your a mean one mr grinch

this is sister McPherson posterity so we are all of the one sister McPherson has trainned. 

sister Crump and i found this man who had been bitten by a shark! so of course i asked him to if we could take a picture with him

 hahah so this last week has been crazy! from Monday to Tuesday i went on exchanges with sister McPherson and we went to her area which is Livingston. Livingston is the country and they have to cutest little town ever! it was so fun to be back with sister McPherson for the day and learn new things from her just like the good old days:)

     Wednesday our whole mission got together in bay town and had a christmas conference from 8:30 in the morning til 5 pm so that was fun and sister McPherson and i did the cup song in the talent show that they had.

     Thursday was weekly planing and so sister Crump and i were inside most of the day planning and the Friday was our only day to go out and teach so lessons which was awesome and then Saturday was our wards Christmas party and that same day the ward had a child of record baptism and the bishop asks the missionaries in the ward to always be there so sister Crump and i were at the church form 10 in the morning til 9 pm that night! i never thought i would be at church that long but i guess i should never say never! hhaha the party went so well! there was about 300 people and half of them were either less actives or non members so it was a good finding opportunity for us missionaries. it was also elder knebels birthday Saturday so being the good sister missionaries that sister Crump and i are we took the snow flakes that we have been making to put in our apartment and put it on the elders door for his birthday.:) i know we are such great sister!! hahah 

    Sunday we had a member named mckayla gurrero (shes 17) come out with us and sister Crump and i have really been trying to rely on the spirt more so every time we are in the car we ALWAYS pray to see what heavenly father wants us to do. so we were with mckayla and we had her pray and ask heavenly father if we should see this man named greg, chris, or Vanessa. (its these three people because they all live in the same complex apartments) and after she was done i looked over at sister Crump and i said "ive got my answer but what is yours?" she then replied " Greg" then i said me too! and mckayla then freaked out and said " oh my gosh!! my too!!" ahaha it was so cool and cute to see her freak out and we knew that we had all received revelation. we then went over to gregs who is a new investigator of about a week or two ago now and he let us in and we taught him about the book of Mormon. and the cool thing was is he told us how he had his own book of mormon that he had gotten a couple of years ago!! sister Crump and i just couldn't stop freaking out that Greg has been being prepared for years and he doesn't even know it! we are going to see himtomorrow so i will tell you more about him next week! 

   i love you all!! merry christmas! and a happy new year! your the best! keep up the good work! remember who you are! stand for truth and righteousness! god bless everyone:)

christmas.mormon.org

my district at the temple

sister Crump and i at the temple


yep this is our chirstmas tree that i made! hahah its pretty great:)

you may be wondering why my email title is christmas.mormon.org but its because all of you need to go to it and watch a 2 min. video about jesus christ!! it is so awesome and i think everyone needs to watch it:)

   so this week has been amazing! because the last couple of weeks sister Crump and i have been so busy this week we worked really hard and because of it we now have a baptism coming up on the 21st for this girl named Olivia Hanson. She is the sweetest girl, she 8 and we are hoping that because of her getting baptized her soon to be father will get baptized. i will explain. So this girl named Emily Hanson was excommunicated and she is now coming back to church and is dating/ living with this man named billy. Billy is taking the lessons and wants to get baptized but he knows that he needs to marry Emily before he can get baptized. He is proposing to Emily on new years eve and she knows nothing about it. Now what i want him to do is to propose to her get married a couple of days later and then in a year or two or how ever long it takes then the can get cealed in the temple and they can make that i big and amazing wedding thing:) so sister Crump and i are hoping that with olivia getting baptized (Olivia is Emilys daughter) then Billy will want to get baptized sooner! so he will marry emily sooner!! hahah but we will see:) billy and emily are amazing though!! they come to church every week and billy already has a testimony and yesterday he wanted to get up and bare his testimony but he didnt know if he could because hes not a member yet! but they are truly awesome!! ahhh!! i love their family i just get so giddy over it!:)

   the prophets have promised the missionaries that if they pass out these christmas cards everyday and we have to at least hand out 10 cards a day then we will get new investigators! so you know sister Crump and i took that to heart and one day we passed out 47 cards! yep we were that determined! hahah it was so fun and we now have 4 new investigators which surprisingly is a lot:) and because we were so determined we got the a phone call last night from our zone leaders telling us that we were the best in the zone this week and that we were stealing all of the thunder from everyone else:)

   this last week our zone got to go to the temple and do a session!! it was amazing and afterwards we sat in a room for an hour and had the president of the temple and president drake and sister drake answer questions for anyone who had them. it was amazing:)

   this week has truly been amazing!! i love being a missionary and i love working hard. the church is true!! please go and tell your friends you will truly be blessed for it!:) i love you all!! have an amazing day!!

