Hello Hello, avid readers of my Email and Blog. I hope you still read. hahahaha I really do though. What another great week it was full of finding 4 new gators and many other great miracles! Stay tuned in to hear about it!
Monday was an intersting day. We went to the Catholic Basillica to catch a service but we got there to late. They do really short services there everyday and not just Sunday. So we were already down town so we walked around checking out some cool old buildings and what not. Some hobos asked us for money, just about what always happens on an everday basis here in City. That night though we had dinner at the Rices and we had Monica there who is getting Baptized this Saturday and we taught a lesson. It was good! We taught her the third lesson again.
Tuesday was good too. First was D-Meet. We had a good appointment with Monica. We are trying to teach her everything so that she is ready for Baptism so we taught the Word of Wisdom to her. It went well. She said she would live it! So that was awesome! She is so very prepared for Baptism. Then our appartment complex was having a little family halloween type party. It was cool because we were able to do some service and meet some people who live in our complex which we might be able to teach!!!
Wednesday we were looking for our pms and such and we decided to randomly knock some doors on an appartment building. We got inside with this guy Boyd and picked him up as a new gator. We taugth him the 1st. He liked it but the one thing is that he is a 7th day adventist and is having a hard time accepting that Sunday is the sabbath. But oh well that will come as he finds out the church is true. That night we went to the Rices for dinner and we had to be either in our appartments or with Members on Halloween night. So both of the Halloweens on my mission have been spent at the Rices which is way cool. It was a lot of fun hanging out there that night with members and investigators. It was awesome! Fun stuff it was. We all just sat on the driveway around a fire playing and singing music.
Thursday was a good day too. We had a couple of appointments that fell through which was sad. But oh well. We had a good appointment with Linda who we just Baptized a little bit ago. It was really cool because she taught us the Second new member lesson. She studied Preach My Gospel. It was so cool because of how great she was at teaching it! It was great! Then we had a good lesson that night with the Moise's! We taught them the Word of Wisdom! It was great! They were so ready and prepared to hear it! We will be doing the Stop Smoking Workshop with Beth. Everyone is in such great support of her. They are so awesome! We had an appointmetn with a Pentecostal Pastor, but he did not keep the appointment. SO hopefully we will get another chance to teach him though. We will see though.
Friday was good too. We had to go down to Elder Bartas doctor appointment. Then after that we weekly planned at the Library so we could be out in public. Then after that we had to go to the mission office so My comp could renew his Temple Recomend with Prez Clark. I just got to sit in the office during the interview and look through the Mission History books they were cool. Then we had a good appointment with DD.
Saturday was good. We only had one dropped appointment that day. We picked up a new couple new gators that morning in our appointment with Jenna and Brandon. THey are a younger couple who are engaged who we found by when we helped them raking there leaves. Then we had a great appointment with Monica teaching her the law of Chasity and thithing. It went good. A lot of people feel awkard about us teaching them the Law of Chasity. We always try to make it as serious as possible and with the Spirit. Then we taught Andrea and her daugther and there nieces who we picked up as new gators. That was cool. Because we picked up more gators. It was a great lesson! They have recieved the answer that the BOM is true! They are ready for Baptism. It will be in a month from now.
Sunday was church, Monica was there of course, and so was Andrea and her daughter. We have great members who helped give them rides! It was awesome though! They loved it and it was also Fast Sunday. It was good. haha The Moises were all sick so they could not make it. It is great having Gators there every week. It makes such a difference with peoples trust in us as missionaries.
Today we will do something. We do not know yet because it is raining and our other plans can not happen with the rain... oh well. I hope you all have a great week this week!!!
Love,
Elder Derek Turner
*Serving in Zion*
p.s. some guy sitting behind me in the Library fell asleep and he started snoring almost falling out of his chair. It scared me. haha kinda funny
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