On Monday we emailed like normal in the Family History Center at the church. In the evening we stopped by Jill and Joseph, talked with them for a couple mins, making sure we were still good for our appointment on Wednesday and then knocked some doors after that. We found this nice older lady named Lowry that invited us to come back another time.
Tuesday we started off the day having District Meeting which is always good. After DTM we had lunch with the District and then after everyone took off, Elder Jensen and I knocked more doors and stopped by some people, since our appointment with Bunny and Terry fell through.. With the extra time to knock doors we were able to find this lady named Nikki however. Nikki seemed pretty interested and also wanted us to come back another time.
Wednesday we helped out at the Soup Kitchen for a couple hours in the morning. After that, knocked and visited more people up until our appointment with Joseph and Jill. We talked about The Spirit, and how our choices and things we do in our daily lives can effect to what extent we can feel the spirit. We yet again had a deep heart to heart with them and the spirit was super strong the whole evening. The Ivies are always the highlight of our week.
Thursday was set up to be a really busy day as we had 4 appointments and weekly planning. However only one of those appointments actually followed through, which was our appointment with Sherry. We saw Sherry with Brother DePaul and we basically went into the lesson, not knowing what to teach, just trusting that the spirit would guide us. We have been meeting with Sherry for a long time now and her progression is pretty slow, however there is progression.. We went into the lesson and basically was super straight forward with her. We said, 'Sherry, there is honestly nothing else to teach you, we've taught you everything we have to offer!' She knows that the Book of Mormon is True, that Joseph Smith truly was a prophet and she'll say that she's had so many questions she's had answered. However she has never been willing to take that next step of baptism. So we went in and told her straight up that that was all, and that the next step was to be baptized. We simply but powerfully asked her to be baptized, as we have done countless times, and she Accepted! She said she would finally be baptized.. This week she is praying about a date that she could be dunked and we'll follow up this next week to make sure it happens pretty soon. There are some final road blocks that need to be taken care of before her baptism and were praying that those things can dissolve and she'll be ready in the next couple weeks. Pretty exciting!
Friday we were able to have lunch in the morning with Sister Lorance, finish up some weekly planning and then spent the rest of the day knocking doors and visiting people. The weather here has been actually pretty nice during the day! Other than the rain, we've been able to stay mostly warm! It's been nice :)
Saturday we had the opportunity to go Ice Fishing with Sister Bizeau's Non member husband Joe. This was quite an experience.. We were able to be on the ice for a few hours with him, as he taught us how to Ice fish and we had lots of good conversation with him. This was honestly soooo fun.. I caught about 8 Fish (not big ones..) Elder Jensen caught about 9 and we were able to get to know and grow our relationship with Joe. He's always been sort of stand offish with the missionaries since 'were only there to convert him' so being able to relax with him for a few hours was very beneficial. Ill link some pics at the bottom. After ice fishing we had to take off and go to Dinner with the Sagataws. Its always great being in their home as the food is very good! After the Sagataws we finished off the evening with Capt Jim!
Sunday we had Branch Council and then Church. After church, we came home, finished up some studies, had lunch and then took off for our appointment with the Lamarches. They did'nt answer the door for our appointment so we spent the remainder of the time doing some door knocking (during the Packer game..) and some street contacting. Since the weather has been a little warmer, there are a lot of puddles on the sidewalks so my feet were totally drenched. We walked around for about an hour as i felt like my feet had frostbite and then we finished off the day seeing Josh and giving him the sacrament.
All in all it was an enjoyable week. This next week is my last full week as a missionary! Pretty crazy to think about. Hope its a good one. :)
Elder Stevens.
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