This week was great! Even with having quite a few dropped appointments we have had some great success. And plus it was General Conference!!! YES! That was awesome! Especially with being able to watch it with our investigators which made that much more special. haha It is also sad because I only have one more General Conference on my mission to watch. It is weird only having one more left.
Monday we went to the Delmar Loop which is one of the top 10 streets in America, supposedly. It is a cool place but not all that great. haha We went to the Fitzs and had lunch to celebrate Elder Andersons and mine Year mark. Then we had a dinner and a lesson at the Rices home that night.
Tuesday was good. First was D-meet. We had a couple of good appointments. ONe was with Ronald who was a new investigator as of last week. We were able to teach the first lesson in full. It went well. It went of track a little bit and it was hard at times to keep it foucussed on the lesson. But when we hit the Restroation part it was much better and focussed. Then we had a lesson with the Moises. It went very very well. We taught them the second and the spirit was very strong there where we got a soft baptismal commitment from them. That family is very special.
Wednesday was good. We had a good recent convert lesson with The Lewis's which went good. They are doing well in progoressing in the Gopsel. Which makes us very happy. That night we exchanged and I had Elder Taylor come down to my area. It was good. It is really funny because He grew up in Washington and then moved to Dana Point his senior year in high school. We know very many people in common. He knows them from Washington and Dana Point but I met a lot of his friends at BYUI who were some of my really good friends actually. So that was kinda cool having all of that in common! We went and taught Pierre that night with him. It was really good. Especially our member did really well in bearing testimony and helping him understand stuff. In prior appointments with him he has not been as open and not as accepting. But he really did have much more of an open heart thought which was awesome for us and more importantly him:)
Thursday was good. We had a good recent convert lesson with Olivia and with her Grandpa. They are way cool. SOme of the coolest people in the Ward. Then we had some good times trying to get in to see some potentials and such. Then we had an appointment with Linda that night. We set a new date for her which is the 20th of this month. This my be our last chance at getting her baptized because after this we might just drop her from the teaching pool. But we shall see how it goes though. I really do pray that she will get baptized! Bro. Rice really connected with her. She really likes him. We kept taking all these different members there for lessons but none of them have really connected with her till we took Bro Rice. Which is great. Hopefully it will help out a bit!
Friday was good. We had a few appointments fall through but that night while teaching Mike we had his son come in and listen and he agreed to take the lessons so now we picked him up as a new gator which I pray will go well. The rest of teh day we had weekly planning and what not and we had an appointment with Andrea who we took an awesome member with us to that appointment but she canceled right at the door because she had a death in the family and was getting picked up by a Family member for something.
Saturday was awesome.. We watched conference at the church. None of our investigators came to watch it with us there though which was sad. They did watch it at their homes. Well at least they said they did... haha. We had an appointment with a potentail between sessions but that fell through too... Then we had priesthood session. It ended up not working at our building so we got a ride with a member to another building so we could all watch Priesthood session. it stunk becasue we missed a talk with that happening and so did everyone in our ward and the ward next door to us. Oh well... That is what we get to do today for pday is listen to those talks on lds.org. So it still works out. After priesthood we had special permission to go out to get shakes which were on bishop. Which bishop got us the permission for us to stay out later. It was great bonding time with people in the ward.
Sunday morning session we got to go watch it at our Bishops home. Then had a lunch with them. Then we went to our appointment with a potential whose name is Danny. He lives with a less active member in their basement. We taught him between sessions and he actually watched the last session with his friend! for the last session we went to the Moises to watch it with them. They really enjoyed it! It was a miracle because we almost thought that all this would not ahpen it was a miracle. Conference was awesome. Oh another cool thing Bishop Lake here is actually my 6th cousin. He was telling us of a story about one of his ancestors and that same person he was talking about is my ancestor too! This is not the first distant relative I have met out here.
I hope you all had a great time watching conference also! Today we will go see Paint Louis and stuff. It will be fun going downtown! I hope you all have a great week this week! God Bless you all!
Love,
Elder Derek Turner
*Serving in Zion*
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