Note from Taylor’s family:
We in Taylor’s family were lucky enough this morning to gather together and talk with him on his first opportunity to call home (the next one will be on Mother’s Day). He was calling from Chicago O’Hare, where they (he and his 7 companions who are going to Rome) had just landed at 11:00 a.m. on their flight from Salt Lake City. Their flight for Rome leaves at 4:45 p.m., so they have a pretty nice layover, with plenty of time to relax, get some food, and get ready for the 10 hour non-stop flight from Chicago to Rome.
It was great to hear his voice, have him share a few stories from this week to catch us up, and have everyone have the opportunity to talk, catch him up on what they’ve been up to, and ask him questions. We put him on speaker, so everyone could hear and ask questions. He was feeding lots of quarters into the phone, but it was a great 45 minutes or so and it was wonderful to speak with him again. They are enthused, excited, and nervous about beginning their time in Italy. I think they feel less than adquate with their language skills at this point, but it’ll be much easier to progress on that when they are immersed in the culture and speaking Italian all the time.
Over the coming weeks they’ll be working with their trainers and becoming increasingly confident in their abilities as missionaries and in their ability to speak and understand Italian. We wish them the best on the rest of their journey and look forward to seeing Sister Waddoups’ blog tomorrow when we can see photos of them on their first day as missionaries in Italy.
Taylor is on speaker. The first mission phone call.
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