Transfer 12 Week 5

We started off this week by having a lesson with our neighbor Autumn and Bryan. They are so awesome! Bryan was in and out of the house during the lesson but came back in to talk after the lesson with Autumn was finished. We were able to set a lot of things straight, they were super confused on who we were and what we did since they had never heard of LDS missionaries before. They always saw us together and wearing nice clothes so they didn't know what to think of us.. They said they almost called the cops on us one time because they didn't recognize these two kids trying to get into the house.. We were just wearing normal clothes one Pday and they didn't recognize us.. hahah it was good to answer a lot of their questions! They're super open and really good people! Autumn has a lot of potential to progress! We had two lessons with her this week and she's super sincere and wants to know if it's all true! We're excited for them.

 

Tuesday we had district meeting and I went on exchanges with an Elder up north to Sturgeon Bay. The exchange was decent, I was happy to be back to Manitowoc on Wednesday.

 

Thursday was jammed packed with service. We went from helping a member move three sets of couches up and down stairs, to helping Jack Gunderson cut down some of his branches in his yard, to then helping a single sister clean out her cluttered, junk ridden garage, which took a few hours but was worth it because of the great meal we had afterwards. We found a nest of mice in the garage, and the mother mouse took off running, we spent a while trying to catch this mother mouse to bring it back to its babies, but we were unsuccessful. Super fun time though. I never thought I'd have so much fun trying to catch a mouse in a cluttered garage.. 

 

Friday was Sister Cazares' birthday. Ruby and Jack threw her a party which was super fun. There was a piñata'! I guess you know you've grown up, when the piñata' breaks and no one there rushes to go grab the candy.. hahah It was a fun day. 

 

Saturday we went to a car show that was in two rivers, we were able to talk to a lot of really nice people and see some sweet cars! We then went straight to Chilton and had another quick, but really good lesson with Brent. We read out of the Book of Mormon with him and were able to get a better relationship with him. He's awesome. We saw some other people, and then finally had the long awaited lesson with Tony. Tony was the guy that E. Amann and I tracted into, that was super excited at the news that Jesus had came to the American Continent as well. So we finally were able to sit down with him. He took us to his garage and sat us down, where he had 10 honest questions to ask us. We flew through the questions with ease and he was impressed with our responses. We then went on to have one of the most spiritual, in-depth restoration lessons of my mission. Tony was a super cool guy, so we were able to be totally chill and straight up with him. The spirit was soooo strong there, even though he had a beer in his hand, he was tearing up and telling us that he already believes this is true, and that it made too much sense to not be true. It was amazing. I honestly wish I had it on film to be able to rewatch the whole experience. Funny part about it was Elder LaRose and I both had been drinking soo much water that day, since it was super hot, so since we had a longer lesson with Tony, we had to pee soooooo bad during the lesson.. Super funny story.. Thankfully, neither of us, gave in and peed ourselves.. but we were close.

We returned back to Manitowoc after the lesson and finished off the night with the second lesson with Autumn. It was a good day. 

 

Sunday was super good as well. We were invited into priests quorum to share our thoughts on why the youth should serve a mission. This was one of the most spiritual lessons in church I've had in a long time. Everyone was breaking down and it was just a super good experience. 

 

Anyways, this week was super good. Lots of great, memorable experiences. Like this dope picture, Sister Peterson falling into lake Michigan, those crazy good lessons, and more. Life is good!

 

Hope you're all doing great! I love and miss you all!

 

Elder Stevens.