So we went to a wedding in Utah and have been busy with wedding plans and visiting family so I forgot to post last week and now I have 2 consecutive posts to do this weekend! Plus I made sure I emailed Em early Thursday morning so she would have news from us since we didn't have a letter to send this week. Then I got Emily's email saying she hadn't heard from me. I checked my sent box and found that I had emailed her to the hotmail account instead of her MTC account! Grrrr! So here is last week's message and I will get to this week's message soon!

Hey Mom!
No, I didn't get mugged in the hall. Sadly, the last place I remember my watch was in the bathroom when I showered. I have checked everywhere in the bathroom and the Lost and found and it isn't there. I would love a new one... It doesn't have to be the same one because this is like the millionth thing I've lost this year. It can even just be that heart one in my room as long as I can tell the time. I am so sorry.

As far as more info (about how I fill my days), I wrote things in my planner so hopefully I have enough time to type it... Well, on Tuesday we taught (play acting) in the TRC and taught the message of the Restoration (Preach My Gospel) all in German. It was crazy. It was supposedly this man and wife that were methodist then met the missionaries and were semi-interested in the church then got too busy for the lessons, then there were new missionaries that found them and they were going to church and they decided to have the missionaries over for dinner. So, since they were going to church, Sis. Hung and I decided to challenge them to baptism. So, in our little scenario, the spirit was so strong, we did and the guy, who is one of the MTC teachers and is FROM GERMANY and speaks really FAST, said yes--and then afterward was surprised to hear that I have only had five weeks of German. Sister Hung is so proud and I am slowly starting to realize that my German is almost as good as others. I just lack the vocabulary they learned in High School. We also have two "progressing investigators" and one of them is getting baptized. We have taught him like four times and he is "giving up" smoking, drinking, and he is praying, and going to church with us. It is wonderful.

On Saturdays we have a weekly zone activity in which we practicing contacting. We practice it all in german with bearing our testimonies. That is so much fun, because every week people are more and more surprized with my german--including me. Although, don't get me wrong, it takes a while to formulate a sentence because there are 16 ways to say the word "the" and then you have to add certain endings to adjectives, the subject, direct object, and indirect object. If you want to learn english, learn german... Does that make sense? Every day our distrikt has decided (yes district is in german) to have a "deutsch fest" in which we only speak german. That is such a challenge, but it is so much fun because the elders learn the strangest words--like all of these battle and warrior terms.

By the way, there is a small swine flu epidemic going on here still and we were quarantined in our room for a while because one of our new companions-Sister Folsom was sick. She is our third companion, it is kind of wierd and hard, but she is fun to be around, so we make it work! What is the swine flu like in the rest of the world? It is a running joke here because they make it out to be such a big deal.

AND Christian is getting married soon! I guess it is Karley's birthday, so please let her know that I am thinking of her and wish I had extra time to write! If you could SERIOUSLY get me there address I would write them a lovely little note. But, I am working on their gift, so that should hopefully get to them before the wedding. I love them so much!

Oh, and another thing we do is we have a goal to bear our testimonies to three random people a day auf deutsch and that is definitely helping. It is amazing to be here and feel the spirit. Only at the MTC will you find over 150 boys crying over a movie of a man--The Restoration. You should watch it. It is beautiful. Actually we've seen it when we went to NY, but you can see it again. Oh, and we go to the Referral Center and this week Sister Hung decided to make some calls. Of course, she called the South and it was this old black lady and when Sister Hung asked if she had recieved her Bible or whatever the lady was like, "No, but it don't mean anything." Sister Hung was like, "Does that mean no?" And the whole conversation went like that, but I am so proud of her.
Well, I have to go, but I love you so much! I will get to writing that letter soon, I guess I can do that more than just once a week--some people make up their own strict rules and it is kind of stressful to get the right answers! So, I love you, and will hopefully hear from you soon!
Love Sister Turner