whooo!!!

5/12/14

Mi familia!!!

On saturday we went and found another family to work with that accepted to be baptized!! whooo!!!

I gave my talk yesterday and it went well. It was about the grand destiny of the faithful.

So the bishop in my ward knows a little bit of english and he always recites to me this quote from abraham lincoln, "If you think you can or if you think you can, you are right." How true...

So this week was also the week of transfers. I am still with my companion and we are very happy:)

Well, thats about it for this week. I love you more than anything!!!

Love, Hermana Karlie Taylor

PRAYER

5/5/14

Mi familia!!

This week I learned more about the prayer. I love how it is really like the start of an action. When we pray that those who don{t have food can have food, we better walk around with a tortilla in our pocket to give it to someone who is hungry. Prayer is power to act in doing the will of the Lord, doing all things that He would want us to do in every moment. I love that!

One day this week we went to visit a recent convert whose husband is still not super interested and he usually isn{t there, but this day he was. It was an awesome lesson that we taught with Alma 37 and the spirit was felt muchly. Later we visited ana, the recent convert again, and she told us how we were an answer to her prayer, how she had been talking with her husband and feeling a little dis animated about the church and everything and then she said a prayer and we showed up . She told us how we had the chosen words that she and her husband needed to hear. How great is the gospel!?!!!!

This week 5 people were baptized into our ward, they aren{t in our area but we went to the baptism and it was so amazing!! I love baptisms guys, love them!!!!

We also had an activity in hte church this week and it was about the plan of salvation. One room was the telestial, terrestial and celestial. My companion and I were in the telestial, we covered the window and turned out the lights and turned up the heat, well, we didn{t turn up the heat but it was really hot in there, like infierno. Anyways, the people that came started with us and they would come in the room and imediatley they wanted to leave. I was thinking about this and how true it would be, everyone that will go to the telestial kingdom, i think, would want to leave knowing that there is something much much much better that they could have had. How  vale la pena it is to keep our covenants and inherit the celestial kingdom!!!

Yesterday I taught the gospel principles class the the recent converts and investigators and I believe it went well, it was on the milenium. Learn about hte milenium guys, it is super awesome!!! And next week I will give a talk in church, whoo hooo!!! Whose excited??!!

The familia nieto is still progressing and we are getting excited for their baptism coming up. 

We had a zone activity today and we played volleyball, and yes, i totally stuffed an elder! whoop whoop! haha

This week we didn{t find a lot of people to teach but it was still a pretty great week!

I love you guys!

Love, Hermana KarlieTaylor

God understands us perfectly

4/28/14

Mi familia!!!

Can I just tell you guys real quick that everyone here is catholic... enough said. But really, and the week pasada, i wanted to tell you about the semana santa, it is pretty crazy, everyone in hte street, and they got some pretty interesting traditions. one day we were in our house planning and in the background is someone on a microfone baptizing people, they had like 30 baptisms while we were planning. (don{t worry, we are working up to that kind of success as we speak:)). and there were fireworks everynight that always startled us. It was pretty great. 

This week an unusual amount of people tried to talk to me in english and I can}t remember how to talk normal in english and sometimes they think they are speaking good english but i can{t understand them and I feel kinda bad. The daughter of the stake president can speak english, she has been studying for two years and I tried to talk to her in english and it was hard, you guys are in for a treat when I get back, haha. 

There are a lot of pretty butterflies here. our house is filled with fruitflies, any suggestions on how to get rid of em?

This week we were with the family nieto and they shared their experience when they prayed about jose smith and the book of mormon and the girl who is 11 told us how she felt an energy and the mom, 

told us how all her problems went away for that little time when she prayed. It was so cool for me to hear that and testify that it was the spirit. It was a great experience for me. and this week they all came to church!!!! whoo hooo. Elizabeth was going to go to the market because they don{t have food but she decided to go tday instead of yesterday!! whoo hooo!!! they are the best!

This week also, when we were talking to people they said how we were lights!! sweett!!!

It was a super great week!!! always remember that God understands us perfectly and He knows what you need, trust in Him! Mosiah 4:9

I love you all so darn much!!!

Love Hermana Taylor

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I can't wait to get back on the road again

4/21/14

Mi Familia!

This week was real great! One day this week we were talking with Alma who gives us the carrot/orange juice and there was a man that came in to buy some juice. We ended up talking to him about the gospel and it turns out that he is a world history teacher and when we tell him about the church he goes off about how interesting our history is and about the gathering of the12 tribes of israel and so my companion gave him the book of mormon, and he pretty much told us how he knew it was true right there and how it is a history of the people here in america and everything! He doesn{t live in our area but he has a date to meet with the other missionaries!!! I didn{t notice but it turns out he passed back and forth in front of the house before he finally decided to come in and talk to us. It was a cool experience!

