Hey everyone,

How are you guys doing? things are going good down here! well it is raining now so im alitle wet, but other than that im good! things sound like they are going good up there and those cup cake meat-loaf things looked soooo good! my comp just call us  "such a mormon family" haha becuas he is a convert! haha

This week was good and we taught a lot of lessons and some people come to church, but we feel the lord expects more from us! we are here to help people come unto christ through helping them get baptized, but just teaching them wont help them enough, they need to make the covenant of baptism and ultimalty make it to the temple! we are working hard, but we need to help them realize the importance of baptism, and that is what we are going to work on this next week! i know when we concentrate less on just getting lessons in, and more on how we can help them progress to baptism, the lord blesses us and them and the spirit is always there!!!

well we are happy and excited to be serving the lord and to be here in the mission. to answer some questions i didnt really do anything for my 1 year mark, we just had a normal day, and i like and need all my ties so i didnt burn anything, it was a good day and we taught some real good lessons! and nothing really funny happen this week . my favorite meal down here is pastel de papa! it is like sheperds pie, but way better!!! well got to go, but i love you all and thanks for everything you do! just know miracles are happening all around us!!!

Love Elder Taysom

Hey everyone!!!

Thanks for all the videos! they were awesome and i loved hearing from you! everyone looks so big and grown up! i didnt even realize that i have been out a year! it is a sad thing to think about! i try not to count the day´s, but thankfuly i have a loving family that does! hahahahahahaha 

This past week was good! We had such a cool experience! My comp. and I are very focused on baptizing and are trying with all our heart to baptize, but what is important is the true conversion of the investigador, and we saw exactly that this past week with S. S is an investigador who is evangelical, and she is also poor! she can not pay the rent for her house, so the evangelical church pays for much of her rent. If she attends an another church, this church will not pay for her rent any more, but her faith is something i have never seen in all my life. we taught her and the spirit was so strong, and she began to cry and said that ¨even if I lose my house, I know that you are God's angels¨ and she accepted a baptismal date, and went to church with us this last Sunday !! it was so great to see the sacrifice and faith of a woman and her disire to follow christ!

So other than that awesome experience, we had a pretty normal week! we saw a huge car accedent, and we had an investigador say he wanted to quit using drugs, and then handed us a bag and walked away. we opened it up and saw it was full of drugs! it was terrible, so we just threw them in the garbage, then he called us asking what we did with the bag and we said we threw it away in the trash and then he hung up! we havent heard from him since! hahaha oh and we konck at this door yesterday and and we started taking to a jahovas witness, right then her uncle and cousin showed up. the uncle is a catholic priest and his son is a baptist pastor! that was an awesome experiance! hahaha anyway i got to go, but ill try to keep you guys more informed and thanks for all your prayers and love!!!

Love Elder Taysom

Hey everyone

How are you all doing! i cant beileve i have a delinquent brother! haha but that does sound pretty funny! haha I just asked my comp about all those places you visited in vegas and he knows them all! he says that the container park is sweet!

So this week was a good week! we worked a lot and had some real good sucess in the area! remember how i told you guys about maria and she couldnt get baptized because she lives with a guy in the same house, well we were able to baptize her family ( her 3 kids) this last weekend and we are just waiting for her to find a new house and she can get baptized too!! it was a great week spirtually and just what me and my comp. needed to get the ball rolling again! the mission is really doing quite well and brings more than 100 per month to the gospel, but it is not easy work to try to animate missionaries that dont have the desire to baptize alot! but we are doing quite well over all!

To answer some questions, time does fly, but i try not to count it haha, i still havent recieved the package, but i hope tomorrow, i remember last time you spelled bahia blanca wrong, so maybe that is why it is taking a while! my clothes are holding up good, but i could use some more ties if that is possible! and tell keagan hi and thanks for being a good example, and he looks good and skinny! haha well i got to go, but just know i love you all and i can feel your prayers!!

Love Elder Taysom

Hey everyone!

Things sound like they are doing great up there! i too think that conference was awesome and i loved that member of the seventy from Ukraine that dropped some principles and spoke very strongly! it is what we need to hear sometimes!! it was an awesome conference!!

this week was a pretty good week for us, even though we didnt get to work in our area a lot! we had alot of lidership conferences and things like that, and i was worried that we might not be able to get that many people to come to church, but the lord sure humbled me! haha through alot of really hard work and blessings we were able to bring 10 people to church and 2 or 3 are going to get baptized this next week! it was a great blessing from the lord! i have finally found the price of successful missionary work! it is sacrifice! it is also the price for salvation, and that is exactly what the lord has done for us! to be succesful missionary, you have to be a missionary of sacrifice! and it was awesome to see how the lord kept ( and always keeps) his promeses this week!

