Perspectives...Week 4

¡Buenos Días!-- for those of you who are getting this in the morning

¡Buenos Tardes!-- for those of you are reading this in the afternoon

¡Buenos Noches!-- for those of you who are reading this at night

WOW what a crazy week (or two)!! First things first, I´m sorry I didn´t send pictures last week. We went to the temple, so I´ll get some out ASAP!

Last time I emailed about learning to love others that you don´t feel like need love. I hope you all were able to feel that that is a very important skill to have in order to become more like our Heavenly Father. This week is gonna be a bit different.

The last couple weeks have been pretty rough. It´s been difficult learning Spanish, obviously, but I feel now like I have hit a wall. I can´t understand the difference between Preterit sentences and Imperfect sentences. (If anyone has tips or tricks, I´m more than willing to listen!) However, going to the temple helped me get a different perspective on things. ¨Mediante Cristo, todas cosas son posible¨. ¨Through Christ, all things are possible¨. One of the experiences I had was when I got my first latino companion split. His name is Elder Flores. Elder Cebollero, Elder Flores, and I were in a trio together. That is the perfect combination. Elder Flores can make up for our mistakes, Elder Cebollero can recite the first vision in under ten seconds, and I´m just in between. At first I was nervous to be with a latino companion. Now that I´ve done it, it´s one of my favorite things that we do here at the CCM!

My challenge for you this next week is to "look on the brighter side of life". Remember: "there is opposition in all things". That means even the worst day has good things. We just have to have the eyes to see it and the heart to feel it.

Now, on a lighter note. There is NO carpet in mexico. Some of you may know that my family recently put in new carpet before I left to Mexico... that is one of the things I miss the most. Being able to do sit-ups on a soft ground rather than a hard ground. So don´t take your carpet for granted. However, the tile here is really nice and easy to clean.

Con amor,

Elder Taylor

Notes from Mom: I added the pictures to the day that Simon actually went. We have some more pictures though, thanks to Elder Cebollero!