Well we got our Transfer Calls yesterday and I am leaving Saskatoon. I'm actually also leaving Saskatchewan. I am going to be serving in Selkirk, Manitoba. It is about 30 min north of Winnipeg. My new companion is Elder Burch. He was in my district when i served in Winnipeg and he is a really good guy. He is also really funny so I'm excited to serve with him. I'm outlining which means I'm serving in an outlining town. It's a small town and we are the only missionaries there. So for the whole transfer the only times I'll see other missionaries is zone conference. I'm excited though it should be fun. There is a small branch there so I'll get the feel for a branch. Oh yeah, best of all, I get a car haha Elder Halliday is staying here for another transfer (this will be 6 months here) and he is being senior comp. to a difficult missionary whose last transfer is this next one so he will probably stay another transfer so that two new missionairys will come into the area. That will mean he will be here for 7 1/2 months. Thats crazy.
Lately the weather here has been extremely nice. I don't even wear my coats. A couple times last week in was +5 C which is really nice, especially if you've been living in -30C. Rumors have it that it is suppose to last for a month. This Canadian winter has been extrememly milder compared to others, or so I've been told. I would blame global warming but i guess that is a farce.
Yeah mom I have been getting the letters from my buddies. I got a christmas card from the Young Family which was really nice of them and now I have a picture of Jayden (and Brian, and Cami, and her entire family) which I'm happy about. I also got a Christmas Letter from Stucki with a couple pictures which was really nice to hear from him. I was gonna write him a letter back today but I need to buy international stamps. haha.
So a few stories that made me laugh this week that I know you will enjoy. This week we were planning on making Hawaiian Haystacks. Elder Halliday hates mushrooms but I wanted to make the recipe the exact way that it says because that is the recipe I grew up on. I actually caught myself saying "I bet if I put Cream of Mushroom soup in it, you wouldn't even be able to tell the difference." After I said that i just stopped and started laughing. haha so many times you guys told me that and I didn't listen, haha now i know its true.
Also we ate at a members house and what did they feed us? Salmon. and it was actually pretty good. It was so good in fact that I would have had seconds if it was offered. I know I know, a shocker.
Well not much else to report. Thanks for sending the package. Don't worry about the Karan Dictionary too much. It would just be nice to have. How the mail/packages work is everytime there is a zone conference, assistants come up, transfers, or the zone leaders go to winnipeg for zone leader meeting we get our mail. When your in Winnipeg you get it everyweek but if your in Regina or Saskatoon, you get it about 3-4 times a transfer. I'm not sure how often I'll get it in Selkirk.
Well I love you all and hope to hear from you soon. good luck with the house!
Elder Turner
Monday, January 18, 2010
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
1.11.2010
What's up y'all,
first off, I don't know where you got that I needed an arabic BOM. I don't need one so don't worry about it. All that stuff I can get from the mission. I just wanted a list so that I would know. You also must have forgotten to attach the list.
I can't believe dad cleaned out all of his boxes. He must have been in the commitment mood with the wedding and new years.
Well not too much happened this week. Today we got to do something pretty amazing. The olympic torch came through Saskatoon so we were allowed to go see it. It was alot of fun and it was nice to get into the olympic spirit. I took some pictures so maybe i'll send some home it was lots of fun.
We sometimes write our letters at the university and everytime I do i feel like a tourist attraction haha people are always staring at us and its kinda awkward. We decided that when we go home we are still going to dress like this and wear our name tag so that people look at us more. I've decided I'm going to wear it into restraunts in Utah and get my food payed for too. haha.
Not too much going on this week. We got another Baptisimal date planned for a man named Leon Funk. He is Matey (half Native half caucasion). He is really excited to keep learning but he has a long way to go. Sorry there isn't too much to write. When you don't give me stuff to feed off of its kinda hard for me to come up with things to write. Well I'm happy that everything is starting to settle down and get relaxed after the Holidays. Have a good week and I'll talk to you later. BTW we get transfer calls on sunday so i'll let you know if I'm staying or going.
