18th...from Ca...what's up?!?

Hey Mom,

Sounds like a fun trip. everybody is talking about the arches but i dont really know what that is... is it natural arches like in the desert or something else? cant wait to get my moab present. thats awesome about your flight change. i memorized D and C 4. there are so many scriptures in d&c about the field being white already to harvest. its interesting. way cool that you set your friend up.

so this week as usual had its ups and downs. gil dropped us in a letter last night but im not counting him out yet. laregues has really cooled off at learning about the gospel. something must be wrong in his mind but we cant figure it out. im pretty sure we only had a few sit down lessons this week. sometimes its like that here but not for a while. on the good side, megan has a baptismal date and in our lesson this week started crying when she talked about how nice members are in our church and how she wants that for her kids and her life. she still cant recognize the Spirit even though she has felt it i know. she has been praying every day and stuff. larry got rescheduled for this week so we will try to set his date. nobody else has really made significant changes i dont think. oh also im way excited that we have an investigator that is from community of Christ or rlds that we are going to teach tommorow so that will be interesting.

going to the temple was awesome. it was way cool because i was kind of upset over Gil even though im sure that he knows the church is true and is just trying to get rid of the guilt since getting sundays off is hard for him. but it was interesting because on the drive over i could just tell that the temple was close before i ever saw it. i just felt this peace and strong Spirit about a minute before we were able to see the temple. so it was really interesting going to the temple having been out in the world for much longer than my last trip. i had been feeling random feelings of longing for the temple. so it was way nice to get to go. today was also stake temple day so the session we were in was with alot of Foothill Ranch members which was way cool. its kind of weird that i know these people really well and you kind of dont. but oh well someday ill introduce you.

have a good week Mom and Em. Love you guys.

Love your favorite missionary,

Elder Taylor Barron

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hey Grandma and Grandpa,

im glad to hear that you guys had such a good time. you know how much i would have loved to be there. one of my zone leaders is from draper and he is way excited about the new temple. im glad that grandpa has fun at his calling. i love when i get to work with the young men out here. we try to take them with us to lessons as much as possible.


hi grandma bert and grandpa bill,

im still having a really good time out here on my mission. just wanted to let you know that i received your letter and that i really enjoyed it. i have quite a few friends from my mtc district that are out in phoenix. if you ever run into the missionaries ask them if they know Elder Barron. there should be about 5 of them out there that remember me. sorry i do not have time to write much but i often think about you and love you.
Love your favorite missionary,

Elder Taylor Barron