Week 12

(Note to Everyone:  Another short letter from Taylor and again he was answering questions from my last email.  Its always nice to get a letter when they finally recognize what you have been teaching them for the last 18 years sinks in>)

Your week sounds interesting!!!  All the injury's and Tobie!!! hahah and the money was because i took out the 100 dollars the Hancocks gave me and that's why!!! But i'll only spend like 30-40 every month if that!!  I might be able to buy clothes that fit but I don't know where to get them!!! and I should be good on clothes for a while!!!! I'll try to remember to send the picture!!!( Mom wants a full length picture) and I am really surprised that the cat is still alive!!!  But i just want to let you know that i am sorry for being a slob and leaving dishes and complaining about washing dishes and leaving messes you you to clean!!! I know how you feel now, me and one other elder try to keep the house clean but when its 2 clean people -vs- 4 dirty people we loose!!! and we get on every body but in the end its us who wash the dishes!!!  I'm sorry!!!  And what happened to dads knee ?? hahah 

Week 11

(Note to everyone:  In this letter Taylor is pretty much just answering questions that I have asked him so I am not sure if you will be able to understand this letter , In the quotes I have put the questions I have asked him.  So here it is.)

Hey family I'm sorry but today will be a short letter, but today has been good its been raining for 3 days! We will be opening two marriage processes tomorrow!!!  On Nov. 2 we will be baptizing 2 families and one teenager!!  That's scary that Saydi drove all the way to surprise!!! But its good that she went out!! and its about time you got new tires!! hahahah and I knew she was going on her mission  (Marissa) like 3 or 4 weeks ago!!! hahah and if you send a package now it will get here by my birthday maybe!! hahah and it costs like 50 or 60 bucks to send one!!! and do you remember Uncle Marks friend who's son is in Mozambique he lives in the same house as me right now and he knows Mark!! hahah and my clothes are doing alright but two of the shirts you got me don't fit so I only have 4 short sleeve shirts and they don't fit because they are 15 1/2 regular and my other shirts are just 15 1/2  and they fit fine!  (Asking about if we can send Taylor money to help Families get married) We aren't supposed to help them but what we do is we say if you make us dinner we will pay you like 200 meticals and help them that way but we just cant give them the money!! Hey can you send me the recipe for lasagna and your special chocolate sauce and anything else that is good!!! or if you send a package send a recipe book of all sorts of food and anything!!!  I love you guys and i will talk you you next week bye love you!!

Week 10

I learned a lot this week and had some pretty interesting experiences!!! But sadly we didn't find many new families’ to teach!!!!

I’m going to write a little different this week I’m going to tell you about our  investigators!!

Joao and Zita: this family is our family closest to baptism!!! We have been teaching them for a really long time like 9 weeks!! They are a very poor family but some of the greatest faith I've seen!!!  they have one daughter as well who will be baptized!! They own a little shop and they sell stuff out of a shipping container!! They don’t have like any money but they are getting married which cost a lot here!! Like 1000 MT but they should be opening up their marriage process this week so they can sign the papers to get baptized!!!  

Carlos and Joanna: this family is awesome we have been teaching them for 3 weeks and we should be able to open up the marriage process this week!!!! They are a young family with one extremely wild 1 1/2 year old son named Wesley!!! He is the craziest kid ever, his hobbies are destroying things!!! He runs around and flirts with little girls during church!!! This family is a strong family and they have been to church 3 times and he brought one of his friends this week because he said he knew the church was true!!

Calisto and Joanna: this family is also a really young family! They live like 45 min away from the church but they still come!! He was a reference from his brother who got baptized just like 1 moth ago!! His brother lives in Beria which is in the top half of the country!! They have two kids one who is 7 and a little girl named Ika!! We had a great lesson with them about the law of chastity and that they need to get married so they can get baptized and I told him I think your brother got married so he could be baptized and he was like no he isn't married so he called him up and was like WHAT you are married!!!! And then we here my wedding is going to be better than yours  was!!!!! hahaha Elder Robinson and I just looked at each other and were like Yeah!!!!!  This family is awesome!!

