Dear Mom,
I love you guys so much.  Your daily letters are so much fun to read.  I love to just relax and think about other things than Spanish and how I need to study 10 million things a day. =)

Everything is really good.

I am really picking up Spanish great.  Everything is easier when the Lord is on your side! 

 

There are these two sisters that are really fun and nice to me and my companion.  One of them reminds me of Annie... her name is Amber.

 

Ask Casey if he knows a Gadoy or some way of spelling that, from Brazil, Sao Paulo North. He is in the First Quorum of the Seventy and his daughter is one of our teachers. She knows President Ellis.  Anyways! Everything is going great. 

 

I'll look through your letters and respond to some of your more pressing questions in more detail. 

 

Oh!!! mom, i need you to go to missionary mall and get me my sewing thing cause i never got it... i got the converter but no sewing kit... muy mal. Oh and while you're there, please buy me another yellow and white stripped tie cause this kid wants one and I'm gonna trade it to him for another tie. Long story, just send one please!!!  I'll love you forever. um... yeah. ha ha that's all!

 

I love you guys tons. Make sure to tell Brother Matt Barlow, the new 2nd counselor, that he is a very wonderful person. 

 

I'm not sure of anything else, but look for my letter... it'll be comming soon.  Please, no more junk food, unless it's like super special or something. I appreciate your constant love towards me though. You two are the greatest parents in the world. 

 

Yo sé que Jesucristo es nuestro Salvador y Redentor. Este iglesia es verdadera. Thomas S. Monson es un Profeta verdadera también. Yo sé. Ustedes estan muy importante de mi. Le amo. siempre requerdan.

 

My spelling may be a little off... but yeah. If you and dad wanna send me spanish stuff... use small words, or any gospel related terms. cause i know all of those. =) 

 

Tell everyone I love them very much. 

 

Oh, and when you get a dog, please keep it out of my room... or at least box up my stuff first. =) 

 

Have fun with everything you do because this life is far too short and precious to not make every moment the best moment that you can!!!

 

Dios nos ama. y le amo.

 

-Elder Dakota E. Taylor

 

PS. i might not have the cleanest room back home, but we have been awarded the cleanest district in the building. Yeah, woot woot. Bet you didn't see that comming. I make my bed every day. =) Sorry it took me so long to get it right. <3 !!!!

This is a real letter from Dakota. So nice!

Ok.  So here are the highlights of the letter we just received.  WOW.  Mondays are going to be a day to look forward to!  I look at my brick mailbox in a whole new way!  So here goes:

Dear Mom and Dad,

I've been dying to write you guys back!  The dearelder.com place works like a dream.  I enjoy receiving letters from you so, ya...spread the word. My packages are great!  I love you guys!  However, no more gum and no more  Mountain Dew.  They say missionaries don't chew gum so  ha ha I can't chew it.  Also, less candy...ha ha. I got a lot from you with no time to eat it.  I'm busy every day from 6:00 AM to 9:45 PM.  So I only have like 30 min to eat candy before bed.

I'm so tired all the time, but it's so worth it.  Life here is really fun. I'll send some pictures next week.  No time this week.  My companion is the bomb and one of my roommates is very similar to Spencer Pluid. 

Last Tuesday night, November 2nd, we had Elder M. Russell Ballard come talk to us about how to be good communicators.  :)  Maybe you are a little jealous.  You should be!  

My district all joined the choir.  It's way fun!  2 Elders in our district went home...sad day.  I'm not leaving though, so don't worry.

Everyone made fun of me because I currently have the record for most packages and letters received.  My companion is in 2nd place.  Ya, we're cool.  My Branch President asked me during our first interview ever, "Elder Taylor, are you always smiling and happy?"  The spirit here is usually just awesome!

Can't wait to see Jaxson.  I think he's gonna like it here.  I'm so glad you guys are going to the temple.  Nothing will make your lives more enjoyable that that.  I promise that if you haven't noticed positive change yet, you will. I am glad you are reading Jesus the Christ.  I am reading Our Search for Happiness.  Me and Jaxson may be in the same building/floor for our classroom, which is where we spend most of our lives. I think that is most everything!

I love you tons!  Tell EVERYONE Hi!!!

Love You!      -Elder D. Taylor

WE GOT A LETTER! OUR FIRST ONE!

Monday afternoon, right when I got home from school, there was a letter from Elder Dakota Taylor!  YES!  We have so been waiting to hear from him.  The letter was one of those fill in the blanks type of letters that they had for them so they could get the word home that they were ok and stuff but it was only a paragraph.  That is so fine! 

His companion is Elder Higgs from Kaysville.  He went to Davis High School, but he was not in the band.  (Thank heavens! For those of you who are unfamiliar, Davis High and American Fork High are HUGE rivals in the Marching Band World and American Fork most always wins.)

He said that he can only receive letters while in the MTC, no email.  The best way to write him is through www.dearelder.com.  You need to know that his MTC Mailbox is #297 and you need to know the code for his mission.  ARG-NUE 1228  Then you can go to your computer, type in a letter and they will print it off and hand deliver it to the MTC.  This will change when he leaves the MTC for Argentina, so I will update you on this at that time.

He said that good ole phrase, "All is well."  And the last thing he mentioned was not to send any gum.  I am not sure why.  He said it was a long story...
   He signed it by saying,   Audios  -Elder D. Taylor

So that is all for now.  We will see what happens next.  His P-day is on Thursdays, so I bet all his letters will arrive on Mondays.  I will post them as soon as I can after that.  All I can say is that it is a very great privlege and honor to have a missionary and I am looking forward to supporting him these next two years.  What a wonderful blessing!