My Last 5 Weeks!

Well, first off, I have new companion today! His name is Elder Zavala. He is from Honduras, Tegucigalpa! He is pretty cool. He has 3 months in the mission! And he will be my last companion! Crazy to think that the end is near.

My kid brother Isaac got his mission call this week to the Guadalajara East Mission in Mexico. So that's pretty cool as well!

Elder Aybar and I were able to baptize this week again. We baptized on thursday at 5:45pm. We baptized a young man named Alejandro. He is 18 and really cool. The day after his baptism, his girlfriend dumped him because he didnt want to break the law of chastity. And he, went to church on sunday for his confirmation in a white shirt and tie that we gave him. He is pretty cool and wants to be a missionary!

We took some pics at the beach this past week to remember the success that we had as a zone and district this month of April. As a ZONE we were able to baptize 91 people! And elder Aybar and I were able to baptize 7 of them. We are all really happy about our success. And hope to continue helping more people.

That's all for this week! Talk to all y'all's next week

-Elder Taylor

MY LAST COMPANION - Elder Zavala is his name, being a missionary is his game

Alejandro's Baptism

Semana 7 del Cambio

Well, as some of you may know, this past week there have been lots of riots in the capital of Nicaragua, so because of that, the missionaries there cant leave their houses. And this week should have been transfers, but the missionaries cant leave their houses in Managua, so transfers are not till next week and we are now in week 7 of this transfer! But the good news is, I HAVE 6 WEEKS LEFT! And I am 19 hours from the capital, all is safe and sound here!

This past week was good, we had the baptism of Adonis. He is a cool kid. We found him one day at his grandma's house. She lives in the furthest part of my area. We took him to church and taught him there. Then one day, his uncle told us that he had gone back to live with is mom in another part of our area. And here they don't use directions, they just told us that (El esta viviendo en una casa de madera alta, pintada azul por el muro chino) "He is living in a tall wooden blue house, by the Chinese wall" that was all we had. But last Sunday, we were walking by that area, and Adonis came running toward us, and showed us where he lived. It was kind of a miracle to find him. We talked to his mom and she gave us permission so that he could get baptized. We had his baptism on Thursday in a local pool!

We spoke on the radio on Friday and it turned out super awesome! You couldn't tune in, but it was awesome!

On Sunday, we got a call in the morning saying that we weren't going to have church because of the riots. Even though nothing was happening here in Puerto. But we called everyone and told them. Some people were angry, some were glad, and some just accepted it. But we did do a mini sacrament meeting in a members house. We used a coconut bread and ONE cup that we all passed around for the 20 people there. But it was good.

That's about all for this week!

TTYL

-Elder Taylor

Adonis' baptism 

What happens when you have 10 missionaries in 1 taxi

If You Give a Monkey a Machete

Miskito Isisna!

This week was a really good week. It was hot as usual, but still good times!

We were able to baptize 2 more people this week as well! Snaider and his sister Chayneli. They are pretty chill people! They are 15 and 13! They live in front of the people that we baptized last week.

On Thursday, we were in our house getting ready and some dudes showed up and turned off out lights. And we were confused why, if we had payed the lights. So we called the owner of the house, and he went and talked to the lights people and we had lights the next day. But in the night, its too hot to sleep without a fan. So the house next door that the other missionaries live in, gave us an extension cord so that we could use their power to use the fans to sleep. Always fun times here.

We had 41 people at church yesterday as well. 

That about all from this week!

--Elder Taylor

Our Friend

Tabi takaia painsa!

(Baptism is good!)

Well we will start out with the good news of the week! Elder Aybar and I could have 3 baptisms this week! We were working really hard and we could baptize 3 members of a family. Julio, and his 2 nieces, Laleksa (9), and Haily(11). It was awesome. But they live in a tiny wood house and they cant leave it alone. So we went with Juilo to his baptism while his sister watched the house, and then we went with the 2 girls and their mom to the kids' baptisms! And their house is still standing!

We had interviews and zone conference this week as well. President Poncio flew over to Puerto and it was good times. We also had district conference with all the members in Puerto Cabezas. My area is far away from the big chapel so we went in bus! I sent a pic! In the conference I sang "how great thou art" in Miskito with members. It was cool. Oh, and I met the first missionary that came to Puerto 20 years ago.

I just have 8 weeks left in the mission, so I've got to take advantage of the time I have left!

--Elder Taylor

Julio's baptism

Laleska and Haily's baptism

In the bus to conference

Band Name: Primos Miskitos

The title of the email means Miskito Cousins. There is a member here that Is Miskito and his cousins have the last name of Taylor. So we say that I am his cousin. And there is another member that went on his mission to Honduras and his last name is Taylor as well, so he is also my cousin. Good times.

Last Monday after I got done writing the fam, we went to go eat dinner with a family and the Hermanas showed up with a dead baby crocodile. So we played with it for a while and took selfies. (See pics) Too bad nobody knew how to cook crocodile, or we would have eaten it.

We met a lot of new people last week as well. We are working hard to find new people to teach and help them to the waters of baptism.

On Friday we got invited to a shark dinner! A member went to the market and bought 2 sharks. His sister cooked them up and we went over to their house. It was SUPER TASTY. Best sea food I have tried so far. 10/10

The conference was pretty sweet as well. Especially because Pres. Nelson announced that Nicaragua will now have it's 1st temple! All the hard work in the last 21 months has payed off. When they announced it all the people in the church went nuts and they all cheered. Everyone is happy about that.

Today for Pday we went to the beach and played soccer and volleyball! It was really toasty, but really fun. Uba Pain!

Till next time,

Elder Taylor

Today at the beach

My shark dinner

some members chillin in a hammock

playing with the crocodile