Dear whoever reads these anymore, how is life everybody? This was an awesome week! This has been a hard but rewarding week. We dropped more investigators because no one comes every foolows up there commitment of coming to church.
Monday we played some bball at the stake center down here in south stake. It was nice to go play some bball and get a good work out.
Tuesday we had d-meet. The assistants showed up there. It was awesome to see Elder Ditto who was my zone leader the last zone I was in. We went on exchanges when my comp was DL so I know him pretty well. After the D-meet we went out to lunch then after that they had DLZL conference at our buliding. So all the DL's companions helped us blitz our area for a couple of hours. I toke Elder Wardle and Fagar and My Greenie with with Elder Luke who had served here before. We had success with finding new investitors on that exchange. Good things always happen on exchanges even if they are really short.
Wednesday we were called early in the morning to go help the Zone Leaders with a service project for a lady who has a brain tumor and who is going to pass from it soon. That took us four hours to complete of just a ton of yard work on this big house. That kind of messed us up for that day though. But the sacrafice was worth it. Our appointment with Shane that night went well. We are just having a hard time getting him to church... Earlier that day we went to Sarahs place unplanned. We had a feeling to go by and see her. When we got there one of her daughters were siiting on a chair in the front. We pulled up and Sarah said please help me!!! My car is wont start and my daughter just got home from school and has lice! Run to the Walgreens for me!!! So we did exactly that and pucked up some liceMD for her. It was a miracle for her. Hopefully this whole experince will open her heart up more to what we share with her.
Thursday we had a less active make our fliers for us for our scripture study class we are starting on Tuesday nights. We had one in my last area that worked well for us in helping our investigators progress to baptism and getting less actives to come. I hope this does the same thing here. We have had many people show interest in it. One door we knocked on to hand out a flier we found out that she used to go to the reorganized church. We picked her up as a new investigator. We dropped a couple of people that day out of our teaching pool. If people do not keep commitments then we do not keep wasiting time with them. So a big focus has been finding. And we have found a hand full of people to teach. We have got people to commit coming to our scripture study. It is just a good tool to finding new people to teach. Plus it is a less intimidating way to get people to come inside our church.
Friday we spent very much of the day handing out fliers. We found some more people who we set appointments to go back and teach. I hope those all go well. We found a former investigator who investigated a while back. Some people were getting mad at us because we were tracting around when the Cardinals home opener was going. We could of picked a better time to hand out the fliers. But oh well.... haha
Saturday was an amazing day. During our studies we recieved two referals via txt message from church headquaters. I was so excited to get them! We never get HQ referals!!! We had a few appointments planned that day already so it just ended up being a way busy day where we did not even get a full time to eat lunch. But I did not care about lunch with everything we had going on! We had a memeber take us to the first referal and firse couple of appointments. The first referal was from her friend refering her. She was not home but her husband was! we got to talking to them. He agreed to take the discussions. We had an appointment with Charile who we had not seen in a long time because he has been in the hospital. After our dinner appointment that night we went out with the member to go see the other referal. She was not home.
Sunday morning before church we had ward council. We also went and saw a part member before church trying to get her to go to church. That did not work... Elder and Sister Nash the senior couple assigned to ESTL my last area came and visited for church! They told me when I left they would come and visit me here in Fenton. So they did! It was awsome seeing them because I felt like I was at home. It made me realize how much I miss the Ghetto. I had so much fun in ESTL. The coolest stories I have happened there. After church we went with a member to try contact the other referal again. When we pulled up to the appartments she lives in I saw a girl and a guy outside saying goodbye to eachother. I knew that was her when we pulled up. So we talked to her and her BF. THe boyfriend is a member who lives up in St. Charles. She is a non member of course. They went to the Kansas City open house this past week. She filled out a thing there to have the missionaries come over. So we set up an appointment for this up coming week. She is golden! Especially having the member bf. I am very excited to start teaching her! But things are really starting to change around even more. We drop people but gain much more solid investigators. All part of the sifting I guess. Well remember everyone, Jesus Loves you. Use the Atonement in your lives. It will change your life. I love you all!
Love,
Elder Derek Turner
*Serving in ZIon*
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