On Monday we did some proselyting in the morning so we could go down and spend the rest of the night in Marinette. We stayed the night in Marinette to be closer to Green Bay so we didn't have to drive as far for Zone Training meeting Tuesday Morning.
Tuesday we had a really good Zone Training meeting. It was mostly on unifying the mission on becoming a Zion mission. It went well. After ZTM we had Interviews with President Williams. That went really good as well. Everyone loves President Williams. After interviews we went on exchanges with Marinette so Elder Miller and I spent the rest of the day driving all the way back to Escanaba.
Wednesday we had the soup kitchen in the morning and then lots and lots of tracting in the Rain. We met some really nice people but no body was too interested. However our lesson with Jill and Joseph went great. Jill had been reading the Book of Mormon and she got to 1st Nephi chapter 10. She had a few questions and comments about some things that she really enjoyed. When she was reading some of Joseph Smiths experience she read that the plates had been Sealed up, she thought that was interesting as in Revelations she had read something about a book being sealed up.. She went on to say that she felt like it was all true. We asked her to be baptized and she said Absolutely. She wants to keep reading the Book of Mormon so it'll grow on her and to pray for a date to be baptized. Sooo awesome!!!! Things are going sooo amazing with them!
Thursday we exchanged back in the morning and then Elder Hill and I helped Sister Kirschner put up her Christmas lights. She said its better to put them up early when its still decently warm than to put them on later when its freezing! Very true.. Later, we had a really good lesson with Sherry on the Word of Wisdom. She was very accepting of the principal and didn't hesitate to try it out.
Friday we spent a lot of the day Weekly Planning and then in the Evening the Zone leaders came to Escanaba to Blitz the area. Elder Ipson and I were able to find and teach a few people and it was really awesome. We met this guy named Justin who opened the door almost falling out of it.. He was visibly drunk and said the F word 3 times in every sentence. However Justin let us in to share our message. He sat down, lit a cigarette and then told us we had 5 minutes. We started teaching a Restoration and before we got through the first point (The Gospel Blesses Families) he already broke down and told us all about his problems. He was very hesitant, rude and arguable but who isn't when they're drunk.. He said he would read the Book of Mormon and would give us a call if he liked it.. hah Hopefully he sobered up and actually did read some of it.. we'll follow up with him this week though. Cool Experience.
Saturday morning we did some more work with the Zone Leaders and then they took off back to Green Bay. Elder Hill and I had a lesson with the Gould family. The Goulds are semi active and their daughter is turning 8, so we've been asked to go teach her the lessons. It went well! Later that night we had dinner with the Branch Presidents family, the Schmidts which went really well and then saw Capt Jacobson to finish off the night.
Sunday we had church, then had a couple lessons fall through and so we spent some time tracting, we found this really cool girl named Shyanne. Shes our age and seemed pretty interested. Later that night we had a lesson with the........... Gentz. We finally got back in with them! After 5 weeks of them canceling and being sick and blah blah. We finally got in and had a really good lesson with the DePauls. We watched the Restoration DVD to refresh their memory and then re-set their baptismal date to the first week in January. (we'll move it sooner when their ready) Their kids love us and really really want to go to church but Stephanie, the mom, has anxiety and isn't ready for that step yet.. We'll work on that. It was just great to get back in with them again! We finished off the night seeing Josh, it was his birthday so it was cool to spend some time with him.
Anyways Lots of good things are going on with Jill and with the Gentz! We were able to find some really cool people and get back in contact with some other potentials this week and so we have a nice full week next week!
Elder Stevens.
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