Short and Sweet

Oh no this is short I am sorry! I promise next week I will write more! 

So it was transfers and we get to stay here, YAY!! We are pumped and I am officially going to be Sister Turley´s last companion and kill her!

I can´t believe tim-tim graduated from seminary last week and is graduating from high school this week. THAT IS CRAZY!! Lil tim-tim is not little anymore! I hope that everything goes great and that you guys have a nice time! I will be there in spirit and sending lots of prayers. And you guys should send pics of his announcement and lots of pics from the grad ceremony! :)

We had another good week and are having great progress with some of our investigators! I am sending some pictures from after church of us with some members and some investigators. The guy with the bleached dreds is named aginaldo and he is lobster fisherman. This sunday was the first time he came to church and he was there before we were! And on top of that he loved it! He is so prepared and is working hard to do what is right. He is a great guy. I will write about all the miracles that happened to find him.

Well time is up... I wish I could write more. But where I lack in writing I send in prayers. Thank you always for your love and support in me being here doing the Lord´s work. I am so lucky to have you guys. Have a great week and have fun at graduation! love you!

-Sister Turner

Past ONE YEAR mark!

Hello Boa Tarde,

Sure enough one year has come and gone. Fast too! Yeah I can´t really believe it. Also can´t believe that kade and annie are married now that is so wonderful! The pictures looked like it was a nice wedding and I am so glad that it went well. The food sounded great and the flowers were so pretty mom! It sounded like it was a great weekend too with the baby blessing. I was thinking and praying for you all extra on Saturday and I was so happy to hear and see how it went!

Book of Mormon reading is going well! We are filling out little charts to stay on track and we are half way through Alma. Only two more weeks to finish!

I thought everyone would enjoy the picture of what we call the bob marley dog. It is rediculous and sad all at the same time. And he did not really want his picture taken!

So like I said mangos have arrived in Boa Vista. Since last saturday the mango count is as on today already over 25. We really like mangos.

This week had a lot of good things, we are seeing the blessings of the Lord. We have this great investigator named Ima who we contacted in the bank a couple weeks ago. So we go to teach him this week and he did his reading in the Book of Mormon! Yes. And he had a question that was kind of funny. In 2 nephi 31 it talks about baptism by water and by fire too. He asked it meant literally fire and he was going to have to touch a flame or something!! No! haha it was good though we reassured him that it is simbolism. But yeah it was a good lesson and he accepted baptism! Then the cherry on the top was he came to church on sunday! The STRUGGLE is REAL to get people here in Boa Vista to go to church. But we are having some good progress with investigators like Ima so we are happy.

I am so grateful for the struggles. The mission is full of them. So much more than I expected. But every struggle is meant to strengthen us and help us be closer to our Savior Jesus Christ. For that reason I am grateful for them. We are given the opportunity to grow and progress and become more like Heavenly Father wants us to be. I still have so much to learn and to do and become in these last six months. And I am so glad that I have them!

I always say this and I always mean it, I love you guys so much. Have a great week and always thank you for the prayers.

Love,


Sister Turner

Hello again!

Boa Tarde,

It was so great to talk to you guys yesterday! It was so nice to see everyone and that you guys are doing well! And Kayan!!! hahaha oh and tim-tim´s ninja sword that was hilarious!

Well not much has changed since yesterday so i don´t have a ton to say, we just had a chill p-day. I am sending a bunch of pictures from this week-

When we flew to Sal the flight was LITERALLY 15 minutes. Maybe a little less. The plane goes up and then goes back down. I know you love airplane pictures dad so here is one of Boa Vista, sorry the window is so foggy looking.

The zone conference that we had was so good! It was our last conference with President and Sister Oliveira because they are going home next month. It is sad and we are going to miss them so much. They did so much wonderful work here and blessed the lives of the people and of the missionaries. We love them!

Here is a picture of us with jorge the branch mission leader. Like I said yesterday he is from guinea bissau and is a great guy who helps us a ton!

So I found out that sister turley is OBCESSED with mangos. We found mangoes for the first time this year on Saturday. Needless to say we have already bought a dozen and we didn't buy any on the Sabbath. :)

I sent a picture of the Cabo Cafe that is the restaurant of our investigator. It is too cute! haha but really it probably is the cutest restaurant I have seen in the whole country...

