This last week we had transfer calls. It was a 5 week transfer because everyones missions are being cut down by a week... Stay tuned to learn of what my new area is. And our new Mission President as been annouced also! Thomas Morgan from Farmington Utah! It sounds like him and his wife are pretty young because They have a daughter who is a Junior in High School right now and will do her senior year of hight school out here in St. Louis. That will be interesting but I will only be here for a couple of months for the new Mission President.
So you heard about last monday last week and part of Tuesday. After Emailing Tuesday we had an appointment with the Stewarts that went well. They wanted to get into a huge discussion about Lent and why we do not celebrate it and a bunch of other things like that. It was interesting but It worked out well in the end. That night we decided to go by this random part member family in the ward and they were home when we got there. We picked up Mark the father as a new investigator. It was great!
Wednesday was a crazy day. We had D meet that morning. It was god. We had a few appoitments fall through that day though. We had a great appoinment with the Carsons. We are making some pretty good progress with them. Baptism is in the plans! Especially since the divorce has been finalized and they are engaged to get married now! I can not wait for it all!
Thursday we had service at the DMH thrift shop which was good. Around 3 it started snowing a ton. They grounded all the cars in the mission so we were not allowed to drive. They said for us to stay inside for the night but we had many appoinments to go to so we had a member drive us around in his truck. It was way awesome. We had to go help someone get unstuck in there mini van in the snow. It was great and a ton of fun getting the van unstuck. Then we went to go teach Kristen where we picked up her daughter Bri as a new gator also. It was a really good lesson teaching them the first lesson. After that we had a lesson with Charile. His last one before Baptism.
Friday we had weekly planning. We had exchanges from after lunch time to after Charlies interview. It was good. So I went with Elder Cambell to his area. We had a good appointment with there gator. I forgot his name. Then we went to a dinner appiontment then switched after all of that. He passed!!!
Saturday was awesome because it was so packed with awesome events. We started the day by going and shoveling the walk at the church then went to breakfast with the Novaks. Then we had an appointment with Jerry and Pauline. It was good appointment except for the fast that they are not completely wiling to do what is needed to come to know the truth of the church. After that we had a fast lunch then went to our appointment with Mary who will be baptized March 22nd. She is so prepared. We had our second lesson with her and watched the resto video. IT was good. Then we went to Dustin and Alishas wedding. We were the Ushers. It was fun to do. And it is way awesome because now they can get baptized! That is part of the reason why they got married! After that we went to the church to prepare for the Baptism. We ate some Pizza and practiced are musical number a little bit. We had a joint batpism of our ward and the ward next door. We had Charlie being baptized and they had Jill being baptized. Jill asked me to baptize her because i got to teach her a couple of times on exchanges. It was an honor to do so. She just had knee surgery so I thought it would be interesting on putting her down under the water. But we got it on the first try:) It was so awesome doing that. Then we preformed are musical number and it was really cool. We peformed come thou fount. I played the Uke and we had two guitars being played and we all sang. it was great! and a ton of fun! Then we played basketball with gators after the baptism. It was one of the best days on my mission! After the baptism service a lady in the other ward asked where I was from and told her and she said that she has a sister who is moving into my homeward. That was pretty cool hearing that. That night we got transfer calls. Both my comp and I are staying here in Decatur 2nd. But the only change is that I am the District Leader now.
Sunday was great. We had Charlie confirmed. We had 5 gators there. So it was good. After church we taught the Banks. Then we taught George and Terry where we picked up 2 more gators with there kids. It was good. They are doing so well and progressing. They have been coming to church and it is awesome. Then we taught Shantonia to finish the night. It was a great end to the week! Today we will be having a ton of fun playing sports and music. Have a great week! And remember to write me!
Love,
Elder Derek Turner
*Serving in Zion*
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