Elder Garrett Turley: Needs new shoes after working so hard!!

Thanks for the money, I´ll most likely be getting some shoes that are needed. Just in case anyone asks, Croft and Barrow are garbage shoes. I´ll send some pictures of one of the pairs of shoes that I wore for the first 10 months of the mission. Completely destroyed. I´m actually kind of proud of it. My comp tells me I should only wear them when we go to special confereces with President Deere.

Well this week was a little tough, but our labors and more than anything our desires to do good were blessed yesterday. First off, yesterday we had stake conference. It was very different for several reasons. First, the last 3 stake conferences I have gone to, I have had to take a 2ish hour bus ride to a different city, but this one was here in Málaga. Second off, it was a broadcast from Salt Lake with the main speaker being Elder Ballard. It was super good, but I still don´t like it when they translate for the Quorum of the 12 or the First Presidency just cause it´s not their voices. But it was good nonetheless.

Then that evening, we went by 2 less actives and they are doing so well. They really have desires to come closer to Christ and we were just so excited walking home and planning last night.

First off Sofia. She is from Bolivia, and has 2 daughters who are both members of the church also. She´s been menos activo for a while, but she has started opening up to us in the past couple weeks. Last night, she prayed so sincerely to our Heavenly Father, it was so beautiful.

Then there is David. We have been visiting him on average 2x a week for my whole time here in Málaga (4ish months). He talked to the Bishop yesterday, and then we went over after their talk, and he was soooooo happy. He had been depressed and sad this whole time and with a little talk with the Bishop, he gained hope and told us that he wants our help. We called the Bishop afterward to thank him, and he told us that David told him that he didn´t understand at first why we, the missionaries, kept coming over, but then he realized that it was because we loved him, that´s when he decided to talk with the Bishop, and that just made me super happy.

The Lord has blessed us so much just in the last 24 hours. And I pray to be the missionary he needs to help these two of his children continue to follow him as well as many more.

Love you all, have a great week!

Elder Garrett B Turley