Week 25 Hardest Week in Mission So Far!!

This week has probably been the hardest week in my mission!! White washing is very difficult!!! (When two new elders come into a new area) we have to start from nothing and build up from there but we did have a wedding and baptism that we walked into!! which was nice!!  and about the mosquito's, rats, and monkeys. I have a ton of mosquito bites and I have yet to see a rat and a monkey but it wouldn't surprise me!!! and I take the pills when i remember(Malaria pills)!!! hahah. and the internet place we are at sucks and I can't send pictures!! So we will try to find the new place!! Oh and the maggot package elder yes I know him his parents sent him Arby's sauce in little packets and they got squished and fly's got in hahah. but my new area is way different than my last!!! Its like a jungle here there is a ton of rain it hasn't stopped since I've been here!! My shoes don't dry because of the humidity and the puddles we walk through!! We wear rubber boots but still we get in deep water and the water goes over them!!! But my comp is from Springville, UT and his name is Elder Kitchen I like him a lot we have the same time in the country!! but I'm am missing Magoanine a lot its dry there and here I don't have a lot of money to buy food this week because we bought food in my old area for the rest of the transfers but we got transferred early so that sucked!! There is nothing I need except DR PEPPER in the package hahah but anything works!! and I have not gotten Lori's package yet but I don't know when she sent it it usually takes 1 or 2 months to get here!! Sounds like Saydi and Tobie are trouble makers!!!  I will send pics asap!!! but that's all for this week!!! i love you guys and i will be praying for you guys!!!

Taylor on the move to his next area. Manga

Week 24 TRANSFERS!! January 13-19,2014

Hey I'm finally getting transferred!!!! I am going to a place called Manga (or in English mango) haha Apparently they have a lot of them there!!  This week was good we did a lot of contacts (65) and had only a few new investigators!! But next week I'll be going to white wash an area!!! I am excited about that!!! I loved training but man it was tough and I have a little more patience now but I am excited to leave this area!!! But I will miss the family's I am teaching!! Today my day will consist of packing haha.... and I get to go fly!!!!  I am way excited!! Where at in Texas is dad looking at!! And for the package gummy snacks are good and butterfingers, and reeses they dont have those here and milkyways and snickers!! I am still waiting on Tylers email he probably wont email till this week and I dont have Marissas email!!:( I have been here a long time its crazy!! but I love it!!! I love you guys thcau

Week 23 - We had 41 contacts January 6-12,2014

• Heyy family!!! This week was good!! We found a lot of new investigators but this week was very HOT and humid!!! Transfers happen in two weeks !!! It's crazy feels like I have been here like 2 months and I love it!!! It sounds like all the kids are doing great!! Tobie sounds like he love wrestling and so does Kade!! and Saydi is making bank babysitting!!!  I am happy for Tyler and Marissa!!! but can you send me Marissas address so I can send her a letter!! and I got a package from the Claytons this week which was way nice it was full of chocolate!!! Tell them I said Thank you!!! but yeah this week was good,  we dropped a lot of people but found a lot as well and the language is coming along!! um this morning we played basketball with a bunch of youth in the ward and some random kids and our team destroyed!!! oh and last week I sprained my ankle pretty bad playing basketball its still swollen and bruised  but I'm all good!!! We are working hard and have been seeing the blessing from it we have been getting a lot of contacts we had 41 this week but the only problem with that is we only got 6 new investigators with that!!!  We will have to get more this week!!! but we haven't had a lot of success with getting people to church that seems to be one of the hardest things to do! We had like 7 families planned to go to church we picked up one family and were hoping the rest would come but we didn't have any luck!! One of new investigators is awesome his name is Boa Ventura we have had two lessons with him and during the second lesson he said I prayed to see if you message is true and I am certain I got an answer but that it is but I still don't know if the church is!! hahahaha we taught him the bom and told him ok this time ask if the book is true and if you get an answer that means the church is !!  and two of the people I baptized are giving talks this week in church and they both want my help on it  so I will be preparing 2 talks this week!! and Joanna said that I have to help her give a good talk so all the other missionaries will be jealous that we have the best members in our area!! It was pretty funny!! but besides that we didn't have much action I love my comp and I still love Magoanine!!! I love you guys and will be praying for you!!! and as for the package can you put one of those hams in! hahah  legos all the way!!! Cook book of everything!! games like pass the pigs, bang!!!!! this game is very important according to everyone else!! ,swap,or whatever you can think of that would be fun!!candy of all kinds like gummies or whatever DR Pepper!!!! and what ever you can think of ties pictures!! and all things!! but I don't know what address will work the best but i think the one in the call packet and that will be sent to the mission office!! love you guys and have a good week!!!

Week 22 (week 21 very short family letter)

Heyy family I don"t have much time I have to be out in my area in like 10 min so this will be a short letter!!! but this week has been good it was kinda rough because of the new year and everyone and their mother was drunk!!! and yes I was in the back and had a grey tie on!! I will try to make myself more visible for you from now on!!! and for Christmas I bought a camera and food!!!! and that's why I spent so much!!!  and yes we have cell phones  but there as simple as you can get! and for my package you can send me candy DR pepper sunflower seeds Sweet Babys Rays bbq recipe book of all sorts of recipes and card games like phase ten or of that kind and what ever you can think of!!
Elder taylor roberts

missao mocambique maputo

caixa postal 1166

correio central

maputo

maputo

mocambique

mocambique, Africa

that is the address! but it should be in my call packet!!

we found two good families this week  and we should have a baptism in 2 weeks for one family and one little girl who is 9!!!

