Hermana Taylor: Yo Spring, Where ya at Homie??

Hey Everyone!

I hope that you all are enjoying March Madness and that you had the best St. Patrick's day!

Hermana Leon and I had a very interesting week. So you know how you always imagine missionaries having these amazing spiritual experiences every day where they just teach a millioin people and everyone they meet is begging the missionaries to teach them? Well sometimes that does happen. And then there are weeks like this past week.

On St. Patrick's day Hermana Leon and I were super excited. We had all of these plans to meet with a whole bunch of our investigators, some referrals, and then celebrate the holiday with mint chocolate chip shakes from our favorite shake place! Because this is NYC and people get out of control here when it's the holidays, the buses and subways were all running really behind. The day started out rough. Then everyone that we tried to visit was either not home or didn't have the time to meet with us or straight up just ignored us. After a really long and frustrating day we were really looking forward to those shakes. When we got to our shake place they told us that their shake machine was broken. I was so frustrated but we didn't have time to go anywhere else to find a shake, so we just got on a bus and headed home. The bus stop after we got on the bus, this super dunk guy (probs in his 70s) gets on the bus and plops himself right down next to us. So here I am, practically in tears and then this super drunk guy starts to talk to us. He was all "Are either of you single because you are both drop dead gorgeous and I would love to marry either of you beautiful white ladies." It was super funny! Then we told him that we were missionaries and he then he started singing a song, Coldplay's song that says "missionaries in a foreign field" [Ed Note: Viva La Vida] at the top of his lungs in between chugs of his beer that was "hidden" in his jacket and wowza. Literally have never choked down so much laughter in my life. Basically long story short, Heavenly Father was really watching out for two sister missionaries in Harlem, NY on St. Patrick's day. A lot of times we want Heavenly Father to take away our problems or just give us partially what we wanted, but that's not the point. We are here to learn how to develop our faith in Him. He hears and will answer our prayers but he needs us to learn too. In order for us to learn, sometimes he can't give us what we want. Saturday, He needed me to learn how to laugh. This week I really encourage all of you to take a look at all of the hard things that you are going through and ask yourself, "what does Heavenly Father need me to learn from this." Whether your name is Ana and you are a grandma but you are paralyzed on one whole side of your body or your name is Victoria and you are just trying to get through elementary school, or your name is Hermana Taylor and you just wanna tell people about Jesus Christ, Heavenly Father already knows your problems. Just pray and learn from your trials. :)

I love you all! Have a great week, go Duke, and lemme know if you know of any more gigantic snow storms headed my way;)

Con Amor,

Hermana Taylor

- Monday we got a frozen hot chocolate to make up for Saturday.