Elder Chase Taylor: Week five

Hey y'all,

So for the big Tuesday devotional we had D. Todd Christofferson come and speak about charity and the worth of souls. It was a crazy good talk. The highlight of the week was probably "Hosting" the new missionaries! It's so cool to hear all of their stories and get them started off on the right foot. As i was finishing up hosting one Elder, I walked passed Spencer Murphy! So good to see him! I also saw Taylor Slade and Michael Pace from Mountain View!

So I just wrote down notes of all the cool stuff that happened to me this week. Here they are:

We were coming back from the district sand volleyball game and Elder Reading wanted to run down this hill like on "The Sound of Music". So he starts sprinting down the hill and then just eats it in front of everyone. It was super funny and he pulled it off like a champ.

The missionary name tags make a sweet kazoo noise.

We were sitting outside and then a bird pooped on Sister Grahams paper, i guess it was a warning shot because like 2 hours later she got bird poop on her arm.

One of the newer Elders with the crazy accent has the funniest quotes. We were coming back from gym and said something along the lines of "It's hotter than a popcorn fart out here."

Elder Andelin left some milk in the room for like 2 weeks and it got super nasty and gross. We showed this kid and he started dry heaving.

We get like half and hour extra to prepare on Thursdays because our service leader guy lets us go when we are finish early instead of sending us somewhere else. So when we get back we can take triple showers. We stand in the middle shower and turn the side showers so the water goes into the middle stall and it's super nice.

We set a goal to speak no English for Thursday and Friday of last week. It was so difficult haha. But it helped us a ton and it was super cool to see how much chinese we know.

I was sitting down for the devotional last night and Cannon Cowley came over to say hello! Is it bad that i was glad he had visa issues? He looks like he is doing so well! I only got to see him for like 2 seconds and then i think he went off to west campus.

And a big shout out to Momma, Sister Meinzer, and Aunt Pam for the packages!

Sister Meinzer, the cookies were amazing! Elder Meinzer is doing awesome as well! It's so good to see him around!

Aunt Pam, the whole thing of chips and queso was gone in like a second, it was soooo good! I'm so excited to see Chase in Australia!

I'm halfway done with the MTC! Still loving it! our lessons are getting better everyday! Another District is leaving tomorrow, so that makes us the oldest Mandarin group, which is super awesome.

That is all.

Elder Taylor

(The nasty milk in our room)