Taylor Patterson - Reno, NV Mission

Wow... Time has literally flown by these past 2 years, and I can't believe that I'm beginning my last transfer. However, they're sending me to a new area in Reno. It's in a different stake so I guess that's cool, but I'm truly going to miss the Riverbend ward.  This week was a solid week, we watched a multi-stake conference where bishop Waddell spoke and our friend Lucas watched it with us. It was a solid meeting and it helped me really focus on the importance of prayer and how sometimes we get into a repetitive flow, and that we need to not do that and focus on how we can make each prayer meaningful.  We also had Elder Soares come and visit our mission. On Saturday the entire mission combined and we got to sit at the feet of an apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ and it was such an amazing experience. Him and the other general authorities really focused on personal study and conversion. And it was so perfect, it was exactly what I needed to hear. I'm looking f...

  Hey Everyone! This week was honestly soooo fun! On Saturday we helped out at a basketball camp for 6 hours. The UNR women's basketball team was supposed to go there and help out but they canceled and they needed extra help. So this member from Portland called us and asked for some missionaries to help out so we had to make some calls, and we made it happen!  It was such a fun camp. It was for kids who have things such as down syndrome, autism, and fetal alcohol syndrome. The kids had a BLAST and honestly I did as well. It was the best seeing people smile so much!  This week we also had some amazing lessons with the people we are teaching. We had 5 nonmembers at church again, and for 2 of them, it was their 1st time coming! Everyone told us they want to come back next week which honestly was so cool to hear!  If you are reading this and you haven't checked out the church that we go to hit me up and I promise you you'll have an amazing experience! Today was also so f...

  Hey Everyone!! This week was super good today we went to the petting zoo and we also went bowling which was super fun!!! But on the missionary work side we had a SOLID week. We started teaching a part member family. The wife is a member of the church and her husband is not. They're both 19 years old which is super crazy because they're younger then me but they're married!!! They've been reading the Book of Mormon this past week together which has been super cool, so hopefully they keep doing that!! We are also teaching this other guy he is an absolute stud! His name is Lucas. We started teaching him on my birthday (talk about a miracle) but he's been to church twice since then and is reading the Book of Mormon which is sweet. He's been progressing so much I seriously love the dude though, he's the BEST!! Not much else is happening. oOn May 22nd Elder Ulisses Soares will visit our mission so I'm super hyped to meet him!!! I hope everyone had a great wee...