Yeah, we had a pretty good easter. We had dinner with the Ross'. They even gave us easter baskets! They have been really good to us, and we just found out over the weekend that their son and daughter in law are going to be moving in so we will be living somewhere else soon. Which may or may not effect me, I'm not sure. Transfers are next week, and I have to be honest I am ready to move on. This past week was pretty discouraging, and I am not sure what else to do in this area. I feel like I have done my best, and I know that, I just wish I could have seen more baptisms here. We tried to do more tracting last week and it was even more discouraging than the week before. It is definately not the most effective way to do missionary work, especially here. There is also supposed to be changes in the ward, and will be splitting I think in the next month or two, so who knows what will happen! Anyway, back to easter! We visited Evelyn and shared some easter talks with her. Oh, I guess I could tell you about Cody. I don't know if you heard or not, but he got transferred back to Knoxville and he is training not just one but TWO missionaries and is a DL over 13 missionaries! He was a little overwhelmed and actually tried to get out of it, haha.. but in the last letter it sounded like he was doing okay. But you might want to keep him in your prayers, because that is a lot of responsibility to have all at once! Maybe say a prayer that I will be able to have a good week this week too. :)
Thats funny about Makayla, it made me laugh. Well, hopefully it will just be fun for her! I am excited for Brittany and Tyler to be in Washington! Home almost seems surreal now, its weird. I looked at some of my pictures even from a year or two ago and it's just weird looking at them! Its hard to imagine what normal life is like anymore, haha. I do miss it, but I will make it! I will finish! :)
I don't really have much to say this week. I wrote another e-mail but I was mostly venting and letting out some of my discouragement so I decided not to send it! Hopefully this week will be better.
Anyway, I love you!
Have a good week
Sister Turner
Monday, April 25, 2011
Monday, April 18, 2011
April 18, 2011
Hey! I almost cried when you told me about Cody's dad. That is so
cool! I knew he had gotten his reccomend back but I didn't know it was
on their anniversary! It is so cool to see the atonement in action.
There is a couple, one of them was baptized a little over a year ago
in Portland. The Hathaway family, who fed us like every sunday! They
are an awesome family! Anyway, Sis Hathaway had been less active for
along time, and they were able to go through the temple a week or two
ago. That is what I love about missionary work! To be able to see the
progress overtime.
Well, I am excited for November! I will admit I am a little nervous
about how much we'll have to do in so little time, but I am just going
to trust that it will all work out. :)
We had a pretty good week though. We had a member come out with us,
and he wanted to go visit a part member family he knew. We were only
able to visit for about 15 minutes but we were able to get a return
appointment to teach her husband the discussions! I am excited about
that! She is a really nice girl, and she told us she isn't even sure
why she isn't active because she knows the church is true. Sometimes
all they need is to feel the spirit again, and a loving push to come.
We also got to have Sister Hutchings come out with us on exchanges
last night, and we had a good lesson with Evelyn. She is such a great
lady and we decided we are going to pray that she will have an
experience on her own where she will know that she needs to be
baptized. The spirit was really strong during the lesson, and I know
she felt it, but she feels like she is too old to change religions,
haha.
I hit my 14 month mark yesterday! 4 more months to go! And only 3 more
transfers after the next two weeks. I have a feeling it is going to go
by way fast. So yeah, life is good!
There were some pretty severe thunderstorms that I am sure you heard
were causing tornadoes especially in Oklahoma and I think Mississippi,
that came over us but we didn't have any damage here in Franklin. I
really love the storms, haha! The storms we have had in Utah don't
compare at all.. I am going to miss that about here!
Well, I don't think I have much else to say.. that I can remember at
the moment!
I love you!
Love
Sister Turner
cool! I knew he had gotten his reccomend back but I didn't know it was
on their anniversary! It is so cool to see the atonement in action.
There is a couple, one of them was baptized a little over a year ago
in Portland. The Hathaway family, who fed us like every sunday! They
are an awesome family! Anyway, Sis Hathaway had been less active for
along time, and they were able to go through the temple a week or two
ago. That is what I love about missionary work! To be able to see the
progress overtime.
