hey how are you guys doing this week? i am doing really good, its week
5 of this transfer so next saturday is transfer calls and i will find
out if i am going to stay in this area for 6 more weeks or if i will
get the boot and go to a new area. yesterday at church a guy gave his
farewell talk at church, it was really good. he is going to
Chihuahua,mexico and reports to the mtc next wenesday. after church
his family invited us to have lunch with them at their house on top of
archibald. we went to it, and the only problem was we took our car to
pep boys to get the brakes worked on so we had to bike up to the
house. it was a really long ride and we were tired by the time that we
got to their house. it was a really fun time at their house but the
ride back to the apartment was really fun when we rode down archibald.
the work is going good in this ward is coming along. we had to stop
going over to a couple investigators because they werent progressing
or doing any of the things that we asked them to do. i hate doing it
but its for their good and dont want to waste their time as well as
ours. we have been trying to get splits going again, hope fully we
can do it. the elders quarom president and high priest group leader
are wanting to do it, hope fully we can get the rest of the ward
excited for it also. im sorry i have been slacking on writing back
letters i have been super busy and i havent had the time. for a couple
weeks i have been wanting to send a letter with a bunch of advice in
it for both del and don. but i havent got around to it and i feel bad.
i just need to make time on mondays and it should work out. this
monday isnt going to be like the rest since our car is in the shop,
but we are going to be doing service for a lady in our ward so i will
not have a whole lot of free time during the day. how is everyone?
well i got to go so one of my roomates can get on the computer to
check their emails. have a good week ill talk to you later.
Love,
Elder Taylor Thompson Gull :)
Monday, March 12, 2012
Monday, March 5, 2012
March 5, 2012
hey,
i am doing good. this week has gone by really fast, time is going by super fast its really nice but at the same time its not. its crazy to think that i have a little more than 10 months left. its crazy. when i first came out here it seemed like it was going to take forever, but now the end of my mission is going to be here before i know it. i really like the ward that i am in, i have a feeling like i am going to be in the ward for 6 months just like i was in san bernardino. but well have to see what happens on the saturday before the 27 to see if i am going to stay for another 6 weeks or if i will be leaving. me and my new companion are getting a long really well, he is from arizona and he used to ride bulls before he cam out. the work in the ward is going good, its slow right now cause we have had to drop a couple of our investigators cause they were not progressing or keeping any of the commitments that we asked them to do. so because of that we have been tracting like a couple hours a day looking for new people to teach. havent had much success yet but i know that well be able to find someone and we have been also been going over to a lot of the members houses and teaching them the lessons, mostly the restoration, and after the lesson we ask them if they know any one that we can go over and teach, they are getting more excited about missionary work which is really good. thanks again for the food that you dropped off it helped me out a bunch because i had barley any food and there was still a couple weeks until the first of the month. but i survived the only had thing is that the rolls that you gave me before i was able to eat them. my roomates really enjoyed the cinnamon rolls that you gave me. the are good but they are not as good as moms cinnamon rolls. but i guess beggars cant be choosers. how is the family doing? hows del? i wish i could have been there when uncle george and aunt sherry went through but i will be able to go with them after my mission. i wish i could find someone like uncle george out here to teach. i hope that someday they will send me to bloomington. hope you guys have a good week.
Love,
Elder Taylor T. Gull
p.s. are you going to send a cd and dvd for grampie like you did for grannie?
i am doing good. this week has gone by really fast, time is going by super fast its really nice but at the same time its not. its crazy to think that i have a little more than 10 months left. its crazy. when i first came out here it seemed like it was going to take forever, but now the end of my mission is going to be here before i know it. i really like the ward that i am in, i have a feeling like i am going to be in the ward for 6 months just like i was in san bernardino. but well have to see what happens on the saturday before the 27 to see if i am going to stay for another 6 weeks or if i will be leaving. me and my new companion are getting a long really well, he is from arizona and he used to ride bulls before he cam out. the work in the ward is going good, its slow right now cause we have had to drop a couple of our investigators cause they were not progressing or keeping any of the commitments that we asked them to do. so because of that we have been tracting like a couple hours a day looking for new people to teach. havent had much success yet but i know that well be able to find someone and we have been also been going over to a lot of the members houses and teaching them the lessons, mostly the restoration, and after the lesson we ask them if they know any one that we can go over and teach, they are getting more excited about missionary work which is really good. thanks again for the food that you dropped off it helped me out a bunch because i had barley any food and there was still a couple weeks until the first of the month. but i survived the only had thing is that the rolls that you gave me before i was able to eat them. my roomates really enjoyed the cinnamon rolls that you gave me. the are good but they are not as good as moms cinnamon rolls. but i guess beggars cant be choosers. how is the family doing? hows del? i wish i could have been there when uncle george and aunt sherry went through but i will be able to go with them after my mission. i wish i could find someone like uncle george out here to teach. i hope that someday they will send me to bloomington. hope you guys have a good week.
