Sounds like you guys had an awesome and very eventful spring break! It was fun to read about all of your experiences. Before I get started Mom, those scriptures that you gave me out of DC 123 are some of my favorite! It's weird that you would give me those because I memorized versus 11-17 this morning while waiting for my laundry to get done. They rock! Also Courtney, with your Alma scriptures that you gave me, next to those versus I have written "A missionaries prayer" and trust me, you will find out why soon enough. haha Dad to answer your question my companion goes home in 3 weeks. I am making him endure to the end! Oh and next Monday is mission temple day! So we will be at the temple all day, so we will get the first half of Tuesday to shop, do our laundry, and email. So next week I will be emailing on Tuesday.
Wasn't conference so awesome!? MAN! I loved it. I had never before watched every single session and took notes on every single talk until this conference, and I loved every minute of it. I was sad to see it come to an end. I have to share an experience that I had during the priesthood session. When we all stood up to sing Ye Elders of Israel for the rest hymn I was singing and then all of the sudden it felt like one of my brothers was standing next to me and singing. I even looked over at my companion to make sure it wasn't Matt, Dylan, or Ben. It felt just like being back in the stake center singing with them, it was awesome. So I don't know if one of them was thinking about me or what, but it was awesome. You can really feel the prayers. It was kinda sad though, because there were probably only 30 people there to watch priesthood. It was weird to not see it packed back to the stage. But it was still way awesome. Like you said Dad, how could somebody listen to those wonderful speakers and not think they are called from God! It's like whap whap whap! Gettin hit by the spirit from all angles.
Well this last week was a pretty decent week. Ken seems to be progressing. He is reading and praying but we haven't been able to meet with him recently because he travels a ton for work. We do have an appointment with him this Saturday though. We tracted into a fellow from England last night so we taught him and extending the baptism invitation and he accepted. He was kinda drunk but hey, I felt the spirit! Oh ya! A man that we are teaching right now is Joseph Nzau, he is less active and from Kenya. Coolest thing about him though, he was in the Olympics 3 times! For track. The mile and the 800. I asked him for some of his times and his mile time was 3:56 and his 800 time was 1:44... Can you say fast?? Holy smokes! I felt slow.
So just as a side note, another one of the people we were teaching is now in jail. It's a long story though so I won't go in to it. And you asked about our gang friends, well they still love us! They want me to play on their city league team with them, I wish! I actually had a pretty good discussion with Cameron about our faith last time we saw them. They are all way nice. They just couldn't get over the fact that we don't have sexual relations before marriage, don't do drugs, don't smoke, and try to watch our language. But besides that they could be Mormon! haha They did say they wished we practiced polygamy still... they are funny.
Well I hope you have a great week and enjoy spring! I end this email quoting Elder Holland, DON'T DELAY, IT'S GETTING LATE. AMEN. I loved his talk, but I loved them all! Until next week.
Elder Turnbow
No comments:
Post a Comment