Well This was my first week in Hazelwood. It is an interesting place. Half the ward is north of the Airport which is the Hazelwood one area. I am in the Hazelwood 2 area so I am down in south of the Airport. So in my area I see the arch everyday because we are in the city. It is weird being back in the city again. I did not think I would go back. It is weird. It is not nearly as Ghetto as ESTL though. It is fun though. I really was sad to leave Springfield. I did not think I would like it out there but that was my favorite area by far.
Monday my last pday here we went to the Abe Lincoln Presidental Museum and Library. It was cool going through that and seeing it. I got to go teach some Kelly and Shannon for the last time. It was fun to do that. The lesson went very well I have to say.
Tuesday was a super busy day. Full of seeing investigators and saying goodbye to them and such. We got to finally meet our recent converts non member wife. That night we had a dinner appointment with my Distant cousins here. I got to meet some more that I have out here. It was really cool to be there with all of them and be able to share a bit about the Gospel. I wish I could stay in Springfield to teach them...
Wednesday was transfer meeting day. We had to leave early that morning to get down to St. Louis for it. We took the 15 minute ride to my new area. We live with a member here in Hazelwood 2. It is just temporary. We have to find a appartment down in the city. We have to bus to our area everyday. Well every other week we get the Truck. We have the Truck this week to travel. We do not even live in out area right now... That day we had an appointment with one of our investigators who is getting baptized this saturday. It went well. I got meet more investigators that day.
Thursday we had many different appointments which was nice. The first one with Annieya. Then we had our appointment with Linda and Anthony. We are hoping to get them all dates to be baptized on this week. We had to take a 2 hour bus ride back up to the Church to teach Cathy and her daugthers. We have awesome members who come to all these appointments. Then we had an appointment with Scottie at the church right after that.
Friday we had weekly planning. Then we had to go search for an appartment because the Mission office is getting on us to find one. We found one. We will have to see what happens. It is just about the only one that is decent that we found in our area. We then went and tried to go see other people and had another appointment with an investigator.
Saturday we had to contact a referal. We learned that they moved to somewhere else... That happens a lot in city ares. At least it did when I was in ESTL. We had an appointment with the Taylors and picked up two new investigators there. Then we had another appointment with Anieya. Then that night we played basketball at the church with some invesitigators and members. It is a normal think we do here I guess.
Sunday was cool meeting people. I got to know a couple families already in the ward because my trainer served here and we came here and hung out with families on pday. It was funny when those families saw me. They said they knew I would come serve here. They got there wish. Os it is nice already having a few connections. We had dinner with one fo those families last night.
Today I am still unsure of what we are going to do. You will find out next week I guess! have a great week everyone. The Church is True, The book is Blue, and Jesus Loves all of you.
Love,
Elder Derek Turner
*Serving in Zion*
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