Week 45

hahah yeah it is crazy to think that i will probabaly not see one day of 2013 in the states. yeah we all started a goal to not drink coke at home.... i ts 930 and i have all ready bought one hahaha., but seriously i am going to stop... or at least slow down on the pop. you said you are sending stuff for the house? what kind of stuff. but yeah here you dont flush tp here haha it like breaks the pipes or something haha. i had some good luck with companions because i had american companions until i could already talk portuguese, so if brazilians wanted to talk about me i understood them. I have had mostly cool companions though. that was probably so cool for ryder to have baby calves. he will love it. we never had calves but i was at quinns so much that i got to have that experience so that is way cool that kycen and ryder will too. The part that sucks is that they were born in the toughest part of the year. heck they could be too big for kycen befor the snow leaves haha, but maybe they will be so tame that it wont matter. yeah you guys might have a lot of work cut out for you if you hae a bunch of calves in the winter with first time moms..... good luck haha. you could email quinn and ask for some advice haha. we do serice projects on whatever day that we can do it. like this week we are helping a family move houses on thursday. so this week was pretty lame. i was a sick one day and Elder ferreira was sick like three other days. we barely left the house this last week. it really sucked just sittin home all day. dont worry i wasnt that sick i just had a bug i think. Did you get all the way better yet? so i cant believe how fast time is passing by. i only have two more weeks in this transfer. its so crazy it seems like i just got here. this week we made a lot of good goals some high ones. we are going to try to make up for the week we lost last week. so i have a question for you. these last couple weeks when i try to do push ups or pull ups after a little when it gets harder to do them and i have to excert myslef i get this sharp pain in the back of my neck. it is a pain like i pinched a nerve or something. it gives me a throubbing head ach too. i have stopped doing these exercises this week to try to give it a break and see. what do you think ? do you think that its just a pinched nerve? i love you guys i hope you have a great week.

week 44

haha i am so glad that you got my package. the jersy with the hart isnt a jersy it was a shirt that our zone made haha. the hats are made out of leather because that is what the cowboys wear here. they chase bulls through really thick country so they wear leather everything. they even put leather on there horses. the other jerseys i sent because i was running out of room in my bags. so last night i heard some bad news. Elder T was sent home. I talked to madsen today, and he said that he just didn't change. Madsen said that he whent home with honors though so at least that is good.  the rest of the week was good. Me and Elder Marcolino made bbq saturday night. it was so good. it was a little hard to work this week because here on holidays everything shuts down. Like all the places to use the computers are shut down today. i lucked out and a member had a computer so i could send this to you today. i will email some more tomorrow because i only have a little time today.we live close to the church here it is like two roads away. and yeah we have a laundry machine . all the missionary houses have clothes washers. the new years here was pretty docile. they had some fireworks but not a lot. they weren´t as big as they are in the states either. we climbed up on top of our house and watched them. time is going by so fast. i cant belive that its 2013. like i was trying to remember what i did last new years and i kept thinking of the new years from two years ago thinking that it was last year haha. you will have to send me some pictures from christmas. i hope that you guys get feeling better. we have been a little sick here. not bad sometimes we just get headaches. i think it is from the sun. one of my new year goals is to drink less coke. i know that it would be an unreal goal to say i was going to stop compleatly so i am just going to slow down haha. the next package i will send you guys so dvds and cds from here. some that have the videos of there vacajada ( mexican rodeos haha) love you guys i will write you more tomorrow. we made hot dogs and just meat haha you never really know what part of the bull the meat comes from you just cook it real well and bless it before you eat it hahaha. what ever part it came from it was crazy good. haha. our neighbor is the missionary mom here and she had a bbq thing. it is just a box on a stand with a place to put a stove thing then you put coals in the bottom . i will take a picture and send it to you guys next time. yeah i hope that he got your package for him too. i didnt even think to ask madsen if he did or not. yeah i really did learn a lot at the double dollar. mostly about how to handle myself. it amazes me how many people here dont know what it is like in the real world. they have lived there entire lives in a sheltered box, haha i know i made a lot of bad decisions but i am glad i did sometimes because they helped me grow. i love you mom i hope that you get feeling better. hey can you send some stuff from home to elder marolino he will pay me for it . he wants a real rubix cube, maple, skip-bo, and some american candy. if you can i will tell him how much it is and he will give me the cash. thanks love you. (The Brazilians want American too)