love sister Turpin.

thanksgiving

this morning i woke up 15 mins early for sister Crumps birthday and decorated her desk and made her break fast and then suprised her with it:)

hello everyone!

    so many things happened this week! first off on tuesday sister Crump and i were knocking on some apartments because this less active lives there but i didnt know what door was hers so we decided just to knock until we found it, 5 doors after knocking we found her! after we gave the lady a message we thought we would knock some more and from that we got 3 potentials one of them being this lady named Dawn. The next day we were at the church all day helping with this funeral and then going to book of mormon class so when 8 oclock came we raced to get over to dawns house but unfortunately Dawn had stood us up so we decided since we had had so much sucess that we would try to knock on some more doors. the first door we knocked on this 19 year old girl named Vanessa answered it and of course we start off by saying how we are and asking if she would like to hear a brief little message about christ and his gospel, and usually people say ya come back later, but Vanessa was like ya! come on in!! hahah sister Crump and i looked at each other and was like ok!!! hahah it was so funny!! we went in and started to get to know her a little bit and we were asking her all of these questions that we usually wouldnt say and she kept asking all of these questions pertaining to the plan of salvation. i kept thinking about how we always teach the restoration of the gospel first but the plan of salvation just kept coming into my head so i pulled out my little thing that i use when i teach lesson two and we taught her the plan of savlation. it was amazing!! she took it all so well and you could feel the spirit so strong!! after we left sister Crump and i couldnt stop freaking out!! vanessa is so prepare and she is so amazing!! 

   thursday was thanksgiving, sister Crump and i ate with the stewarts and it was so good! but unfortunately they didnt have any kind of potatoes so sister Crump and i after wards went over to the scannells and asked them if we could have some of there leftover potatoes:) hahah 

   Friday our ward had a temple trip and Cindy and Makaeyla got to come and do baptisms for the dead for their first time!! it was such an amazing experience and i am so blessed and grateful that i got to go and be apart of that for Cindy and Makaeyla:) 

    sunday was the day i GOT to give my talk;) hahah sister Crump went first and I went second. while i was waiting there i looked out at everyone and no one was smiling!!! so when it was my turn to give my talk i stood up went to the pulpit and said "wow i am so happy to be at church today, now all i ask before i begin is to see everyone smile because where im standing it looks like im the only one that is happy to be here" everyone laughed and smiled which was nice and then i began my talk. it went really well and after wards i had a lot of people come up to me and tell me how they liked my joke but i was serious! i guess they just didnt get it... hahah anyways 

   one thing i would love to challange everyone for now on is to everynight get down on your knees and thank god for something that you usually take for granted one thing that you can see that god really helps you out in. and i know as you will do this you will see how much god loves you, how much he cares for each and everyone of you, how much he truly does do for you. i love you all so much! and i know sometimes i take you all for granted but i want you to know that you all do so much for me and i am so happy and grateful that i know all of you! your amazing! keep up the good work with being an example to all of those around you.

love, sister Turpin

November 24, 2014

sister Crump and i tried to make texas cookies during weekly planning. but they didnt turn out that good...

 hello everyone!

     a lot of things happened this week!. First off transfer calls were on saturday and i was so scared because i didnt want to get transferred 2 days before thanksgiving. 2nd because i felt like i still had work to do in huffman and 3rd because i wanted to stay longer with sister Crump. luckily i got my wish!! i am staying another transfer here in huffman! i also found out that sister McPherson who is in my zone is now a sister training leader and is going to train again!! hahah its crazy because in each zone there are 2 sister training leaders and the other sister training leader in our zone is sister Enright who was sister Crumps trainer!! so sister Crump and i sister training leaders are our moms!! (moms = trainers in the mission language) haha isnt that awesome!! also that means that i will be staying in this area for 6 months!! I LOVE IT!!!!!

