Snow - October 22, 2018

Elder Matz and my home boy Ricardo

 

It snowed for like 4 minutes!!

First things first....... I'm the realest.

This week has been cold... not just cold... but like cold....but not like that type of cold, cold..... but collldddd. because it snoooowwweeddd. For a solid 4 minutes and iIgot so excited that I almost crashed.... true story. but I'm fine. 

This week has been yet again another week. We went on three exchanges this week.  We got to go with the assistants. I love those guys.  I had the opportunity to go with Elder Bertagnole. I loveee him. We worked hard and we just broed out.... but funny story about this exchange is that they live in Indianapolis so they don't get fed Mexican food a lot so we thought "lets get as many meals as we can" ... so we make some phone calls. 

Monday night: chorizo and asada tacos with a part member family. 

Tuesday morning: breakfast with our neighbors who are very devout Pentecostal people, but they are from Costa Rica....

Tuesday for lunch: sopas de carnitas.... super good. and that was with a family we are teaching

Tuesday dinner: carnitas tacos with a part member family.

BUUTTT moral of the story is don't eat that much Mexican food in one day. it was badddd. We were all sick because we were so full. I bet I gained 17 pounds that day. We ate so much oil and grease. I mean it all tasted delicious but man it was a lot. So we are kinda Mexicaned out right now haha

Also I decided I am going to move to Costa Rica. This family was telling us they got round trip flight for 350 and then its 25 bucks a night to stay there.... hahaha its sooo cheap.  They said that they have a house waiting for me when I want to go. sooo you already know I'm going there. Soooo if my future potential wife is reading this... we are moving to Costa Rica.

So this Saturday we should have 3 people getting baptized so we are super excited and the branch is as excited as they will get about it so hopefully members will show up. The branch kinda slacks in the ~being a member~ aspect in the church. 

Everyone like I said these things need to be spiritual so get ready from some spirituality. So every third Sunday at church the missionaries speak on missionary work or whatever we want to talk on but sometimes our branch president doesn't have sacrament meeting planned until 10 min before hand. So we are sitting in his office. and I found out this morning I am going to be speaking so we go into his office and he is talking with us and the hermanas.  This week he only asked 2 of us to speak.  He gave us specific times to go till. So I was suppose to talk from 11;25 until 11;45... yes 20. min. in Spanish.... so I was terrified but I just thought "oh ill just talk about he restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ" so I get up there with nothing prepared but I was able to do it.  The thing that amazed me is how much we are truly blessed because of the restoration of the gospel. I was going through the different things we have in life now because of the restoration and it is basically everything. My testimony of the restoration has dramatically increased on my mission.... from nothing to (idk what word to insert here) everything?? you get the point.  Everyone who is still reading this...... the restoration is sooo important. Lately I have been really pondering what the restoration means to me and ultimately the thing that keeps coming to my mind is that I can have everlasting joy because of the gospel. sometimes in life we think we are happy or maybe Satan tricks us into thinking we are happy but that is not true happiness. True happiness is what I am feeling right now in my mission. It's what we feel when we truly UNDERSTAND AND LIVE the gospel. 

 Fun fact during my talk I didn't know how to say worship in Spanish so I turn around to the president and I say hey how do you say worship and he shrugs his shoulders and then the whole congregation starts shouting the word in Spanish so I just say "whatever you guys know what I'm trying to say" hahah it was funny. 

Alright everyone thanks for everything I love you all so much. 

love, 

Elder Turley

funny quote from this week (there were a few but I forgot to write them down so I forgot them) 

---- "dude that girl is like 12"....."but hey shes a pretty hot 12 year old" -------