Love,
Elder Taylor T. Gull
p.s. are you going to send a cd and dvd for grampie like you did for grannie?
Monday, February 27, 2012
February 27, 2012
hey,
thanks for the groceries that you guys dropped off. when you sent the text message saying that you wanted to drop some stuff off for me my companion had the phone and since it was a number that the phine didnt know he thought that it was for a drug deal. im glad that you guys were able to see del and drop off a bunch of stuff for me. i greatly apprecitate it, earlier that day i had no food, all i had was a loaf of bread some peanut butter and jelly and a little bit of milk. my new companion is named elder schultz. he is from Surprise, Arizona.(its a real place) he has been out for almost 4 months i am his 2nd companion. his first area was the colton ward which i am jeouls of. last p day since we couldnt go to the libraries to email we went and hicked Mt. Cucamonga. it was really fun except for the north side of the mountain(the part we couldnt see) was covered in snow but we still went all the way to the top. another bad thing is i forgot my camera at the apartment so i wasnt able to take any pictures while i was up there. but my companion and roommates did so i will take some of there pictures. some thing crazy happened the other day, so i was riding home on my bike cause we decided to take a bike day and we were going home for lunch. so i was going really fast down the sidewalk and tried to make the turn into the drive way put i was about to crash into the sign in the middle of the two driveways. so i pulled on my back then front breaks and used too much front brake so i flew off my bike and hit my shoulder and hand into the sign. i am ok other than i bruised my shoulder and cut the palm of my right hand. such is the life of a missionary i guess. i am doing really good though, its crazy how fast time is flying. alot of the people that i met when i first cam out on my mission are going home in 9 to 15 weeks its crazy. my trainer goes home in june and when he goes home i only have 7 1/2 months left its crazy. also keith is going to be home before to long. its really fun out here. how is everyone doing? hope to get to talk to you for a little bit.
thanks for the groceries that you guys dropped off. when you sent the text message saying that you wanted to drop some stuff off for me my companion had the phone and since it was a number that the phine didnt know he thought that it was for a drug deal. im glad that you guys were able to see del and drop off a bunch of stuff for me. i greatly apprecitate it, earlier that day i had no food, all i had was a loaf of bread some peanut butter and jelly and a little bit of milk. my new companion is named elder schultz. he is from Surprise, Arizona.(its a real place) he has been out for almost 4 months i am his 2nd companion. his first area was the colton ward which i am jeouls of. last p day since we couldnt go to the libraries to email we went and hicked Mt. Cucamonga. it was really fun except for the north side of the mountain(the part we couldnt see) was covered in snow but we still went all the way to the top. another bad thing is i forgot my camera at the apartment so i wasnt able to take any pictures while i was up there. but my companion and roommates did so i will take some of there pictures. some thing crazy happened the other day, so i was riding home on my bike cause we decided to take a bike day and we were going home for lunch. so i was going really fast down the sidewalk and tried to make the turn into the drive way put i was about to crash into the sign in the middle of the two driveways. so i pulled on my back then front breaks and used too much front brake so i flew off my bike and hit my shoulder and hand into the sign. i am ok other than i bruised my shoulder and cut the palm of my right hand. such is the life of a missionary i guess. i am doing really good though, its crazy how fast time is flying. alot of the people that i met when i first cam out on my mission are going home in 9 to 15 weeks its crazy. my trainer goes home in june and when he goes home i only have 7 1/2 months left its crazy. also keith is going to be home before to long. its really fun out here. how is everyone doing? hope to get to talk to you for a little bit.