   this week my district had the privilege of doing service in the humble area. we were there from 10 am till 2 pm putting things together to give to the homeless. and the lady that was in charge of it all was so impressed that she wants us to come back for Christmas!! it was such an amazing experience to see the look on the peoples faces as we gave them there food and also a good little opportunity to do missionary work! although no one wanted to listen to a message they now know that we are messengers of Jesus Christ and we planted a lot of seeds from it!! 

   yesterday i found out that the bishop wants sister Crump Elder Knebel and i to speak at church this coming sunday! our topic is on gratitude and thanksgiving. Im pretty nervous because im not a big fan of doing talks in church but im a missionary so i (GET) to do it right? haha well you will all have to wish me good luck on it because its kind of stressing me out!

   this transfer we have really been working with our less actives and this man named Aaron Wright who is a less active went on a mission to Washington and now he is less active. I found him my first week here during hour of power but didnt get back in with him until sister Crump came. since then we have gone to see him atleast once a week and last week we were seeing him and we are just straight up with him because he used to be a missionary so he already knows what we are going to ask him to do so we were trying to get him to come to church and he finally told us that his desire has changed and that he now has a desire to come to church because of us but it might just take a little while. i know that doesnt sound like that much but if you know Aaron then you would know that that is something big! i love how as long as we are doing our job and working diligently then God will give us miracles just like for example sister Crump and I went to this baptism yesterday for the humble ward, We had been trying all week long to get someone to this baptism and finally 9 mins before it began we called this recent convert named shawna Terpstra and asked her if she would like it come. She said yes in no time was there. It truly was a miracle! i love seeing how God works as we try our very best to do the lords work. 

   i love you all!! i hope you have a wonderful thanksgiving!! i know i will be! keep up the good work by being examples to all of those around you! and i promise as you do this the lord will bless you:) love you all!! and happy thanksgiving!!!

  love, sister Turpin 

November 17, 2014

Houston City. our as people in texas call it (useton) hahahha

Sister Crump trying to teach me about politics.


i get really cold so this is what i look like every morning when we are studying


howdy everyone!,

    this week was a COLD WEEK! wow! so sister Crump and i decided that we would try to save some miles and walk and bike some places.... lets just say it wasn't the best idea because it was in the 30's and 40's soooo ya and on top of that everyone in Utah told me that it wouldn't get cold down here. but they were wrong! it gets really cold down here!!! haha so unfortunately i listened to the people in Utah and didn't bring any warm clothes out with me. but luckily the members out here are really nice and have let me borrow some of their coats and gloves for the time being:)

     this week sister Crump and i got to go out of our area into the city of Houston because this man who used to be less active was in the hospital. I guess him and his wife used to be members and then got offended and left the church. but after 50 years of being less active brother kendrick's wife died and he decided that it was time for him to come back to church. sister McPherson was the one who helped him come back and it had almost been a year that he had been back so he was going to go through the temple and get sealed to his wife but cancer came out of no where and now it is up in his head. He received the Melchizedek priesthood and then went to the hospital the next day:( sad i know:( we are all hoping that he will be able to get to the temple real quick before he dies so that him and his wife can be sealed but from the look of things it probably wont happen.

    sister Crump and i also started teaching this lady named Lucinda Goode. she likes to go by Cindy though...:) anyways she was a mormon.org referral and she had referred herself because she works with doterra and the owners of doterra are members and it spiked her interest.Anyways she is a sweet fun lady that is in her 50's. she is so prepared and seems very interested in joseph Smith. We will be seeing her this week on wednesday again so i will have to let you know how things go!! wish sister Crump and i good luck! haha

   So one thing you all should know is that sister Crump loves politics! haha so one day during lunch she sat me down and had to explain everything about politics and how they work! hahaha i dont even know if i still understand everything but i think i kind of do now.... 

    welll i have to go but i love you all!! the church is true, tell your friends and family members! stand for truth! be an example to everyone you see. God loves you and so do I:)

love, sister Turpin

November 10, 2014

hello everyone!

