I see dead people

3/5/12

Hola familia,


We flooded the church! It was totally wicked! O! The joy! A town called Puerto Colombia had 2 baptisms but they lack a font. So we filled ours and it was going SLOW. And we figured it had the "can't go above this point" drain. Like a bathtub. Which it does have, but ignoring a year of Colombian experience (which I have) (almost) I trusted the aforementioned drain. We came back after lunch and a lesson, AT4, and were reopening the church and I said "I see dead people" (Little did I know I was talking about us). Elder Cregor said "Oh no!" and I looked more carefully into the hallway! We entered and quickly turned off the water and passed an hour pushing water into the bath room to drain. (There's no carpet here, just tile) Did you know that you can eternally pour water into a toilet and it will just keep going down? Like on eternal flush (better than royal) (but if the toilets bad, makes a smell) Nothing damaged. Awesome experience.


Gambios happened, or transfers happened. Still with Cregor, Elder style. and we had to do a ton for the changes! We totaled 11 missionaries in our house, new ones had to sleep there. But I solved a year long mystery. October 2010 I found a future elder going to Barranquilla Colombia Mission! Whoa! We met unexpected at a dinner, at BYU, at a friends named Liz Hosted in Oct 2010. Now I arrived MTC totally stoked to see him. Wasn't there. What the heck? For one year I wandered, lost searching for this mysterious elder and that i had met only once. Did he chicken out? Did he head out early? Where is he? Last Tuesday all doubts fled. It started out as any other day. No. That's a lie. We had to go set up the church (our building is where a lot of the trainings are held) and in come the new ones! (to be honest I did not recognize anyone) But after 20 minutes, getting everything inside WHOA! "Hey" a random greenie said to me "What's your first name?" "No way!" I exclaimed "Dude!(elder) What took you so long! Geez you let me come to Barranquilla all by myself." And thusly me and a complete stranger (basically) were lovingly, mercifully, reunited (Elder Gardner). Mysteriousness gone. 1 and 4 months after. Turns our his plans fell through, no money, worked a year more, got money and came to his mission. Battled for it. I need to be more grateful. And now I'm not utterly tormented by where this elder is.


And we found on aunt of an elder in CA, who is from Florida, and knew Elder Gardner in the MTC, but I was with 2 different elders (when we met her). Not elder Gardner. I found her in a little bakery here and she took me to her sister's house. They are a beautiful family of 3. Working with them. Fed us dinner once and gave us a ride home in his Toyota hic truck. The nicest car I've been in for a while.


The 2 elders that we lived with left and another gringo and Latino came they're good but I miss the ones that left. They were awesome. But hey I'll learn to love them. We're finding a lot more people and trying to involve the members more but this Sunday Brigitte came to church and she's a recently divorced mom and her son is abominably cute. He looks like a little gringo. Blue eyes. But he was being a little pain in sacrament meeting so I took off my name tag and put it on the pocket of his little overalls. So freaking cute because he looked down and up and his face got all bright like Wow! Totally happy. He's like a year old I think, more than.


Haven't been able to meet again with the new yorker and some other key investigators, but we'll keep hunting them down. We did find 2 Jovenes who came to church. Ricardo and Sofia, 17 and 13. They're really chill, like relaxed. Sofia kinda reminds me of Shalie. Kar and Shae that's sweet you got your patriarchal blessings. Mine was stolen from me, but don't worry I have another copy. We have more capitations this week so that'll eat a monster load of time, and the transfers killed study time. I'm excited to get that back. Got to use it better.


Love you all tons, Elder Taylor