Monday, February 13, 2012
February 13, 2012
hey,
A lot has happened this week. for starters i am not getting transfered but i am getting a new companion tomorrow. i am feeling a lot better than i have in a couple weeks and i am doing really good apart from my right shoulder hurting for what seems no reason. i talked to the medical lady and she told me to talk some ibeporfen and see if it helps so well have to see. the other day a family that me and elder crozer are teaching took us to ferrels and while we were there i ate the pig trough and after i finished eating it they made me stand on the booth and shout that i was a piggy. it was really fun plus the ice crweam there is really good. it always seems like there is always a party in there. it would be so much fun to work there but at the same time proably not. i have been talking to a guy in my current ward, who retired from the air force in 2002 and i told him how i might go in the military after my mission and he told me if i do to get into the air force cause that would be the best for me. i dont know what i waant to do after my mission and i know i shouldnt worry about it, but my mission is going to be done before i know it so i have just been talking to a lot of people about what theyt do. how is everyone doing? hope everything is going good. i love you guys.
Love,
Elder Taylor T. Gull :)
Love,
Elder Taylor T. Gull :)
Friday, December 2, 2011
11-26-11
hey, im good and everything is going good for me. My Thaksgiving was really good we went to the relief society president inthe wards house for thanksgiving and got fed a lot i was surprised they didnt have to roll me out, with how much i ate. :). i like my new area it is pretty small, and we have a car which is good cause the area goes up the side of the mountain which wouldnt be real fun to bike up. the boundaries of the area are from foothill to the side of the mountain and amethyst to haven. its a really skinny area. my companion is elder crozer he is from bountiful/woods cross. he was been out for about 3 months and i am his second companion. so i am follow up traning him, which isnt anything special. he was already in this area which i good couse i would have been really lost if we both would have come into the area together. it is weird to be the senior companion now, cause i am the one making all the desicions but at the same time i like it cause it shows that president has some trust im me. i was sad that i was having to move right before thanksgiving but i really like this ward. the people are really friendly, even though i felt like they were judging me yesterday to see if i would be a good missionary. they have had some really not so good missionaries in the ward and so i am having to work extra hard to build their trust, which is fine by me cause i really like to work hard. the building that i go to for church is the hillside building. it is the biggest churchi have been to on my mission but our church back home is still bigger. i actually spaced that it was my birthday until a few days ago cause i have been working so hard that i really havent been thinking about it. and the weather here is so different than it is back home that it doesnt even feel like christmas. its kinda weird to see christmas lights on palm trees. i miss the snow and the cold. i kinda wanted to go to the mountains this transfer, but heavenly father had different plans for me. i dont know what those plans are but i hope i can find out. so to answer your question of what i want ffor christmas and my birthday. i really dont know i will be fine with anything that you give me. i guess i could use some more socks caue the one s that i have are almost a dark blure instead of black. other than that i dont know. sorry :(. well sorry this wasnt very long i dont know what else to write. hopefully i will get to talk to you also. its weird to think that in a couple more weeks i will get to call home and a couple more after that i will have been out for a year its crazy how fast time is going by. hope everything is going good back home. im sorry to hear about grannie that ghas to be really hard, ill keep praying for her, and maybe that will help.
Love You,
Elder Taylor T. Gull
Monday, November 21, 2011
November 21, 2011
hey
this week was pretty good i found out on saturday that i am going to be gettign transferred tomorrow. i didnt really want to leave but i know that i am needed wherever i am going next. on saturday me and my companion went up to lake arrowhead to help the elders and the sisters in running springs with a devotional that they were putting on up there. right before the meeting started the arrowhead elders got a call from president godwin saying that he was on his way up but because of the fog being so thick they couldnt find their way on the 18. so they went and guided them to the church building, but while they were gone it was our turn to sing the song that we had practiced to sing. so it was just me my companion and the sister missionaries singing instead of the 6 of us, but i think it still sounded fine. after the meeting got finished president godwin pulled me aside and asked me if i was ready to become a senior companion cause there was a missionary that needed some help and he thought that i was the one that could do it. so this next transfer i am going to be a senior companion i am kinda nervous. it good to hear that everyone is doing good. i dont think i am going to get on facebook anymore cause i get distracted for the rest of the week when i get on. i have only seen connie a couple time but i am going over to say bye to her and her husband. i still ahave a little cough and i am still coughing up phlem but i am doing better. i got my whole apartment sick so i kinda feel bad for that. but i have given elder slaughter a blessing so hell be ok. i hope i get to talk to you today.
