Hey everyone,

Ha everyone is looking good and tan! so school finally started right, that is crazy it feels like summer just started! it is also crazy to think of all my freinds that are already back, i feel really old haha and i dont like to think about it! i also loved the video of dal on the sky coaster, im going to have to try that when i get back!

This week was good we had a new investgator come to church which was great! his name is carlos and he is great! he is very baptist , but he beileves that what we teach is true. my comp found him on divisions with another elder and they gave him a blessing cause he was feeling very sick and he got better! He had us over again on saturday and told us he wanted to get baptized, we didnt even have to invite him, he wanted to do it! he still has to learn alot, but he is on his way! He liked to pray alot and in a wierd way like the baptists do, but we got him to start praying right. we also have many other invesitgators that are progressing, but they are all kind of older and really sick because of the waether!  but when it heats up it will be good!

Haha i find it funny that  mom wrote the AP´s  again, everyone in the office thinks your crazy, but i love it! haha to answer some questions we normally play soccer or basketball. we want to play some volleyball but we cant find any courts hear! and i want to play golf next week, but cant find  anyone to go with me, but i will convince someone this week im sure! today we are going to play with the whole zone, but sometimes we play w ith other zones too! well i love you all sooooo much, sorry my camera isnt working agian so next week i  will find a better cyber shop! i love you all and thanks for everything you do for me!! ill see ya in a few!

Love Elder Taysom 

Hey everyone.

How is everyone doing? i cant believe that school is starting. it is crazy how fast summer ( winter for me) is passing, but looks like everyone is doing well and staying healthy. sorry for  writing late we had our p day on thursday this week becuase of a confrence we had.

This  week was pretty good. we have some investigators  that are progressing, but for some reason they  have trouble coming to church. it has rained here like the past 2 weeks straight and it gets complicated to come to church i guess, but other than that we are doing good and finding new people to teach  everyday. we also have been working some less active families that have started to come to church agian which is awesome. it is great to see people feel the spirit and recognize the great joy the church is after so long of being out of it. well also it looks like we ate somthing expired yesterday cause me and my  comp. and another elder that lives with us are all sick, but i feel way better today than yesterday.

To answer some questions i am very happy that we can play sports now, but i just realized how hard it is after so much time without physical  excersize. imy body is so sore!!!! hahaha  and the package got hear so thanks so much  for  the stuff you sent! im so excited to try salsa. did my letters get there yet or are the still in the mail? well not much really happend other than that this wee k, sorry for the short letter but not much else happend. i love you all so much and thanks for all the love you send my way and for everything you guys do for me! love you all

Love Elder Taysom

ps sorry for not sending pics, my pics wont load!

Hey everyone,

Looks like everyone is doing good. i cant believe that everyone is so big, it literally blows my mind! I saw all the kids from our ward and thought they all looked huge!

THis week was pretty good. we received some awesome references from the members and we are just trying to set up appointments with the members so they can come help us teach more. we found some good people this week as well and we are just trying to help the ward grow. i do feel a little weird at this stage of my mission, i dont feel like im old or at the end, i dont think i have come to accept it yet, but at the same time i no longer feel scared to end like i have  my whole mission, well not scared just like i dont have enough time to do all  that is expected of me, but i no longer feel like that, and many things have come into perspective and i have decided that im just going to go on another mission right when i get home! hahahajk

But we do have some new news! we can play sports now! i have never been more excited  in the mission! hahaha just kidding, but yea we can play sports and drink coke and wear black ties now so it is going to be different from here on out i guess, but me and my comp just keep working hard and try to keep our minds focused on the work. well i do love you all and thanks for all the support and love you send my way, if you have any questions just ask!

Love Elder Taysom

Ps. the pics are of a food convention that the had here. there was a bunch of food from a bunch of different countries

 

Hey everyone,

everything sound like its going good! im doing good here and just enjoying life as a missionary. this week was pretty good.

We had marcelo come to church, and he actually came last week, but  he came at 9 instead of 9:30 and when he saw that no one was there he left and went home. he is progressing well and  very reseptive. we also have found a bunch of new people to teach this week. The mission is doing well also and i think we aer going to have interviews with the new pres. this week. we are just working hard here in the area and trying to do the work the lord wants us to do. 

this week i also studied alot about our true nature and how it is such an enemy to god. i have found that most people try to get as close as they can, without crossing it, to the bar set by god. it is our natural human drive to do that. you will see it a lot with missionaries that had problems with following the rules on the mission where the bar set by god is very short. They will have problems when they return because  the bar is a lot higher! just for an example, it is very unlikely that a missionary will break the word of wisdom on the mission because the bar set by god is very far from it, but there are some missionaries who have a lot of trouble with coke, which is a rule in our mission not to drink. when they get back, i fear they might have trouble with the word of wisdom because it is their natural tendency to get as close to the bar or fire as they can. they go through the mission instead of the letting the mission go through them. i have focused on this point and prayed that the lord will help me stay away from the bar, and i have seen great changes in me throughout my mission. i'm striving to stay as far a way from the bar as i can. and i am alot happier for it. just a thought! haha

To answer some questons we try to speak in spanish as much as we can, but sometimes an enlgish phase slips out like ¨you got this¨  or somthing like that! well i love you all and  thanks for the love and support and sorry my camera isnot accepted by the computer for some reason so no pics. :( love you all!!

