12.13.2010

First off, Its cold. Very Very cold. I don't know how winnipegians do it but somehow they manage. I asked one person "how do you Winnipegians do the winter?" and they responded with "grudgingly" haha I thought that was funny. So last night Our church put on something called "Prelude to Christmas" and it is like a musical production with our church and also a local catholic church. At the production the Priest of the Catholic church got up and told this joke: He said, "I'm sure not many of you know this but there is a story in the Catholic church that goes like this: One day the pope had a very important meeting with all of his cardinals and so he told his secratary "do not inturupt me for any reason, I don't care if someone calls or comes in, do not interupt me" and than he went into his meeting. He was a little preturbed when the secratary did come in and say there was a call for him. Grudgingly he left the meeting and said that he told her not to inturupt. She responded, No, you need to take this call. After a few minutes he went back into the meeting and said "I got some good news and I got some bad news" Everyone decided they wanted to hear the good news" he told them that Jesus was on the phone and he has returned for the second coming. Everybody was pretty excited and than said wait but you said there was bad news " He said yeah...He was calling from Salt Lake." Haha I thought it was a pretty funny joke, especially since it came from the Catholic Priest.

Anyway on to our week. We had a fairly good week. We found a former investigator named Laurant who hasn't been visited with missionaries for 5 years but he is Golden. He said he recieved some anti material 5 years ago but doesn't care anymore. He came to church for the first time and loved it but while he was there he said he found the antil pamphlet and wants us to come over to talk about some things. I'm not too worried becuase I think we can explain it to him and he trusts us quite a bit. He is from Benine, Africa and is just a super humble great man.

Kathryn has been difficult to get ahold of this past week. I think her common law is making it slightly difficult for her to do things so we have to work through that. She is still great just have to work through some things.

The marinos are great. The dad called his dad (who is a pastor or something down in florida) who has been trying to get his son to join a church forever so he called him excited to tell him about his baptism date. Well, his dad didn't share his excitment. He was actually pretty upset. We talked to the Marinos and he said it is ultimately his decission he just would rather have his dad's approval. We will probably have to work through that unfortunately. He said he wishes his dad would just not be so closed minded and supportive. They still want to be baptized just might take a bit longer now. They need your prayers...seriously.

Well not much else to say. When you walk outside in your sweater or in a bathing suit on the cruise, please remember that your son is wearing Big boots, two pairs of socks, long johns, a sweater, a big parka, two pairs of gloves, ear muffs, a Toque (a beanie), and a scarf and is still cold.

Love,
Elder Turner

12.6.2010

Here are some pictures from my old area, not sure if I ever sent them. The one with the hispanic family is an active member family (the younger woman is the one that called mom for her birthday), the other big family is a less active family we were working with, and the woman and the boy are Melina and her son. She was the really golden investigator with a not so golden "other"

Here are a few more pictures that I'm not sure If i sent before. One of them is of Curtis. Our neighbor in our old area who always gave us a ton of food and baked us a ton of pies (he's not a member).

One of them is of my pumpkin that I carved. It is Igor holding a skull. I used a stencil.

The other picture is something that I learned you could do on the camera so we were having fun the other day with it.

and the last one is of me and my neices/nephew. Oldest to Youngest: Matea, Naleah, Quintin and Pria Their last name is olsen.

I don't take alot of pictures but I take a few. Here are two that I though you would enjoy. The fur is taken from off our big coats.

12.6.2010

Not too much to report on this week. I've been sorta sick (mom, don't worry) so i've just been really tired and didn't do much work one of the days. Everybody gets sick this time of year up here but I'm pretty much over it now. Kathryn and her family and also the Marinos were suppose to come to church this week but nobody showed up. That was really disappointing. This week should be alot better than this past week though. We have alot more appointments set up and we're working hard. We also have zone conference and interviews this week and I think we are watching "Its a wonderful life". I told sister Paulson we should watch Elf and she had never heard of it before but that she would consider it. I didn't actually think we would watch it though.

So I heard you've been talking to my Bishops wife. haha. That is kinda weird but whatever. They are the nicest people ever. Today she stopped by the church while we were playing dodgeball and gave Elder Mitton and I and the other missionaries in the ward gift cards to a nice restraunt. I said something like thanks for the christmas gift and she said "this wasn't your christmas gift" haha I was shocked. They are really great though.

Not too much else to talk about. Sorry this is really short. Hopefully next week we'll have more to report on. We should be meeting with The marinos and Kathryn this week but you never know. Justin just wrote me and mentioned that him and his brother are going to a spring semester at BYU and his brother is going to find an apartment so after the spring when his brother goes on a mission Me and probably tony can move in to that apartment but he'll get you the details later just wanted to give you a heads up.

Love,
Elder Turner