Well we got our Transfer Calls yesterday and I am leaving Saskatoon. I'm actually also leaving Saskatchewan. I am going to be serving in Selkirk, Manitoba. It is about 30 min north of Winnipeg. My new companion is Elder Burch. He was in my district when i served in Winnipeg and he is a really good guy. He is also really funny so I'm excited to serve with him. I'm outlining which means I'm serving in an outlining town. It's a small town and we are the only missionaries there. So for the whole transfer the only times I'll see other missionaries is zone conference. I'm excited though it should be fun. There is a small branch there so I'll get the feel for a branch. Oh yeah, best of all, I get a car haha Elder Halliday is staying here for another transfer (this will be 6 months here) and he is being senior comp. to a difficult missionary whose last transfer is this next one so he will probably stay another transfer so that two new missionairys will come into the area. That will mean he will be here for 7 1/2 months. Thats crazy.
Lately the weather here has been extremely nice. I don't even wear my coats. A couple times last week in was +5 C which is really nice, especially if you've been living in -30C. Rumors have it that it is suppose to last for a month. This Canadian winter has been extrememly milder compared to others, or so I've been told. I would blame global warming but i guess that is a farce.
Yeah mom I have been getting the letters from my buddies. I got a christmas card from the Young Family which was really nice of them and now I have a picture of Jayden (and Brian, and Cami, and her entire family) which I'm happy about. I also got a Christmas Letter from Stucki with a couple pictures which was really nice to hear from him. I was gonna write him a letter back today but I need to buy international stamps. haha.
So a few stories that made me laugh this week that I know you will enjoy. This week we were planning on making Hawaiian Haystacks. Elder Halliday hates mushrooms but I wanted to make the recipe the exact way that it says because that is the recipe I grew up on. I actually caught myself saying "I bet if I put Cream of Mushroom soup in it, you wouldn't even be able to tell the difference." After I said that i just stopped and started laughing. haha so many times you guys told me that and I didn't listen, haha now i know its true.
Also we ate at a members house and what did they feed us? Salmon. and it was actually pretty good. It was so good in fact that I would have had seconds if it was offered. I know I know, a shocker.
Well not much else to report. Thanks for sending the package. Don't worry about the Karan Dictionary too much. It would just be nice to have. How the mail/packages work is everytime there is a zone conference, assistants come up, transfers, or the zone leaders go to winnipeg for zone leader meeting we get our mail. When your in Winnipeg you get it everyweek but if your in Regina or Saskatoon, you get it about 3-4 times a transfer. I'm not sure how often I'll get it in Selkirk.
Well I love you all and hope to hear from you soon. good luck with the house!
Elder Turner
Monday, January 18, 2010
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
1.11.2010
What's up y'all,
first off, I don't know where you got that I needed an arabic BOM. I don't need one so don't worry about it. All that stuff I can get from the mission. I just wanted a list so that I would know. You also must have forgotten to attach the list.
I can't believe dad cleaned out all of his boxes. He must have been in the commitment mood with the wedding and new years.
Well not too much happened this week. Today we got to do something pretty amazing. The olympic torch came through Saskatoon so we were allowed to go see it. It was alot of fun and it was nice to get into the olympic spirit. I took some pictures so maybe i'll send some home it was lots of fun.
We sometimes write our letters at the university and everytime I do i feel like a tourist attraction haha people are always staring at us and its kinda awkward. We decided that when we go home we are still going to dress like this and wear our name tag so that people look at us more. I've decided I'm going to wear it into restraunts in Utah and get my food payed for too. haha.
Not too much going on this week. We got another Baptisimal date planned for a man named Leon Funk. He is Matey (half Native half caucasion). He is really excited to keep learning but he has a long way to go. Sorry there isn't too much to write. When you don't give me stuff to feed off of its kinda hard for me to come up with things to write. Well I'm happy that everything is starting to settle down and get relaxed after the Holidays. Have a good week and I'll talk to you later. BTW we get transfer calls on sunday so i'll let you know if I'm staying or going.
Love,
Elder Turner
first off, I don't know where you got that I needed an arabic BOM. I don't need one so don't worry about it. All that stuff I can get from the mission. I just wanted a list so that I would know. You also must have forgotten to attach the list.
