Transfer 14 Week 3

Soo, my first week up in the U.P der aye. (They don't really talk like that.. well at least most don't) This was a good week!! Classic first week in a new area. Getting to know people and what not.

On Monday we spent the second half of the day (after emails) driving around in Milwaukee traffic for 2 hours to get to ChikFilA, which from there we had to leave to take the trek up the Escanaba. So we spent the rest of the day driving the 5 and a half hours to our apartment. We arrived at 9:15, I spent some time unpacking and then hit the hay.

Tuesday morning we had District Meeting, which from there I went on an exchange with Elder Miller in Marinette WI. I love Elder Miller, he replaced me in Beaver Dam, and I've served a lot around him. So that was super fun, being able to see him and do some work in their area. We taught this less active lady with no front teeth, who thought Canada was in the US.. and I definitely knew from there on out that i was no longer in Milwaukee.. Its different country out here.. hahah

The Exchange went into Wednesday and then I finally got back to Escanaba Wednesday evening. We spent the rest of the day contacting and visiting people.

Thursday we had our correlation meeting with Brother Ollero, Weekly planned a bit, Set up for an unexpected funeral (someone in the branches brother died) and Tracted. A lot. We met some super nice people and got some return appointments so that's good! :)

Friday we did our monthly service at St Vincent De Paul's Thrift Store, had Lunch with an Elder Moffett that went home about a year ago, who was back visiting his mission with his parents, Went to the funeral to fellowship and support the member whose brother died. Then spent the rest of the day Contacting and Visiting people. While tracting we ran into this less active member from Alabama that just so happened to be in town for a few weeks. We were able to talk to him a lot about why he stopped going and he expressed feelings that he wanted to go back when he gets back to Alabama. Hopefully he does!

Saturday we had a wide open day so we spent the whole day visiting and contacting people. We were able to get into various peoples houses and set up some return appointments. People are super nice here in Escanaba. Its nothing like Milwaukee, but there's Pros and Cons..

Sunday we had Church, there's about 40 people that attended and so we all had to participate in one way or the other. I gave the opening prayer, We blessed the Sacrament and both bore our testimonies so that there wouldn't be silence the whole meeting. (It wasn't that bad, just back to the branch life I suppose)

We definitely aren't as busy here as we were in Milwaukee, I'm sure its due to the fact that there's nearly not as many people here, but I'm adjusting to being wide open again. While i was on Exchanges in Marinette, Elder Hill and the other Elder set baptismal dates with this family. Which is super awesome. So don't get me wrong, there are a lot of great things going on here, lots of potential for success. We just have to work for it! It ll be fun doing so.

Labor day we spent park contacting, getting yelled at by a Lutheran who told us we would both burn in hell, and driving an hour one way to go visit a referral! It was a fun day in all honesty. I like it here. :)

Pics are of some random abandoned building off the side of the road and some random ranch.

Hope you all have a great week!

Elder Stevens