Yooo! I made it!!!! Sorry I couldn’t call! Love you guys. Love my new
Mission President. He is awesome!! Also, my Mission President served in Dad’s mission about 5 years before Dad served. I am assigned to a zone up in the hills with Elder Sanchez.
My area is so awesome! Nosotros estamos en las montañas, (we are in the mountains) y hace muuuucho frío (it is very cold), pero esta bien jaja…. Los miembros y investigadores aquí son muyyy buenas personas(such good people here). Yo amo este lugar mucho (I love this area very much). Elder sanchez is way cool and he knows some English so it’s pretty rad. Everyone has been telling me that he is the best comp and I’m seeing it as well. Food is awesome! – until Saturday haha: Saturday we had Chicharrón 🙁 I do not like Chicharrón haaha. It’s the stuff in between pig skin and pig meat, so essentially pig fat.
Well, I came here at the perfect time! We have a pretty big ward, like the one back home, but like 60% were inactive because the church building was so far away. A brand new huge church building opened up this last Sunday in our area. So we went contacting with our entire zone for about 5 hours and it was way cool. We got like 6 new strong investigators and 4 new families as well to teach. When Sunday came, we filled the chapel and the overflow, so about the size of our home ward. We had 262 people in attendance, up from 80 people the previous week! Wowww, it was way cool. My mission president said it was the most people coming to a Sunday meeting by far he had seen his entire 2 years in Mexico!
Members are awesome sooo nice and all the niños are so funny. My Spanish is pretty good. The last couple lessons, I’ve been able to understand a lot and give a couple inputs haha. It’s just hard to stay awake haha (Slade used to have trouble staying awake during family scripture study 🙂 ) and it sucks not being perfect in Spanish haha, but its all good.
I loooove it so much here… miss you guys soooooo much but at the same time I don’t, lol…. My favorite family is Familia Flores-Resa … they’re an awesome investigator family (a mother, a grandmother and a daughter about Hudson’s age). They’re so funny and way poor but super kind… every time we go there they feed us, but I don’t know if they feed themselves, so I feel bad. But it’s rude to refuse food down here. (I’ve eaten some sketchy looking stuff… like way under-cooked chicken, but I’m fine so far haha.) They use this Mexican saying (no manche hermano) which means do not stain brother. It makes zero sense but they love it. They say it whenever something funny happens, like whenever I try to speak Spanish. I am getting real close to them, which is way cool. It’s so amazing here.
The most spiritual experience I’ve had so far was when we were teaching at a taco stand next to the road with a bunch of loud buses and barking dogs and chickens. I was able to testify of the Book of Mormon and, just then, everything went quiet for a second, at least in my head haha. I felt the Spirit so strong.
I love it so far and I love the country.
Love, Elder Turner
Goodbye to Provo… and the snow!
