Transfer 2 Week 5

Soo this week was a little slower but very interesting!

First off, the baptism was able to go through on Saturday! The service was pretty short but we had a decent amount of members come to support Erik. He was confirmed yesterday and is very excited about receiving the priesthood in due time! So that's pretty awesome!

On Tuesday, we had our Mission President, President Cutler, come to our weekly district meeting for interviews. Every other transfer you get interviewed by the mission president. The interview went really well and he told Elder Santos and I some upcoming news for Transfers coming up next week. Due to upcoming transfers, the mission will be loosing a lot of missionaries going home. (About 70 Missionaries are going home in the next 3 months) So they are combining 2 areas. So there were 6 missionaries in Sun Prairie. But as of next week, there will only be 4. The Sun Prairie Sisters are going to be taking over our area. They will be taking all of our investigators and everything. They are even moving into the apartment we are staying in currently. President Cutler said, However one of the Sun Prairie A Elders (Elder Santos and I) will be transferred to DeForest (The other set of missionaries in the ward), so that we could still help the sisters in the huge transition. So Sun Prairie A is closing, due to not enough missionaries in the mission. Pretty Crazy News. However, President Cutler told me personally that due to all these missionaries going home, I will be able to serve in a leadership position a Lot sooner than most other missionaries. So that's pretty exciting!

Transfers are coming up next week and they are going to be very very interesting. So my address is going to change this upcoming week. I'll give out my new address as soon as I find out!

Other than that crazy news, and the baptism, this week was pretty slow. We've been deep cleaning our apartment (again) for the sisters to move in and organizing our area so that they wont have as hard of a time taking over our area.

Something cool that happened this week, was that we decided to stop by this guy named Holman. Elder Santos didn't really want to stop by this guy because he's really sketchy but i decided we should knock anyways. He opened the door and we had to introduce ourselves again to him because he had forgotten who we were. Then he asked if we could get rid of evil spirits. And we said yea? all hesitantly. Long story short, We ended up going into this guys home and Blessing his home. He felt a lot better after we did that. He proceeded to give us a 30 minute pep talk on faith and staying strong which was pretty cool! He told us that we were amazing and that we were doing the right things and that we should never allow anyone to get us down. This guy started talking about things that are talked about in the D&C and we had no idea how he knew that information. But all in all it was pretty cool and he made us late to our dinner appointment but oh well.. hah

I think that's about it! Love you all!

Elder Stevens