I can't believe dad cleaned out all of his boxes. He must have been in the commitment mood with the wedding and new years.
Well not too much happened this week. Today we got to do something pretty amazing. The olympic torch came through Saskatoon so we were allowed to go see it. It was alot of fun and it was nice to get into the olympic spirit. I took some pictures so maybe i'll send some home it was lots of fun.
We sometimes write our letters at the university and everytime I do i feel like a tourist attraction haha people are always staring at us and its kinda awkward. We decided that when we go home we are still going to dress like this and wear our name tag so that people look at us more. I've decided I'm going to wear it into restraunts in Utah and get my food payed for too. haha.
Not too much going on this week. We got another Baptisimal date planned for a man named Leon Funk. He is Matey (half Native half caucasion). He is really excited to keep learning but he has a long way to go. Sorry there isn't too much to write. When you don't give me stuff to feed off of its kinda hard for me to come up with things to write. Well I'm happy that everything is starting to settle down and get relaxed after the Holidays. Have a good week and I'll talk to you later. BTW we get transfer calls on sunday so i'll let you know if I'm staying or going.
Love,
Elder Turner
Monday, January 4, 2010
1/4/2010
Well it is officially 2010 (Do people there call it Two-thousand and ten or twenty-ten, we've been calling it 2010. I was just curious) Well on New Years Eve we were told to be in the apartment by 5:00 pm and not to be out till about 1:30 PM on New Years because not too many people would be awake/fully recovered from the previous night. On Christmas Eve we were told that since we didn't go out till later that we could sleep in and stay up for New Years. I passed out at about 10:15. I wanted to stay up but my bed looked expecially comfortable and I was only gonna lay there for 5 min which didn't happen.
I'm glad the wedding went well. It sounds really good and from the pictures Destiny looked beautiful. I'm still waiting on my morton's steak in the mail. That will be delicious. I did wear my tie. I actually got alot of compliments on it but I'm not a huge fan of purple. Wow there was quite alot of people there at the wedding. It sounds like a big success.
I'm glad to hear Jayden's doing good. I saw the picture of him in his suit. haha i loved it. I got a christmas Card from the Hansen's in Valley Vista Ward and they were saying how cute Jayden was. They said at church Brian was bouncing Jayden on his knee but all they could see was Jayden's head popping up from the pew and than disappearing.
So Destiny and Mark are staying at the Golden Nugget. At their wedding did they also turn 60. I thought that was kindof a requirement for staying there.
Yeah i did like the package it was way good. The socks are pretty warm and all the missionaries love reading the Engrish on it. My favorite is it talks about how to wash it and it says, "It Explains to wash" haha. Were you able to get Bang! for me? If not its ok. Well not much else is going on today. Thank you for everything you've been doing and thank everybody for caring about me.
Oh real quickly do you think you could email me a list of all the languages the BOM is translated into. That would help alot. Thanks
Elder Turner
I'm glad the wedding went well. It sounds really good and from the pictures Destiny looked beautiful. I'm still waiting on my morton's steak in the mail. That will be delicious. I did wear my tie. I actually got alot of compliments on it but I'm not a huge fan of purple. Wow there was quite alot of people there at the wedding. It sounds like a big success.
I'm glad to hear Jayden's doing good. I saw the picture of him in his suit. haha i loved it. I got a christmas Card from the Hansen's in Valley Vista Ward and they were saying how cute Jayden was. They said at church Brian was bouncing Jayden on his knee but all they could see was Jayden's head popping up from the pew and than disappearing.
So Destiny and Mark are staying at the Golden Nugget. At their wedding did they also turn 60. I thought that was kindof a requirement for staying there.
Yeah i did like the package it was way good. The socks are pretty warm and all the missionaries love reading the Engrish on it. My favorite is it talks about how to wash it and it says, "It Explains to wash" haha. Were you able to get Bang! for me? If not its ok. Well not much else is going on today. Thank you for everything you've been doing and thank everybody for caring about me.
Oh real quickly do you think you could email me a list of all the languages the BOM is translated into. That would help alot. Thanks
Elder Turner
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