What a week it has been! Every week is exciting on the mission! And I am being honest about that. Try coming on a mission and you will see that I am right. It has been very rewarding. And this week we got transfer calls so stayed tuned in for what is happening! You will find out what is happening to me later in the email. haha Well here is what the week has been like.
Monday was kinda boring. We went around window shopping. Just looking at stuff in different stores and stuff. That night we had an appointment with recent converts. That was fun to do. I like teaching those lessons because it is not as much teaching as discussion. Which how every appointment should be no matter what.
Monday was kinda boring. We went around window shopping. Just looking at stuff in different stores and stuff. That night we had an appointment with recent converts. That was fun to do. I like teaching those lessons because it is not as much teaching as discussion. Which how every appointment should be no matter what.
Tuesday we had district meeting for the first time in a couple of weeks because of interviews. We had an intersting appointment with Emonie that day. We had like three appointments fall through that day will all potential investigators. But we still had a couple of appointments stay which we were able to teach though. That makes my day when I can go from appointment to appointment. But it gave us some time to go find some new potentials. It is all sifting through.
Wednesday was great because we gained a new investigator! Those are always my favorite days. Well except for when we set a baptismal date or have a baptism. Tommy is our new investigator. We committed him to Baptism but it will take probably a few months or more till that can happen. Lets just say we got to work on a few different things but he is willing to work. We had a lot of checking up on potentials that day also. A lot of busing around and walking to a bunch of different places. We found a RLDS church in our area, well now known as the Community of Christ. That was kinda funny to see because they are so rare. While we were walking a member in the ward who is not active saw us and picked us up and took us to one of our desinations. He just saw us walking and got us. Which was nice. He also gave us a referal to teach one of his friends who lives in his basement right now. It was a miracle!
Thursday was awesome. We had an appointment with Linda. We toke a member with us who got along really well with her. Linda also had her friend there to who we got to teach also. Linda will be getting baptized in a couple of weeks and asked me to Baptize her that day. I feel very honored for her asking me to do that Baptism for her. That night we had an appointment with Kathy, Candace, and Melanie. It was a hard lesson because Noah the three year old was a little wild. OH well. We committed Melanie to come to church because she was the only one who did not get Baptized because she was not coming to church.
Friday was good. We had weekly planning. Oh yeah. Then we had an appointment fall through with Alisha and Tommy. We even had members coming with us to those and they fell through. It kinda stinks when that happens because members will get mad at us. When they really should not. But we still had an appointment with Mike and picked him up as a new Gator. He is in a part member family. Way funny guy. He gave us a referal that night to go teach one of his friends also. He was almost Baptized last year but he did not. So we are working on that again. haha We had an appointment with Linda that day also that went well. We are very excited for her baptism!
Saturday was the big day. Transfer calls!!! It was a good day because we had a couple of less active lessons and one lesson with an Investigator. We had a coule of other appointments fall through... We had a lesson with Emonie. We dropped her sister already as a gator and we talked with Emonie and we ended us just dropping her also. Just no progress has been made yet. It is hard for people to progress in City areas like this because it is the Ghetto and it is hard to choose the right when there is so much evil around. Sad day. We helped a family move from a house to another house right around the corner. That was fun moving stuff especially there piano that weighs like a thousand lbs. haha So transfers calls...... drum roll please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am staying here in Hazelwood 2. My new companion is Elder Barta. If I am correct this is his last transfer in the mission. So I get to kill off a missionary! We will be co-seniors which will be nice in a sense. So since I am staying here I have spent most of my mission in the Ghetto so far. Nice.
Sunday was great. Melanie finally came to church! Then Kathy brought her other son to church to. We will start teaching him this week! Many great things are happening!!! Sunday at church I definaly heard about the BYU vs. Utah game. That is riddiclous. How do you miss a close field goal like that? oh my. oh well.
Today we will be going downtown and stuff. Not sure what we will do yet. I am excited to get a new companion after this last hard transfer my two comps have been and all the crazy stuff. I am excited to start a new transfer off and continue the work here in Hazelwood!!! I hope you all have a great week!!!
Love,
Elder Derek Turner
*Serving in Zion*
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