Love,
Elder Turner
first off, I don't know where you got that I needed an arabic BOM. I don't need one so don't worry about it. All that stuff I can get from the mission. I just wanted a list so that I would know. You also must have forgotten to attach the list.
I can't believe dad cleaned out all of his boxes. He must have been in the commitment mood with the wedding and new years.
Well not too much happened this week. Today we got to do something pretty amazing. The olympic torch came through Saskatoon so we were allowed to go see it. It was alot of fun and it was nice to get into the olympic spirit. I took some pictures so maybe i'll send some home it was lots of fun.
We sometimes write our letters at the university and everytime I do i feel like a tourist attraction haha people are always staring at us and its kinda awkward. We decided that when we go home we are still going to dress like this and wear our name tag so that people look at us more. I've decided I'm going to wear it into restraunts in Utah and get my food payed for too. haha.
Not too much going on this week. We got another Baptisimal date planned for a man named Leon Funk. He is Matey (half Native half caucasion). He is really excited to keep learning but he has a long way to go. Sorry there isn't too much to write. When you don't give me stuff to feed off of its kinda hard for me to come up with things to write. Well I'm happy that everything is starting to settle down and get relaxed after the Holidays. Have a good week and I'll talk to you later. BTW we get transfer calls on sunday so i'll let you know if I'm staying or going.
Love,
Elder Turner
Monday, January 4, 2010
1/4/2010
Well it is officially 2010 (Do people there call it Two-thousand and ten or twenty-ten, we've been calling it 2010. I was just curious) Well on New Years Eve we were told to be in the apartment by 5:00 pm and not to be out till about 1:30 PM on New Years because not too many people would be awake/fully recovered from the previous night. On Christmas Eve we were told that since we didn't go out till later that we could sleep in and stay up for New Years. I passed out at about 10:15. I wanted to stay up but my bed looked expecially comfortable and I was only gonna lay there for 5 min which didn't happen.
I'm glad the wedding went well. It sounds really good and from the pictures Destiny looked beautiful. I'm still waiting on my morton's steak in the mail. That will be delicious. I did wear my tie. I actually got alot of compliments on it but I'm not a huge fan of purple. Wow there was quite alot of people there at the wedding. It sounds like a big success.
I'm glad to hear Jayden's doing good. I saw the picture of him in his suit. haha i loved it. I got a christmas Card from the Hansen's in Valley Vista Ward and they were saying how cute Jayden was. They said at church Brian was bouncing Jayden on his knee but all they could see was Jayden's head popping up from the pew and than disappearing.
So Destiny and Mark are staying at the Golden Nugget. At their wedding did they also turn 60. I thought that was kindof a requirement for staying there.
Yeah i did like the package it was way good. The socks are pretty warm and all the missionaries love reading the Engrish on it. My favorite is it talks about how to wash it and it says, "It Explains to wash" haha. Were you able to get Bang! for me? If not its ok. Well not much else is going on today. Thank you for everything you've been doing and thank everybody for caring about me.
Oh real quickly do you think you could email me a list of all the languages the BOM is translated into. That would help alot. Thanks
Elder Turner
I'm glad the wedding went well. It sounds really good and from the pictures Destiny looked beautiful. I'm still waiting on my morton's steak in the mail. That will be delicious. I did wear my tie. I actually got alot of compliments on it but I'm not a huge fan of purple. Wow there was quite alot of people there at the wedding. It sounds like a big success.
I'm glad to hear Jayden's doing good. I saw the picture of him in his suit. haha i loved it. I got a christmas Card from the Hansen's in Valley Vista Ward and they were saying how cute Jayden was. They said at church Brian was bouncing Jayden on his knee but all they could see was Jayden's head popping up from the pew and than disappearing.
So Destiny and Mark are staying at the Golden Nugget. At their wedding did they also turn 60. I thought that was kindof a requirement for staying there.
