5-25-09

My 4th change in Mexico is officially over. 5 and a half months in Mexico. Its pretty crazy to think about where all that time has gone. Ive really enjoyed it here, in Parras. We wont get changed until at least Tuesday afternoon because all the missionaries dont get here until tomorrow. Apparantly all my leaders have been telling the President to let me train a new missionary, so we will see where that goes. I would actually love the opportunity to train. Ill have to let you all know how it goes next Monday. I might get another 6 weeks in Paradise… I mean Parras.
Cool story of the week. We recieved a reference from the offices of some guy who lives in a ranch. The ranch is called the 28 of Agosto, but its pretty far away, about a 40 minute bus ride. We decided that we needed to take every opportunity the Lord gives us, in order to find the people that are ready to accept the gospel, so we went. Since ive never been to this Rancho before, I asked the bus driver to let me know when we got there. Of course he forgot, so we spent a little time in the middle of nowhere, waiting for a bus to come from the opposite direction. After some battling, we finally arrived, to find out that there was no such man who lived in the Rancho, so we proceded to ask every single person who lived there. We knew they were going to say no, but its a good contact approach. You ask and then tell them why we were looking for that person, and then invite them to listen to the message. Everyone said no except for this one guy in aviator glasses. He lives at the edge of the Rancho, and Im almost positive hes a little bit crazy. His sister in law has a Chapel of the Santa Muerte. Crazy stuff. But we went in and taught our lesson to him and his daughter, whos like 19. They really listened and asked some great questions, so we made an appointment for the following day. When we came back we found that they had both read and were ready for the next appointment. And during that lesson, we commited them to baptism. They accepted and then the daughter asked me, “My husband isnt baptised in any church (something really rare here). He wants to get baptized. Can he also get baptized in your church?” Needless to say we jumped on that, and now weve got a good group of four that we will be teaching in the 28 of Agosto. Even though the reference was fake, God led us to the people that would accept the message. Pretty cool huh.
Thats all for this week. Remember that Im still alive so maybe people should start writing me again.
Love you all,
Elder Turley