Alberto and Carolina: I love this family they have 4 kids 1 boy and 3 girls and their relationship isn't perfect but it’s getting better as we help them get closer to Christ!!! They have a little boy named Wagoner  which is a really weird name for here!!! But he is understanding everything we teach him like a boss but his wife is a little slower to understand!! It was really cool our last lesson with them he bore his testimony to us and was like I know your church is true because I just feel it and I don’t believe you would come from America to walk around every day in the hot sun and through the sand to share this message if it wasn't true!!! It was really awesome and you could feel the spirit way strong!!!!  We have been teaching them for 4 weeks!!!!!!

Amerall and Enuice: this family is awesome he is one of the top people in the military here!!! He lived for 5 years in Russia!!!! He can speak fluent Russian!!! He and his wife had a drinking problem but as we have been teaching them you can actually see the change in them he is way happier and he has a strong testimony of the church already!!! Last time we went over there they had a nice cake they bought and he said instead of drinking we eat cake now!!! hahahah they have three boys!! He is the funniest guy I know here!!  That's a little summary of our investigators!!

I have a few interesting stories this week!!  First one

We went to a new investigators house and got inside and were look at his walls  and looking at all his pictures he’s got pictures of Jesus and family all over his walls and then we look on his other wall and there is a huge picture of a naked chick!!! and were like  crap!!! and he sits right underneath it!! Needless to say we didn't stay very long!!! Yesterday I was walking down the street and this random drunk guy runs across the road and freaking shoulder checks me!!!! hahahah I didn't even see him coming but luckily I’m a big guy because he hit me at like a sprint or as fast as a drunk guy can run but he like bounces off of me and lands like 5 feet in front of me on the road!!!  I was confused on what just happened and he gets right back up and starts running and goes up to another person and scares the crap out of them and starts chasing people!!! hahah he was an interesting guy!!! hahaha but the funniest thing was it was the zone leaders birthday on Saturday so we all bought him stuff and made him a cake and we went in to his room and barged in and he had no idea we were going to do this and no one said anything to him all day so we get in there and sing to him and give him all this stuff and he is like I’m very surprised hahahah thank you but it’s not my B-Day and none of us believed him because he always does this stuff!!  So we just shrugged it off and he is like no it’s not my birthday and pulls out his ID and shows us hahah and his birthday turned out to be the next month!!!!! hahaha it was funny!!!! and that’s about it this week!!I love you guys!!!

Tchau Elder Roberts!!

Week 9

Monday: Elder Robinson and I went into the capital city Maputo to explore and we both have only been in the city once before so we were like lost the entire time but we found the one thing we were looking for!!! a restaurant called Mundos!!!! and it was freaking good!!! I had the Thai pizza it had chicken, pineapple and bacon wrapped bananas!!! freaking good!!! and later that night Elder Robinson went to get a hair cut:and half way through the power went out so he had like half of his hair cut and couldn't do anything about it!!! hahah so he had to work for like 2 hours with half cut hair!! hahahah

Tuesday:  We had zone conference and that was awesome!!! President Kretly is awesome our goal in the mission is to have 4 stakes by the end of my mission!!!! We have 0 right now!!!  We have some work to do!!!!!!

Wednesday: This week was tough we had almost all our lessons fall!!  But we have been trying to find new family's!!!

Thursday: Again we had all but one of our lessons fall and the one that didn't was with a family that is getting married and baptized in 2 weeks!!! 

Friday:  Not much happened but we did have a lesson marked and we went to meet the guy at the gas station and he was freaking drunk out of his mind!!! It was hilarious he could barley remember how to get to his house and he was tripping on everything!!!

 Saturday: We had a service project a clothes drive for an old folks home and after we had food and that was good!!! That night we while we were waiting for a member to meet us at the gas station this guy come up and is like lets go and we were like where and he didn't say anything so we just walked away and we look back and he is following us so we crossed the road and start walking back the other way he jumps the road and is coming after us again so we jump the road again and we look and hes looking around for us and were just trying to loose him and he just keeps following us so we jump the road one more time and go down a road and take a bunch of turns and never saw him again!! hahah 

I hope all is well back home!!! Love Elder Roberts

Bacon Wrapped banana pineapple pizza

 

Week 8 Photos

Garbage

More Garbage

Digging a 6ft hole for our garbage


It's like the movie HOLES!!