Yeah i did like the package it was way good. The socks are pretty warm and all the missionaries love reading the Engrish on it. My favorite is it talks about how to wash it and it says, "It Explains to wash" haha. Were you able to get Bang! for me? If not its ok. Well not much else is going on today. Thank you for everything you've been doing and thank everybody for caring about me.
Oh real quickly do you think you could email me a list of all the languages the BOM is translated into. That would help alot. Thanks
Elder Turner
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
12.28.2009
Well after Kevin was the only one who didn't get me a christmas present, I guess in an unexpected turn of events he was the only one that remembered that I emailed on mondays. Whatever haha.
It was good to hear from everyone. My Christmas was actually alot of fun. We got to sleep in which I loved but I couldn't sleep past 7 am. At 9 am, all the missionaries got together and opened our presents. After that we did a white elephant and I ended up with a fake aquairium that runs on batteries. Than we played games. After that we went to a member's house, the Sheiss', and I talked to you guys. After that we went back to the church where we opened presents and had a Christmas dinner prepared by a member. It was lots of fun and the member had rented a huge blow up joust thing where you stand on a pedastool and try to knock each other off. Pretty much I did the best. haha but it was lots of fun. Than we played bored games till we had to go home.
Somebody got Bang! for Christmas so basically we played that all day. Also today our P-day activity was bored games so we played all day today. The other day when you asked me if I wanted anything else, I've decided I would like the game Bang!
So thank you everyone for the presents, it was very nice and I enjoy using all of it. I was looking at the socks that Santa gave me and I guess with the recession, Santa has turned to the Chinese black market. The packaging of the socks is all in Engrish. It is actually really funny.
Well not much else to write. I'm sure you guys are pretty busy getting the wedding in order and that's probably why you didn't write. Good luck tomorrow and I hope everything goes according to plan. Welcome to the family Mark. Cami, Brian, and Jayden congratulations on having a whole house to yourself again (I guess you have to wait till everyone else leaves). What is the honeymoon gonna be? Email me pictures of the wedding.
Love Elder Turner
And here are some pictures Paul sent. On Christmas day, the members that had all the missionaries over rented a giant blow up joust arena. This is just a picture of some of the action.
It was good to hear from everyone. My Christmas was actually alot of fun. We got to sleep in which I loved but I couldn't sleep past 7 am. At 9 am, all the missionaries got together and opened our presents. After that we did a white elephant and I ended up with a fake aquairium that runs on batteries. Than we played games. After that we went to a member's house, the Sheiss', and I talked to you guys. After that we went back to the church where we opened presents and had a Christmas dinner prepared by a member. It was lots of fun and the member had rented a huge blow up joust thing where you stand on a pedastool and try to knock each other off. Pretty much I did the best. haha but it was lots of fun. Than we played bored games till we had to go home.
Somebody got Bang! for Christmas so basically we played that all day. Also today our P-day activity was bored games so we played all day today. The other day when you asked me if I wanted anything else, I've decided I would like the game Bang!
So thank you everyone for the presents, it was very nice and I enjoy using all of it. I was looking at the socks that Santa gave me and I guess with the recession, Santa has turned to the Chinese black market. The packaging of the socks is all in Engrish. It is actually really funny.
Well not much else to write. I'm sure you guys are pretty busy getting the wedding in order and that's probably why you didn't write. Good luck tomorrow and I hope everything goes according to plan. Welcome to the family Mark. Cami, Brian, and Jayden congratulations on having a whole house to yourself again (I guess you have to wait till everyone else leaves). What is the honeymoon gonna be? Email me pictures of the wedding.
Love Elder Turner
And here are some pictures Paul sent. On Christmas day, the members that had all the missionaries over rented a giant blow up joust arena. This is just a picture of some of the action.
