North Valley ABQ!

Hello there!

   Sorry it's Tuesday and I didn't email yesterday, but the libraries here are not open on Monday so we email on Tuesday. We might try to find a place to email though, so we still aren't sure what will go down.

 

   I am now serving in North Valley Albuquerque and Elder Weston is my companion! Elder Weston lives in Providence, Utah! I am sure that you know them, Dad and Frank. His mom is a Porter and the Coats and Lemmons are his cousins. They are farmers in Utah and own ground by Riverdale too. You know them? Needless to say we hit it off from the get go! We get along great! We know a TON of the same people. I even know his girlfriend! Yep, true story... she's even been in our home, and she's been in our car.. crazy huh? haha She was one of JD's lady friends from Mountain Crest at one point. So yeah, that was pretty funny when we figured all that out!

 

    Our first week together was good! Our area hasn't had a baptism in forever, but we are going to change that! We have two investigators with a baptism date right now. Bryan Baker is for June 30th, and he his way solid. He is a professional MMA fighter, and way good too! His wife is a member, and he is very accepting to the gospel and his testimony is really growing. He did bring up the black questions with the priesthood (he's black) but it went well and it didn't bother him.

 

   Our district is pretty sweet, we have 12 Elders all together, which includes the assistants and the zone leaders. No pressure on me to have a good district meeting, right? HA! The first one went well, and I am really excited to serve here with these Elders.

 

    Well it's been really hot here, over 100 every day this last week-- good stuff right there! Elder Weston and I bike a lot even though we have a car. So we show up to appointments very sweaty. Good work out! We live pretty close to the Rio Grande too so we went on a jog to the river one morning and that was sweet.

 

   Oh ya funny story... yesterday we had an unplanned activity cut into our pday. We got a call from the Spanish speaking sisters who live in the same apartments that we do, and they had run out of gas! So Elder Weston and I did a our act of service and went and saved the poor girls, I mean sisters. We pushed their truck to the side out of the way, and then left them there (it would be against rules to have them in our car) and we bought gas cans and filled them and then went and saved them. So for all you girls out there that drive.. If the light comes on that says low fuel, go fill up your vehicle!

 

     Well that's about all that I can think of right now. Tell Alex I'm super excited about his call!! He'll love it. Kyle goes into the MTC tomorrow? That's sweet! I hope that everything goes well for you back home with first crop and what not. The new truck looked sweet! Have a great week!

 

                                   Elder Turnbow!