Transfer 17 Week 1

Welp, Transfer 17.. this is my last transfer. Wow.

Sorry about not having an email last week, our day was crazy! The church's Internet was out and so we had to run around like wild chickens trying to find a way to email.. (the libraries were closed due to snow..) 

This past Wednesday was Transfers, I'm staying in Escanaba for my last transfer and an Elder named Elder Jensen came up to replace Elder Hill. Elder Jensen and I get along great. 

Since Elder Hill was leaving, most of Monday and Tuesday was spent packing and visiting various people so that he could say goodbye. We stopped by the Gentz family and we settled that it would be best to continue the lessons after the holidays, in turn we had to drop their baptismal dates because there would be no way for them to make it on January 8th if we didn't meet with them until then.. At least were still in contact with them and they're willing to still meet! 

On Wednesday we drove down to Green Bay, to transfer point. We were waiting until almost 4 for our new companions to make it to Green Bay, since they were pretty late, we had to immediately leave back for Escanaba to make it to our appointment with Joseph and Jill. We made it though, only 30 mins late and had a pretty good lesson with them. Jill is still flying through the Book of Mormon! Its super exciting to hear her bare her testimony on it.. 

Thursday was weekly planning, and we had a pretty good lesson with Sherry as well. We showed up and she was wrapping all her presents for her grandchildren, so we helped her wrap a bunch of presents and then read some of the Book of Mormon with her. Marrinette had a baptism last week so we were able to have Sherry come to the baptism. We talked with her about the service and how she liked it. She still had a hold up with Authority.. we've explained it numerous times but it doesn't seem to click. Hmm. 

Friday and Saturday were days full of visiting a bunch of people and introducing Elder Jensen to them, some door knocking, and trying to stay warm in the 0 degree weather!

Sunday was church, I was asked to give a talk on Christmas so I gave a 20 or so minute talk on trying to keep the true meaning of Christmas on our minds. I think it went rather well. The rest of the day was the same as usual! Finished it off with seeing Josh in the evening. 

Things are going great though! Trying to make this last transfer a memorable one!

Have a good week!

Elder Stevens