Hello!
It is good to hear about all the baby blessings I am missing, haha! I have a feeling I am going to come home and not remember who everyone is! This past week was a pretty okay week I guess. I was not expecting the news about Fernando! I hope Katie and Ryan are doing alright. I have been keeping them in my prayers. I am really starting to feel that I have been in this area for too long! Or at least longer than any other area I've been in. We were able to teach a new guy, who actually lives in Nashville but he was over at one of our investigator's house. We had an awesome lesson with him, and he told us what we were saying makes sense and he felt the spirit! He usually visits Terry every friday so we told him we could teach him there again! I am really excited for general conference weekend! It is always nice to slow down for a few hours and let someone else do the teaching! :)
Other than that, we've really just been doing the same old thing here. We are going to try to switch it up this week and try some new ideas for getting new investigators. It's really hard in a rich area, but I might just be complaining and making up excuses, haha. But we have got to do something because we need to set some baptism dates, it has been too long! Cody has been in Harrogate for the last 6 months too, and I can tell he is ready to move on to a new area. I think his transfers are next week, so hopefully he'll get to go somewhere new. He seems to be doing okay though! Hmm, Well, I can't think of what else happened this week. We had a pretty good thunderstorm... ha, and I keep having dreams about tornadoes! Hopefully thats not a warning for what may happen in the near future!
Well I love you all!
Love Sister Turner
Monday, March 28, 2011
Monday, March 21, 2011
March 21, 2011
Hello!
First news first, looks like I'll be here in franklin for 6 months! I have another 6 weeks here. Not what I thought at all! On friday I felt like I was going to be transferred and felt like I had done what I needed to here, but apparently not haha. WHo knew Franklin would be the area I'd spend 6 months in? So, I get to kill off two sisters in a row. Don't be surprised if I start to feel a little trunky! I am doing good though. We had a pretty good week, although I wound up with hayfever and my ears are still plugged! But I feel a lot better now. We had a specialized training meeting with just us and the zone leaders on thursday from 9 am to about 4:30 pm, role playing. About 7 hours of role playing! Man it was crazy. The purpose of it was we had to role play until we had an amazingly powerful lesson where the spirit was strong. We were supposed to learn how to recognize and use the spirit more effectively and it was intense! A little frustrating too, but I learned alot. Saturday we helped Evelyn pull weeds in her yard, and it was quite nice to have an outlet for a few hours to do some physical labor. Who knew I'd enjoy pulling weeds?! We talked to Mary yesterday at church and she told us she is still intending to get baptized, but she didn't want to set a date because she doesn't want it to drop again. So we are going to start visiting her again! We stopped by one of the less active members we had contacted a couple weeks ago that we hadn't been able to get a hold of and they were home and we finally got a return appointment for tuesday!
Yesterday we had a special fast for an elder's mom on sunday and I wanted to share this so that you could see the power of fasting. His mom was in a bike accident and had been in a coma with no sign of improvement for several days in a row. So President Hutchings invited us to fast for her, and as a result his mom was able to come off the machines and opened her eyes at about 3 pm yesterday, which was the time the entire mission stopped where they were to end our fast and pray for her. It was a powerful testimony to me that God hears and answers prayers!
I guess that is all for now! I am glad Josh liked the card, haha. I thought it was perfect for him!
I love you all! Keep me posted on anything going on!
Love always
Sister Turner
First news first, looks like I'll be here in franklin for 6 months! I have another 6 weeks here. Not what I thought at all! On friday I felt like I was going to be transferred and felt like I had done what I needed to here, but apparently not haha. WHo knew Franklin would be the area I'd spend 6 months in? So, I get to kill off two sisters in a row. Don't be surprised if I start to feel a little trunky! I am doing good though. We had a pretty good week, although I wound up with hayfever and my ears are still plugged! But I feel a lot better now. We had a specialized training meeting with just us and the zone leaders on thursday from 9 am to about 4:30 pm, role playing. About 7 hours of role playing! Man it was crazy. The purpose of it was we had to role play until we had an amazingly powerful lesson where the spirit was strong. We were supposed to learn how to recognize and use the spirit more effectively and it was intense! A little frustrating too, but I learned alot. Saturday we helped Evelyn pull weeds in her yard, and it was quite nice to have an outlet for a few hours to do some physical labor. Who knew I'd enjoy pulling weeds?! We talked to Mary yesterday at church and she told us she is still intending to get baptized, but she didn't want to set a date because she doesn't want it to drop again. So we are going to start visiting her again! We stopped by one of the less active members we had contacted a couple weeks ago that we hadn't been able to get a hold of and they were home and we finally got a return appointment for tuesday!
