Hey everyone

Wow it is crazy to see how time flys! when i saw the picture of tanner looking at the seniors, i realized that taylor cumming is a senior! i feel so old! :( and that is sweet that we are ranked 16 in the nation for cross country!

This week was good! we had the bapitms of L y S and it was sweet! no almost the whole family is baptized, we just have to baptize the dad! they are an awesome family and im greatful for the oportunity i have had to teach them the restored gosple! oh and remember M, who we were teaching and baptized her 3 kids, but she had to wait to move out of that guys house! well i found out this week that 2 days after i left the area, she found a place and moved out, and got baptized that very day! haha it was awesome! the lord is blessing me alot with very prepared people to teach and blessing me with the opportunity to see alot of them enter into the waters of baptims! i have never been more happy in my whole life than i am now being a missionary! it is awesome!

so ya i still havent recieved the package, but i did find out that those flat rate mail bags come in alot easier and faster, so i should be getting the one you sent me soon! i do have a way to play cd´s of motab and i would love one! i sure hope the imlays are ok, and send them my love and my payers! and just know that im doing good and loving serving the lord! i love you all and thanks for everything!

Love elder taysom!!

Hey everyone!

sounds like life is as busy as ever and that things are going well! its funny to think that our little family now covers 3 contenents! haha im sure the time of season there is really nice right now too! and almost thanksgiving! i will envy your turkey and roast ham dinner! haha

This week was an awesome week! my first week in the area and we are teaching a lot of people! we have a family that is going to get baptized this weekend and they are excited! well 2 kids are already baptized and the mom and dad and daughter are getting baptized this week! we have seen some great miracels in this area and hope to see many more in the weeks that come! the lord blesses missionaies and wants all his children to return to live with him! i have the great blessing of seeing and helping his children come back! i love it!

My new comp. is elder Ramírez, and he is from ecuador! he is the best and has about the same time in the mission as me! he is a hard worker and loves the gosple! he is a convert of about 2 years and its wierd because he is 25 and im 19, but we get along quite well! haha and i love being in the city of bahia! it is pretty sweet! its pretty close to a beach! well i got to go, but thanks for everything you guys do for me and for all your love and prayers! love you all

Love Elder Taysom

An excerpt from an email sent to dad this week:

 As a missionary i have one of the greatest blessing in the world, and i have become so grateful for the chance to serve and there is one reason in particular. it is that i have the chance to see the gospel change people, and change families! i have never seen anything like it but the way people change through the gospel is somthing i am so grateful for! i have seen people sob and weep because they feel no way out of the difficulties of life, and in a matter of days weep tears of joy and gratitude for the chance god gave them to hear our message! i feel it is something i took for granted before my mission, and didnt really realize the role the gospel has in a family, but i have never been so grateful for the gospel in terms of how it can bless a family!

we are teaching this woman named L who has a family that one could say is dysfunctional haha, when we first came there was not a single second that someone was not yelling at someone else. ( i did kind of feel at home a little bit) haha, but i have seen this family change, thourgh the gospel, and there is a spirit in that home that was not there before, and this family has seen it too, and because of the change the gospel has made for their family, this sunday, they have made the decision to enter into the waters of baptism so they, one day can recieve a fullness of joy by entering in the temple! i would say that there is nothing i am so grateful for than the opportunity i had to be rasied in a family that teaches gospel principles! i will never be able to thank my father in heaven enough! and i am grateful for the chance i have to share it with others too!! 

Hey everyone!

Well i totally forgot about halloween, but i love all the pics that i got! it all looks so festive! in argentina they dont celebrate it so i spaced on it! haha, but dals eyes do look pretty creepy! so guess what, i have been transfered again! im in bahia blanca in the maldonado ward! my comp. is from ecuador and he is a great guy! we are excited to baptize alot and help people come unto cristo!!

This past week was good, but we didnt get to work that much in my area! my comp had to do his document papers, and i went on divisons to try to help some sisters who have been struggling in there areas a little! but we still did get some good work done, and we saw a great miracle! we were walking down the steet and some lady flagged us down from in here house and ran outside to us! she told us that she had spoken to missionaies before in another area and that she wanted to go to church and get baptized, but didnt know where to find the missionaries, until we walked past her house and she found us! it was just a great example of how sacrifice brings forth the blessing of heaven! and even if we cant be in our area, the lord will bless us with prepared people if we are obedient!

so ya that was my week! sorry i cant send photos because i forgot my camera, but i will send more photos next week! i sure hope all is well at home and just know im doing well here! the lord is helping us everyday and we see miricles daily! love you all and thanks for all you prayers and love!

Love Elder Taysom

An excerpt from an email sent to the fam the same day:

Mom and dad! hey so i have like 2 min, but just know i love you lots and ill save time so you dont have to wonder! this transfer i was called to serve as a zone leader. it is a great responsibility and im happy for this opportunity! thanks for all the gospel principles that you taught me as a child! they helped me be the missionary i am today! i love you and thanks for everything!

Love car

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!