So this past week has been probably the best week I have had in Fenton Missiouri since I have been here. We Set a Baptismal Date!!! I have been praying for this ever since I got here. And now my prayers have been answered. It feels so good after all the work we have done here going from this place having nothing going on to starting to get a lot going. It has taken a while to turn it around but now it is starting to be a whole new place. I am starting to really love it here.
Monday goes as it always does. Laundry, email, hang out with other missionaries. We just hung out with other missionaries at a members place.
Tuesday we had d-meet. It went well. Then after we had an appointment with Steve. We are probably going to drop him. Things are not progressing there. Then we our appointment with Hester and Lorin. They ended up not being into it as much as we thought. So we dropped them. We had our scripture study class that night. No one came. Our members are kinda failing with that. But oh well. So if we do not get a decent turnout within a month from now we will stop doing it. They work well when the members really take an active role and bring friends and stuff like how it happened in my last area. But I guess people have more of lives here. But we gained a new investigator that day from one of our potentials. That was cool. Her names is Victoria. She is 30 but a way cool person. She is a pretty solid person like Nicke.
Wednesday was a great busy day. It was awesome. We had service then we went out checking up on potentials and such. Visiting part members. We had dinner with members then after dinner they came with us to an appointment at Nicke's. Her boyfriend Tony was there. We taught the PoS. It went so awesome. She loved it. We set a baptismal date with her for May 26. We would of set it for May 19 but she will be out of town with Tony in Utah going to Temple Square and seeing church history stuff out there:) I was so happy to hear that. This has been one of the most perfect situations I have ever been in. Just please pray for her and that she will remain strong and be Baptized on May 26. Things are going so great with her. We then had an appointment with Shane that night that we toke another member too. It did not go as well. oh well.
Thursday was a way jammed packed day also. We had President interviews. Those went really well. It was good. We then had to leave there and had three apointments that night not including our dinner appoitment. We went with a member to a couple appoinments with a less active and Linda an investigator. Then we went with our ward mission leader to a lesson with Cameron Lunt who would of been baptized already but her non member father is the problem there. The mother is a member. We then had dinner and coordination with our ward mission leader.
Friday we saw some people the Relief Society prez gave us to see. Just a bunch of part members and stuff. We had dinner fall through that night. So we just showed up at our Less actives place and they fed us dinner. It was awesome. We have started to work well with this partmember family who at first the non member wife did not like us. But now she is totally cool with us and we have developed her trust to now where she has invited us over for dinner. It was awesome. It is nice to have these member referals now to see.
Saturday we went to a comuntiy service project that the ward was going to. It went well we got to to talk to a few people but they ended up not being interested to much. OH well. That day we had a crazy hail storm. Luckly it did not hit us. But there were 7 cars at the mission office parking lot waiting to be saled and they were all totalled because the hail was baseball size. It broke all the windows and did a lot of damage. The day before they finally got the last new cars out to whatever missionaries were getting them. That was a real blessing. Car dealerships and just almost every car damamged in the area where the hail fell. It was intense. There was a tornado warning right when were in an appointment. Craziness. But we are safe.
Sunday was great. We got to see some investigators after church who did not make it there. Dinner that night at our members place was one of the best meals I have had yet. It was Mexican food. So good. I miss good Mexican food... Oh well. Part of the Sacrafice I guess. haha But I am so thankful for all of you. Even if you do not write me at all:) I would love for you to write me though! Have a great week. Remember Jesus Loves you more then you can ever know.
Love,
Elder Derek Turner
*Serving in Zion*
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