Week 43

hey i had an awesome week. we had a babtism that we werent even expecting. i will tell you about him tomorrow. but i am doing good. the heat is good. i dont mind it to bad because it is not humid. we are going to Jonas´s house to use skype. he served a mission in new jersy. i think we will go there after lunch about this same time. so i will send you a email before to let you know that i am there and ready. i am so excited to talk to you guys. i hope you guys figure that out about the trailer. (Christmas crisis) you dont have me ther any more to crawl through the window. haha. cant wait to talk to you tomorrow.. love you.

week 42

sorry i know that i said that my pday is on monday, but since we had a christmas party today it got moved back to tuesday for this week. My birthday was chill it was wierd it was so hot that it didnt even feel like my birthday. i dont think i have ever had a birthday without snow. this week was good. i am liking it here. it reminds me a lot of arizona. its hot but its the hot that i am use too. that is funny about annie. you got to put kycen on here first. alothough kycen probably would have been bucked off haha. i am not sure what time it will be on christmas. i will email you guys probably in the morning and tell you that i am on. youi were right about my last area. i didnt really like it that much. i think it was because i just dont like the city. here is more chill.the cookies were good. the sugar cookies were a little wierd. i got the cherry feeling but i didnt get the cheese cake? so i am so stoked to talk to you guys next week. i wont write a bunch right now because i can tell you everything next tues. i love you guys have a good week.
 I asked him which packages he got and this is what he said:
yeah i got kid ropes but the christmas book just had the guy talking on it i think that it lost your recording. i got the one with the shirts. i dont know? maybe it will come in the next box. i wont get another box until the next year!! (yeah i got that one. that is a good idea i think that i will do that i will record on it and give it to somebody. or send it back) . how your day today.
 yeah i got the one from grandma and it worked it was so cool. i loved it. yeah i just got done watching the highlights of the nfr haha. i couldnt stop myself from doing it haha.
  haha that looks so nice. Christmas will be so wierd without snow. ( I sent him a picture from my phone of the snow we are getting)
. yeah i got the ornaments. thank you so much i love you have a good week talk to you in a week.

Some have asked about Taylor's spelling I had a mom tell me in South America the keyboards are really bad most of the time the space bar doesn't work and the shift keys don't work either.  Then the vowels are changed to fit there language so that is why a lot of the time his letters appear as he is a terrible speller(he is but not usually that bad).

Week 41

I don't have a lot of time today but wanted to let you know that i am going to Petrolina and that my companion is named Elder Ferriera, he is a Brazilian and he was in the ctm with me . I am pumped to go there, they all say good things about Petronila. they say it is was hot there though. that kinda sucks I am going there during the summer time. they say that there isn't as much humidity there so it will feel more like home. I will write you some more tomorrow. i love you. cant wait to see me saddle.
12/12/12
no it is not the same Ferriera. This Elder Ferreira that I am with he is a Brazilian. he is way cool though. it is way cool here. I am liking it. it is really hot though. I live with three Brazilians. none of them speak English haha. it will be awesome though i am so excited. my saddle looks. good.. I got 4 packages this week. two on Wednesday and two yesterday. I had to open them all though haha. the first two because I couldn't fit them in my bag and the others because I am impatient hahaha. I freaking loved them. thank you guys so much. we will be having a Christmas conference this next week so i will be able to get anything else that gets here soon. and then once a month the zone leaders go to Salvador so its about normal. this last week with my companion, our Pres. feels he should stay to have a successful life I know that he will love your package to him. how was Vegas? I watched the highlights of the first five rounds yesterday haha. yeah we all ready have a place hooked up to skype you guys. he is our ward mission leader. he served a mission in New Jersey so its sweet he speaks English. i am way excited to get to work here. oh i all most forgot to tell you that our pday is going to be moved from Tuesday to Monday so next Monday I will email you . tell everyone. I hope you guys have a good week. love you all and miss you.

