Well it sounds like we all had a pretty great weekend! Here in New Mexico we had a baptism, and ya'll tore it up on the track in Boise!!! WOOO YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dylan and Matt, way ta go fellas. Man that was fun to read about, I'm sure it was crazy to be there! That's so cool! STATE CHAMPS 2013 BABY!!!
It was a really good week for me and Elder Ballif in the Nob Hill YSA! We were on exchanges almost every day this week with zone leaders. Lots of traveling, and lots of late nights, but it is all awesome. Remember Kyle Robison? He had a baptism date for the 25, and we had dinner with him this week when he told us his parents wanted to be at the baptism but that they were going out of town on the 25 so he asked us if he could move his baptism up a week. So it happened! It was a miracle for sure. Kyle got introduced to the church by his best friend Austin (Cool sidenote... Austin works for Kenny up in Santa Fe! :) ) Austin was baptized in October. We met Kyle just 4 weeks ago, he has had an amazing 4 week journey into the church and is absolutely on fire. Austin baptized him and that was amazing to see. After the baptism Kyle bore his testimony and talked about his journey into the church. Kyle had both his parents there, and his step dad is really against the church but came to support him. The spirit was so strong at the baptism there is no way he didn't feel it. It was a special weekend to be with Kyle and Austin. Man I love those two. So think of what it felt like and still feels like to take state Dylan and Matt... and magnify that by 10. Is that enough motivation to go on a mission? Of course if the reward feels 10 times better, that means the workouts are 10 times harder.....
 |
| Kyle and his best friend Austin who is a convert of 7 months |
We are really teaching some incredible people right now, I wish I could tell you about every single one of them. I love working with the young single adults! There is always a group of them who get together every Sunday night for supper, and they invite us, so yesterday we made it count! For our dinner message we shared a video we made to show at zone conference on the blessings of baptism, and we promised them while watching it that a name of a friend would come to mind that they could write down for us. We got 7 referrals! It was awesome!
I had a really neat answer to a prayer yesterday at church as I talked to one of the members of the branch. Him and a few other kids came down to ABQ from USU for the summer to sell living scriptures. One of them is roommates with David Bingham! They are all super cool. Anyway I was talking to one of them and we got to talking about his mission and he just said some things that I really needed to hear. It's amazing how Heavenly Father will use other people to answer your prayers. I'm sure he didn't even know he was an answer to my prayer, I am just thankful he was able to be an instrument for Heavenly Father.
We had interviews with President Miller this week. He is visiting all the missionaries and giving them their final interview with him. It was a very spiritual experience. He started the interview by relating the story of Christ washing his apostles feet. He then invited me to take off my shoes, and he shined them. Wow. What a humbling experience. I almost wanted to be like Peter and say no at first, It was incredible. That just sums up the kind of Christlike person President Miller is.
This week will be intense as we start President Millers last zone conferences. We have 3 this week and 2 the next. I am excited for them, it should be really good.
Thanks for all you do! Thanks for winning state too, that just made my P-Day! I am glad you got some rain! Have a great week!
Love you all!
Elder Turnbow
No comments:
Post a Comment