Well it's that time of year here in ABQ when you wake up to hundreds of hot air balloons in the sky! It's super cool to see. Right now as I write this I can see multiple balloons hovering over the Rio Grande.
It sure was fun to see the pictures of Court at the airport! I'm sure it has been a fun week with her at home. Sounds like the football game went well too!
So i accidentally sent you the wrong picture last week, that bball player is Alex Kirk, he is 7 feet tall and a stud. Their point guard Hugh Greenwood is awesome too!
So this week was full of good stuff. Thursday we had our mission leadership council, and it was one of the best ones that I have been to. The theme was Elder Bednar's talk becoming a Preach My Gospel Missionary, and baptizing! All of the new missionaries are now gaining experience and figuring out how to do missionary work, and our mission is starting to explode. It's so cool to see and be apart of!
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| Supporting the UNM girl's soccer team members and invesitgators |
Friday night was a great night. So there are a few members of our branch who play on the UNM girls soccer team, and they have been trying to share the gospel with their teammates for the last little bit. So.... Last Saturday after the tailgating with our wrist bands, the members roommates who are all on the soccer team came home wearing the bands and saying "Mormons are so cool!" That was our in, it peaked their interest. Cassadee Hansen (the member) had us over for dinner Friday night, and about 9 girls from the soccer team were there. We got all of the normal questions to begin with, but then after dinner we were standing up in the living room with all of them gathered around us as we taught the restoration. It was awesome! The spirit was strong as we bore testimony, and they had super good questions. My favorite comment of the night after teaching prophets "you mean he's a real guy!?" We invited them all to conference and handed out some copies of the Book of Mormon, and we walked out of there knowing somebody was prepared because the spirit was strong. Somehow you can just tell when it is there for somebody. We almost jumped for joy when 2 of them came to conference!
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| Mattie at the half |
We had a really good lesson with Randy this week! he is the d end for UNM. He wants to get baptized, but his girlfriend who is a member is going to school in Pittsburgh and isn't coming home til thanksgiving, so right now the plan is to wait for then to get baptized. He is super busy with football (understandably,) so we only get to see him like once a week. UNM destroyed NMSU Saturday so he was pretty pumped! Randy is so cool, I love teaching him!
This week is transfer planning week, so it will be super busy. President told me that I will be staying here for another transfer, which I am totally fine with! Sometimes I wish we could spend all day every day in our area, but we have many important things to do. The Lord blesses us so much with the time that we do have that we are always being humbled.
Well you all have a great week!
Love, Elder Turnbow
PS. General Conference > Super Bowl.
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