This week I finally met the family that i told you guys about last week! The daughters are super awesome and already so excited to be baptized and they all came to church yesterday. Their names are pretty awesome, one girls name means Dove Star in english, probably gonna name one of my kids that...

Another exciting thing that happened this week when we were studying as companions was that we had an earthquake!!! at first i thought it was just me, like i was light headed or something but then i realized that the building was moving and then me and my companion looked at eachother and .. by the time we got up to go outside it stopped. It wasn{t very ferocious but it was quite an experience.

Also yesterday one of the members in the ward was showing us how he drinks bugs to clean his stomach, they smaller than a penny and he told us he drinks about thirty of them at a time.. yum}

I know the church is true, the spirit is real, and I know with all of my heart that Christ lives! It is cool to think that right the hastening of hte work is something as grand as the first vision! So,  look for opportunities to share this marvelous message!!

I love you all so much!!!

Love hermana taylor!

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Happy Easter!

4/14/14

Mi Familia!!

Como the heck estan todos?? This week was really great! We have an investigator with triplets!!! 3 little boys and she also has a little girl younger then her boys. 4 kids under the age of 2!! wow! We cleaned her dishes this week to help out and can i just tell you that i thought that our family had a lot of dishes to clean at times! whoo wee! but it was fun to clean them, my front side got a little bit wet so i was hoping that nobody noticed... ha ha... only a couple did... 

Anyways, this week we had exchanges with the compacitadoras and it was super great, I met a member whose son was premature, he is 4 months right now and looks like a newborn! so tiny! but she says it was a miracle and now her husband who is catholic is investigating the church!! 

One day this week a doctor waved us into his room and we were all excited that he was wanting to know who we were and everything, turns out that all really wanted was to learn english. I think we will see more of him later and hopefully we can teach him!

The members here are really great and treat me very well, we are finding more and more people to teach through the people we talk to on the street! It is great! We found a family this week!! we are excited!!

That is about it for this week! I hope you have a happy easter!!! I love you all more than anything!!! Love, Hermana K. Taylor

love you all!!!

alma 37:34!

Working Hard

4/7/14

Mi familia!

como esta todos?? 

This week was great! We found a new investigator that has gone through a lot of hard things in her life and she seems golden. She sells juices in the front of her house and she is just so happy. She gave us agua de carrot and orange, it was pretty good!! This week was great! getting to know people and working hard. My casa is beautiful and there are really no bugs at all. My companion has an awesome laugh and she works really hard. Her shoulder reaches my hip. We met a member this week that was baptized 5 years ago and she was baptized within a week of meating the missionaries!! Her name is victoria and she is awesome. Hermana workman who was in my district at the mtc is in my zone!! It was good to see her! The spanish is really coming a long and I am feeling a lot more confident and comfortable with talking and understanding. Another grandpa that we met this week sang my companion a song and it was awesome! Victorias house is awesome, its like a tree house but better! 

General Conference was the best! The north americans got to watch it in english. Its so refreshing and strengthing to hear the words of latter day profets! Do not take for granted, my family, the precious and priceless opportunities that we have as members of the church to recieve direction from a profet of God! I hope that we can all treasure up their words in our hearts and live by them, every day, doing a little better! A typical day is walking around everywhere talking to people that we meet along the way and we have lessons and meet bunches of new people everyday! Today we made french fries which were delicious and we shoped in the tiangis which was an adventure! Hermana Workman was telling me how when I walked into the zone meeting one of the elders was like ¨"that is the biggest woman I have ever seen!!" haha. These pictures are of hermanas in our zone and me and my companion.. so little. I am working hard and loving more and more every week. Love you!!!

love,

Hermana Taylor

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puppies

4/1/14

Mi Familia!!

So yesterday we had changes and it was kinda crazy and I didn´t get to write so i am writing now. My new companion is Hermana de los Santos and she is from the dominican republic!! She is really awesome and I am excited to work with her. She is the shortest Hermana in the mission and I am the tallest so its kinda funny :)

So the drive yesterday was like 4 or 5 hours but it was the most beautiful ride I have ever had!! Really, hills packed with trees as green as can be it was so beautiful! Really sooooo beautiful!! My new area is very beautiful too! We just came from a lesson with an older lady and she sang us a song from psalms and it was really cool. 

I was thinking a lot yesterday in the bus and I was thinking about zions because some of the views i saw reminded me about zions and I was thinking about how the hike uphill makes the downhill parts so much more fun and enjoyable and I applied it with biking too, how when we start at the top its still fun but when you bike up to the top it makes it so much more worth it!! so much more enjoyable! and i thought of how the lord gives us challenges and trials so that we can recognize the blessings he gives to us better and enjoy and cherish them more! So I hope you guys have plans to do lots of biking and hiking this summer!!! 

I love you all more than anything!!!

Hermana Taylor