Love,
Elder Taylor T. Gull
this week was pretty good i found out on saturday that i am going to be gettign transferred tomorrow. i didnt really want to leave but i know that i am needed wherever i am going next. on saturday me and my companion went up to lake arrowhead to help the elders and the sisters in running springs with a devotional that they were putting on up there. right before the meeting started the arrowhead elders got a call from president godwin saying that he was on his way up but because of the fog being so thick they couldnt find their way on the 18. so they went and guided them to the church building, but while they were gone it was our turn to sing the song that we had practiced to sing. so it was just me my companion and the sister missionaries singing instead of the 6 of us, but i think it still sounded fine. after the meeting got finished president godwin pulled me aside and asked me if i was ready to become a senior companion cause there was a missionary that needed some help and he thought that i was the one that could do it. so this next transfer i am going to be a senior companion i am kinda nervous. it good to hear that everyone is doing good. i dont think i am going to get on facebook anymore cause i get distracted for the rest of the week when i get on. i have only seen connie a couple time but i am going over to say bye to her and her husband. i still ahave a little cough and i am still coughing up phlem but i am doing better. i got my whole apartment sick so i kinda feel bad for that. but i have given elder slaughter a blessing so hell be ok. i hope i get to talk to you today.
Love,
Elder Taylor T. Gull
Friday, July 22, 2011
7-18-11
DearJessie,
It's crazy all the things that have happened since last year. Hard to believe that one year ago I didn't really have a testimony and you were trying to help me come back to church. I will never forget the night that we sat on your back porch talking and looking through your EFY book. And then I pushed you into the little kiddie pool later in the week. :) I am also glad for making the final decision to go on a mission. It's crazy to think of all the blessings that will come from this. Even now I can feel some changes happening. I talk to more people than I used to when I was home. I am learning so much and I am helping people come to Christ, and make HUGE changes in their lives. Speaking of which, crazy as it sounds but the next 5 weeks me and my companion have 4 baptismal dates set and it looks like they will all get baptized. The hike last week was really fun. We hiked over a bunch of rocks in a dry wash to a waterfall and a "pond" underneath it. I got sunburned during the hike. It's better now, even though it hurt for a couple days. I remembered to take my camera so I took some pictures of it. Tomorrow is transfer day. I am not getting transferred again, which is good cause I really like it where I am, even though it gets pretty hot and kinda humid. How is summer going? How is your family doing? When does senior year start up? Thanks for having confidence in me. Sorry if you can't read this, this was the only pen that I could find today.
Your Best Friend,
Elder Taylor T Gull
It's crazy all the things that have happened since last year. Hard to believe that one year ago I didn't really have a testimony and you were trying to help me come back to church. I will never forget the night that we sat on your back porch talking and looking through your EFY book. And then I pushed you into the little kiddie pool later in the week. :) I am also glad for making the final decision to go on a mission. It's crazy to think of all the blessings that will come from this. Even now I can feel some changes happening. I talk to more people than I used to when I was home. I am learning so much and I am helping people come to Christ, and make HUGE changes in their lives. Speaking of which, crazy as it sounds but the next 5 weeks me and my companion have 4 baptismal dates set and it looks like they will all get baptized. The hike last week was really fun. We hiked over a bunch of rocks in a dry wash to a waterfall and a "pond" underneath it. I got sunburned during the hike. It's better now, even though it hurt for a couple days. I remembered to take my camera so I took some pictures of it. Tomorrow is transfer day. I am not getting transferred again, which is good cause I really like it where I am, even though it gets pretty hot and kinda humid. How is summer going? How is your family doing? When does senior year start up? Thanks for having confidence in me. Sorry if you can't read this, this was the only pen that I could find today.
Your Best Friend,
Elder Taylor T Gull
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