Monday, December 21, 2009
12.21.2009
Hey Everybody,
First off, Christmas...Merry Christmas. I just talked it over with my companion. I want you guys to call us at 2:30 pm. I'm sorry if that time doesn't work with Destiny's schedule but she gets to hear Marks voice 24/7 and only mine twice a year. I am not sure what time it would be there in Vegas. We are Central Time but without Daylight Savings time. If this helps I started this email at 1:30. If you don't call at 2:30, I'll be forced to call you and will have to pay for a long distance call so don't mess this up.
So in this spirit of Christmas I wanted to talk about what a member in the ward talked about yesterday that I liked. She talked about the Nativity and about the different people who "found" Jesus. The Shepherd's were in their fields doing their Job. They guarded the sacrificial sheep but when the angel came and told them of Christ they instantly left or being Obedient. The wise men were reading their scriptures and found out about the star and decided to seek him, and Simeon and Anna (A few days later) were fulfilling their calling in the temple and they found him. She mentioned that We can find Christ when we are obedient like the Shepherd's, studying the scriptures like the wise men, or fulfilling our callings such as Simeon and Anna. I thought that was a good way to look at it.
Well Christmas Eve this year a member in a different ward is having all the missionaries over from 5 till the end of the night. Elder Halliday and I bought Pies, and Martinellis for Christmas Eve so that we could celebrate a little. Than for Christmas we are allowed to sleep in so I was planning on sleeping till noon but the zone leaders decided it would be fun to get together at 9 and open presents together as a zone. Afterwards we will be opening White Elephant gifts. After that we will be doing service as a zone. it's not mandatory but President Paulson encourages it. I'm hoping we go to a soup kitchen. I think they are planning on doing service at the hospital though. That should be done by 2 pm. After that I'm going to speak to some people in my family for 40 min and than while Elder Halliday is speaking to his family I'm scheduling in a nap. Than at 5:00 pm another Member is having all of the missionaries over for a dinner. This member is also in the Mission Presidency. President Watson is his name. So that is pretty much my Christmas. It should be fun. I'm looking forward to sleeping in.
Now on with the Karen (pronounced quran) information. I asked you before if you could find a Karen (That is how it is really spelled) translator. Just wondering if there was any updates on that. Also when I was back in Winnipeg, a karen family gave me a Karen shirt which is like hand woven multicolored shirt which is the traditional dress over there. I loved it. Now here in Saskatoon a family gave me a Karen bag which is a hand woven multicolored purse-like bag that both the men and women use. I might be sending these home sometime because I don't want to ruin them. Lastly I don't know if you remember me talking about teaching a Karen woman by having a Thai guy take our words, translate it to Thai, and have her understand in Karen and about how difficult that was. Well I have had an even more difficult lesson. We are now teaching a blind Karen guy. He has a Braille machine and we quote bible verses to him spelling out every word so that he can Braille it on paper. Than he gets a family member to say that verse in Karen and he is slowly learning English that way. I think we got through one verse in the 45 min we were there. It was exhausting.
Well not much else to report. I'm looking forward to talking to you guys next week. Have a good couple days and I'll talk to you soon.
Love,
Elder Turner
First off, Christmas...Merry Christmas. I just talked it over with my companion. I want you guys to call us at 2:30 pm. I'm sorry if that time doesn't work with Destiny's schedule but she gets to hear Marks voice 24/7 and only mine twice a year. I am not sure what time it would be there in Vegas. We are Central Time but without Daylight Savings time. If this helps I started this email at 1:30. If you don't call at 2:30, I'll be forced to call you and will have to pay for a long distance call so don't mess this up.
So in this spirit of Christmas I wanted to talk about what a member in the ward talked about yesterday that I liked. She talked about the Nativity and about the different people who "found" Jesus. The Shepherd's were in their fields doing their Job. They guarded the sacrificial sheep but when the angel came and told them of Christ they instantly left or being Obedient. The wise men were reading their scriptures and found out about the star and decided to seek him, and Simeon and Anna (A few days later) were fulfilling their calling in the temple and they found him. She mentioned that We can find Christ when we are obedient like the Shepherd's, studying the scriptures like the wise men, or fulfilling our callings such as Simeon and Anna. I thought that was a good way to look at it.