Well, I am excited for November! I will admit I am a little nervous
about how much we'll have to do in so little time, but I am just going
to trust that it will all work out. :)
We had a pretty good week though. We had a member come out with us,
and he wanted to go visit a part member family he knew. We were only
able to visit for about 15 minutes but we were able to get a return
appointment to teach her husband the discussions! I am excited about
that! She is a really nice girl, and she told us she isn't even sure
why she isn't active because she knows the church is true. Sometimes
all they need is to feel the spirit again, and a loving push to come.
We also got to have Sister Hutchings come out with us on exchanges
last night, and we had a good lesson with Evelyn. She is such a great
lady and we decided we are going to pray that she will have an
experience on her own where she will know that she needs to be
baptized. The spirit was really strong during the lesson, and I know
she felt it, but she feels like she is too old to change religions,
haha.
I hit my 14 month mark yesterday! 4 more months to go! And only 3 more
transfers after the next two weeks. I have a feeling it is going to go
by way fast. So yeah, life is good!
There were some pretty severe thunderstorms that I am sure you heard
were causing tornadoes especially in Oklahoma and I think Mississippi,
that came over us but we didn't have any damage here in Franklin. I
really love the storms, haha! The storms we have had in Utah don't
compare at all.. I am going to miss that about here!
Well, I don't think I have much else to say.. that I can remember at
the moment!
I love you!
Love
Sister Turner
Monday, April 11, 2011
April 11, 2011
Well, hi!
This week we set another date, with Terry's friend Rick. Only problem is... he lives in Nashville. Haha, now if we oculd just find someone IN our area to set a date with! :) Life is good though. I am starting to feel anxious to leave this area, kinda getting tired of the routine. BUT I am good. The past two days have been a record high for this time of the year, 92 degrees! I don't appreciate it at all! Today is in the 70's again thank goodness. It was a small reminder of how awful the summers are here, haha. One more, I can do it! Brother Ross just had surgery in his mouth, he had a tumor removed. The poor thing has had one thing after another! Then yesterday, Sister Ross noticed her ceiling was dripping water, and found out the pan that holds the condescension from the air conditioner was bowed, so they had to turn the air off for the day and tried to fix it. They have been really good to us living in their home!
Someone is blasting some really loud rock music here in the library.. it is a little distracting! I can't really remember what happened last week, it went by so fast. Hey, did Sylvia adopt a girl..? I am a little confused. I saw some posts on facebook and I am just wondering. (Yes Sylvia and Troy are going through the adoption process.) I could tell you about the tornado warning, but you already saw it on my blog, haha. I feel like you get more from my blogs than my letters now! We went to the relief society birthday party and I ate some seaweed! It was actually not too bad. Apparently they put rice and meat in it for a little asian taco! I also ate baby bok choy and it was actually really good! Then Sis Hefner gave a really good presentation of the history of relief society and did a really good job. Normally that would bore me to death, but she made it really interesting. She talked about how after the Relief Society was organized that alot of blessings came to women all over the world, that relief society was not just a blessings for members of the church. For instance, job opportunities, and being able to vote. Then she talked about how it isn't just a program to fill our time and go to when we have a chance, but that it is something we need to belong to, to develop friendships with other women because we have such a great impact on each other. Anyway, I really liked it!
Mom, I have really been missing your cooking for the past month or so. Southern food is good and all, but its nothing like home! I probably need you to send me the recipe for the cafe rio dinner! dressing, pork, rice, all of it! Haha, I have been craving it soooooo bad. They don't have anything like that out here. Ok, haha, I have been a little bit trunky lately! I miss the mountains too, and the clean, dry air! Well, I guess I am going to stop there. :)
I love you all! And yes, I do still enjoy letters!
Love Sister Turner
This week we set another date, with Terry's friend Rick. Only problem is... he lives in Nashville. Haha, now if we oculd just find someone IN our area to set a date with! :) Life is good though. I am starting to feel anxious to leave this area, kinda getting tired of the routine. BUT I am good. The past two days have been a record high for this time of the year, 92 degrees! I don't appreciate it at all! Today is in the 70's again thank goodness. It was a small reminder of how awful the summers are here, haha. One more, I can do it! Brother Ross just had surgery in his mouth, he had a tumor removed. The poor thing has had one thing after another! Then yesterday, Sister Ross noticed her ceiling was dripping water, and found out the pan that holds the condescension from the air conditioner was bowed, so they had to turn the air off for the day and tried to fix it. They have been really good to us living in their home!