Love elder Taysom

Hey everyone,

sounds like this past week was great and like you all had a good time, The video that you sent didnt quite work well, but next week ill try to get it to work so i can see dal surfing!

This week was an ok week, we did a lot of divisions in other areas so we didnt have any investigators come to church, but we are exctied for this week becuase we have some good plans to work with the members alittle more. we are working hard in the street and doing lots of contacts, but we need more references from the members so that we can get the ball rolling alittle bit more. the ward is really excited about missionary work so we are going to use them alot more. but other than that we are doing good and just looking for the people here that are ready to hear the gospel.

To answer some questions. i still use my sleeping bag sometimes, but sometimes i get hot in it so not every night. my comp and i are doing well, he is a good guy and likes to work alot. sometimes we have different ideas about things, but we are both very patient and willing to listen to one another so we dont fight or anything like that, we are good freinds! and The zone is a new zone again, the new pres likes small zones so he spilt our zone in half and now it is alot easier!!! haha but all is going great here and just loving life. by the way i sent the letters so they should be there already or get there soon, there are 2 one for the morris family and one for Bro. Bundy. Well i love you all and miss you too. thanks for everything you do and for all your prayers and love!

Love Elder Taysom

Hey everyone,

Looks like everyone is doing well and you are all so tan! haha it is weird because my legs are whiter than they have ever been in my life! haha and by the way the elder that looks like dad is elder Diaz from paraguay! haha funny though right?!

Well im doing well here in mar del plata! we are just working on getting more investigators because when i got here there werent many that were progressing! Emi and Sara are doing ok, it is hard for emi to come to church becuase she is pregnant and she is sick alot, but they are saying thier prayers and both want to be baptized, they just have trouble coming to church, but we did get this guy named marcelo to come and he liked it alot so we will see how he progresses. he is alittle crazy, but i think we can smack the crazy out of him! haha but over all im loving the area and have great spirtual expireinces  everyday! ( sorry for my english, i know its bad).

But ya im doing well and healthy and yesterday i got to see a famliy that got baptized about a year and a half ago and i was served in the ward about a week after they got baptized! we had a good get together in the terminal and their 2 sons are just sent in their mission papers!! im so excited for them! well i love you all and sorry for not being able to write much, kinda short on time this week, but next week ill right more! love you all and thanks for the support and love!!!

Love Elder Taysom

Hey everybody,

Thanks for all the birthday wishes! you guys are too sweet! it was a great day and we spent most of it contacitng and visiting people! it was my first sunday in the ward so nobody knew it was my birthday! but they all said they would bake me a cake this week so i hope i dont gain some serious wieght! haha

This week was pretty good as far as work goes. we dont have that many investigators so we are looking alot and have found some good people! we are teaching 2 young girls about 19 and 17 years old! Emi and Sara are their names and they are progressing well, but didnt come to church this sunday. we could use some prayers on thier behave so that the can come to church! i also met the new president and his wife! the best way to describe him is the exact opposite of pres. parreño! it is weird, but he seems like a very fun man. he is/was the vice president of World Wide Credit Union, so he is very succesfull and has very good ideas for the mission! im excited, but i sure will miss pres. parreño as well!

To Answer some questiones, i did return to the same stake but not the same ward! im in the next ward over, but we share the chapel now so i got to see some of the members from when i was here over a year ago! and the other day i was on divisions and this guy started to follow us on his bike and my comp. thought he was going to rob us, but the guy yelled TAYSOM? and i turned around and it was an old investigaodor of mine! haha it was so cool, we talked for a while and got his new direction and the other elders are going to stop by this week! it was so cool to think that some guy remembered my name after a year had past and i had only taught him twice! well i got to go, but just know i love you all and thanks for all the B-Day whishes and love you sent/send my way.

Love car

Fotos: one is of an elder in the mission that looks like dad! haha, the other is of my new mission pres. and us, you can tell how different he is from my last pres. just by the pic. and the last is of a burger i ate last week that was the biggest burger i have ever eaten! haha