Well Christmas Eve this year a member in a different ward is having all the missionaries over from 5 till the end of the night. Elder Halliday and I bought Pies, and Martinellis for Christmas Eve so that we could celebrate a little. Than for Christmas we are allowed to sleep in so I was planning on sleeping till noon but the zone leaders decided it would be fun to get together at 9 and open presents together as a zone. Afterwards we will be opening White Elephant gifts. After that we will be doing service as a zone. it's not mandatory but President Paulson encourages it. I'm hoping we go to a soup kitchen. I think they are planning on doing service at the hospital though. That should be done by 2 pm. After that I'm going to speak to some people in my family for 40 min and than while Elder Halliday is speaking to his family I'm scheduling in a nap. Than at 5:00 pm another Member is having all of the missionaries over for a dinner. This member is also in the Mission Presidency. President Watson is his name. So that is pretty much my Christmas. It should be fun. I'm looking forward to sleeping in.
Now on with the Karen (pronounced quran) information. I asked you before if you could find a Karen (That is how it is really spelled) translator. Just wondering if there was any updates on that. Also when I was back in Winnipeg, a karen family gave me a Karen shirt which is like hand woven multicolored shirt which is the traditional dress over there. I loved it. Now here in Saskatoon a family gave me a Karen bag which is a hand woven multicolored purse-like bag that both the men and women use. I might be sending these home sometime because I don't want to ruin them. Lastly I don't know if you remember me talking about teaching a Karen woman by having a Thai guy take our words, translate it to Thai, and have her understand in Karen and about how difficult that was. Well I have had an even more difficult lesson. We are now teaching a blind Karen guy. He has a Braille machine and we quote bible verses to him spelling out every word so that he can Braille it on paper. Than he gets a family member to say that verse in Karen and he is slowly learning English that way. I think we got through one verse in the 45 min we were there. It was exhausting.
Well not much else to report. I'm looking forward to talking to you guys next week. Have a good couple days and I'll talk to you soon.
Love,
Elder Turner
Monday, December 14, 2009
12.14.2009
This week has been so boring. haha the entire week was good but we can't go outside if it is -40 C or colder so Saturday and Sunday were boring because we had to stay inside the whole day. Sunday we went to church but it was only an hour because there was about 10 people there and you can't leave the car's in the cold that long. Also at 3:00 on Sunday it warmed up to -39 C so we were able to go out and that lasted until 5:00 so we did get 2 hours of work done that day. It seems like today is going to be an "apartment" day. Luckily we are still able to do P-day stuff. I think on Saturday night it reached -49 C which is ridiculously cold. The forecast is saying by friday it should be about -8C which is really warm so thats good. hopefully the warm lasts.
Not too many good missionary stories for you today. I can tell you a story that happened in our district that was pretty amazing. A couple weeks ago a newlywed lady in her 20's in another ward had a dream where the name "James Rielly" came to her. Supposidly she dreamed about someone like this on her mission and she found the name and they taught and baptized this person. So anyway she has no idea who this guy is but looks him up in the phone book and he happens to be in our area. So we stopped by him and his wife said he was sleeping. We asked her if she knew any members of our church and she said yes, our daughter Brenda Rielly. We looked at our plans that night and we had actually planned on stopping by Brenda Rielly that night and we didn't make the connection when we planned that they were related. So when we stopped by Brenda and told her what happened, she laughed and said her dad would never be interested in the church so we were pretty disappointed. When we told her about the dream, she got all serious and said, maybe it's my nephew. His name is James Rielly also. So we got his information and gave it to the Elder's in charge. Supposidly he has been praying to know the truth, he does know quite a bit about the church but never joined. They started teaching him and even told him the story. He has loved everything they teach him and has been coming to church every week now. He is also bring his cousin which is really good. They are kinda the "mission miracle" and I'm glad to be a part of it, even if our contribution was to find the "bad" one.
