Hello hello!
We had a great week this past week. We had zone conference and it was the best one I have been to so far! We talked about being like a patriarch over the area, to develop qualities a patriarch has and love the heck out of the people. We also talked alot about having confidence in ourselves, exactly what I needed to hear. All the trials I have gone through this past transfer, or maybe 3, since I've been in Franklin all came together I feel like. I understood why I have gone through the things I have. It was all to build my confidence and learn how to love everyone. I am grateful I finally learned that lesson. There were a couple days I wasn't sure I was going to make it through the day much less 6 more months! And then this past week everything just clicked and I realized it is a choice. Anything I don't want to do or be, I can change. Thank you for telling me I am a great person, haha, I agree! I really honestly believe that now. That sounds weird to say but it is true, I have always been way too hard on myself to the point it holds me back rather than to move forward. But for some reason I get it now. So that was my amazing discovery for the week! :)
We finally found some new investigators this week. We went to go see a LA member and his girlfriend answered the door and told us she wants to take the discussions! Yay! We also have an appointment with a family from Iran that got kicked out of their country for their beliefs. They call themselves the Bah'hai, and I think they mostly accept all teachings as truth. But we are excited, they are a super nice family and I think they will be great! Anyways, I feel like there is too much excitement and too many things to do now that we can use facebook and so now I am even more scatterbrained than before, haha. So I can't think of anything else to say!
I love you all so much though! I will look forward to a birthday package! :)
Love
Sister Turner
Check out Crystal's personal blog for more thoughts that Crystal shares at http://crystalicious1986.blogspot.com/
Monday, February 28, 2011
Monday, February 21, 2011
February 21, 2011
Whelp, another week has gone by! I passed my year mark! Wooo! I made it, haha. This past week has been good actually. It went by pretty quick and we stayed busy by some miracle, usually I feel like we are scrounging for things to do but not this week! For valentines, we went over to the Hefner's and had FHE with them and we did love mad libs and ate breakfast for dinner. It was a lot of fun! One of our investigators we were visiting at a nursing home got moved to Nashville... so that was real sad. We were going to go finding last week but ended up not having time to, but I think this week we are going to have plenty of time. We are going to work more heavily with the auxilary leaders to do less active work, and I am excited to do that. The weather has been so nice! In the 60's all week long! It is so nice. For my year mark I burned my brown skirt. It was faded and ugly so, I burned it! It was pretty fun and it turned into a pile of melted plastic looking crap, haha. Life is pretty good, and I think I am adjusting to Sister Whitehead better now. She's a good missionary, just real quiet! Hmm, what else could I tell you? My mind is blank.. I can't think of anything. Wow, haha. Well, I guess I'll leave it at that then. I love you guys and I am grateful for all your letters and support and love.
Love,
Sister Turner
Here are some pictures!
Love,
Sister Turner
Here are some pictures!
First, me and Sister Whitehead!
About to begin the ceremonial burning of one year of a worn out, faded missionary skirt!
Here it is burning! Polyester has a horrible burning smell in case you ever needed to know that.
And the remains.. I told you it looked like a pile of crap!
Monday, February 14, 2011
February 14, 2011, part 2
Yep, I am doing pretty good. I did get your e-mail! One week into the transfer, and I am trying to figure out how to work with Sister Whitehead. She is the complete opposite of Sister Green, so it has been interesting trying to transition between someone who is so social and bubbly and easy going to someone who is so quiet, follows me around everywhere I go watching me like she doesn't know what to do. It was a little hard the first few days and I started to wonder how I was going to survive for 6 weeks but I decided to try to just love her and do my best. She only has two transfers left! I don't know if I told you this but several months ago she was in a horrible bike accident and lacerated her liver, broke her arm, and tore up her face. She is very shy and quiet, she's from Orem and she wants to be a writer. Thats about as much as I have gotten out of her. Well, missionary life is pretty good I guess. We really need to find more people to teach because our teaching pool is dwindling fast. Mary's baptism didn't happen, and things are back to what they were before... We probably wont get to meet with her until she decides she is ready again. It is so frustrating but we are going to be patient and let her know we still love her.