Yesterday we had a special fast for an elder's mom on sunday and I wanted to share this so that you could see the power of fasting. His mom was in a bike accident and had been in a coma with no sign of improvement for several days in a row. So President Hutchings invited us to fast for her, and as a result his mom was able to come off the machines and opened her eyes at about 3 pm yesterday, which was the time the entire mission stopped where they were to end our fast and pray for her. It was a powerful testimony to me that God hears and answers prayers!
I guess that is all for now! I am glad Josh liked the card, haha. I thought it was perfect for him!
I love you all! Keep me posted on anything going on!
Love always
Sister Turner
Monday, March 14, 2011
March 14, 2011
Hey! Man, it feels good to have a p-day. I really don't know what missionary work would be without them! It's nice to be able to relax for a minute (cuz that is about how long p-days seem to last, haha). We had a good week last week. Sister Taratieru was here on an exchange! It was good to see her again and she got to see Evelyn again, and it went well. We went to a Baha'i devotional on wednesday evening and it turned out to be awesome. They were some of the most kind and welcoming people I have ever met! I guess their whole purpose is to bring people of all religions together. The devotional was interesting, I think I left more confused about their beliefs than before, but we had a great opportunity to talk to them about our faith! At the end of the devotional they actually asked Sister T and I to sing to them, and we bore our testimonies. It was way cool!
Oh, funny story! Remember how I passed out when I cut my finger in Oklahoma when there was only a little bit of blood? Well I almost passed out again. So, there we were at the Hefner's assembling those metal shelves to help her organize her house.. I pushed one of the shelves down too far and so I put my hand around the bar so that I could push the shelf back up. Not a good idea! I pushed so hard that it shot up and the inside of my hand got pinched in between the bar and the shelf. Immediately it started turning purple and swelling and it hurt REAL BAD! Then I started to feel light-headed, so I had to lay down on the ground. In walks Sis Hefner and she thought I was just tired and laid down, hahaha! I had to lay there for about 20 minutes with my feet propped. I didn't pass out thank goodness. I must be extra sensitive in my hands or something. Needless to say I have a nice bruise on my hand. I tried to take a picture of it but you can't really see anything. I am also on the verge of allergies again :( My throat has been sore for the last 3 days and today I have the thing where you need to sneeze and it doesn't come out, so it makes my eyes water, and yeah. But, I am okay! We will find out about transfers this saturday. I really have no idea whether I am staying or going. I've always been wrong, haha, so I am just going to stop guessing.
Here are some pictures of the week.
Well, I think that is all! Oh, and yes the skirt and the shirt fit! I wore it to church yesterday! Thank you! I hope everyone is doing well. Thank you for your letters! it was good to hear from everyone again! I hit my 13 month mark this week! Crazy isn't it!? Oh, and it is confirmed I will fly home on Sept 7. The last day of the transfer is the 6th! Anyways, I love you guys!
Love
Sister Turner
Oh, funny story! Remember how I passed out when I cut my finger in Oklahoma when there was only a little bit of blood? Well I almost passed out again. So, there we were at the Hefner's assembling those metal shelves to help her organize her house.. I pushed one of the shelves down too far and so I put my hand around the bar so that I could push the shelf back up. Not a good idea! I pushed so hard that it shot up and the inside of my hand got pinched in between the bar and the shelf. Immediately it started turning purple and swelling and it hurt REAL BAD! Then I started to feel light-headed, so I had to lay down on the ground. In walks Sis Hefner and she thought I was just tired and laid down, hahaha! I had to lay there for about 20 minutes with my feet propped. I didn't pass out thank goodness. I must be extra sensitive in my hands or something. Needless to say I have a nice bruise on my hand. I tried to take a picture of it but you can't really see anything. I am also on the verge of allergies again :( My throat has been sore for the last 3 days and today I have the thing where you need to sneeze and it doesn't come out, so it makes my eyes water, and yeah. But, I am okay! We will find out about transfers this saturday. I really have no idea whether I am staying or going. I've always been wrong, haha, so I am just going to stop guessing.
Here are some pictures of the week.
The first one is me laying on the floor at the Hefner's!
when I could finally sit up!