So since we've been stuck in the apartment, it's been filled with updating our planners, updating the area book, reading the scriptures, taking naps, and reading lots and lots of Ensigns/New Eras (we have like every one since 1990) While I was reading one of them I came across an article about a woman playing piano in church. I looked at the author and it said April Moody. Wasn't that our babysitter? at the end of the article it says where she lives and it said orem Utah. The article was called "In turne with his will" in the Feb. 2006 Ensign. Look it up. I'm pretty sure that was April our babysitter.
Thanks for the package, I got it. I've been eating all the candy inside it. It's kinda crazy to have the presents out and then being stuck in the apartment just staring at them all day. I really wanna open them but don't worry, I'll wait till Christmas. I think there was a mistake though. I had presents from Santa, Presents from Mom and Dad, Presents from Destiny, a present from Brian, Cami and Jayden, but I think you forgot the one that Kevin was sending me. I couldn't find it anywhere but I'm sure Kevin wouldn't have forgotten me even though every year I at least gave him a big bag of Peanut M&M's. I'll be looking forward to it in the mail. haha just kidding i don't care. Kevin's my least favorite anyway, he can't get any lower on the list. Thanks dest for your wedding announcement. It looks really good. also thanks for the invitation to the sealing but I think I'm going to be busy that day.
Well thats about it. I feel like i'm forgetting something but I can't remember.
Love ya,
Elder Turner
Not too many good missionary stories for you today. I can tell you a story that happened in our district that was pretty amazing. A couple weeks ago a newlywed lady in her 20's in another ward had a dream where the name "James Rielly" came to her. Supposidly she dreamed about someone like this on her mission and she found the name and they taught and baptized this person. So anyway she has no idea who this guy is but looks him up in the phone book and he happens to be in our area. So we stopped by him and his wife said he was sleeping. We asked her if she knew any members of our church and she said yes, our daughter Brenda Rielly. We looked at our plans that night and we had actually planned on stopping by Brenda Rielly that night and we didn't make the connection when we planned that they were related. So when we stopped by Brenda and told her what happened, she laughed and said her dad would never be interested in the church so we were pretty disappointed. When we told her about the dream, she got all serious and said, maybe it's my nephew. His name is James Rielly also. So we got his information and gave it to the Elder's in charge. Supposidly he has been praying to know the truth, he does know quite a bit about the church but never joined. They started teaching him and even told him the story. He has loved everything they teach him and has been coming to church every week now. He is also bring his cousin which is really good. They are kinda the "mission miracle" and I'm glad to be a part of it, even if our contribution was to find the "bad" one.
So since we've been stuck in the apartment, it's been filled with updating our planners, updating the area book, reading the scriptures, taking naps, and reading lots and lots of Ensigns/New Eras (we have like every one since 1990) While I was reading one of them I came across an article about a woman playing piano in church. I looked at the author and it said April Moody. Wasn't that our babysitter? at the end of the article it says where she lives and it said orem Utah. The article was called "In turne with his will" in the Feb. 2006 Ensign. Look it up. I'm pretty sure that was April our babysitter.
Thanks for the package, I got it. I've been eating all the candy inside it. It's kinda crazy to have the presents out and then being stuck in the apartment just staring at them all day. I really wanna open them but don't worry, I'll wait till Christmas. I think there was a mistake though. I had presents from Santa, Presents from Mom and Dad, Presents from Destiny, a present from Brian, Cami and Jayden, but I think you forgot the one that Kevin was sending me. I couldn't find it anywhere but I'm sure Kevin wouldn't have forgotten me even though every year I at least gave him a big bag of Peanut M&M's. I'll be looking forward to it in the mail. haha just kidding i don't care. Kevin's my least favorite anyway, he can't get any lower on the list. Thanks dest for your wedding announcement. It looks really good. also thanks for the invitation to the sealing but I think I'm going to be busy that day.