Our ward had a youth missionary event activity that I thought was brilliant. All the young men and young women divided up into companionships and learned the "cups lesson" (basically the restoration using cups as a visual) and then several families volunteered to have a companionship at their home to hear the lesson and they invited neighbors/friends who were non members there and they fed them dinner. The purpose of it was to prepare the youth for missions, and get them excited for it, and at the same time could give us referrals! I really am amazed at how much the members out here are involved in missionary work. I think it is because here the members are more spread out and there are usually atleast one set of missionaries in the ward if not 2, and in Utah one set of missionaries can cover like 2 or 3 stakes! Its pretty amazing.
Well, I am sure I had lots to tell you about but for some reason I can't remember what happened. I think my mission has given me temporary scatter-brainess, or maybe I have just always been that way and never knew it. I think because there is so much to do and think about, that I can't keep track of everything! The weather out here this week is going to be so nice! We have had snow like every other week, sometimes every week, for the last two months! And this week the LOW is 53 degrees! Woohoo! It is so nice outside! I hit my year mark on thursday! Can you believe it? I get to burn something!
Well anyways, I love you all! Happy Valentine's Day!
Love Sister Turner
Our ward had a youth missionary event activity that I thought was brilliant. All the young men and young women divided up into companionships and learned the "cups lesson" (basically the restoration using cups as a visual) and then several families volunteered to have a companionship at their home to hear the lesson and they invited neighbors/friends who were non members there and they fed them dinner. The purpose of it was to prepare the youth for missions, and get them excited for it, and at the same time could give us referrals! I really am amazed at how much the members out here are involved in missionary work. I think it is because here the members are more spread out and there are usually atleast one set of missionaries in the ward if not 2, and in Utah one set of missionaries can cover like 2 or 3 stakes! Its pretty amazing.
Well, I am sure I had lots to tell you about but for some reason I can't remember what happened. I think my mission has given me temporary scatter-brainess, or maybe I have just always been that way and never knew it. I think because there is so much to do and think about, that I can't keep track of everything! The weather out here this week is going to be so nice! We have had snow like every other week, sometimes every week, for the last two months! And this week the LOW is 53 degrees! Woohoo! It is so nice outside! I hit my year mark on thursday! Can you believe it? I get to burn something!
Well anyways, I love you all! Happy Valentine's Day!
Love Sister Turner
February 14, 2011
This is the letter I wrote last week, I am not sure why it didn't work but hopefully it will today!
I am staying in Franklin for another transfer! Sister Whitehead is coming here. I don't know her very well, so I hope it will be a good transfer! There are alot of things happening in our mission, it is kind of crazy. Our mission in one of the few who are doing an internet missionary work trial run. Using facebook, blogs, and skype! It probably sounds a little scary, but I think it is awesome they trust us to do it. Right now only 30 missionaries are doing it, but by the end of the month the whole mission will be doing it. Isn't it interesting? I guess we can talk to our investigators using facebook and we create a blog for discussions, topics, etc and put links to it on facebook. I guess the church is trying to find new ways to do missionary work, and since we live in such a high tech computer world, they are going to give it a shot. So if by the end of the month you see me on facebook, don't be alarmed!
I have to admit I've been a little bit trunky this past week, ok maybe a lot trunky. But it is hard when you are killing someone off! Sister Green has been pretty good about not talking about it too much, but I can tell she is excited and her family is coming here to pick her up on wednesday. Its hard to not think about home and doing normal things! On friday on our way to a member's house, Sister Green was looking in the mirror and looks at me and says, "Sister Turner. There is something wrong with my face!" So I looked at her and her left eye isn't blinking with her right eye and when she smiled 1/2 of her mouth wasn't working. Within 10 minutes the whole left side of her face went numb! Well, needless to say we went to the doctor and she got diagnosed with Bells Palsy, a virus that attacks the nerves. So she is on medication and the doctor told her it could take up to 6 months for the numbness to go away! The poor thing! 3 days before going home! She has been having a good attitude about it though, and she just laughs and turns it into a joke. I really admire that about her!
Well, Mary's baptism is kind of on hold for now... she has some concerns that she is trying to work through and we don't have the situation all figured out yet. She still could be baptized this weekend but as far as we know, she wants to wait. It is an interesting situation, so we'll see what happens. Thats the update on her. We're in serious need of finding new investigators here.