I'm glad Tobie is doing good in wrestling and that he likes it and is Kade doing that as well i miss tacos!! i would love some of those now!! and i miss things like Lowreys season salt and stuff like that a lot!! I am way excited for Marissa and Tyler to go on their missions!!! and I have been praying and fasting about the job situation as well!!  It honestly feels like I have been here 2 months but I have 6, time flys!! Well I'm out of time and I love you guys a lot  have a good week!!!!


(Taylor is in the very back row sitting down, the one you can barely see)  This was their Christmas party zone conference at President and Sister Kretlys house.




These are pictures that I have pulled off of his mission Presidents blog.  Taylor is to the far right and all you get is the back of his head!!  I told him to make himself more visible in pictures. (Picture below you can see Taylor turned his head haha)

Week 20 YEAH!! Christmas a call from Taylor

Hi mom  this wont be much of a letter either! but I will be on skype at about 7:00 or 7:30 AM on christmas morning but its like  10:00 or 10:30 pm in Arizona on Christmas Eve!!! I will give you all the stories on Skype!! I get 45 min on skype and I dont think skype costs so you need to make an account for skype and send me your name and email and all ASAP or we wont be able to talk!!!!

Week 19

Hey family how are you guys this week I'm a little late today and won't be able to write a huge email today because the power has been out all day!! but I'm doing good beside the fact that I don't have a camera!!! hahah  but yeah and I have been looking for it on the street but haven't found it!!! hahah ohhh and apparently the biggest black market in Africa is here in Maputo so if I want to buy stolen goods I can just go there!!! hahah and yeah there are lots of legit places to buy cameras here!!! and you don't have to feel bad about not sending a package but a birthday package would always make up for that!! hahah and the packages almost always get here I haven heard of any one getting theirs stolen!! They all tell me put pictures of Jesus all over it and you'll be safe!!! hahah  but Christmas money for a camera would be nice!!  and we are allowed to have i pods as long as its just church music and like EFY music and stuff like that!!   This week was good we made a lot of contacts by talking to people in the streets we have been trying to talk to every one and trying to find new way to be more effective because here its very hard to sit with people and have lessons they always make up stupid excuses on why they cant make it!! But this week we sat with a lot of new people we had 15 new investigators which is way better than last week!!! But yeah we have been trying hard to be more obedient and because of this we are seeing the lord bless our area we are having way more success! We still have some things to work on though like we aren' t exactly obedient because we don't like to work out in the morning and little thing like that but we are doing better on not showing up to the house late and going to bed late and waking up late!!! hahah  We are having another baptism this week and we will baptize a family and another young man!! The youth in this branch are awesome we this will be the second baptism in 2 transfers because of them being ward missionary's!! And the family we are baptizing is awesome and they are a living testimony that the gospel blesses familys because when we first got there they would always argue and they fight a lot and you could always feel the tension in the house when we went over there but now they are a whole new family!!! They read the scriptures every night together and pray as a family and they get along WAY BETTER!!!! They could never agree on anything but now they are one big happy family!!! Next week is transfers and I dont know if I will stay or leave!! I would be fine with either I love Magoanine but I have been here awhile but wherever the lord wants me ill go!!  okay and the elders in my apt. first we have Elder Robinson my companion! He is a goob!!! He is from Eugune Orgeon!! and likes to scare little kids here and chase them it's very entertaining!! and his jokes are soo stupid they are hilarious!!!! I will tell you about the rest next week just don't let me forget!! because I don't have much time okay and yes ill pray for help on what dad should do on work!! THAT'S AWESOME THAT YOU DID SO GOOD SELLING AT THE WRESTLING TOURNAMENT!!! and Saydi got an I phone 5!!!!! WHAT!! QUE ISSO!!! NAO PODE FAZER ISSO!!!  Tell Tobie to toughen up a little!!! hahah just joking but for real!! and nice job Kade on the cowboy poet thing!! and Saydi you cant date you are to young! haha and dad you knee needs to get better!!! Hows the ward doing in Wickenburg? This part is for Tobie and Kade last p-day we went to a zoo or kind of a zoo it had monkeys and crocodiles and that was it but we bought some live chickens outside of the zoo and snuck them in and fed them to the crocs!!! hahaha it was awesome!!! and the government here is a mess!!! yes bigger than Obama!! haha its very corrupt and up in the north there is a war going on between  two political parties!! its nice its between the people in power and the people who want to be in power and be just as bad!! haha but they had elections here 2 weeks ago and Frelimo is in power but edm the best party who actually fight for the people  won but the other stole votes and its just a mess!! but the war is between Frelimo and Ranalmo and Edm just wants the people to be happy!! haha  well that all the time I have and I didn't write to anybody else so post this on facebook or somthing!!! bye love you guys!!! talk to you in a couple weeks!!!