Well thats about it. I feel like i'm forgetting something but I can't remember.
Love ya,
Elder Turner
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
12.7.09
Well this week has been compeletly different from last week. We got snow, we got wind, and we got super cold temperatures. This morning at 9:00 am it was - 40 C (which is also -40 F). If the weather is -40, we cannot go outside and proselite becuause it is too cold. We can still do P-day stuff though. By the time we left it warmed up to -38 C.
So I don't think I could say I have ever been this cold before. I was reading in the scriptures about Adam and Eve and about why they needed to eat the fruit. They now had opposition in all things. They could be happy because they have been sad. They could do good because they knew how to do bad. I think the reason Heavenly Father sent me here was for the same lesson. Now when I go home I can experiance warmth because I know cold. haha
Yesterday was the Christmas Devotional with the First Presidency. I don't know how many of you saw it but it was really good. I would recommend watching it online. I liked President Ucthdorf (?)'s talk. It was way good.
Also we usually get our transfer calls on tuesday but President Paulson changed it to Sunday Night this transfer. I am staying here with Elder Halliday. Actually in our who district, only the district leader Elder Gines (from Vegas) is leaving. So for the next 6 weeks I should be here in Saskatoon. This also means that I will continue to be walking/busing at least into January.
Even though it sounds like I'm eating alot, I've actually lost weight so no need to send me new pants. For our p-day activity, a member of the singles ward is feeding us a Christmas Dinner. I'm kinda excited for it because I love food. Easy stuff that we make quite often include Perogies (little potsticker looking things but stuffed with cheese and potatoes), Kraft Dinner (Mac & Cheese), and Sidekicks (Instant noodle things). Its all pretty good and its all pretty cheap so it is a double bonus.
I was gonna send you a picture of me today but we went to email in the university and they don't have a way that we can do it. The picture isn't the best of me but i don't have much on my camera. I was also going to send a video of Elder Halliday and I throwing a pot of boiling water off of the balcony this morning and watching it evaporate before it hit the ground but once again we can't upload them on these computers.
Well not much else to report. I hope the wedding plans are going good and I hope everbody is enjoying themselves. I'll talk to you next week.
Love Elder Turner
So I don't think I could say I have ever been this cold before. I was reading in the scriptures about Adam and Eve and about why they needed to eat the fruit. They now had opposition in all things. They could be happy because they have been sad. They could do good because they knew how to do bad. I think the reason Heavenly Father sent me here was for the same lesson. Now when I go home I can experiance warmth because I know cold. haha
Yesterday was the Christmas Devotional with the First Presidency. I don't know how many of you saw it but it was really good. I would recommend watching it online. I liked President Ucthdorf (?)'s talk. It was way good.
Also we usually get our transfer calls on tuesday but President Paulson changed it to Sunday Night this transfer. I am staying here with Elder Halliday. Actually in our who district, only the district leader Elder Gines (from Vegas) is leaving. So for the next 6 weeks I should be here in Saskatoon. This also means that I will continue to be walking/busing at least into January.
Even though it sounds like I'm eating alot, I've actually lost weight so no need to send me new pants. For our p-day activity, a member of the singles ward is feeding us a Christmas Dinner. I'm kinda excited for it because I love food. Easy stuff that we make quite often include Perogies (little potsticker looking things but stuffed with cheese and potatoes), Kraft Dinner (Mac & Cheese), and Sidekicks (Instant noodle things). Its all pretty good and its all pretty cheap so it is a double bonus.
I was gonna send you a picture of me today but we went to email in the university and they don't have a way that we can do it. The picture isn't the best of me but i don't have much on my camera. I was also going to send a video of Elder Halliday and I throwing a pot of boiling water off of the balcony this morning and watching it evaporate before it hit the ground but once again we can't upload them on these computers.
Well not much else to report. I hope the wedding plans are going good and I hope everbody is enjoying themselves. I'll talk to you next week.
Love Elder Turner
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