Hello!
Oh my goodness, it seems like every week gets more exhausting. We weren't sure if we were going to make it yesterday, we were both so tired! But we did have a really busy and good week! Monday we spent in princeton and had FHE with a part member family, the Hales. They are really awesome, the husband Tony really likes the church and will get baptized but he is still waiting for a sure answer that he knows it is true. Tuesday we spent the morning in Russellville and then to Morgantown in the afternoon and evening. We are teaching a 17 year old, Jaylin, she is super cute! Her family are members but not active, and she is getting baptized on June 11! We are also working with an excommunicated member, helping her get back. She is a great girl, she just needs to know she can make the changes. We had a really good talk with her yesterday and she told us she prayed for the first time in many many years yesterday and she said she wants to make it an everyday thing! We were so excited to hear it! Then on thursday we spent the day in Eldorado. We drove about 8 hours that day to see about 4 people. That shows just how important one person is to the Lord! :) Then friday we spent the day in Fulton. We are still teaching the Brown family and they are so awesome! They still have a baptism date for June 4th for Joanna and three of her kids: Levi, Sierra, and Hannah. We also talked to Ladonna, who is getting baptized on June 18! Then saturday we started out in Elkton, but we are turning it over to the traveling elders because we are stretched pretty thin. So starting this week, we will have 5 areas instead of 6, which will make it nice to be able to spend more time in the arteas that need it. Then we headed for russellville, and then morgantown, then to madison for the Jason Deere fireside to meet one of our investigators there, and spent the night in gallatin and then drove back to morgantown for sunday! Yep. THAT is why I am exhausted! The work does not slow down! The Jason Deere fireside was really good! Emily, our investigator, was really struggling because her family is feeding her a lot of anti and telling her we are full of crap and she is really worried she will get kicked out of her house if she keeps pursuing the mormons. She is home for the summer break from college. She is amazing though. You know when they get that much opposition and still try to move forward that they are elect!
Chris Kirby got baptized in Morgantown saturday! It was great! We also had to speak in that ward yesterday. So that was our week! I am doing good other than being tired! It sounds like these upcoming weeks will be pretty busy for you guys! Tell Amanda congrats on her graduation! I'll keep Britt and Tyler in my prayers that they'll be able to find jobs out there. How is the job market anyway? Do you think it will be fairly easy to find a job when I get back? I am hoping so! Anyway, I guess that is all for now. I love you all!
Love Sister Turner
Monday, May 23, 2011
May 16, 2011
Hello!
Well, Desi can do some serious work on my hair when I get home cuz I will probably need it! Sounds like it has been a good week for you guys! We had a great week as well. Traveling is quite the experience! I am a little nervous to take over when Sister Larsen leaves because there is sooooooo much to do and remember and I feel so scattered about who and where everyone is. But it is awesome! Sister Larsen has been talking to a girl she knew in Dickson about a year ago and her family is really hard core baptist and she told us this week that she believes the book of mormon is true and is trying to figure out how she is going to tell her parents. She is an amazing girl. I love seeing how the gospel changes people. We had zone conference this past week and the reality of the call of a missionary hit us both pretty hard. I realized that those who hear the message and choose to reject it will have that over their heads, and that is a little scary!
We also had stake conference, it was a broadcast and Elder Eyring, Elder Ballard, and Bishop Edgely spoke pretty powerfully on missionary work in the eastern united states and he gave some amazing promises! It made me so incredibly grateful that I have an opportunity to serve here. I kept thinking of the revelation Ezra Taft Benson had about the south becoming a top baptizing mission and it felt like in stake conference they were repeating the same things as if to tell us to prepare for it. Elder Eyring mentioned that missionaries coming home from their missions will have a greater fire of the gospel that will benefit the future generation than ever before. Elder Ballard told us we needed to be in a hurry about sharing the gospel. He told us that we don't have time to waste, we are in the last dispensation and we need to be in a hurry. I wish I wrote everything down that they said because it was amazing! I had a really spiritual experience as I was sitting there too, as if God was literally giving me strength and that fire at that moment. Maybe it will be available on lds.org? I would sure hope so! We set another date this weekend. Jaylin, she is an 18 year old and she wants to be baptized on June 11! That gives us a total of 7 future dates! But I really feel like none of it is because of what I am doing because I still fell like i don't know what is going on! Haha. Yes, we got to go down to Mary's baptism and it was so great. She will make an amazing member of the church!
So yes, we had a great week! I am doing fine! Trying to eat healthy! I've never felt so tired but it is a good tired, knowing that I have worked hard.
I love you all!
Love Sister Turner
oh, yay for taxes! Thank you! We went to metropolis, the home of superman and they had a store and I couldn't resist buying some superman stuff.. so that is what that $40 went to. No more though. I just wont go shopping for anything.. but i do need stamps.
