7.18.2011

Ha Thanks for all the Birthday wishes. Unfotunatley the days leading up to my Birthday are me having to say good bye to everyone and packing which I hate doing. I get super stressed when I have to pack but my plan is to live off the bare nessicities for four weeks and pack that all in a small suitcase. My two big ones I'm planning on just packing and not touching till I'm home. I hope my plan works but we'll see. I also hope they're under 50 lbs. We'll probably get a blizzard or something. I won't really be with a companion on my birthday so that is dumb. I'll drive down to regina on Wednesday and than Thursday drive the rest of the way to Winnipeg have my final supper with the Mission President and all the missionaries going home on Friday, go to our farewell fireside (the marinos are coming!!) and than getting dropped off in my new area for the last four weeks. I'm going to be in St. James part of town and the St. James ward. Out of the 5 Family wards in Winnipeg I will now have served in 4 of them. I'm pretty excited and nervous at the same time. We are white washing into the area and that is something I've never down before. My new companion is named Elder Jacobson and he is from a small town in Idaho. I've never met him before and he's been on his mission for about a year and a half. It's really hard to not meet someone in a misson of 56 missionaries but he's been outlining his entire mission. This will be his first time in the city. Pretty crazy. Since me and the missionary that i'm driving down to Regina haven't been to the temple our entire missions they were going to see if we could leave early on Wednesday and do a session but unfortunately the temple is closed for renovations for the next two weeks so no temple for me. That is another thing I want to do my first day home. It's been too years aka too long.

This past week has been alot of fun. We have two investigators who have no phone and no place so it is near impossible to get ahold of them. We have to drive around and find them or visit them at work but this past week they got a phone and a place so we're so excited for them. They are two of my favorite people on my mission and are set to be baptized in August. Unfortantely I'm going to miss that and their wedding next week. I guess it just happens that way. They would have gotten married this week but our Bishop is out of town so they have to wait. They were pretty disappointed to hear that I wouldn't be there. I'm pretty disappointed as well though.

It's going to be hard to leave Prince Albert but I'm also excited to go back to Winnipeg. I love Winnipeg even though it's not the Best city haha. It's where I've spent almost my entire mission. We got to call people and invite them to our Farewell fireside and lots of people are coming. I'm really excited about it. Alot said they are going to take me and my companion out to eat in our area haha.

Well I love you all. Next time I write I'll be in Winnipeg.

Love,

Elder Turner

7.11.2011

Hey,

Don't worry about not writing, alls well. Things happen and I know how busy life can be.

This week was super great. We have two investigators who are going to be moving in together at the end of this week and we just taught the law of chastity and so they are going to get married before that day. haha The only problem is that our bishop is out of town until the 22 and so there is no one here to marry them. We're hopefully going to figure something out but until then just pray for us.

This week was good, we taught quite a bit and my time here is winding down to an end here in Prince Albert. It's beautiful here. I don't know if you have looked at pictures on Google or anything but it's really nice. I'm excited to go back to Winnipeg though for my last little bit. Transfer calls are this week so I'll find out exactly where I'm going so I'll let you know next week. Sorry this is shorter but I love you all and hope you have a good one.

Love,
Elder Turner

P.S. My Birthday happens to fall on transfer day so I'll spend my birthday driving 11 hours to winnipeg haha, yeah celebrating it when I get home sounds like a great idea.

7.5.2011

Just cause you are going to see me in 6 weeks doesn't mean I don't want emails anymore. haha just kidding. I'm sure everyone is just busy.

So this past week went pretty ok. We were down in Saskatoon this past week (I emailed last week from there) and than we had a zone meeting the following day. It was pretty fun. I always enjoy going down to Saskatoon. Than the following day two Elders came up to Prince Albert to do an exchange. It was lots of fun and we got alot of work done. Not too much happened this week though. Our investigators are coming along nicely but we discovered we are going to have to push back our two baptisimal dates cause they aren't going to make it. It's disappointing to see but at least they are still committed to being baptized.

This week I really don't have much to write about, sorry. I got a funny story but mom you can't freak out. Well the other night (sat) we were sitting on our floor and my companion sees something move under our trash can and says "I think we have a mouse" and I was like "No we don't" So he walks over there and sure enough a mouse jumps out and runs into our storage closet. We put a long mirror up to block it from going anywhere else in the house and than my companion goes into the closet with a broom to scare it out while I had two ice cream pails (one for each hand) To catch it when it came out. So after a few attempts I finally caught it and we weren't sure what to do. We ended up putting it in a trash can (Cleaned out) and put a little house for him in the trash can with a string attached to it so if we ever wanted to see him all we would have to do was lift the string. than we put saran wrap over the top of the can and put breathing holes in it (The string went through one of the holes and was tied so it wouldn't fall down). Anyway, the next morning we look in there and he had chewed the string but all the way up at the saran wrap. That little buggar, we named him Mr. Bojangles BTW (It's from the Movie Green mile) and climbed up the string in the middle of the night and than chewed the string at the very top. That must have been quite the fall but yeah, he didn't get out. That day (Sunday) we took him and threw him in the bush and today we are buying mouse traps. I'll send pictures. That was probably the most exciting thing that happened though haha. It was fun trying to catch him. I didn't know mice were so fast.

We found some ok people this week. One man was super drunk and that morning he said he prayed for someone to help him. First time he prayed in a long time and that afternoon we knocked on his door. Everytime we go over there he is drunk but hopefully we will be able to help him. We can only help if he wants to help himself.

Well not much else to write about. The Mail Strike here is over so thats good. The government passed a law that said they have to work. haha

Love,
Elder Turner