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

11.29.2010

This week has just zoomed by. It truely is crazy how fast the mission gets. I'm glad you got those pictures from Sister Heieie (pronounced Hi - i, in case you were wondering). That is our Bishop's wife. They are super great people and alot of fun.

So we invited about 10 people to the christmas party and all 10 said they would come. It was pretty disappointing when none of them came. The Marinos and Kathryn both didn't show up which was the biggest disappointment. Well it was the biggest disappointment until they both didn't show up to Church. That was a bigger disappointment but oh well we will just keep working with them on that.

Actually on a brighter note Kathryn is preparing for baptism on January 8th and The Marinos are preparing for the 18th of December but we are going to have to push that back because in order to get baptized they have to come to church 3 times and that won't work now that they didn't come. We actually got ahold of the Marino's yesterday after church and we found out that she had a pinched siatic nerve and was in a ton of pain so hopefully they can come next week.

Thanksgiving was fun and so was the Christmas party. Not too much else happened this week. One day it got down to - 24 C which by the way is ridiculously cold. It has also been snowing quite a bit. They are expecting this winter to break records. Supposidly we already have 80% of the highest recored snow fall during winter and we are only in the first 2 weeks of winter.

Well Sorry there isn't much to write about this week. I hope you have a great week and keep up the good work (what ever that means)

Love,
Elder Turner

11.15.2010

Hey Mommy,

I know you are probably super busy or at the least just forgot. Don't worry about it. Things here are going really well. Elder Mitton and I are having a ton of fun. We get along really well and we both just want to go out and work so much so I don't have to fight him at all. Definately a relief. The other day we were at the grocery store and we walked down the ethnic aisle and we found a ton of Japanese Stuff so we bought it. We got Yakults, those mushroom chocolates, the pokeys and koala bears. Ha it was pretty fun to reminise. We were just hoping for Pocari Sweat, Yaki Soba, and Calpis but I guess you take what you can get.

This past week was a fantastic week. We worked really hard and found a ton of success. Kathryn came to church this past week with her entire family (total of 9 people) and we also had another investigator come named Ryan. It was really great to see them there and I really think they enjoyed themselves. Kathryn had a huge smile on her face because she had her whole family there, something she has wanted for a while. Next week is the Primary program and the kids were practicing for that so maybe next week they will come to see that. That would be really great.

Things are going well here. Elder Mitton got his cristmas Package and we found a Christmas tree so we put up our christmas tree and we are getting into the Christmas spirit. We did take pictures but Elder Mitton was smart and brought his card reader so that he can send pictures home but I forgot. Maybe I'll have him send me them. We'll see.

Well not much else to say. I love you and hope you had a great week and don't worry about not writing me, we didn't have too much time today anyway.

Love,
Elder Turner

11.8.2010

So some pretty big news. We got our transfer calls this past week and Elder McCleave is being transferred to my first area agnes (now called Stafford cause they moved the apartment). Our areas are called by the street we live on. We're the Munroe Elders for example. Anyway, my new companion is the one and only Elder Mitton. haha. President called and told me I was getting him and said I heard somewhere that you know him from Japan. I didn't even know that until after we planned transfers. It was pretty funny and I'm excited to serve with him. I'll drop Elder McCleave off on Thursday and pick up Elder Mitton.

As for the area we had a fairly good week. We were super busy and the work is really starting to progress. The ward now has really good missionaries and so the members are starting to build trust with the missionaries. This ward had some bad missionaries in the past which kinda halted the missionary work but they are starting to trust us again. A couple weeks ago we got a refferal from a member and yesterday we got another one so things are picking up. The refferal from the member a couple weeks ago is going really well. They live about 45 min away but on tuesday they are coming in and having a lesson at the church. The are the Marino family and they are really great people.

This winter has been so nice. Today was 13 C (55 F) and we played football outside. It has been quite warm which is unheard of for WINTERpeg, ManiSNOWba (you would not believe how many people we talk to that use that joke, it wasn't funny the first time and still isn't funny) The great thing about that saying is if it is a cold day people say WINTERpeg but if it is a windy day it suddenly changes to WINDYpeg. The people here are so clever. I'm hoping the weather will be like this all winter but people tell me not to hold my breath.