Well, Desi can do some serious work on my hair when I get home cuz I will probably need it! Sounds like it has been a good week for you guys! We had a great week as well. Traveling is quite the experience! I am a little nervous to take over when Sister Larsen leaves because there is sooooooo much to do and remember and I feel so scattered about who and where everyone is. But it is awesome! Sister Larsen has been talking to a girl she knew in Dickson about a year ago and her family is really hard core baptist and she told us this week that she believes the book of mormon is true and is trying to figure out how she is going to tell her parents. She is an amazing girl. I love seeing how the gospel changes people. We had zone conference this past week and the reality of the call of a missionary hit us both pretty hard. I realized that those who hear the message and choose to reject it will have that over their heads, and that is a little scary!
We also had stake conference, it was a broadcast and Elder Eyring, Elder Ballard, and Bishop Edgely spoke pretty powerfully on missionary work in the eastern united states and he gave some amazing promises! It made me so incredibly grateful that I have an opportunity to serve here. I kept thinking of the revelation Ezra Taft Benson had about the south becoming a top baptizing mission and it felt like in stake conference they were repeating the same things as if to tell us to prepare for it. Elder Eyring mentioned that missionaries coming home from their missions will have a greater fire of the gospel that will benefit the future generation than ever before. Elder Ballard told us we needed to be in a hurry about sharing the gospel. He told us that we don't have time to waste, we are in the last dispensation and we need to be in a hurry. I wish I wrote everything down that they said because it was amazing! I had a really spiritual experience as I was sitting there too, as if God was literally giving me strength and that fire at that moment. Maybe it will be available on lds.org? I would sure hope so! We set another date this weekend. Jaylin, she is an 18 year old and she wants to be baptized on June 11! That gives us a total of 7 future dates! But I really feel like none of it is because of what I am doing because I still fell like i don't know what is going on! Haha. Yes, we got to go down to Mary's baptism and it was so great. She will make an amazing member of the church!
So yes, we had a great week! I am doing fine! Trying to eat healthy! I've never felt so tired but it is a good tired, knowing that I have worked hard.
I love you all!
Love Sister Turner
oh, yay for taxes! Thank you! We went to metropolis, the home of superman and they had a store and I couldn't resist buying some superman stuff.. so that is what that $40 went to. No more though. I just wont go shopping for anything.. but i do need stamps.
Monday, May 2, 2011
May 2, 2011
Hey!
Well, what a crazy week. I am getting transferred to be a traveling sister and I am SOOOO excited!! We travel to like 4-5 different cities every week mostly in Kentucky. P-days will be totaly different, I wont have a normal one anymore. I guess we just do stuff whenever we find free time. It will be a challenge but it sounds so awesome! I will get to call you, I am not sure what time it will be or anything yet.
No, Terry's baptism didn't happen. We didn't feel that he was ready because he doesn't seem to grasp anything that we teach him and he keeps asking the same questions. We don't know how much more simple we can make it.. we handed him off to the elders as well, since technically he is in their area. Pres Hutchings advised us to let the bishop make the call on his baptism to decide if terry is accountable enough. SO thats the situation with that. Mary Kane told us she wanted to be baptized on May 14!! I will definately come back for that! :) She is really ready this time. She is awesome!
Since both of us are leaving, and missionary work has been struggling here, Pres Hutchings decided to not put more missionaries in the Carnton ward this transfer. Although, there is a senior couple who will get to work in our area as well. So that was really depressing having to tell the ward that! There were many people who were sad to hear we were being taken out. They have been a great ward though, really good people!
Cody sent me a letter saying he was being emergency transferred to be a zone leader this last week, not sure where yet! Thats the latest on him.
Well we don't have much time today, so that is about all I have for now.
I look forward to calling you on mother's day! :)
I love you!
Sister Turner
Well, what a crazy week. I am getting transferred to be a traveling sister and I am SOOOO excited!! We travel to like 4-5 different cities every week mostly in Kentucky. P-days will be totaly different, I wont have a normal one anymore. I guess we just do stuff whenever we find free time. It will be a challenge but it sounds so awesome! I will get to call you, I am not sure what time it will be or anything yet.
No, Terry's baptism didn't happen. We didn't feel that he was ready because he doesn't seem to grasp anything that we teach him and he keeps asking the same questions. We don't know how much more simple we can make it.. we handed him off to the elders as well, since technically he is in their area. Pres Hutchings advised us to let the bishop make the call on his baptism to decide if terry is accountable enough. SO thats the situation with that. Mary Kane told us she wanted to be baptized on May 14!! I will definately come back for that! :) She is really ready this time. She is awesome!
Since both of us are leaving, and missionary work has been struggling here, Pres Hutchings decided to not put more missionaries in the Carnton ward this transfer. Although, there is a senior couple who will get to work in our area as well. So that was really depressing having to tell the ward that! There were many people who were sad to hear we were being taken out. They have been a great ward though, really good people!
Cody sent me a letter saying he was being emergency transferred to be a zone leader this last week, not sure where yet! Thats the latest on him.
Well we don't have much time today, so that is about all I have for now.
I look forward to calling you on mother's day! :)
I love you!
Sister Turner
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