A Changed Man - October 1, 2018

For their P-day they were able to go to Lake Michigan 

       

Juan Carlos gave us the tour of Notre Dame

            

    

        

Down town Elkhart with Elder Sheeran

 
We ate chicken foot soup one night. It was pretty good but really wierd haha  This kid is legit one of my favorite humans on this earth...this is Melquis.  He is Christians little brother.

My man James the Mormon or JTM...It was so cool of him to send his testimony for our investigator Christian.

For those missionaries that served up here...y'all know Moake talked so much crap that he was a good at chess and has trophies.  Then he played this kid and the kid wrecked him. hahah made my day.

We are pretty well know in the streets here. haha

For your protection please keep arms, legs and any loose items inside the vehicle at all times because it's about to get ~juicy~

This week has been the longest but best week of my entire mission. I have been looking forward to p-day all week but these last couple days have beeeeen crazy cool!

OKAY I HAVE SOME WICKED STORIES TO SHARE.... 

So we have someone that we are working with, and his name is Christian. He is 16 and he just got out of juvy and he is currently on probation. He has been through a lot in his life already. Drugs, alcohol, and girls and more drugs. Ha ha but he has seen it all. And he has messed up while on probation and now he has a court date tomorrow to decide if his probation just gets extended or if he gets locked up again... But man we have worked so hard with Christian and I would legit call him one of my best friends out here on the mission. We are so tight with him.  He has taught me a lot.  Saturday we just sat down with him and he just let It all out. This guy was crying and I was able to tell him a little about my story and it was cool to be able to put myself into his shoes and help him out the best I could. And we gave him a priesthood blessing and man I just love this dude... Everything finally clicked in his head and now he knows he has the power to control his life. Saturday night was probably a night I will look back on for the rest of my life. You guys don't know the jist of it... Tears were shed, hugs were given and memories were made.

Sunday was WILD... obviously, we went to church. But we beat my record for people at church and we got not 1, not 2, not 3, not 4, not 5, not 6, not 7, not 8 BUT 7 people that we are teaching to come to church. We have been trying to get people to come to church ever since I got here and finally some of them came through and decided to Come. Also our abuela came so that's lit. BUTTTT the day gets better. We go and visit Christian and Elder Moake had the thought to show Christian a post of James The Mormon... Now known as JTM. And it talks about his past and where he has been and how he served a mission. And it gave Christian some hope. Because he wants to serve a mission. Sooooo Elder Moake and I have a crazy idea to MESSAGE James the Mormon and we explained who we were and a little about Christian and we asked for Some words of advice. And guess what........ He didn't respond. Lol

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SIKE HE RESPONDED.  He sent us a private link to a fireside he spoke at and he said we couldn't share it with everyone because it's not Open to the public.... And we are like "dude no way he freaking responded to us that's awesome" then 3 minutes go by and HE SENDS US A VIDEO of him bearing his Testimony of the gospel. And he even addressed the video to Christian.... So we are going to show Christian the video tonight. It's gunna be awesome. And he told us to let him know how it goes... He are legit doing missionary work with James the mormon... How cool is that?

Also last p-day we went to lake Michigan.... It's basically the ocean just not salty and no waves.... So ya you are right... It's nothing like the ocean. Then we went and toured Notre Dame and Juan Carlos took us around and showed us everything. 

But man this week has been super cool. My mindset to the work has changed dramatically and I have changed personally a lot. Right now I would say I am probably the happiest I have ever been in my life and I am completely devoted to God. But the biggest difference I have seen is just my attitude towards the work... Before I kinda just went through the motions and yeah I loved the work already. But this past week I have set some good goals with people and last week I had some good Discussions with other people (who will not be named but shout out to you because you a real homie) about life and how I can be better (:

FUNNY QUOTES:

Melquis: *rips a huge fart* "OHHH YEAHHHH BABBBYYY" 

A convo with melquis.... I said "melquis your hair looks gooood today" he says "thanks elder Turley, yours looks.... Not good, sorry" "Elder Turley are we still friends even tho your hair looks bad" 

Elder T