1 Junio 2015

Caption for the photo: Mosiah 15:14-17

We had another fantastic rainstorm this week. It caught us just as we were on our way to stake conference. All the taxis were busy, so we were waiting for about 30 minutes in the rain before one stopped. We told him where we were going and he said, NOPE! it's flooded over there. So then we waited another 30 minutes for another one to stop. So he took us and we got there soaked to the skin and stepped into the chapel. SOMEBODY thought it was a good idea to turn the place into a gigantic refrigerator with the AC system. It was COLD. But we didn't get sick, so that's good.

The Choir in stake conference was dreadful, but they sang with heart. They sang O Mi Padre, Paz Calmense (Master the Tempest is Raging) and Alabad al Señor, which was cool because that hymn doesn't come in the Spanish Hymnbook.

There was a tornado in Acuña which apparently the worst tornado that has happened in Mexican history. It existed 6 seconds and destroyed 150 homes or something like that and killed 14 people. We haven't heard that any missionaries were affected.

Martha should be coming back from Aguascalientes this week! WOOHOO! And we have to give her back a dish that she loaned to us when she made brownies for us. Oh darn, a good excuse to go back.

ANNNNNDDD.....LUCY PASSED HER INTERVIEW WITH THE PRESIDENT! YAYAYAYAY! so she'll be baptized this Saturday. She is super excited.

We ran into a guy from the Movimiento Gnostico these past two weeks. We entered into his house and (I lie not), there were doves flying around in his front room which was small classroom type salon. When he turned on the fan, he said "watch out" and bits of bird poop went flying. He had pictures of religious figures and statues all over, and a ton of pictures of pyramids for some reason. Looking at the board looked like it was a super fascinating discussion. He talked to us about something about 7 great teachers, Krishna, Jesus, Buddha, Quetzalcoatl (which, he claimed, is basically just an ancient Mexican Jesus but it didn't interest him at all that we claimed we had a book that talks about how Jesus came to the Americas because, he claimed, it would "lack profundity"...whatever) and some others. And I've never met anyone who can't answer a straight question with a straight answer as badly as him. Good grief, it was like pulling teeth just trying to focus the lesson. So basically it results that he doesn't want anything with the church "because religions, while necessary, only serve to guide people to the Gnostic Movement." yeah.....But he told us about two religious books from the ancient mexicans that I plan to look up once I get back. One called "Popol Vuh" and the other "Chilam balam."

Speaking of which, Elder Lopez ¿a missionary from the south of Mexico? said that the distribution center in the temple should have books of mormon in mixteco so we asked Lucy-s friendshipper to check when the ward goes to the temple this week. That way she-ll be able to hear the gospel in her own languageª By the way, the order of punctuation marks randomly changed on me in the last couple minutes, so the punctuation in this letter from here on out might not make much sense.

Oh, actually, i-m already done.

Que Dios me los cuideª

Elder Taylor

Mosiah 15:14-17