Transferred to Cartegena!!

First off, our new address is:

Paseo Alfonso XIII nº64, esc 2, 9ºB

30203 Cartegena (Murcia)

España

The weeks been good. We finished up the move in sanlucar and then I headed out. I had a few days of air conditioning and then I moved. Our new piso is in a sweet location, right next to the train station and the bus station and right across the street from a huge grocery store and right down the street from the chapel.

My new companion is named Elder Lindley. He is from Logan utah, more or less, he lives in a small town called Wellington (i think) that´s like wo minutes from logan, and he´s a champ. He played football and baseball and wrestled in high school and grew up on a dairy farm and is a super hard worker and it´s great working with him.

In our piso, I´m living with Elder Landinez, who was my companion in Malaga. It´s great to be with him again and to see how much he´s grown in the past 4ish months. His comanion is Elder Harman. Elder Harman is from my group (o sea he entered the mission at the same time I did) but we haven´t met each other till now because he went to the mtc in madrid and I was in Provo. He´s from mesa and he swam for mesa high and he also swam rec for taylor jr high and we think we met each other then, but yeah if you could send me pics from rec at taylor or any other pictures with me with punk mesa high swimmers that would be good. Don´t worry, we´ve put his past behind him and have become friends, although I did admit to him that their school colors are way better. But yeah it´s great living with all of them is great.

Anyway, this past week we were focusing a lot on finding a bunch of new people. We taught two people after I got here that were super good. Ones name is Marco and he is either the most inteligent person that I have taught, or he´s faking being an investigator to mess with us. In my first lesson with him, they only taught him once before I got here, we started talking about the restoration, and he had already read the pamphlet and asked us about the apostasy and which of the two priesthoods we held and stuff like that. It was crazy. When he asked us if we had the aaronic or the melchezidek priesthood and I asked him how he knew there were two priesthoods and he said, it´s in the pamphlet. It surprised me because no one ever remembers what they read.

The other person is Maria. she is super humble and from Ecuador and she is so ready for the gospel. She´s super lonely and just looking for somehting to fill that loneliness inside her. We taught her a little bit of lesson one and she is gold. She believes in God but hasn´t really had a whole bunch of time to go to church and stuff like that and just wants someone to teach her about Jesus. So we´re gonna teach her about Jesus.

I´m super excited to be here in Cartegena, it´s pretty humid which is lots of fun, but other than that it´s good an the people are great here.

Have yourselves a great week, and keep having a great summer.

Elder Garrett B Turley

Garrett said snails aren't all that wonderful!!