I told Sister Olsen to call you Cami so that she can see if you want her to bring anything up. I don't know when she'll do it but expect a call. They are great and she is planning on dropping off a letter with a check in it that I need deposited. You might also get to meet all my neices and my nephew as well.

Well not much else to write. Thanks for all your prayers and encouragement.

Love,
Elder Turner

11.1.2010

Helllllllloooooo Turner Family.

Happy Halloween!!! Last night we weren't allowed to proselyte after 5 so we ended up going to a members house for supper and had a fun time. We had a nice quiet Halloween. It is pretty funny to see up here though, everybody plans their costumes around their winter gear. This week we had the years first snow fall so everybody has been talking about that. It went away that day (which rarely happens) but there isn't snow anymore. The weather is now just kinda chill. And yes mom, Canada does celebrate Halloween. They celebrate Christmas too. November 11 is Remembrance day which is another holiday in the states but Remembrance day is about remembering fallen war heroes.

This past week we had a really good week. We went out to that refferal who lives about 45 min away and had a pretty good lesson with them. We are going again this week. We also got to go to a baptism on Saturday for somebody in the other ward but it went really well. It was a fillipeano baptism (filipeanos are my favorite people ever by the way) which means that instead of the normal baptism deserts we got a full coarse meal and food to take home. haha they love food, they love missionaries, and it is a win win situation for me.

Also on Saturday we got to go over to The Rodriguez's/Silks and carve pumpkins and watch "The Best Two Years". It was a really fun night. That movie was funny before but it is really funny when you realize that is really how a mission is. It was a great night.

Before I forget, Sister Olsen (my Second cousins wife) is going down to Utah than Las Vegas I think this week or so. She asked if there was anything I wanted her to bring home to you guys and I think I just might give her the check to give to you but other than that I don't have anything else to send. She than asked if there was anything she could bring back up. I thought about my Christmas package soon. I know it would be a hassle to get it ready quickly but it would save you alot of money from having to send it up. I'll have her call you and you can make that decision I guess.

Well Transfer calls are this Sunday. Crazy to think this transfer is gone already. My mission is just zooming past and it isn't a good thing. I love it out here. At least now I'll get to go home and have a brand new Nephew/Neice. haha remember when I thought the pregnancy test was instant. I was pretty grossed out. haha well I love you all.

Elder Turner

Oh and no, I have no idea what is happening with the elections. I know Canada just had theirs though but I don't even know the results of that.

10.25.2010

Hello Everybody,

This week was a fairly good week. Not too much happened but it is still been pretty good. We did go out to teach that member's friend. Turns out they live about 45 min. away so the member took us out there. After the long drive there we discovered that his friend wasn't home. Kinda a bummer and the member was really embarrassed. I hate getting lunched when we bring members along but I've never been lunched when a member brings us along (Lunched that the person missed the appointment, I thought I should clarify) That member called us today and said that he got caught up the other day and didn't get home till late so we are going out there again this week. It should go through this time.

This past week was stake conference and everybody we invited didn't necessarily want to travel to the stake center so we didn't have anybody come. We also had a Masters Fireside last night and Bro. Rodriguez and Kelsey Silk showed up (from the baptism) and another one of our investigators named Kathryn. We're hopefully going to be setting a baptism date with Kathryn. She is super ready for it, she just needs to take care of a few things before hand. The zone has 30 baptisms set before December which is huge because it's not something that usually happens. The mission is starting to pick up quite a bit so that is really great.

I'm doing good. Elder McCleve and I are getting along great and we are having alot of fun. The weather has been suprisingly good, especially for this time of year but they are expecting snow this weekend. Not the best news but we'll take it. It's gonna come sooner or later. Well Sorry there isn't too much else to talk about. I'll try and have more exciting things next time. Oh, The Rodriguez's are having us over this week for supper, pumpkin carving, and to watch "The Best Two Years" (President gave us permission). It will be pretty fun.

Love,

Elder Turner