Elder Wood and Companion

sry!

Alright.. sorry i stiffed ya but its ok. we went to the temple today so we were hard working yesterday. we had to wake up at 3. Last monday we had a little earthquake. we were in the middle of a prayer and my couch was moving. i thought it was my comp being a jerk. the ground just shook a little bit for 30 seconds. pretty awesome though. I bought two cans of A and w root beer... the mt dew was in. some kind of one time thing from an import store.
Basically the president told me ¨There are other places in the mission than just the capitol. I know your area is hard, in fact its the most dangerous area in central america, and you havnt been about to talk to your companion much. Thats why i am pulling you out. your getting a change.¨ I am for sure getting a gringo (greenie green) anyway i think i will go to colban or peten. but thats just me. I dont have fleas anymore and my feet are doing PERFECT with the adition to a few things.
My area was good, they say its dangerous but i havent seen anything. no babtisms this change
Also there might be a chance within the next 3 or 6 months that i will go to an area called polochic or smoething .... I would have to learn an ancient language called cetch chi. no promisesm, i dont really wana go.. i wana get spanish. anyway i will email you more if i remember what it was about. my mind is fried.
Elder Taylor Wood

Paraiso III

Paraiso means Paradise. It's a small part of the capital. There are no big stores just small stores with candy in them. It is so dangerous because there is a gang called 18 diesiocho. well in order to get into the gang you have to kill people. other areas are dangerous but its just gangs killing gangs. paraiso III is where the are gang members are born. meaning they have to kill people. one elder was there for 6 months and over 100 people were murdered. The police have a camp right outside the area and on the main road you can almost ALWAYS see a police officer with a fully auto- i dont know if there is hope for the area. i dont if you mean for the church or what your after.

Elder Argumeda

Elder Argumeda was really good elder who worked hard and could contact people really well. He liked soccer and we played in the street with garbage and try to get it between their legs. I learned how to contact and basically speak Spanish. It was hard to communicate with him because I spoke English to him and he spoke Spanish to me and it did get easier the last week.

Another Week - Discouraged again

well another week gone. Kinda sucked. it was one of those when you dont get many things done. No babtisms yet.

I always knew my area was dangerous. in fact i knew it was the most dangerous zone in the mission. But its also the most dangerous area in guatamala. probably just a rumor or word on the street. but its definatly the most dangerious area in the mission. i dont feel threatned at all. except at night, and in the day. and mornings, hahahaha just kidding.

No baptisms yet. we were running short on contacts so we decided to knock doors. we found one lady who had prayed 2 days earlier for elders or someone to find her. we gave her a blessing the next day. following that we gave 2 more blessings to a family.um..

ya im gona stick it out a little longer. after talking to my president i was like YEAH lets go. but i still hate it. my comp speaks like no english and i dont speak spanish. I ask him in spanish and he looks at me like im stupid. so i ask in english and he says YEAH. when its like what did we just talk about.

No luck with the server in delta. can someone please restart the server monday morning next week.um... man i dont know what else to write about. I guess thats all this week.Untill next time

Elder Taylor Wood

Still No Improvement

Man today sucked. My zone had some brilliantly stupid idea to climb a mountian. Needless to say. i made it. my feet hurt. and boy do i have blisters. then it started pouring. so we ran to our cooks house soaking wet. after an hour of the hardest rain i have ever seen. we returned to our appartment only to relize it was flooded.

My mission president called me yesterday. he said we were going to talk tomorrow at zone confrence. Kim as for an april fools joke. Gotchya!! APRIL FOOLS DAY!!! No seriouslly i didnt even know easter had passed till like 4 days after. i acknowledged st. patricks day. but didnt let much happen. But as for this, This is real.

This week was just another week. nothing much happened. as for everyone else. thanks for the prayers. Yes i have a testimony of the BOM. and joseph smith. Families, plan of salvation. ETC. Um... i honestly dont know what else i can write about without repeating myself last week. Thoughts are still the same. Going to talk to my president tomorrow and on the 18th-

when is mothers day. I could let that holiday slip by as well. Um. I Still continue to work hard no matter what the tribulation.I honestly have no clue what else to write. So untill next time.Elder Taylor Wood

Taylors REALLY STRUGGLING

well i typed my letter but i closed it. Woops. anyway my comp got hit with a walking stick. pretty hard in the elbow. some drunk guy or something just saw him and smacked him. if he were to hit me i would have either leveled him or javlened his stick 500 meeters.

we have two or three babtisms not this saturday because of confrence but next. its gaby and josellin we didnt get to babtize them this week.

I sprained my frigging ankle yesterday.

Anyway i have nothing to say this week except for something thats been on my mind for quite some time. I have hated the Mtc experiance but i was going to stick with it and try the mision field. well i have and i dont like it. I can count the times i have cried (in my life) on one hand... i have cried everyday for the last 3 weeks. I havent liked serving. the spanish is comming and i know it will. Thats not the problem, i just dont like teaching. or contacting the people. the only joy i have found in the last week is dominating our cooks family at rummicube like 6 times in a row.

my feet have blisters but thats kool.. i know it will pass. i have fleas. also rad. but i just havent found that joy of serving. i can honestly say that i think the only reason i am serving is to ge some hot chick later on in life that is ONLY going to marry a RM, grandma always counts me as her 56th or whatever person to serve in the family. and i honestly feel a huge obligaten to serve with mike and blaine and josh, and everyone serving.

on my sheets (I embroidered a saying across the top of a flat sheet) it says Life is not just to be endured but enjoyed. Im not enjoying it. I cant even study anything because i am so lost in other thoughts. I have prayed more about this than anything ever before. I feel i need to go home. But im sure that if i go home that i will....

I have talked to blaine a little about it trying to get a hold of mom or dad. so ya. i guess i will stick it a week untill i can get an awnser back. I just know that if i come home. im going to get alot of crap from everyone!!... because im from UTah.. and i HAVe to serve and such. I honestly dont have a clue what to do. But i do know that im not having fun, teaching, learning, or speaking.

On the flip side. around feb 14thish... i was 262... on march 17th i was 261. today. 13 days later i am 251. woot!.

anyway hit me up...

Checking out!Elder Taylor Wood

With Elder Argumenda in Paraiso III - ALAMEDA

All right I dont have much time today because we got here late.

About the blog, not yet. As for the server''''??? I'm not sure if I have time to do that today... and my camera isn't here. but i will try to figure something out.

My comp is Elder Argumeda, de Savaldor, he has a year out. and boy am I bumbed out. I have never walked so long in my life. even at work i was able to chill.
Anyway. we have two baptisms this week both girls, age 15 and 16, Gabrella and Josellia. we went to a birthday party today, that was kewl.
it rained today. i think its starting the rainy season. I'm not sure what my area is. one is Paraiso III but I think thats my ward or something.

Easter??? what the huh? was that this week or something? i thought it was around april 6th..

o well. how do i open windows explorer??? im using vista, i think my computer skills have failed me. any way.

just alot of walking, praying and testifing. I did do 15 street contacts one day. we set up a table and he said go preach to them all. My area is in the capitol so its not jungle, just cement and tin houses. no banks, alot of little tiendas (stores out of ppls houses) anyway im gona go try the DUMPING pictures, PAz Elder Wood