Monday was the normal Pday. Nothing extravagant occurred.
Tuesday we had planned to go and visit a bunch of people out in these distant towns. However the weather greeted us in the morning with a bunch of snow and no signs of stopping. We decided to go ahead and visit the people anyways, just take it slow on the roads. Well we were able to visit and handful of people and get into one of their homes. It took us about an hour to drive out to this town and the people were not the happiest that we were out in that weather, as by that point there was at least 6 inches of snow on the roads. It was well worth it though as we got in and taught one person as I said until we had to hurry back to Escanaba make it to Dusty's Ukulele class. All was well though as we were safe and sound. We got about 8 inches in total that day. We stopped by some more families in the evening and were able to help shovel some people out.
Wednesday we helped out in the morning at the soup kitchen. It was a bit slow as it was bone chillingly cold outside and was snowing a bit more. It picked up around the end of our 2 hours of help and we were able to go out and knock some peoples doors. After some knocking and visiting people, we were able to help shovel out some more peoples driveways and help out where we could. I was able to use this SWEET Lawn mower converted into a snow blower to help this less active out. Ill link a pic at the bottom of me just covered in snow by it.. hahah After those shenanigans, we drove down to Marrinette to stay the night as we had Zone Conference the next morning.
Thursday we woke up bright and early so that everyone was able to shower, get ready and get out the door as we had to drive the rest of the way down to Green Bay for our 6 hour Zone Conference. The Zone Conference went super well and we were all uplifted and inspired. I was able to give my 'Final Testimony' as it is a tradition that the Missionaries who are going home give one last testimony in their last Zone Conference. I think it went rather well as I had a lot of compliments on it. After Zone Conference we had to stay after as we had our transferly interviews with President Williams. Our interview went really well as it was focused on how to make the best out of these last 3 (now 2) weeks, and how much I've grown in these past 2 years. After Interviews I went on Exchanges with Elder Foster and we made the 3 hour drive back up to Escanaba making it back at about 10:20.
On Friday, Elder Foster and I were able to spend the day knocking doors and visiting a bunch of people on the list that haven't been visited in a while. Both of our appointments we had that day fell through and so we were able to do plenty of that. In the evening we had dinner with the Cunninghams. They live pretty far out, but its always worth it making the trek out there to have dinner with them. We always come home with some sort of goodie as Sister Cunningham makes her own soaps, lotion and various other things. She hooked me up with some amazing natural lotion.. Its great. We were able to share a very powerful message with them, pointing them towards the temple and testifying of the blessings you can receive as you go to the temple. It was very natural and the spirit was super strong.
Saturday morning we drove halfway down to Marrinette again to re exchange with Elder Jensen. We had our weekly correlation meeting in the morning and Brother Ollero took us out to Wendys for lunch. Which is always nice.. We spent the day Weekly Planning as we had yet to do so. We also helped Kathy move into her 15th floor apartment again. (Part 3 of 4 I think..) We had an appointment fall through and then we were able to have a great dinner with Sister Bizeau and her husband. After the dinner we spent the final hours of the day with Captain Jim.
Sunday we had church in the morning, afterwards we did some studies, had lunch, finished up some weekly planning and then visited various people trying to set up some appointments for this next week. At 7, we saw Josh as always and gave him the sacrament which finished off a really great week!
Things are going well!
Elder Stevens.
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