So, two new little cousins!? Goodness, that is awesome! Sounds like things back home are good! I am doing pretty good despite the trunkiness! We have commited to having a prayer journal that when we pray and receive revelation or guidance, we write it down. It has been awesome! It is so easy to say a prayer and immediately get off your knees and go to bed, but when we do that, we miss the opportunity for answers to our prayers! It also helps me realize how I can recognize the spirit guiding me. More and more I am coming to know that the gospel is true no matter where you go or what you try to do! Man I am grateful to know for myself it is true! My mission has taught me a lot of things. For one I feel like my weaknesses and shortcomings are magnified by a thousand, haha. But it has also taught me that despite my weaknesses, I can still move forward. I feel like the more I learn the more I realize I know very little! It has also taught me how to love. To love people, to love myself, to love life, to love each day, to love the gospel! I truly believe that love is the core of the gospel, and the more we choose to love others rather than judge or criticize, the more we become like Christ. It is such a simple thing, but without it, we are nothing! And without it, life kinda sucks! Anyways, I love you all so much! Thanks for everything!
Love
Sister Turner
ps, my year mark is on the 17th.. so you can send me a surprise package in the mail if you want. if you want, i'm just sayin! ;)
I am staying in Franklin for another transfer! Sister Whitehead is coming here. I don't know her very well, so I hope it will be a good transfer! There are alot of things happening in our mission, it is kind of crazy. Our mission in one of the few who are doing an internet missionary work trial run. Using facebook, blogs, and skype! It probably sounds a little scary, but I think it is awesome they trust us to do it. Right now only 30 missionaries are doing it, but by the end of the month the whole mission will be doing it. Isn't it interesting? I guess we can talk to our investigators using facebook and we create a blog for discussions, topics, etc and put links to it on facebook. I guess the church is trying to find new ways to do missionary work, and since we live in such a high tech computer world, they are going to give it a shot. So if by the end of the month you see me on facebook, don't be alarmed!
I have to admit I've been a little bit trunky this past week, ok maybe a lot trunky. But it is hard when you are killing someone off! Sister Green has been pretty good about not talking about it too much, but I can tell she is excited and her family is coming here to pick her up on wednesday. Its hard to not think about home and doing normal things! On friday on our way to a member's house, Sister Green was looking in the mirror and looks at me and says, "Sister Turner. There is something wrong with my face!" So I looked at her and her left eye isn't blinking with her right eye and when she smiled 1/2 of her mouth wasn't working. Within 10 minutes the whole left side of her face went numb! Well, needless to say we went to the doctor and she got diagnosed with Bells Palsy, a virus that attacks the nerves. So she is on medication and the doctor told her it could take up to 6 months for the numbness to go away! The poor thing! 3 days before going home! She has been having a good attitude about it though, and she just laughs and turns it into a joke. I really admire that about her!
Well, Mary's baptism is kind of on hold for now... she has some concerns that she is trying to work through and we don't have the situation all figured out yet. She still could be baptized this weekend but as far as we know, she wants to wait. It is an interesting situation, so we'll see what happens. Thats the update on her. We're in serious need of finding new investigators here.
So, two new little cousins!? Goodness, that is awesome! Sounds like things back home are good! I am doing pretty good despite the trunkiness! We have commited to having a prayer journal that when we pray and receive revelation or guidance, we write it down. It has been awesome! It is so easy to say a prayer and immediately get off your knees and go to bed, but when we do that, we miss the opportunity for answers to our prayers! It also helps me realize how I can recognize the spirit guiding me. More and more I am coming to know that the gospel is true no matter where you go or what you try to do! Man I am grateful to know for myself it is true! My mission has taught me a lot of things. For one I feel like my weaknesses and shortcomings are magnified by a thousand, haha. But it has also taught me that despite my weaknesses, I can still move forward. I feel like the more I learn the more I realize I know very little! It has also taught me how to love. To love people, to love myself, to love life, to love each day, to love the gospel! I truly believe that love is the core of the gospel, and the more we choose to love others rather than judge or criticize, the more we become like Christ. It is such a simple thing, but without it, we are nothing! And without it, life kinda sucks! Anyways, I love you all so much! Thanks for everything!
Love
Sister Turner
ps, my year mark is on the 17th.. so you can send me a surprise package in the mail if you want. if you want, i'm just sayin! ;)
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