Someone is blasting some really loud rock music here in the library.. it is a little distracting! I can't really remember what happened last week, it went by so fast. Hey, did Sylvia adopt a girl..? I am a little confused. I saw some posts on facebook and I am just wondering. (Yes Sylvia and Troy are going through the adoption process.) I could tell you about the tornado warning, but you already saw it on my blog, haha. I feel like you get more from my blogs than my letters now! We went to the relief society birthday party and I ate some seaweed! It was actually not too bad. Apparently they put rice and meat in it for a little asian taco! I also ate baby bok choy and it was actually really good! Then Sis Hefner gave a really good presentation of the history of relief society and did a really good job. Normally that would bore me to death, but she made it really interesting. She talked about how after the Relief Society was organized that alot of blessings came to women all over the world, that relief society was not just a blessings for members of the church. For instance, job opportunities, and being able to vote. Then she talked about how it isn't just a program to fill our time and go to when we have a chance, but that it is something we need to belong to, to develop friendships with other women because we have such a great impact on each other. Anyway, I really liked it!
Mom, I have really been missing your cooking for the past month or so. Southern food is good and all, but its nothing like home! I probably need you to send me the recipe for the cafe rio dinner! dressing, pork, rice, all of it! Haha, I have been craving it soooooo bad. They don't have anything like that out here. Ok, haha, I have been a little bit trunky lately! I miss the mountains too, and the clean, dry air! Well, I guess I am going to stop there. :)
I love you all! And yes, I do still enjoy letters!
Love Sister Turner
Monday, April 4, 2011
April 4, 2011
We finally set a baptismal date with someone! We had a good lesson with Terry and for the first time he told us he believed what we were teaching was true! So we told him to pray about being baptized on April 30th, and then we called him the next morning and he said he felt good about it! He also came to BOTH sessions of general conference yesterday! Terry is a very nice guy, he has a really good heart, and has been through some pretty rough things in his life. Keep him in your prayers because once a date is set, opposition will come! So that is the most exciting news! I really enjoyed conference. It was interesting because I tried to guess what the general theme of conference would be and I was right! I loved hearing Elder Scott talk about his wife. I like it when you get to see their more personal side of life.
We also had dinner with a less active/part member family this past week and it went really well. They were such a nice family and they want us to come back. I don't know how often we'll get to see them because the husband works alot and told us April is a really busy month. Life is pretty good though! Time really seems to be going faster and faster, after this week we'll already be 1/2 way through another transfer and then all I have left is 3 transfers. President Hutchings will be going home in June too, which is really sad. He has been such a great mission president.
I have been extra tired lately, and I am not sure if it is the pollen, the fact that I have been out for a long time, the time change, or what, I guess it is a combination of everything, but I feel like I could go home and sleep for a year, haha. Things are going good though. I am starting to feel like I can't remember much about home, I think it is going to be strange to go back to the hot dry desert. The thunder is rolling right now and I love it! it makes me really excited! The thunder here is so cool, it actually rolls for more than a few seconds because there aren't any mountains to dull the sound. Anyways, I think that is all I have for now!
I love you!
Love
Sister Turner
We also had dinner with a less active/part member family this past week and it went really well. They were such a nice family and they want us to come back. I don't know how often we'll get to see them because the husband works alot and told us April is a really busy month. Life is pretty good though! Time really seems to be going faster and faster, after this week we'll already be 1/2 way through another transfer and then all I have left is 3 transfers. President Hutchings will be going home in June too, which is really sad. He has been such a great mission president.
I have been extra tired lately, and I am not sure if it is the pollen, the fact that I have been out for a long time, the time change, or what, I guess it is a combination of everything, but I feel like I could go home and sleep for a year, haha. Things are going good though. I am starting to feel like I can't remember much about home, I think it is going to be strange to go back to the hot dry desert. The thunder is rolling right now and I love it! it makes me really excited! The thunder here is so cool, it actually rolls for more than a few seconds because there aren't any mountains to dull the sound. Anyways, I think that is all I have for now!
I love you!
Love
Sister Turner
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