Trunkiness never was happiness

Well, it's been a while since I sent an email so I figured I ought to send one to keep y'all updated.

Life in Texas is good. It's kind of getting to the point in my mission

where it's stopped feeling like "oh my gosh!! We're TALKING to 20 NEW

people today??" and now it's just become the regular thing to do each

day. I still have a ways to go on my teaching but it's getting better

every day. The people here are awesome. Yeah, pretty much every rumor

you hear about people in Texas is probably true, but they are really

amazing.

So transfers happened almost two weeks ago now. It's pretty

unbelievable how fast time flies on the mission. I'm still in Sealy

but my new companion's name is Elder Yanzon. He's from the Philippines

and luckily he's another great missionary. I've already learned like

crazy from him. We plan super hard. I used to plan for half an hour

each night (or less) with Elder Jones. Now we plan for like an hour

and a half every night!! I need to sleep...

Overall we are staying pretty busy. The main struggle in the Sealy 1st

branch is the huge size of the area. Every member who comes to church

is spread super thin with all these responsibilities. Yesterday we got

a list of 61 prospective elders that live all over the place. I think

we've met about 5 of them, so it'll be some good finding.

We have two investigators right now with a baptismal date (I was

overly optimistic a few emails ago), Mario and his wife Ana. They are

super solid!! It's way awesome to see the change that has taken place

in their lives as we continue teaching the lessons. Their daughter

(who is an adult and doesn't live at home) walks through their house

every once in a while, and you can kinda tell by the way she looks at

us that she doesn't have a whole ton of respect for religion or

religious people. But! Ana told us yesterday that her daughter had

come up to them (when we weren't around) and asked about us. She was

like "who are those guys? Every time I come in and they're around I

just feel peace." (Not a direct quote of course but that's very much

what she said) and she said next time we were around and she was

around she would listen to us!! So That's Awesome.

Let me know if y'all have any questions about Texas or people in Texas

or whatever.

I love you all. (said every missionary email ever.)

Elder Taylor

P.S. Here are some pictures.

Some cool graffiti in Eagle Lake.

Elder Yanzon.

Elder Yanzon in Eagle Lake. This is pretty typical of the area.

This is a guy we walked by in Eagle Lake. We watched him catch a snapping turtle, and I guess he's going to make stew out of it.

The Houston Temple.

The new district at the temple. (P.S. we got to go to the temple. It was swell.)