Mom's Additions

Taylor got mad at me for adding information to his letter, so I took it out, and returned it to its very short state. But Kim has encouraged me to put it back up so I will do so. This in information in my words not Taylor's.

Guatemala is hard on socks and shoes. Taylor has worked his way through two years worth in just 9 months. Both pairs of shoes are worn out. He will have to have them resoled because it is too expensive to send shoes that have 99% chance of getting stolen. His boots are hanging in there and Elder Cuzzins (I assume) gave him some brown shoes we have seen in photos. There is a pilot in Dixie that sometimes makes stops at the MTC but I will have to find him, and see if he can get the shoes to the President, and it will be much easier to have Taylor resole the pair he has first. At least we will know if they are going to work. Funny thing is that Taylor has gotten mission socks for the past two Christmas'. I guess he will get them for another and next year he will again for his return home.

It is nearing the end of raining season. I'll bet they are happy for that, although the scenery is beautiful because of all the rain they get.

Taylor's companionship found a really good prospect two weeks ago. They are teaching him, and Taylor thinks he will be getting baptized at the end of the lessons. They think he has great potential.

The two baptisms are the same girls he has talked about for a long time. They want to get baptized but don't want to attend church. One is going to school and the only time her tutor can meet with her is at the same time as church. She doesn't have enough faith to choose church over the tutor yet.

He is still having fun with his lazer. He loves teasing the chickens and seeing how they react. Better to tease chickens than the women!

Another Week

well this week went by. we put a babtism date with 2 people, but they didnt go to church . we will babtize one but i dont know about the other. for p day we played basketball and watched a movie,. I didnt take any pictures this week.

Still suck at spanish and my comp speaks and teaches better than i do.

Anyway nothing new. got a letter from one of moms friends, sister jensen. from the ward. tell her thanks.

Anyway nothing else is new.
Elder Taylor Wood

Danger!

The River Flood & the new haircut

I myself have had quite the week. This week I will exclude the fact that I am Sr companion and cant speak spanish as well as my comp who has Less time and is a gringo...

First we started out struggleing.. like always. we dont have very many investigators so we did alot of member visiting. well we went to go visit a member and the river had flooded. you can see in this picture that the wall is wet where the water rose to., Anyway. i put some flashlights down so you can see the depth of the water.. there was muddy water ALL over in the house, and alot got ruined.

Then we went the Chy hup. Some ruins we visited a few weeks ago. I got a few good pictures. it was weird. the first time i was DIEING the whole way up. this time i accually hit my second wind. i accually lead them there.

Sounds like you had a good chat with Elder cozzens. I didnt send the statue, for weight purposes, but his broke. just ask him for a little piece :)

Another thought i had this week, when you see all the elders in the states they are like ´all spititual´. well thats not us.. we just try to survive. I got to ride in the back of a little wagon today. it was drivven by 2 oxen. we crossed a river. but it was crazy.

umm... i have 9 months.. thats better than 7.

i would like some floss picks. www.plackers.com. i can use this brand all day long and they wont break.

Thats all i can think about for nowñ...
Wood

Guatemala's Got Talent!!

Our 3rd group sent Home

Our 3rd group sent Home

With great sadness and joy we sent home the largest group of missionaries to date. Among the great and noble ones sent home were, Elders Brassfield, Brown, Cozzens, Jonathan Christensen, Eduardo Hernandez, Jensen, Jolly Salazar, Malaga, Bolaños, Recinos, Sturzenegger, Aguilar, Merrill, McCoy, Sisters Anguiano and King. Not forgetting losing our own Assistant to the President Elder Matthew Burnham. These missionaries represented a large portion of our mission's leadership which included Zone leaders and trainers. They worked to the very end as you can see from the picture of Elder Christensen's last baptisms uniting a whole family They will be missed, but the legacy of their labors will be felt for years to come.

We also received new missionaries ready and excited to labor in this, the greatest mission in the world. They are Elders Zuñiga, Greenwood, Luke, Sacalxot, Alvarado, Jimenez, Garcia and Gubler, as well as one new sister, Hermana Rodas.

Changes Happen! Edited by Mom.

SORRY CANDI... I REMEMBERED AFTER I WROTE.. happy b day.this week kinda sucked.. Elder cozzens went home.!!!! but Its ok we had a good week. we ate alot of food from members. Last i checked i had lost 56 pounds. Im down to 206
I got a new companion Elder baits, bates, baites, algo asi. no details yet. just that i am going to be the Sr companion. Still in salama. Kinda sucks because i cant really teach, maybe he can though. who knows.
We had an activity in the church.. for the primary. a talent night. that was good to watch. pretty fun too.
We had a babtism this week. Marisol. 18 years old. she is happy. Elder cozzens babtized her. she is cooler than we thought., her family doesnt like the mormons but she did it anyway.
Anyway i think thats it! Wood thx for the letters

Treats for Tay

Another Week

another week is gone.
We watched conference. the first 2 were my favorite. Priesthood was in Spanish and I didn't understand anything. and the 2 on Sunday, there were like 5 rooms Spanish, 1 English, kids running around, couldn't understand or hear much.

Yesterday we went to the caves of the King Marcus. They were pretty cool. We got rubber boots and a helmet with a flashlight. You get to hike into a cave, with rivers running through, and you hike inside of a mountain. You even had to half way crawl. If you didn't want to get wet it was really uncomfortable. Don't judge this to Lehmans cave where you can't touch anything but the salt and pepper shaker rock.. We could touch everything. It was really sweet.
Elder Nol left for Peru yesterday in the morning. Elder Cozzens is going home this next Monday. He speaks on october 19th in the Hillcrest First Ward. He will have a few things for you.
Another great thing yesterday was my laserpointer. We were on top of a bus playing with my laser pointer in mid day.. I made 2 Mayan ladies RUN AWAY from a green light. Chickens think its trying to eat their feet and they helplessly fly away. I scared one chicken in front of the bus. It would rather get run over than get eaten by ET.!! So at this point it was running forward from the bus but backward because of the laser pointer. the 5 on the top of the bus sure had a great bus ride.
Last week I was trying to say don't worry about it. "no tenga pena". but I said "no tengo pene". Anyway, needless to say they all got a good laugh.
well I think that's all. got Nikki´s package. Thanks for that.

Elder Taylor Wood