Emails and Pictures!!

We got our first official email from Taylor yesterday! It was so exciting to hear about her life in el CCM, aka the MTC. She really is doing so well. For those of you who only know very little Spanish (like myself), Hna is short for Hermana ;) Here's the first email: 

I LOVE YOU ALL SOOOOOO MUCH!!!! I miss everyone so much. El CCM is so amazing!!!!!! So I dont even really know where to start but I guess I'll start with my companions. Yes that's right I'm in a trio!!!!! My dream!!!! My companions are Hermana Moss y Hermana Nicholes! Hna. Moss is from Houston and she's practically fluent in Espanol and it's crazy. Hermana Nicholes is from American Fork and she knows very, very little about Espanol pero she's trying really hard! My companions are VERY different but I love them! We are all always laughing and they're so great! MY DISTRICT IS SOOOOOO COOL!!!!!!!!! There is one other set of Hermanas and they're Hna. Saunders who's from Corona(!!!!!!) and Hna. Bloxham from St. George(!!!!!) They are sooooooo amazing and hilarious and I love them so so so so much!! Hna. Bloxham is probably one of my favorite people ever because she LOVES Parks and Rec and we talk about it all the time and we have so much in common! I told her one day that she kinda looks and her manerisms are sometimes like April and she said that that was the first time she cried at the MTC because it was so awesome!! hahaha Every Monday we have FHE with our zone and play a game called signs and it's so fun!!! 

OH!!!! We've already started teaching an investigator(we're pretty sure he's actually a member but I'm just going to pretend he because it's better that way. like Santa)  in all spanish(his name is Obdulio and we forget it almost ever day because its so random hahaha) and it's really amazing. It's been hard and a little frustrating for us because we all just want to be at a high level of spanish but I'm honestly a lot less worried about it than my companions because I've been able to bare very heartfelt testimonies every lesson and we've been told so many times that the goal of el CCM is to learn to teach by the language of the Spirit and one of my goals I made before I got here was to teach with genuine love and concern for the people I teach and I already feel soooo much love for Obdulio and also everyone I meet here. I encourage all of you to try to implement that in your lives. It seriously would be so easy for me to constantly be annoyed by people here if I didn't have the mindset that every single one of these people is loved more than I can ever imagine by the Savior and Heavenly Father. I'm sooooo happy here. I mean I've totally cried several times but those were only when I felt the Spirit and when I got your letters and when I got the package Sis Wilkins sent me(pictures of me sharing the wealth to come) THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR LETTERS THEY MADE ME SO HAPPY!!!! I love all of you so so so so so so so much. Whenever I have little tiny intsy thoughts about how class is hard or whatever I always think of my wonderful family and how one of my goals for my mission was to serve well so my family will be blessed. I'm so happy to hear Trey has been talking about his mission!!!! that's amazing. I can't wait to give him all my advise when he's older and I'm going to start writing things down for all the boys to know when they're preparing! 

I have like a bazzilion pictures!! Mom I got your letter today that said "please send pictures if you can" and I laughed out loud because I was soo happy I have so many for you all!!! I have seriously so many thoughts hahaha I'm typing like a mad-woman hahaha Epañol es interesante porque yo encomprendo muchas cosas pero hablar es dificil a veces. My teachers are sooo amazing and very strict and intense at time but they love us so much and they are so amazing. Yesterday was a little bit difficult for me, I was just very emotional during our companionship-teacher coaching time and she(my more intense and strict teacher) talked to me alone and said that Heavenly Father has put me in this situation because He loves me and knows that I can help. She gave me many hugs and besos on the cheek and told me that she is so grateful for me and my spirit and desire to serve and she got emotional too. So after that the day was so awesome and our lesson with Obdulio was awesome because he said he wanted to be baptised! 

 Me encanta Español. Me encanta el CCM. Me encanta el Evanjelio de Jesucristo. Yo se que Jesucristo es mi Salvador y tenemos un Padre Celestial que ama todos nosotros. Yo se que El Libro de Mormon es la palabra de Dios. 

I love you all so much!!!!!!!!!! 

Here's an excerpt from another email explaining who everyone is in the pictures:

in the picture of me and two others, those are my companions. the one in the yellow shirt is Hna. Moss and the other on is Hna. Nicholes.The elder in the picture where he is looking at the camera and sitting next to an elder reading is Elder Despain(Elder York took my camera and took that hahaha). In the group picture with all five of the Hermanas the other two besides my companions are on the left side and left to right it's Hna. Saunders and Hna. Bloxham (they are seriously the best and so fun). So basically I have an amazing district and we're all so friendly and hilarious and when we share our thoughts about lessons and devotionals its amazing. ALSO I forgot to say in my email that Sundays are the best days ever here. They are so spiritually enriching because we don't have classes to worry about we can just focus on the lessons in church and we get to watch devotionals (the one we watched was from Elder Holland at the Provo MTC in 2013 and it was without a doubt one of the best talks or devotionals or anything I've ever heard) we also get to watch a movie and we watched one that was about appreciating the accessibility of the Book of Mormon( if you can find it WATCH IT its amazing).

We got one final email from Taylor yesterday and we are all so proud of her. She is teaching all of us wonderful lessons about the love of Christ and enduring. I know that through her example we will all gain stronger testimonies and closer to our Father in Heaven. Here's her last email from yesterday:

I think that this might be the last email for today, I'm not super sure but I think it probably will be but I just wanted to tell you all that I love and miss you all so much.I could have never gotten here and enjoy it here as much as I do without all of you. I LOVE LOVE LOVE it here and everyone I'm around and meet are so kind and amazing and it's just the best. I got sooooooo lucky because every single person in my district is so great and nice and hilarious.The hermanas in my district are amazing (especially Hna. Bloxham, we are kindred spirits). 

The other day I was thinking about why I'm serving and one of the reasons I thought about was because I want people to feel the unmeasuable happiness that I feel because I get to be with you all forever. Someone also talked about how though this is hard to be away from our families for 18 months/2 years, we can find hope in the fact that we are going to be together for eternity and that we are going to help others do the same. 

I have the best family in the world!!!!! 

Love you all so much!!!