This week went by fast because we were gone to Sal. But it kind of stinks a little bit because we didn't see our investigators that much this week. And then it really stunk when all the ones we did see, did not go to church. Ah! But here is the thing, we still had other investigators show up to church! It just goes to show that it is not us, but really Heavenly Father that touches peoples hearts and gets them to act! It was a huge blessing for us. We are excited to keep working and sharing the good news that is the gospel. Even though we are servants that are so weak and imperfect the Lord still helps us to be an instrument in his hands.

I love you all so much and am always praying for you! Have a wonderful week and I can't wait to see the pictures of the wedding!!

com amor,
Sister Turner

Doubled the numbers in Teaching this last week!

Boa Tarde!

This week went even faster than the last i can't believe it. We about doubled the number of lessons we taught so that was a huge blessing! We also found more new investigators and a couple of them accepted baptism so it was real good. Now we just have to find out how they can attend church which is the real struggle. So many people work for the hotels and resorts and have to work on sundays so it is SO HARD to get them to be able to come to church. But Pai Celestial will prepare a way for them.

We are going to talk on Sunday!!! YAY!!! I will be on skype calling around 6 - 6:30 pm MY TIME. So I think that is around1 pm utah time? not sure... but yeah I am really excited to see everyone and chat with you guys!

That is great that Dad got that new job, what a blessing! We will be praying for him for sure. Also that is so sweet Dad and Tim are going to see Paul McCartney in August it will be a great show! Oh Beatles music, saudades.

Well this isn't much this week, but we will talk on Sunday so that will be the real treat! Oh yeah and tomorrow we are flying to Sal for zone conference and coming back on Thursday so that will be a huge chunk of our week but it should be good. We are going to give a training at the conference so it is stressful but a good opportunity. And we found out our zone has a goal to read the whole Book of Mormon during the month of May. PRAY FOR ME! Not kidding. I am excited but it is going to be so hard. I barely got through the Book of Mormon in english in 6 weeks in the mtc ... this will be interesting. But it is possible! yeah.

We contacted a chinese woman (she speaks creole) and this week are going to give her a chinese copy of the book of mormon! There are lots of chinese people here. I basically only see cape verdians, africans, and chinese oh yeah and european tourists. it is not super diverse here.

Here is a picture of tuna for sale on the street. I love fresh tuna. AND it comes out to less than $3 lbs. YUM!

Okay so that is a random email. But I love you all so much and thank you so much everyone for the emails! Annnnnd we will talk on sunday! Ate ja!
Love,
Sister Turner

Rough start to the week...

It hit me this week that Mother´s Day is coming up and we are going to skype in less than 2 weeks! YAY! I am excited to chat with everyone and to see little kayan!! Also I am so excited for Kade and Annie´s wedding!! I was so very happy to read that in your email. And so jealous that you are going to make strawberry cake for them! Yum! Also the tulip festival looks gorgeous. After being in a third world country for so long, you kind of forget how beautiful things are in America! Mom I´m glad you survived prom week! I recall going in and sitting in the shop with you in the middle of all that madness, and I wasn´t very helpful. But it was nice to hang out with you and you always gave me lots of treats too!

Sooo we kind of had a rough week with teaching ... but there was good stuff that happened and we are still smiling! Especially at the end of the week our branch had a really good activity and tons of people came. I love this branch so much! Everyone is really trying their best, and helping out doing their part, so the end product is that usually things work out well! Our part of the building where we hold church is under construction right now. It is good because they are building walls so we will have more classrooms but then puts a pause on the branch activities that we normally have almost every weeknight. Haha I offered to help do the mudding and taping to get the work moving faster! If grandma was here directing them it would have been done a long time ago! ;)

The photos this week-
I found a neat feature on my camera that makes a picture collage from a video, so hahaha here is a silly one of me trying so do summer saults at the sand dunes!

More of our cute easter eggs! Thanks again mom :)

A shot of the view from our apartment window, the water is SO BLUE!

And last but not least, scone with nutella and powder sugar! yessss i love myself. sister turley knows how to make cinnamon rolls so i said sister lets use that dough to make scones! Yum so good, it reminded me when we would always make scones on sundays. Oh and of course I made some honey butter too!

