Transfer 8 Week 2

Well this week went pretty fast. 

On Monday we were able to go to Devil's Lake and have a nice little hike to the top. It was pretty chilly but not too bad.. We were the only people it seemed like in the whole state park. This week actually hasn't been very cold. Apparently there was a record broken that it was 56 degrees on one day and it hasn't been that warm so late in the season since 1910. Pretty Crazy! I'm not complaining.. haha I would like to  have a white Christmas though..

On Saturday we went with Brother Hyzer up to Portage, a town that we haven't been able to go to for a very long time due to mileage restrictions. In fact that was the first time I've been to Portage.. It was great, we were able to visit a lot of Less active members with him and establish contact with some others. It was really awesome to spend a lot of the day with Brother Hyzer and him being willing to drive us around.

While we were out knocking doors during the week we knocked into this older couple who the guy is actually a Less active member and they used to have weekly meetings with the missionaries for a while until like a year ago. So we were able to establish contact with them and set up a time to meet with them weekly now which is awesome.

Anyways it was a good week, we were able to get a lot of missionary work done.

Love you all! 

Elder Stevens.

Transfer 8 Week 1

Welp Transfers were this past Wednesday and Elder Pounds left for Milwaukee and I got Elder Tunstall who just came from Milwaukee.

Elder Tunstall and I are getting along great. Hes from Calgary Canada where a member in Baraboo actually served and happened to teach and Baptize his mom. Elder Tunstall knew of this member and has been hoping his whole mission to come to Baraboo to meet Brother Dance. We had dinner with the Dances last night and the whole dinner was Elder Tunstall and Brother Dance talking about his mission experiences, it was pretty cool. We also watched the Christmas Devotional and the Dances. It was a great meeting.

On Monday it was our Neighbor Mima's Birthday so we decided to buy her some Poinsettias and she just adored theme it was great. The very next day she brought us Dinner and was so loving, and this morning she brought us some donuts. Shes so sweet. Then on Tuesday Brother Ricks had his Birthday Party at Wizard Quest, the place he owns. Most of the ward was there and they had some of their employees wait on us and it was pretty awesome. haha.

On Saturday we helped a member move into his grandparents home in the Dells from West Bend and we talked with his grandparents who actually used to have the missionaries stop by her all the time so it was really cool. We set up a time to come back and visit all of them so that should be good. Their house has soo many nick nacks everywhere the walls are covered in collectibles and cool items its really neat. 

Anyways it was a really good week. We were able to talk with and meet a lot of really nice people. I'm excited for this next transfer with Elder Tunstall.

Peace!

Elder Stevens.

Transfer 7 Week 6

Welp this was the last week of the Transfer, on Saturday we received word that E. Pounds was being transferred and today we just found out that ill be here in Baraboo with Elder Tunstall.

This past week has been great with Thanksgiving and what not. President Cutler has been pushing us to get into members homes to have a Family Home Evening with them and the best thing about FHE is the activity after the lesson.. We were able to have FHE with 2 different families this week and we were able to play a quick board game with each of them. It was great haha. Im really looking forward to having more FHEs with members! haha

Thanksgiving was a great day as well! We started off by playing football with a few families in the ward and once everyone was tired out and left, we played 9 holes of disk golf with Brother Andrew, our ward mission leader in the rain. We then went home and cleaned up then went to our 1st thanksgiving meal at the Dances home. That was very delicious. We stayed there for a little while and then headed to our 2nd dinner with the Andrews. It was a great day. On Saturday we helped one of Brother Ricks employees move and then he took us to UNO's afterwards. Its always exciting to go to a nicer sit down restaurant because we cant afford going there on our own.  I had the cheapest thing on the menu which was a $10 BBQ Burger and it was amazing. hah

Yesterday during the 5th Sundays 3rd hour we were asked to talk for 25 mins on the Atonement with everyone. It went pretty wellIi think. Anyways I'm excited for the next 6 weeks with Elder Tunstall!

Hope you all have a great week!

Elder Stevens.