   well i first have to start off with saying the mission life is just getting better and better everyday! i love how i get to get out of my comfort zone everyday and go talk to people about the gospel. It is so exciting and nerve racking all at the sametime!

    this week was exchanges and it was my first time i didnt lead out the area on exchange. I went to humble with this sister named sister Stoffrhan. She is the sweetest girl ever! she goes home in about two weeks and she hasnt even gotten trunky yet! she is totally someone that i look up to and i hope that i will be more like her with the hard work and kindness that she has. One thing i have been working on is immediately teaching when i talk to someone on the street so when we were on exchanges thats what we worked on. i know i am really good at talking to people and not making things awkward but i now have to talk to people about gospel things. and while we were walking door to door contacting people we found a dead snake!! my first snake in texas and probably not my last! hahaha

   because i have been working on immediately teaching sister Crump and i were walking to a dinner appointment that we had and we saw these two women talking so obviously we go up and make some light conversation and then immediately start teach and one of the ladys name was shawn. She was being kind of mean to us so finally we left and while we were in the middle of our dinner appointment there was a knock on the door and so this little girl name madi ran to open in. and to our surprise it was shawn!! she had come up to apologize to use!! it was truly a blessing in disguise! haha we were so shocked that we didnt know what to do!! haha but were learned that as long as we are kind and stand on our ground we will see miracles! i love it!!!!

   on monday we had a district pday and went to this park and had a bbq and then went and rode our dbikes:) it was so fun and thats what these pictures are from:) well sorry my letter isnt that good today my mind is kind of going everywhere right now:) well i love you all! thanks for all that you do! remember God loves you and i do too:)

love, sister Turpin 

well i dont know what pictures i put on but enjoy!! love you all!! hahah

November 3, 2014

hello everyone!,

    well a lot of things happened this week. Wednesday was our wards trunk or treat/ chili cook off which was really fun! we couldnt really dress up so sister Crump and i just dressed up like each other and switched name tags for the night. Then the atascocita elders and us huffman sisters got to judge the costumes for everyone and there were so many good costumes that we picked three and after we took a picture with the winners because they were that AWESOME! then halloween day all missionaries had to be back in their apartments by 7 so sister Crump and i thought we would have a little party and watch familys can be together forever.... i think that's what the name of the movie was.... anyways it was this funny littly movie that was made in the 80's so as you can probably guess it was very cheesy. Then saturday was the adult session of stake conference and president drake and sister drake came up and spoke. President drake made all the missionaries stand up and then made all of the returned missionaries stand up and then made all of the other people stand up who have a calling in the church. It was amazing because when he asked for all of the returned missionaries to stand up more than half the people stood up. It was a sight to see! he then made everyone sit down and said. " now look you all have a purpose in missionary work, you ALL need to go out and talk to people with out you the missionaries are nothing!" it was crazy! all of the talks that night were on missionary work and how we as members and missionaries can come together and help the lords work show. Right after that they reminded us about day light savings time and how we would be gaining an hour. Sister Crump and i took this to heart and thought " AWESOME! THE ONE DAY IN OUR MISSION WHEN WE WILL BE ABLE TO SLEEP IN!" our alarm clock was on our phone so we just figured that the phone would change at midnight and everything would be good. The next morning the alarm went off at 630 and we woke up and just layed in bed since it was sunday and we dont exercise on sundays..... i then started taking some pictures of sister Crump because it ws freezing in our apartment and she looked funny:) haha we finally got up got ready and then began our studys at 8 we were studying and i decided to look at the phone and to my suprise the time on the phone said 720! i then hurried and called the elders and asked what time it was they then asked me what time i thought it was! i then replied is it 720 or 820 just tell me! they then told me it was 720.... sister Crump and i couldnt believe it.... the one day we could take advantage of our sleep and instead we woke up an hour to early... ya it was awful! but we learned our lesson!! haha then at stake conference they changed up the stake presidency so that was fun to watch and we went with a less active named sandy bond so it was so good to have her there, to see sister McPherson because she is in my stake and then to see some of the quorum of the 70 come and speak to everyone. sorry there is so much! just so much happened this week! i love you all! i will tell you how things go spiritually next week since i am out of time but i love you all your amazing! remember that god loves you and that you are all children of god destined for something amazing. the church is true tell your friends:)