Family and Friends of Taylor,
Elder Herrin will be arriving home on January 1st 2014!!! Yes in a few days! We are so proud of him and the service and sacrifice he has given to the Lord. Please give him a warm welcome home, he has served well and through difficult challenges. Thank you for your love and support!
I read this article this morning and I think it is very insightful, I would encourage all to read it. As well as the comments below the article.
http://www.ldsliving.com/story/63954-when-a-missionary-returns-early

November 13 2013

.... my companions name is Kekoolani! his dad is hawaiian but is no longer living he died about a year ago I think really sad! Super hard worker love the kid to death! haha let's see the mission is amazing! and we reached 21 again and paulino was baptized!! yeaa haha but he has a wife and son that live on the other side of the country but he is searching work out here because he has family here! yeah let's see this week was good but ok so there was a huge huge storm and I was on scambio and we went down to the ocean no one was out and we were on this dock thing I have taken pictures of it but anywho the waves were coming up onto that and it is really hard for that but the waves came up and over us and soaked us haha it was so funny we were laughing and the only people out haha it has been really stormy and crazy this week! but it's all good!..I love you all thank you for the letters and for all that you are doing for me! Love anziano herrin

 November 6, 2013
CIAO LA MIA MAMMA!!  so this week for work We have been leading the zone in lessons super high numbers and I am dying I am super tired but it's great we got 21 lessons this last week and the week before 20 and usually we get 7 and we are super happy but working is going well for us we will be having a baptism this saturday at 6 with one of our investigators his name is paulino haha he is from peru! he is 30 and really great guy I am super excited and he is to! this week and from now on we want to try and have 3 lessons a day so that would become 30 a week I think we will be able to do it! I went to firenze or florence!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was the most pretty thing I have ever seen!!  in the front of the duomo that is the huge baptistry!! crazy take care love Anziano HErrin!!

October 2nd 2013

pouring rain haha

 on a pier looking back at the city

some castle in the hills

our apartment grounds

one of the fruit i picked today!!

....so the investigator is doing really well we will see her again on friday with a member so that will be nice! I didn't have to speak in church meno male!! but it was really fun because the last sunday of every month they have lunch so that is fun just in the church after it is all done and I love our branch president Di Nuzzo he is 57 probably  single and the nicest guy in the world! he takes care of his mom who is 88 or something and can't do much but I like him a lot! pesaro is good and yeah I bike everywhere and it is not bad at all unless you go on the roads which are almost all of them haha that are cobble stone and those suck to ride on but it is ok! I have lost a ton of weight here and I have been trying to make coconut gelato and I think I got it this time haha I usually just buy fruit because it is always fresh and sweet and cheap haha so I usually eat coconut pineapple bananas apple and pears the apples and pears and polmegranit?? IDK but anywho you can pick those 3 off practically any tree and they are big and sweet!! they aren't sending many missionaries to italy anymore because the work is not progressing as fast as they wanted or something I am guessing but there are only 8 missionaries coming this next transfer haha but oh well I love italia still it is gorgeous I am in a country area with the ocean and a lot of vineyards and hills italia is very green! haha but yeah things are good Love you all take care thanks for the update!!
vi voglio bene!
Anziano Herrin

September 3rd 2013

CIAO MIA MAMMA!!:) Everything is going great here in Italy I don't have much time but basically I am going with a kid that has been here for 3 months and I am super excited I will be headed off to PESARO!!! it is the opposite coast of florence but it is on the ocean!! and there is a place there it is a country haah and it is inside of italy super small but it is called san marino!! and you can get all of the super nice perfumes and what not like for men also for only 5 euro.... it is so sweet and it is all legit and I am super lucky to be going here but also another thing is that I am the second farthest south city in the mission and there are only 10 members in our ward so I have to give lots of talks but it is supposed to be a really rich place and yeah I am just super excited to go see and do other things haha LOVE you alll so much the work is going haha anna was crying super hard when I said goodbye to her she doesn't want me to go at all ha so that sucks but I said when I come back i will visit her!! haha but that was all great I love italy it is still super gorgeous and yeah haha sorry I goota run because we are all moving so I have to pack and leave for Milano so Love you!!

p.s. fatto in Italia;)

August 21, 2013

. look up 2nd nefi 12 3 and that is where zion will be it spells utah if you look down one of the columns in the middle it is super cool haha oh and the family(from ivory coast) is a fam of 12 and they are super cool we might have to push their date back one week but who knows... they are really cool though! and this week the mini mission kid is gone and we were in a 3 some again! but yeah than we got suprised with a new kid!! haha so that is cool!! he is chill:) but ok so look up Butterfly circus best film ever seen make sure everyone in the family see's this film today!!!!!! 

