Another week has come to pass here in Decatur. And my companion and I swear the ward is playing a joke on us, because every dinner appointment we have they have fed us Mexican food. Since about 2 weeks ago they have been doing this. This is not by coincidence. It can not be. It is pretty funny though. I have never ate so many burritos before in my life. We will get down to the bottom of this though. My companion said he would not be surprised if they were doing this as a joke because he said they lady who is in charge of the missionary meals is a joker. So we decided in our next dinner appointment we will ask what the lady has told everyone if this is really a joke or not. Well it has been good food so I am not complaining.
Monday was fun because we got to go play some raquetball and stuff. It was pretty fun. That night we started exchanges and I went with Elder Cambell to Decatur 1st's appointments. It was good.
Tuesday we had an appointment with Jill one of Decatur 1st investigators. It went very well. We went over the Baptismal interview questions because soon she will be getting baptized. I have seen Jill on a couple of exchanges so far. She is a mother of 8 kids but all of them but the last child has been taken away from her because she was not into very good things before being taught by missionaries. But she has really turned her life around. After switching back that night to when I was with my companion, we got a call from her. She said she had been praying about it and that she wants me to Baptize her! Kinda weird because she is not my investigator and I only taught her a couple of times. I accepted though. The other missionaries thought it was kinda weird. So did I though. But We will give her who she wants. That night we also picked up a new gator.
Wednesday was a busy day for us. We had d meet that morning. Then after we had to get to a couple of different appointments. We saw Dustin and prepped him for the stop smoking workshop. Then we saw Caleb also. We dropped him that night though because he has not made any progress and does not want to do what is in need to be Baptized.
Thursday was good. We had an appointment fall through will Collin and Bryan so we went with Bro. Peters to see Andrea a lady who was a member ref. who is in a nursing home. It was a good visit. Bro. Peters Grandmother in Law is in that nursing home so he asked if we could visit her too so we did. She has dementia so she is a little crazy... She was hilarious. It made my day. She kept saying how good looking my comp and I were. She called us "pretty" When we said goodbye she wanted to hug us so we just gave her a hug. She tried to kiss me on the cheek also but I turned my head so she could not but still somehow got my neck... It felt so weird. Especially as a missionary. But it is a little old lady though. Then my comp went to hug her and he took a kiss from her on the cheek like a champ and then pulled away but she grabbed his face and tried to pull him in to kiss him on the lips. My comp was trying to pull away but she had a very strong grip on him. He finally broke her grasp and we left. It is funny when awkward things happen to your comp and not yourself. hahahaha
Friday we had to start the day off by weekly planning which this time we did at Millikin University right down the street from where we live. It was good. We had a good appointment with Dustin where we started the stop smoking. Then that night we had a great appointment with the Banks where I got to hold a bunny! It had that thing in my lap while we were reading scriptures together. It was fun. We also picked up the stward family as new gators. they were formers before.
Saturday was busy also. We went with some gators to a ward service project. It turned out well. We were cutting down a bunch of trees and what not. After that we went out to lunch with the Bocchiccio family. Then we had a lesson with Charley who will be baptized in a couple of weeks. Then we an appointment down in a far away place down south called Macon with the Fisk family. It went well also. Then we had another appointment with Dustin to check up on his stop smoking stuff. Then we had a member give us money to go out and eat. So we went to Texas Roadhouse because I love eating there. So does my comp. It was funny because we saw some of our gators there eating also. It was funny though because some high school was having a winter formal dance so there was a bunch of high school kids all dressed up. We did not realize until some one pointed out to us that we looked like we were going to the dance to because we were in white shirts and ties. People asked us if we were going also to the dance we told them that we were missionaries and pointed out our badges that we had on. It was funny though. We also ran into a guy who is in the other ward who just got back from his mission who was on his first date since being back. That was funny to observe also. After that whole thing we went to the church to go play some basketball with gators!
Sunday was ward conference so there were many stake people there. Including some people from one of my old areas springfield 2n. It was fun to talk to them and what not. We only had one gator at church though. Which stunk. But oh well. It is cool though. After church we had to go to a couple of different places to give some blessings because there were a lot of sick people in the ward. So we gave a total of 7 different blessings. it was good though because they were all part member families and the non members got to witness them. We taught Rojillo and Franseca that night. They speak spanish so we had a member teaching them in spanish which worked out well. There is a language barrier there though for us.
Today we will go play raquet ball again. It was funny just a few seconds ago as I was emailing (we email at at community college here in town) I was the waitress who served us Saturday night walk in the door. She was looking at me confused. Probably because I am wearing my raquetball clothes right now so I am in sweats and a t shirt and i am at the college on a computer. It was funny though. I dont know if she connected the dots of who we were ebcause she was looking at us surpirsed and confused. i did not recongnize who she was until she walked away. I saw her in the kind of the distance already. We have her a pass along card along with the tip. But i hope yo all have a great week! Write me!
Love,
Elder Derek Turner
*Serving in Zion*
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