Family!
How are you doing?! It was super good
to hear from you all. Thank you for your love and your support, you guys are
always there for me and I will be forever grateful!
I will be honest, this past week was
pretty hard, probably one of the hardest of the mission.. Concilio (Leadership
meeting in Mtvd with President) was great and that was probably the highlight
of the week however (well actually we got an email from President Smith telling
us that Elder David A. Bednar will be coming to the mission in February!), the
rest of the week was challenging. We had our Zone Training and it was going
really good and we got to the part to challenge the zone to doubling the
baptisms and we failed in our purpose.
On the upside, I finished El Libro de
Mormón for the first time in Spanish and it was so accomplishing. I dove into
it at the end of October and on Saturday I was able to finish it up. It wasn't
easy but I must say that it helped me to understand just how important and how
worldwide the gospel really is. It was humbling to read it in Spanish and
understand a few things from a different perspective. I can honestly say that
it has brought my life such happiness and peace and I am so grateful for the
hands that wrote it and translated it. What a blessing it is in our lives. I
know that if we bind ourselves to The Book of Mormon and ultimately to the will
of the Lord that we will be blessed. Everyone in the last day will know that
The Book of Mormon is true and us as Latter day Saints may say now that we know
it to be true. I know it is true. How blessed are we to already have the
knowledge of The Book of Mormon and the gospel of Jesus Christ. Elder Orihuela
said that other day, "I will never know how it feels to be a convert and
sometimes I wish I did so that I could help more people convert to the
Gospel." I was thinking.. yeah it would be cool to be a convert but I think
that it is even better to say that I have always been taught about Christ. What
a blessing it is to have mom and dad who live the gospel and make it
easy for us to follow their steps. As we follow their steps we only follow
after our Savior. Family.. you are great!
Pretty neat experience.. We were told
in concilio that we need to baptize more youth in the mission. We went out
looking for a youth that the bishop gave us to contact and when we got to the
house there was no one there but there were 5 young men sitting in a circle
talking. We decided that we would go ask them if they knew who the young man
was. Turns out that one of them was the brother and the rest were his buddies.
We were able to teach them about the Plan of Salvation and now we have another
charla with them tonight, we are going to teach the Restoration and see where
it goes. We also found another one while we were teaching an older man, his
grandson showed up and we asked him if he would like to join us.. we again
taught a little about the Plan of Salvation. God is great. We were able to find
6 youth this week between the ages 16 to 21. The Lord truly does bless us as we
put our faith in him and look for more youth to baptize.
I hope you all know that I am doing
good.. I just have been having a rough time. There are only 2 weeks left and hopefully I am free! Ü I hope you guys
all have a lovely week! I sure do love you to the moon and back and then
back to the moon and then back to the earth.. yeah.. a lot! Keep smiling and I
will too!
Love, Elder Taylor Abel .... a missionary
learning patience at its finest.
Right after finishing The Book of Mormon and praying about it.
Never doubted it´s truth.
The destruction of the flooded river. It killed all of the leaves on the trees and left a good line where the water was. Pretty crazy.
Selfie! Last one with all the new
ties.. gotta love it Ü
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