Weekly Letter - 31 Dec, 2012

Dear Family, it was so wonderful talking to you this week! thank you for your uplifting spirits and for the smile you put on my face! It was so nice talking to you!

Well after I talked to you my companion got a phone call about half an hour later so i decided to Iron my clothing. Yes you could only imagine how ... nice? .. they looked after =) 

We then went to a lunch at the chapel that one of the recent converts in the English ward ,in Vancouver, prepared for all the missionaries in the building ( about 14) and there were investigators and less actives there as well! after we got mail went home and then went to visit one of the families in our ward, the Espinosas.  They ended up feeding us as well! then we went back to the church for our ward party and then we did some training and dropped of thank you card to some less active families in our ward.

We had a really good week this week reaching the standards of excellence! we worked really hard and for our hard work we were very blessed! We fell asleep so very quickly this week! and we slept so very well!

We are doing so very well! I spent my Birthday working my tail off( and for you smart alics no i did not grow a tail here on the mission) =) and we saw so many blessings from Heavenly father.

This church is so true! I know it with out doubt that as we follow the commandments of our heavenly Father i know we recieve blessings 

Doctrine and Covenants 130
20 There is a ^alaw, irrevocably decreed in ^bheaven before the foundations of this world, upon which all ^cblessings are predicated—

 21 And when we obtain any ^ablessing from God, it is by ^bobedience to that law upon which it is predicated.

I know that is true. I know because i have seen the blessings in peoples lives as they make changes and bring their lives more in harmony with the Lord, also know as Repentance, they receive the things they need.  

Moses 7 :18

18 And the Lord called his people ^aZion, because they were of ^bone heart and one mind, and dwelt in righteousness; and there was no poor among them.

We need to strive to Be like the people of zion and the only we we can do that is by following the teachings of our heavenly father! i know he calls prophets. I know Thomas S. Monson is a living day prophet! 

This is the True and only living church restored on this earth. I know it I testify of it and I do it in the Name of our Savior, even Jesus Christ, Amen.

I love you all! Have a good week! Study the scriptures. the truths have been restored! 

Love you!!

Elder Taylor

Weekly Letter - 17 Dec, 2012

Hello family.

I hope that you all had a good week!

This week was still a bit slow but we are going to turn it around this week! we are going to have an excellent work this week!

Last week i would like to apologize ( joke for Grandpa Chase and Dad hopefully you understand)  for last week and not getting a letter out to you. We had a few problems at the library and the internet went down,so I'm sorry.

We had the opportunity to go to the temple last week! it was really amazing ... you don't realize how much you have missed something until you don't have it all the time... 

The work is progressing. we hit our goal for baptisms this year. We have had an amazing year. and next year we have our sights set double for this year. i hope that you have been able to feel the spirit strong in your lives this Christmas season. 

Things seem to get busy and we don't every focus on what Christmas is all about.

I know that as we focus on Christ the gift he gave us to repent and have the Constant companionship of the Holy Ghost and also the gift of the Atonement. we have inmortality, it was freely given. We have to work for Eternal life. I know that it is truly a blessing to have been born in the covenants and be sealed as a family. 


I love you! have a fantastic week!  I'm assuming you get out of school early this week so i expect an email! from my siblings !

Love you!

Elder Taylor

Weekly Letter - 3 Dec, 2012

Dear Family. 

This week has been a good week! I am thoroughly exhausted. We did not have a whole lot of success but we worked really hard! 

This week we had a train by Elder Paul Christensen our area seventy here in British Columbia, he had just gotten back from a train to them from Elder Holland. We had such a good training. It was so very Powerful!

We have a lot of potential to make this week the best week we have had in a very long time! We have to work so very hard to find the People seeking the truth! 

I have been reflecting on the things that i have been studying this week. I have focused most of my studies on chapter 3 lesson 3 and chapter 6 of Preach My Gospel. I would highly recommend in this Christmas season taking a couple of Christlike Attributes and studying them during Family home evening. I know and promise that as you do you will draw closer to our Savior. you will understand more of who he really is and how he sees you! i promise that.

This week i have been studying a lot of the Plan of Salvation and also about the Gospel of Jesus Christ!  it has come to my attention how very important Faith, Repentance, Baptism, Gift of the Holy Ghost and Enduring to the End are! They are the foundation of everything that we believe!

Yesterday at church there was an Hermana who is preparing to be baptized. As it was Fast and testimony meeting I'm sure you could understand, she had a lot of questions as to why the members were saying the things they were saying. She asked us how can the members really know that this church is really true. Well that question is such a perfect question that we all have to ask ourselves at some point and time in our life. Is this church really the only true and living church on the face of the Earth? 

It made me reflect on when I wanted to know in my life if these things really were true or not.

It was at Timberline when i was 16 years old. I was going through a bit of a rough time at that point in my life and everything ( at least in my head) was out to get me. I remember praying and just such a peaceful and warm feeling coming over me. I Know that that was the spirit. I know that as we seek we will find. as we ask we shall receive and as we knock it will be opened unto us! I Know that is true! I challenge all of you to once again renew your testimony and work on being converted to the Gospel by kneeling down, humble ( look at christlike attributes chapter 6 Preach My Gospel, Humility) and asking our Heavenly Father if this is the true church established here on the Earth. What better of a Christmas Gift to Receive! I also would Challenge you to Share that Gift that you will receive with someone who is in need! 

I promise you that is how your Christmas can be one that you will NEVER forget!

I love you all! I want to hear how it went for all you in sharing your testimony! 

SMILE always!

I bear you my testimony that this is the TRUE and LIVING church on this earth. I know it. I live it and I LOVE it! In the Name of Jesus Christ Amen.

Elder Taylor