September 8, 2014

Dear Family,

Haha, I still cannot believe it has been only week.  We have been ALL over.  The week started out in Chemnitz.  Finally everyone is out of the hospital and back in our areas.  We came home and had a ''normal'' day and Thursday we jumped back on the Autobahn and headed for Dresden for a mult-zone conference.  

Thank you again Mom and Dad for the piano lessons.  I keep getting called on for surprise musical numbers and playing the hymns for meetings.  Wow!  The messages we heard were so inspiring.  We learned a lot about asking and learning by faith.   As a mission we have specific scriptures Präsident Kosak asked us to memorize.  We talked a lot about how powerful the Book of Mormon is for us as individuals and for those we teach.  Sister Kosak gave a great lesson on feasting on the words of Christ.  And then we had a few lessons from missionaries on “How to Be a Trainer”,  “How to be a District Leader”, “How to be a Zone Leader”, and “How to be a Sister Training Leader.”  All I could think was “How to train your Dragon.”  The lessons were really good.  

It’s kind of crazy.  With the age change 2 years ago, now we have so many ''old'' missionaries that just went home and with last transfer.  And this transfer we are receiving so many new missionaries.  Every sister who is not a Sister Training Leader is training or being trained.  Crazy!  So our mission leaders are teaching the next generation of mission leaders.  Präsident called it training your successor.

Speaking of transfers, Sister Means and I will be staying together here is Schwarzenberg and this transfer will be 7 weeks instead of 6.  Oh and we will have Elders back in Schwarzenberg again. We are stoked to stay together and keep working hard.  Even though we felt that we weren't able to get much done, when we looked back on the week and our goals, we accomplished a lot.

When we were in Chemnitz we were still able to have a lesson with an investigator on the phone and a contact had interest and called us.  We were able to have a joint teach with them at the church and they stayed for the ward sport activity after and had a great time!  Also, the whole ward, with the exception of Schwester Dike, ganged up against me and my comp in an attempt to soak us with water balloons.  Haha, the ward either loves us or wants us out.  Through all the chaos this week there have been a lot of moments to smile about.  I love this area and I am so blessed and grateful to be here.

Sister Means and I had a few ''ah ha'' moments this week.  One of them came when we were evaluating a lesson with a new investigator.  In short, we are learning to really rely on each other and the Spirit.  We have been so very blessed and protected this week.

Thank you for your love, prayers and support!  Have a fantastic week!  And thank you for the package!  We have been enjoying the goodies and the P90X work out!

All my love!!!
-Sister Turner

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