The story I shared with him in my email that I thought he might comment on was about a talk given in our Sacrament meeting yesterday by his former priests' quorum leader, Brother Dave Hada. Brother Hada had been asked to speak with Danny Chamberlin, a returning missionary, but Danny's talk got postponed and Brother Hada's didn't so his remarks were somewhat missionary oriented. The following is what I shared with Taylor: At one point, Brother Hada was talking about how Bishop Miller (about 4 bishops ago) had told him that he was going where he was going on his mission because someone there needed to hear from him. Then when he was on his mission he served the first 14 months in Madrid and then got transferred to this small town with no history and no culture and was kind of bummed. He didn't know why he was transferred there. Then one of the assistants told him that the president was actually shocked that that was where he was supposed to be transferred to as well, but that was what the inspiration was. Brother Hada then remembered what Bishop Miller had told him about there being people that needed to hear from him. Brother Hada then read us a story from his mission journal about a lady named Carmen that he baptized that he knows was the reason that he was sent to that small town. It was what he said next that brought me to tears though! He said that "There are people out there waiting to hear from Dallin Jones, just like there are people waiting to hear from Taylor Jones. I read those blogs and they are something special." I hope Brother Hada's experience will resonate with you in some way. I sure like being able to share things like that with you!
Enjoy Taylor's letter this week!
hola!
jaja tell colton i love him very much. yeah so elder cox and i pretty much ran the branch yesterday jaja. elder cox plays the piano in sacrament, i lead the hymns, we open the church up and set up chairs for sacrament, we prepare the sacrament, we participated in the confirmation of rodrigo, who yes is ten years old, and we also gave talks in sacrament. surprisingly i didnt do half bad giving my talk. i read parts of jesus the christ and talked about his ministry and how he is key in our salvation. and guess what mom, i did it without writing a single word down on paper!! jaja afterwards, an member came up to me, hermana alonzo, and told me congratulations and what not. i asked her what for and she was just telling me how surprised she was at how well i spoke in castellano. i thought i did horrid at the pulpit but i guess not! elder cox then spoke on the book of mormon and used a bunch of quotes from elder hollands talk on the book of mormon. his talk was way better than mine by far. then after church, another hermana came up to us and asked us for a blessing. so we sat down and talked with her and she told us how she is preparing to got to the uruguay temple soon and she has been praying for a job a lot. last night after her prayers and asking for a job, she told us some one called and offered her a job and she was thrilled. so she had all the faith she needed for a blessing to work, she just want the blessing because her ankle and big toe are in pain and she has an infection or something. so i annointed and elder cox sealed the blessing. i felt the spirit pretty strong there in the room. afterwards she invited us to come over for lunch another day. so we are going to go over soon and have asado with her.
so silvana has been having difficulties the past couple weeks with facundo. she has wanted to get baptized real bad and what not but she cant move out of the house and facundo hasnt budged at all. so they have been fighting and what not. facundo has been keeping the money that silvana gets for the kids each month and spending it on alcohol and cigarillos. he also has kept the food to himself as well. so silvana has been eating all her meals with the family next door who is a member. and they dont have a lot of money either. but we have been praying hard and found out that facundo is now gone! apparently, from what i understood, facundo hit silvana and then she called the police and they came and told him to leave and he cant come back. so now silvana is going to go to a lawyer and try to get something worked out. but we set a date for her baptism for the 26 of february! we are so excited! our district and zone leaders want us to try and move up the baptism to this week so we will see how it goes down. we also could baptize daniel ruiz this saturday and we are going to try and pull out a fecha with another investigator who is about 10 as well. her name is abbigail and she is the other neighbor of silvana and hermana lanari (the member who brought us silvana). this member is just golden, she has brought us two families! so we are working with this family. the mom, noami, said she would get baptized if she knew the church was true. but she is living with someone and is married to someone else. so before she can get baptized, she has to get divorced and remarried or move out. so if all goes well, we can have four baptisms this month alone! elder cox and i are praying real hard to get these things done to. well, that is about all that is going on worth reporting. so i get your package you sent tomorrow at district meeting. if i can think of anything i need i will let you know so you can send it with Pia Dates. well i love you all and hope you all have/had a good valentines day!
elder jones
my scrip for the week is mosiah 24. we read it and compared it to silvanas situation
Find Mosiah 24 in the Book of Mormon here
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