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| New Companion Elder Dalton When life gives you a chalk board, write Jesus loves you. |
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| Pioneer Elder Turley |
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| Indiana decided to snow for a hot second. |
The Bus with the choir from Puerto Rico on it. They sang for us!!
"vengan venga para que coman."
Well everyone, I'm sorry I didn't write a weekly email last week... I was slacking. But it's okay I'm here this week and I got some news for everyone...
We had transfer calls and Elder McRae sadly left me and he went to the area right above me and now I have Elder Dalton. Elder Dalton is also from Queen Creek Arizona. And he actually attending my dad's high school. (small world). He has been out for about 8 months and he has really good Spanish because he took like 5 years of Spanish before the mission. So he is teaching me a lot...
But this week has been a super awesome week and Elder Dalton and I are working sooo hard. We have been walking and walking and walking. And we have biked a ton... I'm working this kid hard haha... He needs to be humbled. Lol.
We are still working with a kid named Miguel.. The 17 year old from Peru. And his baptism is next week and he has filled out a huge pamphlet about family history work so on Tuesday we are gunna get some names for him so the week after his baptism we can go do baptisms with him. So we are super excited. But yeah he is doing awesome...
The weather is finally starting to warm up and I know this because 1. I can feel it. Lol and 2. Because way more people are out on the streets and there was this one Hispanic family out grilling and the grandpa dude was like "vengan venga para que coman." so we walked up to the house and ate some tacos and cactus with them.. It was booommbb. So yeah I'm excited for the warm weather. People are just nicer. And also we can ball with kids in the street again.
Okay this is page 2 paragraph 4 subsection A (this will make sense later on) so last night we were going to ride the bus to get home... And we get on the bus and we hear a bunch of Spanish being spoken and we were super confused because not many Hispanics take the bus here... And then we see most of them wearing a shirt that had something written on it... So we figured they were part of a group... So we spoke to the group leader and she was shocked that we spoke Spanish and all the kids were listening at this point because in their heads they were probably like "who are these why kids and how do thy know Spanish" so we figure out that this group is here for a couple days to sing for an event and they go back home which is Puerto Rico.... And we asked how many were with the group and they said 37... So there are 37 Puerto Ricans on this bus with us. So I ask the people if they can sing a song for us... And then they all just Break out into song... It was willddd I've never experienced anything like that before... Probably a high light of the mission... It doesn't seem significant to you guys but it was dope. If you wanna see the video... Click the link at the bottom.
So to end. I just want to share with you guys what I have been studying lately... I have really been grinding on power... Priesthood power, the power we can receive from Jesus Christ... You name it. But if you know me, you know I am always looking for ways to improve and be a better person and especially to be a better missionary... And I am already a very bold person but I wanna be better and I figured I need more power to do that... President Nelson has some awesome talks about power... But mainly one thing really stuck out to me that he said... He shared the story of the women who touched the garments of Jesus Christ and was healed... He went into depth about how much this lady had to have reached to touch him... She had to push past all of her physical strength but she KNEW she would be healed... And just like a person who is drowning in a pool, they are fighting and gasping for air... All they care about is their next breath of air... And that right there is how we can have more power. We need to reach to God and Jesus Christ and ask for it... But we can't just ask just because... We need to reach and ask as if that is the only thing we care about... And so I have really been grinding on this subject and I have learned a
lot and I feel like I have gotten the answers I needed... But everyone I know this church is true. Man what a statement that really is... But I truly believe that. The church is real. We can receive blessing from God. He exists. He is out there, watching over us.
Love, Elder Turley.
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