September 30, 2013

Lieber Familie,

Hey, late emailing today, we had an appointment this morning and then went shopping for some fall/winter clothes. I don't know what happened but all of the sudden it's cold here. Haha the cute Sisters in our ward are freaking out that winter is coming on too soon. Apparently last winter was the longest winter Germany has had in 15 or 50 years, I don't remember which....

Haha, Mom, I just bought the same sweater you are wearing in the pic of you holding baby Nick. Süß! Oh my goodness he is soooooooooo cute!!!!!!!! How is Janae?! Send me more pictures! Please :) Also super funny when we are at clothing stores and people come to me asking questions about where things are because they think I work there...different name tags.

We have been really busy this week and we are getting so excited for General Conference and getting our investigators excited as well! With the time difference it will be a little different, but I can't wait!

Sister Lartey is so great to work with. We have been getting so much better at teaching together (with the Spirit). It's kinda funny seeing how we're rubbing off on each other. Haha we work hard and we play hard, or I should say we learn to love what we are doing and everything is enjoyable, haha mostly. The language is still frustrating, but it's coming. One investigator we are working with called us because he found our card in his mailbox a few months ago and finally decided he needed to learn more (that is a miracle because no one does that) we have met with him several times and he is so ready! He is worried because his wife is a hard core Catholic and he wants to be so sure that this is the right church before he talks to her about being baptized. The spirit is so strong when we teach him. He accepts everything so excitedly and loves reading in the scriptures. I love seeing the enthusiam and faith develop as our investigators read Book of Mormon and find out for themselves that it is true. It has been very humbling studying more about the atonement and seeing it bless the lives of those I work with. I am so amazed at the love Christ has for us.

Funny/awesome experience this week: Sis Lartey and I were coming back from playing soccer and she really wanted a strawberry fanta. I told her she was nuts and we just needed to go home and get water. She insisted on going to the store. As soon as we walked in a girl came up and grabbed my arm, in English she said looking at my name tag ''Jesu Christi, you go to church?? I need to go to a church, I'm brand new here and I have been looking for a church to go to!'' You can imagine our excitement! We exchanged info and we will be meeting with her this week. The spirit works in mysterious ways, haha sometimes through companion's need for STRAWBERRY fanta.

Berlin is soo beautiful! Especially with the fall colors, changing leaves, beautiful Sunday. Not sure how I got to be so blessed to serve in the best mission in the world ;)

I love you all so much! Thank you for all the prayers and support!

Sister Turner