This past week was awesome. So many great things have happened. Miracles have been happening and The lord has truely blessed us here in the Hazelwood 2 area. Plus this past week I hit my hear mark!!! Yes I am half way done now. It is way weird to hit that point. It seems like everyday everything speeds up a little bit more and more. And now being on the downhill it will be going even faster. Plus we got 7 new investigators this week! This is how the week went!
Monday after Emailing we went to the church to go play some Basketball and other sports with the other Hazelwood Missionaries and the Florissant missionaries who are the other city missionaries in the Zone. We were supposed to go to the Arch that day to play football but since it is barely outside or our zone and to many misisonaries were trying to go out of other zones we could not go anymore. Confusing story it was. But it was still good. We ended up playing indoor baseball with a kickball. It was actually way fun to do. That night we went to the Rices for dinner and a lesson. Oh yes.
Tuesday was awesome because we had zone conference. It was a joint conference with St. Louis Central Zone. It was a really good conference. There they presented this new presentation that the church came out with which is the called The Mormons Next Door. It was a way cool presentation. Great for a QandA thing for non-members. WE are planning on using it in an activity here with the members bring there non member friends. We had some great trainings and such at zone conference. It was awesome being able to see many of missionaries who I have become good friends with. It is wasy fun when we all get to gather together for that stuff. After that we had to go straight to an appointment with a potential gator, Andrea. We taught her and it went awesome and we picked her up as a new Gator. It was awesome. We should be able to pick up her daughter as a new gator this next week also. It was funny because her pastor told her to read The Book of Mormon. So that is why she decided to meet with us. Crazy a pastor of another church telling there congregation to read The Book of Mormon! Pretty sweet though at the same time!
Wednesday we had a coule differnt appointments. We taught Linda who is now going to be baptized on oct. 20. We had to keep pushing it back because she was not coming to church and such. Then we went by a potentials place to try to contact him. He wasnt there but his dad answered and said he was not there. We were able to teach his dad though and picked him, Ronald, up as a new gator! Then on the way to our appartment to go eat dinner we got a media referal in a txt message. We decided to go contact it right then and we taught the guy, Pierre. And now he is a progressing gator because he actually read what we left for him when we came back for the return appointment. So we picked up three new gators that day. It was awesome.
Thursday was a great day also. We had a lesson with Donna who was also a media referal. Our member who was there did great bearing testimony. It way well. She asked some of the greatest questions! It really led the lesson well. It was a great blessing. Then later that night we were supposed to have a couple of lessons one with Lyod and one with Melanie but they both fell through. But it worked out great because that night we went to go see some potentials and we picked up three new gators that night. The Moise Family. They are way awesome. They invited us back over Saturday night for a lesson and for dinner! It was a miracle.
Friday was good. That morning we had to drive down to Fenton my 2nd area because my comp had a doctors appointment down there. That was cool to be down there again. We had an appointment fall through with Andrea, because she had someone in her family pass away that day so it was hecktic. We were able to go find a few more new potentials that day but nothing to special.
Saturday was a great day full of 4 different appointments. That morning we contacted more potetnials and such. We had members for all 4 appointments. We taught Linda, then Debbie appoitment ended up falling through. Htne we had an appointment with Pierre. That was very interesting. It took an hour to teach just on principal in the first lesson. He is reading The Book of Mormon though! THen we had dinner and a lesson with the Moises. It was awesome. It was a good dinner too. But we had a great lesson teaching the first lesson in full. They really liked it. Everything they talked about and questions theyt made always led to the next prinipal. This is the coolest family I have taught my whole mission so far. They are amazing!
Sunday was alright. No one made it to church. The Moises could not come because they went out of town that morning and then ther others we dont know exactly what happened to everyone else. It has been hard getting these people to church. Our appointment wiht another potetnial fell through which stunk. It seems like when we are teaching the most we have the most appointments fall through. Makes sense right? Then dinner at the Gonzo's is always fun. haha
I hope you are all having a great time rigyht now. General Conference is this week! It is going to be amazing! I can not wait for it! I have been getting really excited. I never have been this excited for a General Conference before. It is such a great blessing to a Prophet who speaks to us. So please watch and listen to Conference! Don't fall asleep either!!! I love you all. I can not wait to see you all in a year from now!
Love,
Elder Derek Turner
*Serving in Zion*
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