August 14 2013

..... the work is great Francis was baptized and he is so legit hah we were going to go to Lecco with him today and we woke up early to go cuz we were hiking up to the cross where you can look over the all of the lakes and everything haha it is supposed to be one of the prettiest cities in the mission but It was raining... so that was a downer! but I figure i have already been there so it's ok! oh so anziano canfild the one I was in a 3 some with my first week of last transfer well he has been comps with anziano moh and anziano canfild is just doing a mini mission and pres. came to our apartment and said that he is released and he will be leaving us on monday and i will be in another 3 some but with moh and my comp now so yeah that'll be cool! i really like moh he has been a huge help for me so that's really good! and that family they are the coolest from Ivory coast! they had us over again and the food is still terrible haha but they are just so cool and yeah they tell me i need to learn francese now so they have been teaching me when i go over there haha it's super fun! the work is great!  YOSO you only serve once. haha that was my districts motto this transfer haha anywho thanks for everything Anna is still super brava!! thanks mom Love you love the family have an amazing day!!

Love anziano Herrin

July 2013

 July 24, 2013
 I have not been transffered... ha it's ok though cuz we are a new zone the bergamo zone! The new president is ok. Wolffgram was a lot more relax and would've had me out by now but that is ok haha and we found all of these people from doing strada so that's neat we have a baptism not this but next saturday so that's exciting!!.... the apartment is super fun! Roisum leaves tomorrow so that is sad he is getting married in a month in a half or something like that haha so that's excitng I asked if he wanted me to send a cut out of myself for him to bring to the wedding haha it was funny!!  I am doing great a little tired of bergamo but that is ok just more for me to go and see of italy when I come back haha well love you take care!! Book of Mormon is still true meno male haha Love anziano Herrin a.k.a.

p.s. Made in Italia;)

 July 17, 2013
 We have 18 investigators so that is good sorry this is short but I don't have time I am not in a 3 some anymore and I will be transfered next week so that will be exciting Bergamo is great yesterday I went to the ocean it was really fun and saw a castle cuz we went out on a peninsula and stuff! But we are staying busy teaching not much else to say it is hard still with the Italians haha but It's great I love it take care I am praying for you love taylor!!

 July 10, 2013

...we had a fun day today we went to milano the trains were on strike otherwise we would've gone to a castle on the middle of a peninsula with ruins haha but Milano was fun. sale season is crazy haha so basically what happens is everyone stays up all night all the stores are open huge sales everything 70 percent off it is insane tons of people everywhere haha it's so fun just to see everything!! ...we ate 2 times this week african food... disgusting it is called fu fu and it is a stew with fish heads peppers all this stuff and you break up dough stick a piece of it in the sauce and than you swallow it you can not chew it haha it is disgusting. I wanted to throw up so bad haha... but I am doing great anziano Moh is the best haha he is so funny!! and ask dad if he remembers those rice balls and the red sauce that the guy dr. brown the dentist was talking about and if he does than tell him I know how to make them!!! They are amazing!! haha But take care have a fun week!! Love you!! Happy B Day!!!:) the last picture is just in centro where we live!!

 June 26, 2013
....Anna calls me her godfather now haha and some guy is obsessed with her and wants to kill us he wrote in a letter to us so that is crazy! but the mission is hard right now I am always tired haha but it's ok! We have 8 new investigators 4 african they love Jesus so they are always cool to teach haha but not much else going on I have to get off soon But I love you all thanks for everythig you are doing for me!! La Chiesa di Gesu Cristo é vero! haha

Love anziano Herrin

Have an amazing week you deserve it Love you mom!

"I was taking pics of houses too that I liked"