WOO YEAH!!!!

Hey there family!

Wow so much has happened since the last time I emailed.

Sorry it has taken me so long to email you this week, it has been crazy!! Tuesday I was at leadership training all day and then yesterday I was on exchanges. It's been crazy here.

So where to start... hmm... Ok so probably the most amazing news and miracle this week is last Wednesday we had an awesome lesson with Ted Ortiz. The spirit was strong as we taught the plan of salvation and bore our testimonies on eternal families. Now fast forward to Sunday after Elder Weston and I taught gospel principles, he and his wife came up to us and told us that he wants to be baptized August 17, a week from Friday! Originally his date was for September 21. SO COOL! We had been praying that we would somehow be able to move his date up but we didn't think it would be so soon!

Leadership training was good. It was fun to be there. 20 minutes into President Miller's training though he called me up front to do a role play in front of everybody, all the leadership in the entire mission... Talk about throwing me under the bus! I was the youngest person there... missionary wise. Needless to say I was pretty scared and I had to role play something he had just got done teaching so it was brand new to me. It was a new contacting method. It went good though.. I guess.. haha I would rather have to hit 100 game winning shots though :) I learned a ton that day!

We had a great lesson with Catharine Christensen last week and she came to church on Sunday! Remember this is the lady that elder weston and I tracted into. At the end of our lesson she offered the prayer and in it she said, "I wasn't surprised at all when I opened the door and saw these two there. If fact, I was expecting them. So thank you for sending them to me." Before tracting that street in the hot afternoon about a month ago, we both felt impressed to tract the street. She was the only person to talk to us the entire day. NOW.... here is where it gets sad.... Last night we found out that she is not in our area. Yup, true story. ALL the maps that outline our area in our apartment are wrong apparently and she is just outside our area. Man it stinks yes, but we are just thrilled that we have had the opportunity to find and teach her. She has a baptism date for September 1. We are going to her house saturday with the other elders and are going to make the switch... sad.

Ok, so now you ready for some super cool news??!! September 22 we are having an apostle come to our mission!!! WOO YEAH!!!! As of right now it's D. Todd Christophersen and Elder Hallstrom of the 70 presidency is going to be with him. On that day we are having a huge mission road trip with all the missionaries gathering down in El Paso!  Man I am pumped! Then in October we are going to have a 70 touring the mission. It's going to be sweet!

I can tell that football season is on the horizon... There is just a feeling you get when it's about to start, and it's in the air here. All the high schools in ABQ have been out practicing and I find myself driving past them slowly picturing Coach Mo and all of us out there warming up. MMM good stuff. Dylan, this is your senior year, and you better bust your butt to make it a good one. I don't expect anything less than another banner. So make it happen. Our Assistants did an awesome training Tuesday with the motto JUST DO IT! Just do it bro. Kill em. Yee ha!!

Well I love you all, thank you for the endless support and words of encouragement!!

                Love, Elder Turnbow

PS. There has been a new thing come out with the mail here so our mission office can no longer forward us mail so we are only going to be able to get mail about once a month.. Lucky for me I am serving right next to the mission office so we can still check it once a week! So mom when you plan on sending me a package let me know so I can get you the address to the apartment I'm at so I can get it quick. I don't want to give you that address now because of fear of transfers and losing mail.