Slow Week

(Branch President with his required helmet and vest)

well this week was a little diiffrent. we recieved a new couple for the mission.. The Mcbrides.. I asked about family in arizona and FANCY THAT... This guy was born in thatcher AZ... Im sure he has some line with the Mcbrides in Morenci.. name Mac Mcbride and his wife is Linda Mcbride. (just in case they know them)

They are VERY old and shouldnt be on the mission.! they say so themselves.. They always FIGHT! In a good Bickering loving way. They are funny too... Kinda like.

They are from California and have a little bit of money. I had to help them find out where to pay bills and spent most of my P Day with them, I was kindly rewarded.. A Cookie (From the USA!) A Pineapple, and a Burgerking wopper with fries. They should be settleing in soon. MAYBE. I also had to teach them to save a contact in a phone :P

As for babtisms? NOPE... our best investagator just said he doesnt want to be babtised.. MAYBE in 3 years he told us..!! What can you do though?

Anyway.. We have zone conference this week, as well as interviews.. SO this week should be a good one.!! Nothing else is new!

Thanks for the letters and everything!!
E Would!

June 22. 2009

Have you been able to make progress in your area? Not too much. I feel like i am running around in circles
Any bad effects from drinking the water the one day you went hiking? Nope Karr did fill a little fishy though
Have they reorganized the branch/ward/stake that the President died? Not really.. he was district counsler.. They might do that when pres torres comes up again
Any good contacts this week? Ya. But they need to get married before babtism.
Nope i dropped him for a week or so It appears you love your camera. I love the sunburn picture. Dad paniced
for a split second. LOVE IT"!!!
Does the boric acid work? NO BORIC ACID!! i just got the camera. Sister torres said she had some skittles for me but got sick and i think she forgot to send them.

WEll this week was the same ol... except we had changes today.. NO ONE in my district had a change.. So i will be with Karr for another 6 weeks.
As for the work.. I feel like i am running around in circles.. No promising investigators, No baptisms, no NOTHING.. Kinda depressing. but my mind just WHIRLS around.

Sounds like Nikki is having it rough.. NOthing that american chocolate cant fix though.

I took some pictures so you might put a few in the county fair.. on flickr Also did mike or blaine get my DVD of photos?? i sent it with the BOMANS.

Well im not sure what else to say.. Kinda hot here but its starting to rain a little..

Well.. Anyway, nothing else is new.. Love ya all. HAppy b day josh.. Fathers day to dad! .

Love ya all

Elder Taylor Wood

June 16, 2009

Well this week was alright. We have had our most prommissing investigater STOP going to church now.. Going on 6 weeks.. Ya... he is dropped!. . I dont think he will progress

Nothing much happening here.. I heard nikki brok here arm.. AGAIN.. but no details on how.

Today we went to tikal.. I saw monkeys, changed the trees to RED. (kinda cool) and dome other weird animals.

Alex is our most prommising investagator but doesnt really want a babtism.. We will keep working with him .

Few questions. I heard something about Tvs needing a Digital converter to be used? Details? Also.. Did you guys get my DVD... Mike or blaine? i sent it with Elder Boman (who knows the Nye family)

Anyway I have seen Tikal Twice and Yaxa once.. Tikal is deffinatly better. nothing much newElder Taylor Wood

Long day seeing More Ruins

Well sorry Mr. I get to go to Flordia..... hehe j-k I just got back form Yakxha. (YAK SHAW) seeing yet more old mayan pyramida. pretty rough duty but someone had to do it.¨ Things are fine here... Things are getting a little slow and i find myself getting side tracted more and more. We still have the same investagators but One is progressing a little more.. Named Alex age 16.. He said he wasnt going to get babtized but i am sure he will. We also had 2 new people in church this week.. One i have been working with for months now.. and the other...... who knows where she came from she just showed up. Elder Karr has really helped me with my spanish.. no one ever helped me with mine untill him. No boric acid but the battle continues!! Is this cacroach killing powder or an old family secret? Sister torres did know about it... Anyway sounds like fun... I just hiked all day in the heat with a VERY Poorly planned P.day.. We had talked about going but hadnt decided untill about 7.30 today.. when i got a call saying LETS DO IT.. NEVER SAY DIE RIGHT.. This will make you proud!! So we start of getting a ride to the bus station where we find a bus and wait for a few minutes.. while we started heading out of town we noticed that their was a riot and they blocked the road.. At this point i was ready to turn back.. But Elder King from Idaho Wasnt as faithless.. We took a 1 hour detour to drive about 10 minutes normally.. plus the next 1 hour to the ruins. We get dropped off at the entrance and it says YAKXHA 12 Kms. Whats that like 7 miles . We got this easy we say.. and if not we were sure someone would pass by. We walked a good 45 minutes in 100 degree heat, and had only walked a good 4 KMs... All i had was 1 water bottles and the others NOTHIng. We stop by some random guys house explain who we are and we offer 20 quetzales (about 80 cents each person) to take us to the ruins. he was like how bout 20... EACH.. i explained that we couldnt do that and we where willing to pay 10.. Needless to say i spent a good buck twenty for a trip! it was worth it.. So we arrive at this gate and see all the ruins but they say DONT WORRY.. there will be a bus here at 3. after almost harasing them a bus finally came.. we payed another 10 quetz and waited at the street for another bus to pick us up. WEll.. Considering us not having WATER, or FOOD, we kinda had to drink some water.. NON pure.. but it was filtered if that counts.. I will let ya know if i get sick or not.. All in all we spent 40 quetz to see the ruins and a good 70 quetz in travel.. We topped it off with Pizza hut. which was another 50 quetz-- All in al i spent about 160 quetz or 20 dollars. WHAT A TIREING DAY!!
Other than that things are going ok. We have a babtism on the 20th but he might not follow through.. he said he would but he also said he would come to church.. All is goodl. Tay

Slept through Honduras Earthquake

Yea i am alive and well. I almost died in the earthquake.,.. j-k no worries.. You know me.. It happened at like 2 AM and you guessed it.. I WAS SLEEPING.. didnt even flinch.

Alot of people were talking about it this week but i didnt feel it..
Next.. our district president or counsler died on sunday during sacrament meeting. he was with his family when he had a heart attack. Members with a car rushed him to the hospital but died while in rout.. We had his funeral service today.. President Torres Flew up from guatemala. HE wasnt from my ward so i didnt even know him, or see anything happen.

Elder and sister Boman will be going home next week.. I will try to send a Dvd.. with my latest pictures with them.. I wrote mikes address and blaines.. they live in logan.

Also .. My debit card expires this month... Time to get on that.

So yesterday i saw two litle guecos doing the dirty dirty in my house.. I grabbed the broom chased the slowest one.. when it stopped i did a sweet Pool shot and hit it with the end of my broom. Sent a picture..

well all is well here. I didnt feel the tremor or 7.1...

I found a fast back mustang and took some sweet pictures..

Well all is well here.. Salados a colton and tell him happy birthday.!

Thats all.. Elder Wood thanks for the letters!