week 40

haha you really did just make my week. haha.(His truck just got finished) i am pumpped about my saddle. one year later haha. so this week we had to talk to president about my comp. my comp said he would work harder and he really wanted to be here. well for anouther week we didnt work during the right hours. like you can see it is way late right now. so yeah i am scared for him that he will have to go home. he doesnt listen to anyone and he isnt working. i know that that package will make him happy. his name is..... make sure you put w on it because there are a lot of Elder..... here. so i was talking to the elders in the staff and they all told me about how i have so many packages there and how you are the best mom in the world hahaha. yeah i am so greatful for the family i have. we made brownies last night and they turned out pretty good. me and madsen just cook stuff everyday. i am getting kinda fat because we just eat our problems away hahaha. yeah i have to start drinking less coke it is getting rediculous. this week president told me that i would be transfered. so i will have to find a member at my new area that has a web cam. i will try my hardest to get to use skype. i feel like it shouldnt be that big of a problem. could you make me a skype account? what you said about going to the temple is so true. i cant believe how lucky we are and we dont take advantage of it. it is twelve hours away from the closes temple here. we have more in our state than they have in the country, it is such a blessing. That is so funny about dad though and his phone and that is way cool about cedar. i am so excited that so many of my friends that werent going to go on missions have decided to go. I  love you guys have a good week. I miss you and cant wait to talk to you in 22 days
I haven't gotten the packages yet I will get them Thursday . yeah it is sad but it is like he is wasting his time and everyone else's money. Could you send me the p90x dvds?? yeah Madsen is worried about next transfer how it will work without me there. haha we are so much alike it is crazy. i think it is cuz we weren't sheltered. most of the american missionaries came from sheltered homes where they never had to experience the world outside of their family and byu haha. Elder brown the assistant asked me if he could marry you haha he was like your mom is the most awesome person ever. i cant believe how awesome of a family Ihave. Elder hubbard last time used the google account too to talk to his family because you can link more than one computer and i pads and stuff. he talked to him mom and dad and all of his brothers at the same time. so maybe you could look into how that works because i all ready have a google account.

week 37-39

So we have been out of it for awhile so here are some pictures from Taylor, His thankful tree we sent him turkeys to write what they are thankful for this is a tradition we do at our home for the month of Nov.

