July 1, 2013

Dear familia [and friends],

Thanks for your emails!!! I love reading them!!! This past week was kind of crazy. We do intercambios (splits or something like that in English) a lot, but this week we had to do it twice. The first time was with another trio, so the two greenies came with us. I ended up sleeping on the floor with my sleeping bag because we were short one bed. Since we had four people, we split into two companionships and worked. It was SUPER great and we only double booked two or three citas for this next week haha. Also, we had rain this past week. I used the raincoat Mom, and it was really useful. I was dry the whole time! Yesterday for Church, we arranged for a member to drive Luis (13 years old) and his older sister with her baby to church. We got there, went back into their house (they have chickens and ducks in front and dogs, and mud) and went inside with permission from his mom. We tried calling him but there was no answer. The door to his room was open so we yelled, LUIS and woke him up. He just brushed his teeth and went straight to church haha. We did everything we could to get him to church haha. Yesterday was voting day, so we only had one hour of church which was different. Next week our schedule changes to 9 am which is even harder for people to wake up for, but WITH FAITH we will have investigators at church!

I only have a few more minutes so I cant write much more. I want to encourage you to help the missionaries. Volunteer your service when they want someone to accompany them. Pray for opportunities to share the gospel and have CONFIDENCE when sharing!!! Love yall lots!!

Hermana Taylor

Here are some pictures. Our apartment building, the view we have of the mountains, us waiting for the bus (takes forever sometimes)! Our group that worked the CVC last week, our sleepover we had one night haha

Here's some more: the view of the mountains after rain is AMAZING!!!, a typical calle, our trip to Santa Lucia last p day, (ya we are going to convert everyone, even the statues). and more of the mountains after rain