So I don´t have a lot to write this week but I did want to share an experience I had. Yesterday afternoon I was needing a little something so I opened the october conference ensign and read some talks. Through what I read (elder cook´s talk about peace, and also the young women talks by sister dibb and sister cook) I felt I needed to write in my journal some too. It is hard to describe but the Spirit was guiding me to do those things so that I could have a spiritual experience and feel the love of the Lord. It was a tender experience and was just what I was needing after having a bit of a hard week. I konw that Heavenly Father loves us so deeply. Everything we go through is for our good and our spiritual progression if we rely on the Atonement. I love the gospel.

Well that was a some what scattered email... ta bom! I love you guys and can´t wait to chat in two weeks. The church is true!

Love,
Sister Turner

p.s. Oh and this is random but Mom thanks for teaching me how to clean ... I cleaned our apartment this week, it was nasty. anywho LOVE YOU!

First week in Boa Vista

First things first- Happy Annivarsary Mom and Dad! Hope you guys have a great day and know that I am thinking of you guys extra today :) It sounds like Tim-Tim had a good birthday and everyone had a good Easter too, I´m happy to hear that! We also had a great Easter sacrament meeting and afterwards dyed eggs which was fun! There are some investigators of our branch who are from places like Guinea Bissau and they don't speak Portuguese just English so I translated during sacrament meeting. It was interesting haha! It was a neat experience and I was feeling the Spirit 1. help me so much to translate and 2. testify to me of the truthfulness of the Ressurrection of Jesus Christ. I am so grateful for this season of the year that we have to remember our Savior a little more.

This week was a little crazy but it was good! We love Boa Vista so much and are so excited to work here. It is BEAUTIFUL and the branch here is AWESOME. We did have a little bit of a hard time finding our investigators which is normal after white washing an area. We are working though and know it will get better. But really the branch has been helpful and are really united so it just has a great feeling being with them.

Oh funny story so when we got here we didn't have water in our apartment for 4 days. So I sent a picture of the man named igalnaldo who we bought water from every day! He is our neighbor and is such a nice little old man.

The elders had baptism on saturday and Medea who got baptised was just so happy! You could tell that he really felt the spirit at his baptism. It was beautiful. The city in the background is our area Sal Rei!

Today we had an activity and went to the sand dunes! Oh my goodness so much sand. Just look at us in the hiace on the way back, our hair was full of sand! I have some funny videos to send but it isn't working today.

Yesterday was some championship soccer game so it was kind of hard to find our investigators at home. While we were out this man called out to us ´hey are you guys who I think you are?´ Yep we are missionaries! Well he was a tourist and talked to us for a good 15 minutes. He had a TON of questions but at the end when we tried to mark an appointment with him but he just said he wanted to argue with us. Okay fair enough. I am glad he was honest! I had never had an experience like that on my whole mission. It just made me even more grateful to be serving here in Cabo Verde. This country is full of people who really are seeking the truth! I am so grateful to be here. The mission truly is a humbling experience. I am incredible grateful for the testimony of the gospel that we have. We understand our purpose here on earth and what we must do to return to our Heavenly Father´s presence. He loves us so much. The love we feel for the people here isn't our love, but really the love of Heavenly Father. Oh I love the gospel, so perfect.

Another hour has past so I must go now. But I need you guys to know that I love you so much! Always thank you for everything and have a wonderful week!

com amor,
Sister Turner

Surprise transfer!

Boa Tarde.

I am so sorry but I literally only have 5 minutes to write cause I have to be at the airport in less than an hour ... yep I am getting transferred!! (I will miss Praia I loved my 3 transfers here) But now I am off to the island of BOA VISTA!!! I am going to serve with sister turley there! Haha Turley & Turner sounds like a lawfirm. :) I am excited for us to go and work there I hear they have a good branch going! Something that is a little crazy is that the island only has one set of elders and one set of sisters! I am really looking forward to serving with Sister Turley. I have met her a couple times and she is so sweet!

This week we had zone conference so here is a picture of all the missionaries on the island of santiago. Tchau!

I love this work. It doesn't matter where we serve but that we remember WHO we are serving- Our Lord Jesus Christ. I love you all so much and I am always looking forward to hearing for you guys every week! Keep living the gospel, it´s true. Until next week when I can write more!! LOVE YOU!

-Sister Turner