Always & forevermore: Cypress!

Well, we got transfer calls last night and I found out I'm out of
here. I LOVE Cypress. I can't even explain to y'all how much I'm going
to miss this place. But I'm really excited for the next step in my
mission. In this area the Lord refined me like crazy. He taught me so
much. Just like Sealy i feel like Cypress has completely changed me.
It has changed the course of my life for the better. I can't wait to
see all the change that happens wherever I'm going next because the
Lord has shown me here just how much I have that needs to change. I'm
so grateful for the time I have spent here and just for the
opportunity it was to learn and grow. I hope y'all are doing great
with school starting and everything; I don't have a whole lot else to

say besides those generalities so I'll just send some pictures. 🙌

This dude was a great companion.

Legendary Cy-Fair District at the temple. #nofilter just kidding.

Love these guys.

✌🏻✌🏼✌🏽✌🏾✌🏿

Hey y'all!

This week was awesome! Honestly, it was probably the best week I've
had in Cypress so far. Texas is the BOMB!! Also there has been a
little bit of crazy weather over the past couple days with some minor
flooding, nothing like what happened a couple months back though!
Definitely nothing our bikes can't handle. 🤘 (biking in the rain
actually isn't too bad. It's like taking a hot shower, just in your
clothes. And on a bike.) overall I'm pretty wiped out. That's nothing
new though.

We had a super sweet zone conference on Thursday! President Mortensen
pretty much calls the whole mission to repentance every zone
conference. He says it's not that we're doing bad, but he knows we're
doing great, he just wants us to do even better. The mission has
actually baptized more people in the past two months than it has in
ANY two months in its history. Every time I leave a zone conference it
kind of gives me a fresh view of the area I am serving in. I guess
that means I am repenting!

The members of the Cypress Ward are awesome!! Every week I'm more
impressed with how good they are at missionary work and how badly they
want to do it. Plus, they are just super fun people to be around. This
week we found a couple way solid people to teach. For example Mike is
the boyfriend of one of our members and he is way into scouts and
pretty much hangs out with Mormons all the time! He's totally gonna
get baptized! Haha. Also, at our dinner appointment on Sunday the
members we had dinner with invited 3 other member families over and 2
families who were members of other churches, at the end we shared a
message with them and it was sick! The Spirit was super strong. I have
never had the opportunity to teach a lesson to 25+ people before so
that was a pretty sweet experience. (Along with just incredible
missionary work from the members!)

Miracles are happening every day here. We just need to have the eyes
to see them.

Love y'all! Have a great week!

Elder Taylor

Here are some pictures:

The Cypress Zone! Aka the best zone!!

Love these guys........

We also had a tie-dye water balloon fight for Pday last week. It was pretty chill. This is the before.

After!

August...

One tie July is OVER!! Thank goodness...

It's been a really weird week, but really good too. We are working as
hard or harder than ever especially on the weekends when we bike for
around 6 hours a day visiting people and tracting etc. in the Heat.

The main weird thing that happened was that our fool district leader
pranked us by putting twenty-two toads in the bathtub at our
apartment. It was a joy to return home from district meeting to find
that. Yes it is very impressive that he pulled it off. I hate though.

Also on Tuesday we biked over to our church building (which is six
miles away.. it feels pretty far) since we left our dinner calendar
there. When we went to leave it was pouring rain Texas style. We biked
home anyway. It was pretty much like biking in the shower, it was
awesome.

I don't really know what else to say. I'm still alive but super
exhausted. Have a swell week y'all!

Here are some pictures and videos.

Always and forevermore: Cypress!

Frogs.