Letter to the Taylor's

We got this letter on 9/29/10 and I thought that you might want to read some of it :)

How is life in the wonderful land of Provo? How is my "task" going (wink wink)? HAHA Just kidding, that's gross... But I was just thinking about you guys on this Beautiful P-day so I decided to write you guys. I really appreciate all of your e-mails and the Dear Elders! I was kind of curious how I JUST today got all the dear elders from like August 25 and everything. But oh well... So Harris, how is work? and school? anything exciting going on? oh by the way... "Somos Misioneros de la Iglesia de Jesucristo." Y "Somos representantes de Jesucristo" me and my companions are getting REALLY good at saying that from our Proselitismos. Melissa, any luck on the whole job thing yet? So... BYU... what the heck? looses to AFA? DUMB!!! That is NEVER supposed to happen. But whatever... Time to move on, I have more important things to worry about, like the Salvation of SOULS!! I'm having a total BLAST here, the Spanish is "starting" to come along! We are getting really excited for our proselyting, we get to teach the guy named Julio-Juan, we are trying our absolute best to prepare to teach him about the Plan of Salvation. We are getting PUMPED UP to try to teach him the TRUTH! It's so cool that we get to start teaching the gospel here soooo early! It really is the gift of tongues in action, I mean we can't speak fluently... But it truly is a blessing from our Father in Heaven that we are able to learn a brand new language so quickly. I just keep thanking Heavenly Father for all of the blessings that he has given ALL of us! It is such a comfort to know that Heavenly Father IS watching over us and blesses us for doing the right things. Oh btw... I found an amazing scripture for you to read it is D&C 50:23-24. I just learned about this scripture today and it is one of my ABSOLUTE favorite scriptures :) Btw... I didn't get to finish this letter on P-day so now it is Sunday (P-day and Sundays are the ONLY days we are allowed to write lettters) So I'll speed you up to date on everything that has gone on. HAHA well... I should probably update you on the Julio-Juan thing that I talked about in my email. SO, we come back and start talking to him about all the commitments that we gave him to do. He said that he read the Book of Mormon and prayed about it and Joseph Smith. But he said that he still didn't think that Joseph was a prophet... So we are like "OH NO... THIS ISN'T GOING TO GO WELL..." But we keep going anyways. We start talking about the Great Apostasy and the Restoration. He wasn't that in to it UNTIL we got to the 1st Vision; Once we started that, the spirit went off like a BOMB! We just kept testifying about the Book of Mormon and Joseph Smith. He finally committed to reading the Book of Mormon more and we gave him a Liahonna. He told us that he will go to Church NEXT SUNDAY even! But this is kind of a bitter-sweet thing because we can't go back because we're getting transfered to a new area. But it's all good :) well, I hope you two have a great time (not in a sick way of course) HAHA till the next time we contact each other!

!Love you two tons!

Elder Atkinson