Hello everybody!
Sorry I didn't send out my an Email yesterday but yesterday the computers stopped working so we had to come and get on today to get the emails finished up. This last week was really cool!
We got to teach this guy that came here from Brazil. He is engaged to one of the women in our Singles Ward. He came here and he is the one that asked us if we could help him with baptism. We, of course, jumped on the teaching opportunity and he now has a baptismal date for the 28th of this month. Now that date should sound familiar to some of you because it is a very important day in history.... it is my Birthday!!!! Haha ok so not as important to some of you as it is to me but still.... That is going to be the best birthday ever! This month is going to be really really cool! We are going to the temple and so that is sweet.
This last week was a very good week. We had almost twice as many lessons to investigators as to less actives. Which is really good because that means we are bringing new people unto the Savior. We have been with the retired Methodist minister a lot this last week and she is so sweet. She said she has adopted us as her own kids. I love her.
We also had a really cool experience last Sunday in Singles Ward. It was fast Sunday and that means testimony meeting. So testimony meeting in the Singles Ward is usually very good but this last week was the best. So we have someone who has a bunch of friends who are members and they have been talking to him a lot. He has come to church once and that was good. So this Sunday he gets up and bears his testimony! It wasn't about Joseph Smith or anything but it was so good. He said "I am not ready to say that I know that Joseph Smith is a prophet or to say that I know this church is true.... yet. But I do now know that there is power in prayer and that, that is the only way that I will be able to find my answer." That was basically what he said! I couldn't believe it! We have a appointment with him tonight so I am very excited. We set a baptismal goal for this month and it will be hard to achieve but it is attainable. I have faith and a feeling that he will be part of that goal and he will become somebody very influential in the church.
I love my mission! I see some missionaries that are not having the times of their lives and it is sad. They are not letting the mission change them so that is why they are not getting anything out of it. I don't think any of us realize our potential as divine sons and daughters of God. Just really think about that. We really are princes and princesses of the most high. Can you image if we all were able to realize our potential in this life. I would challenge you all to take some time and try to wrap your mind around that. I know that I don't fully understand it and that if I do I would be such a better missionary. I love you all and hope you are all enjoying life and its challenges!
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Sincerely,
Elder Zachary Taylor
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