This week was an interesting one. I have been sick all this last week so it has really made the work hard with me having to be in bed for a few days. But now I am fine. I am finally getting over this cold or flu or whatever this is. I got sick a last tuesday and now so tomorrow I should be great tomorrow and be over the sickness. But do not worry about me I am doing good.
Monday we went to forest park to go play football with a bunch of other missionaries who are in the city also and we played with some other random people who were at the park also. It was pretty fun though. After that we went to the Rices for dinner and a lesson. Monica who we just batpized has been brining her friend to church and stuff who now wants to get baptized! We had our first lesson with her that night at the Rices. It went well. We only did part of the first because it is a little harder to focus on her because of how many other people were there.
Tuesday was the first day I was feeling sick. It got worse and worse as I went throughout the day. We had three appointments fall through that day also which stunk. We did teach Chauncei though. He told us that he recieved his answer that The Book of Mormon is true! He says now I know that I now have to start going to church and doing all these other things we have asked him to do. it was exciting though. It was a very spiritual experience for him when he recieved that answer. That was awesome. Things are going good there.
Wednesday I rested for the first part of the day. Which that defiantly helped me feel better. We went out that afternoon to go see some investigators and set up some appointments for alter that week or the next week. That night we had dinner with Linda. We took Mike one of our gators with us and were able to do a lesson with all of them. And to have Linda to be the member present now. After that we went to the Longs house. They got Monica and her friend Bree there. We taught the first lesson in full to her. It went well. She asked very good questions an dit was very interactive. Those are the best type of lessons! Bree is really awesome!
Thursday was fun. I felt much better that day then the day before. It was great. The Lord blessed me to feel better so I could have a fun day. Our mission prez gave us the day off to spend it with gators and members. We were going to go witht the Moises to there family get together thing but We did not want to get any of them sick especially since Beths dad just got out of the hospital. That morning we played football with people in the ward. Then we went to the Nelson family thanksgiving meal that was at noon. The Nelsons are in the next ward over that shares a building with us. It was cool because Luella who used to be in my ward back home who since then moved back to Kentucky was there because she is in that family. It was awesome to see someone I knew from back home and being able to visit with her. It was cool because I made a few other connections with people in that big family. It was really cool. Then after that we went to out thanksgiving dinner with the Munozs. Then we went to the Lewis's to play some board games because it was approved for thanksgiving. We played aquire. That game is awesome!
Friday we had weekly planning. We were going to go do it at the library. We rode a bus there and right after we get off the bus and it drives off we notice that it was closed... It was like from a movie or something. Pretty funny we just laughed. We went around trying to get back in contact with a bunch of people but it was hard. We were just bussing around like crazy. We did have a couple of appointments fall through also. oh well. We did find some new potentials and stuff but it was a slower day. Everyone was tired and too full from thanksgiving. oh well we knew it would be a slow week.
Saturday was the same story. We found out that someone we just started to teach is moving out of our area who was way solid. That was kind of sad... It stinks when stuff like that happens... OH well we have to many investigators right now that we are trying to help progress. We have 18 right now. It is hard seeing all of them every week because we are in a bus area. We had a great lesson with Moises that night teaching them the Law of tithing! They are so prepared.
Sunday we had church. It was good. We had many people not show up though which was sad... After church we had went and saw Andrea. She has been going through a bunch of crazy things this last couple weeks. Her kids have been sick and in and out of the hospital. So they baptismal date will be pushed back by a couple to a few weeks. It is not a big deal because this saturday we have Phil getting baptized! We went to some of our return appointments and they fell through. So we have been dropping many investigators. We still have 18 after all the dropping... which is cool. We had dinner witht he Gonzos which was fun as always. Sis Gonzos mom was there and she promised me before that she would teach me how to crochet. She was there and taught me how so now I got a new pday activity to do. haha It gives me something to do during lunch times also. That night we went with Bro Rice to see the Taylors a recent convert family trying to get them back into going to church. Then we went to the Moises to set all the plans for the Baptism! It was great.
Today we have zone pday so we will be just playing sports and what not. So it should be fun! oh yes. I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving!
Love,
Elder Derek Turner
*Serving in Zion*
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