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7/25/2016

Well this week...I could compare to the inside of a jelly donut inside
a toaster oven inside Satan's mouth. Apparently we've been in a "heat
dome" with the index hitting like 115 degrees the other day. But that
didn't stop us from biking for hours all day e'ryday.
Sadly I had to pay the price and got some sort of Heat
exhaustion/fever. I was freezing cold and super achy...but I made it.
Plus I got tan. 👍 and we have a car next week. I also got my Raleigh
hybrid bike out of storage so I can shred all over town.

Not sure if I mentioned this, but president Ames, the mission
president from the Fort Worth Texas mission got home, and was assigned
to be our ward mission leader! It's like having President Vest
dedicate 100% of time straight into our Ward and us. I am tripping
through the roof. We had a couple meetings with him and I feel like
I'm talking to a Super Sayan. This area is about to get LIT.

Wednesday a family we've been trying to teach missed their lesson for
a 3rd week in a row. I was getting a little pessimistic about the
whole deal and during weekly planning kept thinking about how we
probably should move on. But we had set certain goals and my companion
seemed pretty convinced we could hit them and as we were discussing
them out of the blue the mother texts us and tells us she had been
trying to get ahold of us but wasn't able to due to phone issues and
that her house was over 100 degrees because their AC didn't work so
they had to leave but that she really wants us to come back this week.
So I got a flick to the forehead about having more confidence in
people and especially in agreeing with the spirit when it says we can
make something happen. Even if I don't know how.

Almost forgot, we totally got to go help on a small farm Saturday
night! It was sick. We went and helped milk cows and herd them through
different fences. This one cow was trying to escape through the fence
so I freaking put it in a headlock and was wrestling it! Then it
stepped on my foot and that was surprisingly painful O.O But still
felt like a man.

Vamos Caballeros,

Elder Regis
Alpha and Omega Mission

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7/18/2016

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This week was super wacky!! And way sick.
So Tuesday we had exchanges. I went to Platte Woods with elder Kolacz,
my district leader. We had a pretty regular day and then we went to
contact a potential investigator at an apartment complex. This real
young guy opens the door (obviously not who we're looking for). When
we asked for the person he immediately says, "I only been here 1
munth." and continues to try to speak in broken English. So it turns
out this guy is from Brazil and speaks only Portuguese. I started
talking to him in Spanish and he responded in Portuguese and we
understood each other! (well mostly(; ) It was the weirdest thing I
have ever experienced. We had a super awesome time talking and he had
questions about the temple and told us about his Mormon friend in
Brazil. He wanted to come to church and learn more so they're going to
have some Portuguese speaking members go over and teach him! Really
awesome.(:

Then I said my goodbye's to elder Childs as he returned home to Utah.
He's such a hilarious dude. When we went to transfers everyone crowded
around the van to see their new area and companion and guess who my
new companion was? Elder freaking Kolacz. He got switched over here to
Liberty 1st, still DL, in the same district! Really shocking! We all
flipped a biscuit. He is also the dopest. I am way pumped(:

Hopefully I'll have some more exciting news about investigators this
upcoming week. We have some good stuff planned.
Adios,

Elder Regis

Alpha and Omega Mission

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July 11

7/12/2016

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No letter from Taylor this week, but here are a couple of pictures that were texted to us by a ward member taken on the 4th of July:

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‏‏4th of July

7/4/2016

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Happy Birthday 'Murica.

This week went really quick. We had a cool lesson with an investigator family in which we taught the restoration to them. I asked the question if they've noticed a difference in people who have a church/the gospel and those that don't and the mom responded, "Yeah, what the heck. They're so freaking happy! I want that!" Way cool! We're teaching them really consistently now and even the anti-ish boyfriend is cool with us too(:

It's been raining a lot lately and one member here has a real problem with flooding in his house. One day during a rainstorm he asked us if we could help him move cement. So we put on rubber shoes and hauled 80 pound bags of cement through ankle deep mud. It was awesome. But destroyed my muscles by the end of 2 full pallets.

Sunday night when we pulled up to the church to sync our area books and do reporting a whole bunch of people starting showing up to the church building. So we decided to go in and see what was up and another ward along with the Muslim community was there. They were doing their end of the month fast breaking for Ramadan. They let us stay and participate in it and eat some legit middle eastern food (2 dinners in a day is a win). Besides one slightly odd chanty song played it was actually pretty cool to see both religions come together about fasting!

This is officially the beginning of round 2 holidays in the mission field. O.o I hope everyone has an awesome 4th of July!!

Mucho Amor,

Elder Regis Alpha and Omega Mission

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Elder Taylor Regis is serving as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in the Missouri Independence Mission speaking the Spanish language. He will be serving June 2015 through June 2017.

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