March 12, 2012

this week went well; I went on an Exchange with Elder Wuthrich this

week in my area, like I said I'm still new to my area and don't know

it as well as I should, so we ended up lost, haha there are 4

mountains in our area that we can teach on and we climbed every inch

of those mountains and found everything but the homes of the people we

wanted to see, haha but it was still an awesome experience I was able to

learn a lot form that Elder, He has been out just over 6 months and is

very prepared and very qualified to preach the Gospel. we had a lot of

walking time, so it was good time to talk about amazing of an

experience mission is and how much we have been able to take out of so

little time.

   So quick story from the exchange, were in the market, (Off

the mountains) looking for a compound with some recent coverts and

investigators, they knew we were coming and had planned for us, but

like I said we were lost, I know the general area but that market is a

maze of roads and people, not to mention the home we are looking for

is in a compound, so we are not even looking for a home, we are

looking for a wall, and trust me most of the walls here look the same,

    well... one of the recent converts in the compound we were looking

for felt prompted to go talk a walk (remember they are waiting for us)

so she did, she left to compound and walked around the market a bit

and on her way to turn back we ran into her!  happy day, she was

surprised to see us, we told her we were looking for her home, so she

took us to the compound, were we had a wonderful lesson we taught our

investigator and a Muslim man who joined us for the first time the

plan of salvation and at the end of the lesson the recent convert bore

her testimony, and how she has been blessed since she joined the

church, she even told them how the holy ghost told her to take a walk,

and how she found to lost Elders,   haha

 I was lost but then I was found, by a recent convert who was able to

listing to the quite promptings of the spirit

love Elder Taylor

march 5th 2012

so all is well on the eastern front,

I’ve been transferred to an area called wellington 2 and

I am now serving with elder Allred who is one transfer (6 weeks)

older than me on mission, so I’m still in the Free Town East Zone

I’m moving up in life, the apartment I’m in has power some of the time

and we pay people to help us draw our water because the well is so far away,

I tell you I’m living the high life, 3 times this week I got to sleep with a fan

blowing on me, I promise you I slept like a baby. haha The apartment is in a

very muslim area so at 5 every morning I get to wake up to the sound

of a muslim mosc

at first didn’t like it, but now it’s like a nice pre-alarm saying you

only have 1 more

hour of sleep. it’s always nice to be pre warned about waking up on time haha.

this week was a lot of climbing up and down the mountains of sierra Leone,

nothing to crazy happened... but then again I’ve been here a while, it takes

a lot to surprise me these days. haha

I was told this in one of my emails and I really liked it, I liked it enough to

put it into my email.

"only Jesus Christ can turn ....a MESS into a MESSage, a TEST into a TESTimony,

 a TRIal into a TRIumph, a VICTim into a VICTory. He is worthy to be praised."