Merry Christmas:
I decided since I get to write you every week and Brian and Cami will be gone and so will Destiny and Mark that I would just skip phone calls this year. We're going to be very busy on Christmas day and all so hopefully you don't mind.
So this past week was ok. We finally got ahold of Kathryn and we're meeting with her this week but unfortunatley she is moving at the end of the month out of our area so we won't be able to teach her after that. She still is going to be baptized in the other ward in January and I'll be able to go to her baptism so that will be good.
This past week wasn't the best for the work that we had going on. Unfortunately with the Christmas season coming up nobody wants to meet these next couple weeks. Christmas is a great time but also a tough time.
Well not too much else to write about. Mom, Stop crying I'm going to be calling you on Christmas, I was kidding. We are pretty busy on Christmas but That is the only time we can do it. Will Brian and Cami be on Three way? Will Destiny and Mark be back in time for Christmas? Well I love you all and hope you have a great Christmas week. Oh yeah I almost forgot. Elder Mitton and I are staying together for antoher transfer but the other area in our ward is closing so we will now be covering the entire ward boundries (you can probably look it up online: London Ward) It is a huge area so hopefully we can keep up. Well love ya.
Love,
Elder Turner
Monday, January 10, 2011
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
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
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
Monday, December 6, 2010
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
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
Monday, November 29, 2010
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
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
Monday, November 15, 2010
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
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
Friday, November 12, 2010
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
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
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