8.30.2010

Well this past week hasn't been the most memorable. We are starting to see more missionary excitement in the ward so that is good. We taught 5 lessons last week so definately not very good. It seemed like everything we set up seemed to fall through so hopefully this next week will be better.

This week there seems to be a plague on our district. Our District Leader had his car broken into on Sunday and they stole his CD's, his comp. camera, and broke the ignition on the car so that it doesnt' work now. Another set of Elders (elder Woods and Elder Galbraith) got Bed bugs and they are always at our apartment so hopefully they don't bring any with them. Alot of apartments have been getting Bed bugs and they are not fun at all. They are nasty and I never knew about them until I came up here. I don't think we have them in the states. I know also understand the phrase "Sleep tight, don't let the bed bugs bite". I always thought that meant any bug but I did not know it was the name of an actual bug. they are gross. haha. On the bright side if we get it, the mission pays for our dry cleaning.

So on Tuesday we had district meeting and President Paulson came as well. Elder Fackrell and I were assigned to practice our tracting on President Paulson so we went out in the hall and he ended up talking to us the whole time. He eventually told us that if we keep working hard, not only will we find people, but people will find us. kinda a weird statement but the very next day it came true. We were walking away from our apointment and the man named Salifau came down from his house and wanted to talk to us. He is from Guinee (Africa) and only speaks French but wants us to bring him a Book of Mormon in French. Later that day we were walking and this lady named Ann started talking to us while we waited for the bus and she was doing her yard (her house is in front of the bus stop). She was talking about how she is pretty sick of religion and how they are businesses. We talked to her a little bit and she really wanted to learn more. We are pretty excited for her. She also committed herself to church this next week with her daughter. We're meeting with her in a few days. We also have quite a bit of members that we are meeting with this day which should be really good. Somehow we swung 4 dinner appointments which 1 is sometimes a rare thing. We really feel like the members are starting to trust us more and want us involved with them. Elder Woods and Elder Galbraith found out that their apartment/area is closing at the end of the transfer (we are already starting to close areas for next year) so the ward will now be down to 2 sets instead of 3. I think the members know that with less missionaries it means more emphasis on the members so they are starting to step it up.

We had a really great day at church yesterday too. It was the 5th sunday so the leaders of the ward spoke and it was really great. Also our ward mission leader pretty much committed one of the other Elders investigator to be baptized which she accepted. We did end up missing the Master's Fireside though this month because nobody was able to go from our area (you can only go if an investigator or RC go). It was a good opprutunitiy to find though so hopefully our work pays off.

Well not much else to say. I love you all and hope you have a great week.

Elder Turner