Happy May!

Hey Mom, Family & Friends!
    
It has been a great week - thanks for asking!  We got 3 more interviews done so they can all get baptized this Saturday.  Two of them are little girls named Gigi and Lauris.  Yes, I know what you're thinking . . . why is Taylor baptizing little girls?  Well, the thing is that 3 months ago, a few girls that had been going to church told Elder Campbell that they wanted to get baptized.  He said ok as long as they go to church for 3 months in a row.  Well, they have gone without fail for 3 months, and yeah, they are getting baptized now!  The other baptism is Mertha, the Mom of Marin the American I told you about.  She is actually Dominican, but has lived in the States for the past 30 years - so she speaks English just like a New Yorker.  She is kind of our star.  She knows soooo much about the Bible - enough to where there are things that we teach her - for example the 3 kingsdoms of glory - and she tells us that she already knows it and cites the scripture we were about to use to back it up!  I am way pumped to see her get baptized!
    
You asked me about homesickness . . . it honestly has never hit me.  I hope you aren't sad to hear that, because I honestly do miss you all. :)  But, I am too confident of my purpose out here to ever get discouraged and want to go home or wish I was there or anything.  Yeah, I miss stuff, but I would never call it homesickness.
    
Yes, I have contacted numberless amounts of people by knocking on doors on my mission.  The thing is, I have only found legit investigators only ONE time after the hundreds of doors that I have knocked.  So, if we don't seem to have anything to teach to investigators - most of the time we go to the houses of members and squeeze references out of them.  We try to do our work as missionaries and TEACH, while the members do their work and FIND.  That's the optimum situation at least.  But knocking on doors can't always be avoided.  Sometimes we have to just show the faith and do it.
    
You said that DR bikini girls are trying to be my Facebook friends!  I honestly have no idea of who these girls may be . . . I haven't told anyone to add me or anything, so I don't know if they are members or just random girls or what.  The Honda Accord DIED!!!! Dang it - I thought that baby was gonna run to the second coming!  So are you gonna buy a junker for the teenagers now, or will you just have them mooch off of friends . . . :)
    
I can't wait for Mother's Day!  I want to talk to everyone!  What I would like to do is talk to each family member for a few minutes and then a free-for-all for as long as you guys want afterwards.  I feel like last time I didn't really get to talk to everyone.  That would be my perfect situation, so yeah, I will call between 6 pm and 7pm my time which would be 3pm to 4pm your time.
    
Woohoo!  Jacob is going to Brazil!  That is where his brother went if I'm not mistaken . . . well, maybe not that same mission - but Brazil.  That is cool though.  I can talk with him and Jordan when they get back, so that I can pick up Portugese and go to Mozambique for Care for Life!  That's the plan at least.  I really want to learn another language after Spanish.  Portuguese and French preferably - then I would conquer all of North and South America, the Promised land!  I already wrote down a whole list of tips to give to Jeff DeSpain, but I need to put them into letter form.  The problem is that I am basically out of stamps now.  I have 2 more.  So, if you could send me a whole bunch that would be awesome.  I can't buy stamps in this country.
    
Well, that is about all for now, but have a wonderful week and I will call on Sunday!!!

Love, Elder McBride