Me and Christina Chumbly, who lives in Dickson. She is so cute! She goes on exchanges with the sisters all the time! She has a boyfriend who has down-syndrome and they are so cute! Don't you love her poodle skirt outfit? :)
Sister Whitehead, Sister Vincent, Christina, and Sister Taratieru meeting up to exhange back!
Well, I think that is all! Oh, and yes the skirt and the shirt fit! I wore it to church yesterday! Thank you! I hope everyone is doing well. Thank you for your letters! it was good to hear from everyone again! I hit my 13 month mark this week! Crazy isn't it!? Oh, and it is confirmed I will fly home on Sept 7. The last day of the transfer is the 6th! Anyways, I love you guys!
Love
Sister Turner
Monday, March 7, 2011
March 7, 2011
Hello!
Yeah, the whole facebook thing is interesting as a missionary. I am not really sure what to do about the settings, and right now I only have one investigator on there, well from franklin anyway. His name is Parham Abdi, he is from Iran and belongs to the Bah'hai faith. Not many of our investigators have facebook. And yes, you can invite others to befriend me. We are allowed to do missionary work no matter where the person lives or what not. We try to do most of it through our area, but when an opportunity comes to teach someone else, we'll take it! I am still trying to figure it out too. Yeah, my companion is doing it too. Her name is Angela Whitehead, you could look her up if you want! :)
Well I had a good week, I got the birthday package! Thank you, I enjoyed it! We went to go visit another less active man in our ward, and met his wife LouAnn, who he has been married to for 16 years and she accepted to take the discussions! That is two from less active members in our teaching pool now! She was very nice and seemed excited about taking the discussions. Yay, finally! We are down to the last two weeks of the transfer now, and I'll find out next saturday what will happen. I am honestly not sure what will happen but I only have 4 transfers left! So I may only hove one or two more areas. It really is starting to go fast!
We ate dinner at the Alberts this week and in the middle of dinner we heard a little chirping noise. We looked down and there was a baby chicken running around inside their house! Haha, it was so cute. I guess Sis Albert tries to keep it in one room, and she keeps it in there because it is still too small to survive on its own outside but somehow it got out. It follows her around like a little puppy! Then they let us see their baby goats, whose mother died, and they were so cute! There are pictures of them on facebook. I guess that is pretty much it for now! I am doing good! Tell Josh Happy Birthday! I am going to try to get a card in the mail but I don't know if it will be on time. Tell everyone I love them! I hope everything goes okay for Beverly.. tell them thank you for the birthday card! It was very much appreciated!
Love always,
Sister Turner
Yeah, the whole facebook thing is interesting as a missionary. I am not really sure what to do about the settings, and right now I only have one investigator on there, well from franklin anyway. His name is Parham Abdi, he is from Iran and belongs to the Bah'hai faith. Not many of our investigators have facebook. And yes, you can invite others to befriend me. We are allowed to do missionary work no matter where the person lives or what not. We try to do most of it through our area, but when an opportunity comes to teach someone else, we'll take it! I am still trying to figure it out too. Yeah, my companion is doing it too. Her name is Angela Whitehead, you could look her up if you want! :)
Well I had a good week, I got the birthday package! Thank you, I enjoyed it! We went to go visit another less active man in our ward, and met his wife LouAnn, who he has been married to for 16 years and she accepted to take the discussions! That is two from less active members in our teaching pool now! She was very nice and seemed excited about taking the discussions. Yay, finally! We are down to the last two weeks of the transfer now, and I'll find out next saturday what will happen. I am honestly not sure what will happen but I only have 4 transfers left! So I may only hove one or two more areas. It really is starting to go fast!
We ate dinner at the Alberts this week and in the middle of dinner we heard a little chirping noise. We looked down and there was a baby chicken running around inside their house! Haha, it was so cute. I guess Sis Albert tries to keep it in one room, and she keeps it in there because it is still too small to survive on its own outside but somehow it got out. It follows her around like a little puppy! Then they let us see their baby goats, whose mother died, and they were so cute! There are pictures of them on facebook. I guess that is pretty much it for now! I am doing good! Tell Josh Happy Birthday! I am going to try to get a card in the mail but I don't know if it will be on time. Tell everyone I love them! I hope everything goes okay for Beverly.. tell them thank you for the birthday card! It was very much appreciated!
Love always,
Sister Turner
Monday, February 28, 2011
February 28, 2011
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/
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 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
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