Well the first week of the new transfer is over already. It is way awesome though. My boy finally has a transfer under his belt and is much more experienced. He has been out in the fields for close to 2 months so he gets a feel for what is going on now. It is way awesome though because the work is starting to pick up here now. We have 2 baptismal dates right now for Nicki who is going to be Baptized this Saturday! And Tiffene for June 16th. Preparations for Nicki's Baptism are going well. We got it all set it up. Elder Besendorfer my Greenie and I are going to be performing a musical number. I have learned how to play the Ukulele this last week during Lunch time and stuff so we are both going to sing and I am going to play "When I am Baptized" fromt the childrens songbook. He has a Uk so I will be playing his. haha It should go well I think :) The Uk is a nice easy instrument so I have no problem playing it and also with Playing Base Guitar back in the day in Middle school Jazz band helps.
Monday way awesome. That morning we had Breakfast with a a bunch of missionaries. The ward gave us a bunch of Breakfast food leftover froma brunch. So we took it to another missionaries appartment and we all ate it:) yum. That night we had a dinner and a lesson with Nicki at the Keetch's. It went so well. She is so ready for this.
Tuesday We had District meeting then went to the Temple as a district after. It was so nice to go to the Temple and be able to have all the worries of the world lifted off for a bit. I love going there. It is such an amazing place. Especially for feeling the Spirit and being able to recieve revelation. I love it. It is such a blessing to have one so close to us here in St. Louis. We did not get much work done that day which we kinda figured. But we got a referal that day from a member that was very nice.
Wednesday was a good day. We had out lesson with Tiffene that afternoon. We went with Brother Baker to it. It went very well. She is growing fast in the gospel but not as fast as Nicki. But Nicki is so golden compared to anyone else I have taught. So We ended up reading the Book of Mormon with Tiffene. She was not quite ready for the 3rd lesson yet. Well it did not reel right for that moment. She needed something else at that time. We have been starting to work with a guy named Webster whose wife was taught by the missionaries a long time ago. Hopefully we get to start teaching her soon. She seems to like us.
Thursday was an awesome day. We had our appointment with a Less active Heike. Her Mother is here visiting from Germany. She speaks a decent amount of english at least to where she can get the just of what we are saying and we can get what she is trying to say. It was cool because she went right to asking questions. Then we remembered we had a Book of Mormon in the trunk of our car that was in some random language. We ran outside to grab it and it ended up being a German Book of Mormon. It was a miracle. We had no clue who put that copy in there and why. But we know why now. it was meant for her. We invited her to church and she came with her daughter:) That night we had a dinner with a Part Memeber family that we have been working with very hard. The lesson was going awesome with the Non member wife until the Husband started talking about ailiens... He ruined the Spirit there.
Friday we got in contact and saw many lessactives/partmembers that the ward refered to us and told us to go see. It is so nice with the Ward wanting to work with us so much now especially with Two Baptismal dates. I love it. We also found a good potential who lives in a home where a member used to live:) We got to plan the Baptism that day. That was fun to do. I love planing them. Best planning a missionary can do.
Saturday We had our appointment with Charlie. It was also mission Bike day. So we had to walk everywhere that day... So it took forever to get everywhere and we got rides with members so we could get to our further away appointments. That was nice. It was cool because Charlie had a friend visiting him so we got to teach him and his friend. To bad his friend lives outside of our area though....
Sunday was cool with Heikes mom coming to church. Tiffene could not come becasue of her son... Long story. Nicki is in Utah so she was not there. It was cool because she has spent the whole past week there having fun going to temple square, byu baseball games, visiting all the temples and seeing everything there is to see in Utah. It was very interesting because Tony her bf father is having double Bipass suregey while Nicki is being baptized. So Tony is going to be down with his dad in Mississippi during Nickis baptism. SHe wants him there buit she knows she can not postphone it a week. it just shows that she is diong this for herself and the right reasons. I hope everyone is doing great. I love being out here on a misison. It is such a blessing to me. I have grown so much out here and started to grow up and change. I have seen how far I have come in the past 8 months. Well I hit 8 months a week from today but it is so weird. Things go by way to fast. Have a great week!
Love,
Elder Derek Turner
*Serving in Zion*
P.s. Who still reads these?
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