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

6.27.2011

Hey Everybody!!

So this week was not the best week but we still saw lots of miracles. I guess one big one that we saw was we were driving to go tract somewhere that we had planned and we passed a street and my thought was "I've never seen that street, we should tract it" First off, this is not like me because I hate duplex's and this street was only duplexs but we decided to tract it. We found about 12 potentials on that street and one of them was sooooo excited to see us. She had met with the missionaries about 2 years ago and she had people in her life that wouldn't let her continue meeting with us (they aren't there anymore) but when we knocked on her door she's like "I read your books all the time" haha. She has a baptisimal date for July 23rd. She is so excited for it.

So this past week was zone conference. Two big announcements I suppose: 1. President told me that I'm most likely (90%) going to be transfered to Winnipeg for my last 4 weeks so I'll leave her on July 20th (the best day ever btw) and 2. We now have a portable DVD player in our apartments. All missionaries in North America have one now so they can watch training videos and other church movies for studies. Kinda fun haha.

We're now down in Saskatoon so I don't have as much time to write but we are staying the night with the Zone Leaders and having district meeting tomorrow. We had P-day activity today and let me tell you 9 weeks of not having P-dady activity really makes you go out of shape. I'm exhausted.

Well sorry again that I don't have much time to write. These computers only give you a certain amount of time.

Love,
Elder Turner

6.20.2011

So this past week has been super busy and all I could think about was that I just had another nephew. I've been super excited for today to come and see pictures of him. He's super cute and I can't wait to be is favorite Uncle (although I already am).

We had an amazing week this past week and everything just kinda worked out. It was truely a miracle. We had a guy who is friends with a member ask us if he could have a Book of Mormon cause he wants a change in his life and than after that we went to another members house and his roommate asked for a book of mormon as well so she could read it. That never happens here and it happened twice in one day. Pretty great.

We were able to set another baptismal date with one of our investigators for July 16th and we are working with her to reach that date. She has a long way to go but she can do it. She came to church yesterday and said it was "interesting". We'll see what she meant by that when we meet with her next. She liked it, just said it was "interesting".

We also met with a lady this week from Nigeria whose son has some brain problem and has been in the hospital for months now. The missionaries before me contacted her but because of her son she could never meet with them. He got really close to death and I guess he was in a small coma so the Elders here asked if she wanted him to have a blessing. He was down in Saskatoon so the sent the zoneleaders and as soon as they started the blessing he woke up and ever since has been doing better. He's been transfered up to Prince Albert so she now has time to meet with us. She's pretty incredible. She's so greatful to be here in Canada. She keeps saying that if God wouldn't have brought her here her son would have died becuase Nigeria doesn't have as good of health care. Talk about counting your blessings, some people would choose to be bitter but not her.

This entire week it has been pouring rain. Ridiculous amounts which isn't a good thing cause all of Saskatchewan and Manitoba are flooding so that probably didn't help. There were quite a few thunder storms as well. Those are always fun to watch. I feel bad tracting and than going to an appointment and sitting on peoples couches drenched but they usually don't mind haha.

Glad to hear everybody is doing good. Sorry this letter isn't the longest but know that I love you all and can't wait to see you soon.

Love,,

Elder Turner

6.13.2011

Hey family:

Mom, your welcome for your birthday call. You should call her back as well cause she thinks she called the wrong number haha. She is one of my favorite people ever and I think I was sent here for her. She has been Less active for years and she recently started to come back to church. The last two weeks she has been sick but the three weeks before that she came and brought friends. Don't mention any of that to her but yeah, she's pretty much great.

It sounds like you had a great time for your birhday. busy busy busy. You two are always on the go. 80 year olds like you should not be doing this much work haha.

My new companion is Elder Porter and he is from Arizona. He is my 2 companion out of 12 who is not from Utah or Idaho (2 were from Idaho and 8 from Utah). It seems like everyone out here is from Utah. He's really nice and has been out for about a year. He's Senior Companion this transfer and it's his first time so President wanted me to train he kinda to be senior. He doesn't really need it, he's just lacks confidence sometimes but whatever, I am enjoying being Junior companion after being Senior since my 5th transfer. It's relaxing.

Not much happened this week but we have alot of good things geared up for this week. We're going to be busy but it makes time go by fast when you are. I got my contacts this week so thanks everyone who had a hand in that (I think just mom and Kevin). I know my Birthday is not for another month but don't send me anything for my birthday. I'll be home in a month anyway so there isn't much that I would need. Maybe just money for a blizzard at DQ. haha.

I don't really have too much else to say. I hope all goes well and I'll write again next week.

Elder Turner

P.S. I Better have picture of my newest nephew next week.

6.6.2011

So not too much has happened this week. We did get our transfer calls. Elder Liechty is going to Winnipeg this Wednesday and I'm getting Elder Porter. He's been out for about a year and he is really nice and funny. I don't know him to well but it should be good. I talked to President about dying in Winnipeg and he says he'll do everything he can to make that happen. I love Prince Albert but there are quite a few reasons I want to die in Winnipeg so we'll see what happens.

I'm really sad to have Elder Liechty go. He's probably my favorite companion so far. Luckily he lives in Highland, UT (next to Alpine) and he goes home 4 weeks before me so I'll have plenty of time to hang out.

So this past week we have been busy as always. Because Elder Liechty is leaving, everyone has invited us out to dinner. We had a Dinner appointment yesterday, today and tomorrow and we have a lunch appointment today, tomorrow and wednesday. It's crazy cause that is more meal appointments than we have gotten all transfer haha. It's gonna be good though. I love food.

Our investigators are coming along. Some are progressing faster than others. Patience is definately an important thing in Missionary work. I just wish sometimes people would do what they are suppose to do or that they said they would do. It's pretty frustrating but I'm sure it happens to every missionary.

Sorry I don't have too much exciting things to tell you. There weren't too many highlights this week but things have been good here and we are always busy. The weather is great and warm but that also brings the mosquitos and they are the worst creature ever created. I hate them haha.

Well I love you all,

Elder Turner