My comp and i are doing good and get along really well! poor guy doesnt speak any spanish, but has a good heart and a will to serve and sacrifice! Dad asked if i have any crazy stories and the turth is it has been pretty calm here the last couple of weeks! oh well we did go visit one of our investigators this week and when we showed up he was really drunk! i didnt want to stay long, but he just kept talking and yelling at us about how we recieve alot of money from the government. it probably didnt help that i was really sarcastic with him. hahahaha i always am! well he stood up like he was going to hit me, but fell down and hit his head!!!! hahaha so we helped him up, told him we loved him, and left! now he is progressing quite well, but still drinks! ill let you know how it goes! well ive got to go, but i love you all and wish the best for all!! love you so much and i can feel your prayers!

Love elder taysom

ps the last pic is of my 2 dads!

Hey everyone!

Things sound good up there and im glad everyone is doing good! i liked hearing all your vioces in the video, it is wierd to hear your voices again! haha

This week was a pretty good week for me and my new comp. he is a really cool guy from Vegas! ill tell you more about him later! this week was a good tough week. we tried hard, but for some reason our baptisms fell through right at the last minute, but we keep our good spirits up and we know we are ging to see miracles! yesterday we also had a good experiance! there was a womens general conference last night and we had the opportunity to bring more people to church when they came to the conference! our zone leader came to do divisions with the other DL and they said they had 21 people come the church! it really inspired us to get more to come to chruch, so we went out and talked to every woman that we saw! for some reason no one wanted to come! so we worked and worked , but still no one! so we said a prayer and worked and at last we got someone to come!!!! it was awesome and when she came to the conference we were really happy! then the ZL told us he lied to get us inspired to bring more people to church and we unded up bringing more then him! haha it was a great experience!

So ya my new comp is great! his name is elder pierce and he is 21! he is a real good guy and full of love! i dont have much time but ill let you know more next week! love you all!!!!!

Love elder taysom!

                                 Elder Pierce was buddies with Carter's bestie, Elder Cameron Imlay, in the MTC

Small world!

Hey everyone!

I’m doing good down here! And things sound like they are going good up there too! I loved dads letter in Spanish, are you sure you didn’t use Google translator! I feel like you did, but if not it was really good!! Haha

This week was good for me and my comp. we did some good work and worked really hard to have people come to church. We left early in the morning on Sunday to walk with some of our investigators to church, but in the end all fell through! We were pretty discouraged and on the way back to the church, I decided to say a prayer to help us have at least one person come to church! When we got to church, we found that one of our recent converts brought a friend with him and he wanted to be baptized! I invited him to be baptized that very day, but he has a smoking problem, so we set a date for 30^th of septiembre and he is going to be baptized that day!! It was a great miracle that we had to cap off our companionship!

My comp is getting transferred so im going to get a new comp. Im going to be training again, and the new missionaries get here Wednesday so ill let you guys know who it is and where he is from! To answer some of your questions, the members go to the temple about twice a year, it is a 10 hour bus ride to the temple, so they don’t have the blessing of having a temple near by. But they are very grateful to at least have one in their country. I still haven’t received any package, but it should here soon so ill let you know!! Well I got to go, thanks for everything and for all your prayers. They really do help!!!!

Love elder Taysom

Hey everyone!

Wow crazy that someone robbed a bank! haha of course when im not there all sorts of crazy things happen! haha jk but tan and kob and the others look so old now! time goes by fast and it looks like kob is 7 feet tall! haha

well this week was alittle tougher than the last couple! not only for me and my comp. but for the district too, we are not quite having the sucess that we had the last month! B and V were excited about their baptism, but these last few days have been really hard for them and their family, and they kind of took that for a sign that maybe they souldn´t be baptized. it was tough and we taught them and tried to tell them that it was satan trying to make them doubt and not get baptized, but they still feel like waiting! i fear that they have doubts that we dont know yet, but this week we are going to see miracales and they are going to see them too!

i dont have much time today, but to answer some of your questions, yes we made those empanadas, they were made of ham and cheese, but we make some meat ones too! they were sooooooo good! ill make some when i get back! it is starting to warm up here, but not so excited, because i remember how hot last summer was and it was tough! haha well i got to go, but i love you all and thanks for everything and for your prayers and for the advice! love you!!!

Love 

Elder Taysom