I am going to let Taylor's letter pretty much speak for itself this week and only say I love him!!!
hola!
well, last week was an amazing week. i was happy with how it turned out. i will tell you about the investigators later on in the email. well, transfers are at the end of this week on sunday. i dont think elder cox or i are leaving. we have a good feeling we are staying and all. elder cox had been in cerri for almost three transfers. this is his third. he thinks he will train me for another transfer and then he will leave, then i will get a latin comp. those are his thoughts anyway. i have no idea what is gonna go down. cerri is kinda a smaller town from what cox tells me. there are about 3000 people more or less. and we also cover a smaller town called medanos but to get to it we have to take a train i think. he has never been out there. sorry i havent sent pics. i havent brought my camera to the ciber ever with the chord. maybe next time. my apartment is pretty small. bed room, study room and kitchen with a bathroom.
well, that golden investigator family i told you about is amazing. the mom, silvana is the best investigator elder cox said he has ever seen. and her kids are amazing as well. she has three boys and one girl. they are 10 5 2 and 2 months. so only silvana and her son rodrigo who is 10 can get baptized right now. and rodrigo is going to get baptized this sunday! he prayed during our first lesson with him at the end. it was amazing. he wants to get baptized as well. like actually has a desire which is so awesome. we already taught lessons one and two with them. they also have watched finding faith in christ and the restoration videos. it was freaking amazing. now silvana is a whole nother story. she has read all the folletos we have given her, six which is all the types of folletos we have, and already wants to pay tithing, even though she doesnt have a job. she gets 100 pesos a month for each kid and that is what they live off of. so she is an amazing person. ella es re eligida para ser bautizada. (she is way chosen to be baptized). she also started the bom without us asking her to. she is almost done with first nephi and also has read 3 nephi 11 as well. that was when christ came to the americas. plus she and rodrigo both already know that the church and bom is true! elder cox said he hasnt seen anything like this in the mission during his time here. he has been here 1 year and six months i believe. the only problem we have with silvana is she is living with an hombre who is named facundo. they are living together but not married. and with something like this, they cant get baptized til they are either married or separated and not living together. but that is gonna be hard because neither of them have jobs. silvana told us that she doesnt really get along with facundo and that she is willing to move out pronto as well. she is just ready to do all she can to be a member. she reminds me and cox of the pioneers and how they did a lot to be members. so we are working on a solution with helping her get baptized. but rodrigo we will get baptized this week, so we are excited! they both pray all the time, morning and night. they dont smoke or drink. she smoked but gave it up a while ago, she also drinks coffee and said she can give it up no problem.
so earlier this week, we had a couple storms come rolling through. on one of the days we went to go visit silvana, a storm had just barely missed our pueblito and it looked kinda bad. but when we got to her house she was ecstatic to see us. she told us she prayed for the storm to pass so the missionaries could come to her house. she is just an awesome hermana! if all the people had half her faith in cerri, we would have so many investigators. nah, but we are trying better. the zone leaders want us to find eight new investigators this week. so we gotta try extra hard this week to get into houses and teach to people. we can do it though. so yeah, that was pretty much our week. we went to mcdonalds today, which is in centro in bahia with two other elders from our district. they are elder george and elder metcalf. they both are dying soon. george goes home this next week and metcalf after this next transfer. they are pretty cool. well, thats about all we have going on here. i am super stoked to be teaching to silvana and rodrigo. they are so blessed for their desire to learn and find the verdad. pues, check out 3 nephi 11. i just read it the other in personal study and it was a while since i read it. i got hit with the spirit strong while reading it and the spirit just testified to me of the truthfulness of these things once more to me. well, i love you all and hope noone else gets hurt this week. especially me! jaja. chao!
elder jones
Find 3 Nephi 11 in the Book of Mormon here
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