This week was great!
Monday was a normal Pday in the U.P.. which doesn't consist of much. We had dinner with Sister Bizeau, which is always fun. She made us breakfast food and it was amazing, as we rarely (if ever) have bacon and sausage for breakfast.
Tuesday we had District Meeting which went well. It's always good being able to see and spend time with some other missionaries. After that we basically knocked doors and visited people the rest of the day. We were able to meet this really cool 83 year old man named John Madaczi. He let us right into his home, (which he made himself) and showed us all around it. He's very good with woodwork so his home was just beautiful. He even had his own Sauna in the space under the staircase.. After the little tour we sat down and talked with him about his life and what not. However, unlike most experienced people in life, who just babble on and on (not that they aren't interesting, because they are) but he let us have our turn to share our message. It went great. We taught him all about the Restoration and the Book of Mormon and he ate it up. We set up another appointment to come see him this upcoming week. It was great, he is a very nice man and he seemed actually very interested in our message, not just our company.
Wednesday we helped out at the soup kitchen in the morning, which you always leave feeling satisfied, as it is not light work. After that we knocked more doors and visited more people, trying to get E. Jensen familiar with more and more people. In the evening we had dinner at the Pugh's home. They're such a nice couple that are always looking for ways to serve, we left there and immediately went to our lesson with Joseph and Jill. Our lesson with them went great. We taught them the Word of Wisdom, a lesson which I, personally have been really nervous to teach them, as we have such a good relationship with them and I didn't want to ruin it.. But it honestly couldn't had gone better.. The spirit was super strong as we testified of the importance of the law and they totally opened up and we were able to answer concerns and we left with them committed to strive to live it. It was honestly, a very very good lesson, and were going to continue to work with them and help them stop smoking.
Thursday was weekly planning which always takes up a good chunk of the day. However we were able to see Sherry and have a really good lesson with her about the 10 commandments. It was a pretty straight forward lesson and we had some good conversation but were running out of things to teach her as shes not progressing as she should be.. While out tracting it was pretty funny because I was telling Elder Jensen about this time a couple months ago that an Elder I was on exchanges with forgot his name tag, so he had to use this other random name tag in our apartment which said Elder Fry on it, so during the whole exchange we had to call Elder Smith Elder Fry, because that was the name tag he had on. Anyways, i was telling him about that and then the next door we knocked on, they guy opened the door and I introduced myself and then accidentally introduced Elder Jensen as Elder Fry (because that name was on my mind) but we ended up talking with this guy at the door for quite some time and he accepted a book of Mormon and said we could come back and as we were leaving he asked for our names again and Elder Jensen just said Elder Fry, because that's what I introduced him as and it was just a wreck... hahahah super funny though, it'll be quite awkward as we try to follow up with the guy and he knows us as Elder Stevens and Elder Fry... hahah
Friday our return appointment with John Madaczi fell through as he called us canceling the appointment 5 minutes before because he had some emergency come up, we set up another appointment for next week however, so hopefully we'll be able to get in. The rest of the day was just tracting and visiting Bunny and the Gentz family and various other investigators wishing them a Merry Christmas and trying to set things up.
Saturday was a great day as we spent most of the day in members homes. It snowed the night before, so in the morning we went over and shoveled Sister Johnson's drive way, after that we went to Brother Jacobsons and spent some time there. After seeing him we went over to the Wilbers house for "lunch" We didn't start eating until about 3:30 though, but the food was amazing. We had Lobster tails and steak. I haven't had seafood in SOOO long.. and it was amazing. Right after the Wilbers we went over to President Schmidt's home for dinner, luckily they just had horderves so we didn't have to stuff ourselves too much. They had a lot of family over so it was fun being able to play various games and talk with people.
Sunday morning we woke up and immediately went out and opened our boxes our families had sent us. Thanks so much for all the gifts!! :) After that we got ready for Church and had a really nice Christmas presentation for us. Lots of songs and various narrations. After church we went home and did our studies, cleaned the apartment some and then came to the Church to Skye in the family history center. It was great being able to see my family! Definitely the highlight of the week! (other than the lesson with Joseph and Jill) After Skyping we had to drive a ways out to the Pugh's home again as they had us over for Christmas Dinner. It was a quiet night, but we were very grateful to spend it with them.
Well that was the week! The work has been a bit slower due to the Christmas season but were hoping it catches back up as everyone gets back to work and school!
Elder Stevens.
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