 70-year-old woman the Law of Chastity. Her home teacher almost fell out of his chair with laughter that we were going over that. But, it was the last of the missionary lessons we needed to teach her, so I'm glad we did it. The other "lesson" was we watched the movie Mountain of the Lord with a family. They need to get to the temple and so we watched that with them. It was great, actually!
I was on exchanges with Elder Reber in the Lugonia Spanish Branch on Friday. I never really get anything out of Spanish exchanges. Do you know why? Because I don't speak Spanish. I just sit there and make sure Elder Reber isn't alone. Totally awesome. The cool thing about that day is that the Redlands airport was having an airshow that day and an awesome jet was flying around the city for a good amount of time and we got to see him do awesome tricks. How lucky are we?
I became more tan on Saturday. In the morning we and the sisters did service at the less-active lady's house. In the sun. It was warm. No big deal though, because I look fabulous now. Haha. We also saw a couple of other people like good ol' Clarence who is one of the funniest people ever. We also talked with man who's going into surgery on Tuesday and is kinda nervous. I don't blame him.
Yesterday was interesting. I thought church was great. All three hours were awesome. After church a family wanted us over for gumbo. I've never had gumbo before. I realize that I don't like gumbo. I thought it kinda looked like what would come out of a garbage disposal. We then had a second dinner with fettucine. That was better. I ate a lot of that. And cheesecake. Then we got to spend time with an awesome family, the Childs. It was fun there.
Here's this week for you, just in case you're curious:
Monday - P-Day and Red Robin with the Williams for dinner
Tuesday - My last District Meeting and last BoM Study
Wednesday - Departing Temple Trip
Thursday - Weekly Planning for a week I will not participate in
Friday - Nothing...
Saturday - Redlands Zone Conference
Sunday - BBQ with the Bairds, Reichmanns and McDonalds. And Departing Devotional where people I invited from all of my areas can come and say bye to me.
Monday - Get picked up and spend the day with departing missionaries and such.
Tuesday - Utah!
Well, my friends and family, I can't wait to see all of you! In just a week I have the opportunity to see and smell all of you! Enjoy your week, because you know I will!
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Now go, and be Golden,
Elder R. Sage Taylor
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