Hello everybody. This was a great past week being transfered to my new area. Decatur 2nd Ward in the Springfield Il, stake. One ward over from my third area Springfield 2nd ward. Today I am actually emailing from where I did when I was serving in Springfield at the university here. It is pretty fun. So last week we had to email Tuesday so I will update you from that day on.
Tuesday we had d-meet and then we emailed because everything was closed on MLK Day. We went to the Lewis for a early dinner appointment which was good. Then I taught the Moises for the last time. I will defiantly miss that family. They have been a great blessing in my life. They have showed so much kindness to us and helped take care of us. It has been a great 6 months in the "Hazelhood."
Wednesday morning we went to transfer meeting. It was good. It was so much fun to see people and what not. My new Companion is Elder Woodbury. He is great. We came out together. We have always wanted to be companions and we both put in a word to President Clark and it happened! We came out together. We are co-seniors so It is cool. We live in a Mansion built in 1875 with family in the ward. We basically live in what would of been the maids quarters. It is cool though. The house is huge and we have it all to ourselves for two weeks because the family went on a vacation. Most of Decatur is way old. it is defiantly an interesting place. It smells like dog food because of the soy processing plant in town. That is why it is called the DIRTY D. It is pretty ghetto here. We live in the nicest part of town. But it is a ton of fun. It is a different kind of ghetto then Hazelwood though. It is pretty hard to explain. But it is great. That day we had a couple of appointments with people after the long car ride here.
Thursday we had 5 appointments. It was great going right from one to the next. One member who is about to go on a mission just spent the whole day with us and went to all the appointments with us. I am terrible with names. I know we taught Dustin that day who will be baptized in about a month. Then a part member family the Bocchios and we did the stop smoking workshop with Kyle. My comp has never presented it before so I had to show him how to do it while I did it with Kyle. It takes about an hour to go through but it is great. So far he has not smoked yet. So it is great.
Friday we had weekly planning which we were not able to do all because we had some unexpected appointments happen. One being with Dustins parents. And a couple of others. We had a good appointment with Julian another part member family. That went well. We had another appiontment. I wish I could remember the name.
Saturday we had to go do service. Then we were called to go help move someone. Then we had an appointment then we had to finish our planning and also we had to clean up the Area book because it is a mess and not updated at all. So we did a good amount of work on that. That night we played basketball with some investigators which was fun. I love being able to do that.
Sunday at church was interesting because there was hardly anyone there. It looked more like a branch then a ward... But it was good. We had a couple of investigators there though. One asked us when he could be Baptized. We had a good appointment with Heather and Caleb that day also. We ended up teaching one of there friends also. It was cool. We picked up three new gators. It was all around a good week.
Today we are going bowling with a guy who is in the Springfield 2nd ward who I became good friends with. That is why we are emailing from the University here. It is cool though. Then we have a dinner appitnment then another appointment with Dustin. It should be fun!
Love,
Elder Derek Turner
*Serving in Zion*
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