Hey my dear family and friends!  I hate to say it. But this week is going to be a SHORT email! I know I know, you love reading a full novella from me each week but I have a good reason!  Reason 1, I got a haircut today and that took a LOT of time.  Reason 2, we have BAPTISM this week!! Yeah! And because of that, we had a LOT to do today! Like, sitting in the church to see how long the baptismal font takes to fill up! (That is the special place that fills with water where we baptize people!) Anyway, excuses are excuses and I shouldn't be using them. I apologize.  But! I will give some fun stuff for this week! So Tuesday we had an exchange with our Zone Leader (this means that my companion Elder Price left for a day and another missionary who is a leader took his place for the day. Don't worry, we picked up Elder Price that evening) and it was SO COOL! We had so many miracles that I want to tell you about, so if you remind me later, I will make sure to send them...

How is it GOING my party people! You know what time it is! ELDER TAYLOR'S EMAIL TIME!  So, this week was really really awesome let me tell you. And of course, we gotta do our weekly breakdown!  So, on P-day last week I discovered that my trainer's dad (Elder Mabey the Elder) and my dad (Elder Taylor the Elder) were in the SAME DISTRICT on their missions! How crazy is that?!? Talk about a small world, am I right?!?!? Anyway, that was really cool but the weather here is very not. Cool, that is. I am no where NEAR used to this humidity and it drives me crazy sometimes, but I am used to sweating a lot from the good old Arizona sun, so oh well. We didn't really do much on P-day, just got me some food! And had a few really awesome and DEEP discussions! My companions are so SMART!  Tuesday was just AMAZING as well of course! We had lots of miracles, because we were able to have a short lesson with one of our friends! He has a hard time keeping lessons short, because he loves to ...

  Hey hey hey everybody! This is Elder Taylor! I have officially arrived in New York! But more about that later, and don't you worry, we will be discussing the title of my email for sure hahaha! Well. This week has been CRAZY long let me tell you. To start with we have to go all the way back to Saturday the 3rd of July which is when you all heard from me last! I was still in the MTC back in those days, and that was our P day! We got to go to the temple which was just incredible once again, and had an amazing time there! Because it was the 3rd the Stadium of Fire had their fireworks show that night, and we as missionaries were actually allowed to watch it! It was a late night though, and it was hard to keep awake in church on Sunday because we still had to get up at 6:30 even though we went to bed around 12. But Saturday was great! I really will miss the temple so much while on my mission, because the Holy Spirit is just so powerful there! If you get the chance to go to the temple, ...

  What is UP my favorite friends and family!! How are all of you doing today?!?! I am absolutely doing FANTASTIC, thank you so much for mentally asking me!  But in all seriousness I am seriously doing great right now. The MTC is one of the coolest places on earth, and I have loved every single second here! There is no place I'd rather be! Sadly, I fly out of here to Syracuse, New York on Tuesday and I will have to leave all these wonderful people and this beautiful place behind! I don't want to leave these friends I've made and come to love so so much, but Elder Boyce said something really powerful last night. He said, "The people in our missions need us more than we need each other". I will miss my district a LOT but I know that they are off to do some of the most amazing things that the Lord has in store for them!  But hey hey hey! Let's get into the rundown of the week eh?  So! On Sunday we had some really awesome time all to ourselves to really sit and pon...