Then his love for pumpkin cookies
11/13/12 - So Taylor has a companion he is from Brazil and he is teaching Taylor lots of patience so the letters are a little edited.
God has a plan for everything. this week was awesome i got some packages that are awesome. i love you guys so much. i have watched my video like 100 times all ready. it needs to be longer i all ready have it memorized haha. it is funny i have watched is so much that  i have three things that i have seen that i can work on when i get home. so this week we got p90x. the first day that we did it i about died. i have never been so sore before in my life after working out for 15 min haha.oh yeah we bought taco shells today! i am pumped to eat tacos again. that is so cool about cedar and Brandon. cedar told me last week. i am so proud of them haha. its really the best thing ever. so i am pretty sure i will be transferred right before Christmas. if i am not transferred i really think i will kill somebody. so another thing that i did this week cool was turn my chair into a roping dummy . i can rope it just like a steer with a kid rope. it is sweet. next week i will send you some pictures.  i am good though. me and Madsen love you guys haha. i will write you some more next week but don't have much time today. all ways waiting on Brazilians haha. love you have a good week.
11/19/12 - This week I was able to email back and forth for a whole hour I love it when that happens!!
haha yeah things are still going here. haha. i will start with the good news. we are going to Baptize this weekend! i was talking with the assistants the other day . the one is from plain city by the way, but he promised me that if i just kept trying to help my comp and have patience then the lord would bless my area. all week i tried really hard. i tried to be firm and tell him what i thought but to pick my battles and say things smart, it didn't really help any but we found a little girl who her parents were going to church but aren't married and want their daughter to be baptized so this Sunday we are going to baptize her. i know that the lord is watching over us. another good thing is I  didn't throttle anyone. i feel like at the end of this transfer i will be prepared to do anything. haha. haha that is funny about Kycen. that is funny that he is so outgoing normally he is so shy. oh and about the not completing my word that is one of my biggest pet peeves here because my comps will say one thing then do something else and i am just like no that is wrong. i am so glad that i was raised up with a cowboy background. the kids here from the city they are totally lost. even the missionaries you can see a big difference . i thing you need to really try to get --- to talk with the missionaries. he needs to learn about the plan of salvation. yeah we have a lot of trials, but they are never going to go away. they can get better but not if we never turn to the lord. i remember when i made a lot of bad decisions when i was younger and thinking that i could handle it or change it all by myself. i now understand why i was never able to change until i decided to get serious about leaving on the mission. we have to have the help of the lord. today we i bought the rest of the stuff to send home so tell ryder that i have a present i am sending to him. tell him i said happy birthday. ( Feliz aniversario ) i will try to get it in the mail this week. so everyone loves you here so much haha. we made cookies with the frosting that you sent and they were so freaking good. today we made chile too. haha i have the best family in the world. i love you so much have a good week; haha yeah the dr pepper was just like normal. it was so awesome. savannah sent me some too!!! well are you going to give in and give me an i phone when i get home? haha thank you for everything you guys are so awesome i really have the best family in the world. you know that you dont have to send me so much stuff,  i dont need it. but hey i will never complain.haha but yeah i really have the best family all the elders love momma winn. is name is elder brown. he is my grandpa( the trainer of elder hubbard) he is cool we talk about ogden a lot haha. yeah we are working on getting the rest of the p90x cds we only have the abbs one right now. but yeah they are as hard as they say. so wait what you let him lose my good hat haha what the heck. i thought it was just kycen that was using my stuff but no it is everyone. its ok though it was getting old anyways. that is so cute that he want s to be a missionary. all right  i will try that. this transfer has really been one of the hardest things mentaly that i have ever done in my life. i know that it is to prepare me for something bigger in my life. i am a little scared at what that will be though haha so yeah i will be on here a while i really think that he is slower than elder ----. but i am greatful for this time to talk to you
haha that is funny. is that a new tv in the background? what else has changed since i left, oh haha yeah i all ready talked to lucia about it haha. yeah lucia is the best teacher in our ward and is almost equal to jenny so yeah it was all most a fight(when they talked about a gospel principle) haha. yeah it is going by fast it really helps to have madsen there. i heard from him like two weeks ago. he is loving it and is doing good. maybe in his mission it is more strict on the time policy. yeah you will have to figure that out because i am not giving up my bed haha. i think i will drain it and take it with me when i move out hahal. so what else is new. how are all the horses. but yeah i like am so stressed out all the time haha. its like i only have fun when i am at home and even then it is tought. i know that sounds bad but i have decided that it isnt the best two years of your life but the best two years for your life. i dont even want to think about where i would be if i didnt decide to push the button and send in my papers. our quorm president said it right last night. he is a convert of 7 years and before he was baptized he was in jail for 3 years for saling drugs, and stilling and stuff. he said now that i have changed my life and thrown the devil out i am scared to step out of line because i know how powerful he is. i am really scared to know what would have happened if i hadn't left. yeah we have phones so you could give them the number and tell them they needs the plan of salvation.but yeah when i look back at all the stupid things that i got mad over at home and stuff i know that i have all ready changed a lot because i dont get mad over those things any more. so i am going i love you have a good week i love you so much . tell everyone i love them.
11/27/12
haha well you can tell dad he got the longer email this week because you didnt sent me one hahaaha(it got lost in cyber space talk about a heart attack). this week we didnt have a baptism it is really hard. i am about sick of it. i am putting all my energy into not hitting my comp like Garrison. that is cool that you pulled them out at the roping. someone has to do it now that i am not there to do it for you guys hahaha. i love you have a good week. i am so pumped for dixon. i love you guys i am so greatful for the family that i have . i am sure that is a lot of my comps problem is that he doesn't have a good family life. i miss you
We pray for Taylor that he will learn from this trial that has been put in front of him and put one foot in front of another and at the end he will look back and see how far he has come. We love you Taylor.......