On Monday we had Pday, we went out and did some hiking for a few hours and then finished off the day seeing a lady named Mary that we had taught the restoration to at the door a few days earlier. We sat down with her and had a really nice discussion with her. The Gentz fell through again..
Tuesday before district meeting we knocked some doors and met a really nice lady named Stephanie and a cool guy named Ben. We then had lunch at Burger King with the District and then had district meeting afterwards. Iron Mountain stayed in our area after DTM to blitz the area. I went with Elder Pawluk. Our plans were to tract a little bit and then have a lesson with Cindy, then do some more finding. However on our way to Cindy we got a text from her saying "I am no longer in need of your services anymore thank you" Confused, we called her and she rejected the call and then texted "Please don't call or stop by anymore thank you"... So that opened up our night.. We have no idea what happened! She dropped us out of no where! We were going to invite her to baptism at that lesson.. bleh.. So we spent the rest of the night tracting where we actually found this really awesome guy named Jared, that has some potential!
Wednesday, Elder Hill and Elder Miservy went to help out at the soup kitchen while Elder Pawluk and I went over to Brother Jacobsons house to help him buff his garage to get ready for some paint. That was quite fun actually. Some nice labor. After the Soup Kitchen, the other elders came and helped us finish the job. That night after the Iron Mountain Elders took off, we had dinner and a lesson with Joseph and Jill! They had a really nice steak dinner waiting for us when we arrived! After the great meal we had a really spiritual lesson on the Plan of Salvation. Jill had lots of questions and said it all made sense! We set up another appointment for next Wednesday. Things are going sooo great with them!
Thursday was our planning day, but we had a lesson with Sherry. She really liked conference but said she still isn't ready for baptism.. We established our expectations with her and she said she would like to continue on learning and supposedly after we teach her about the commandments and laws and ordinances she'll be ready for baptism.. So that's our plan with her. Continuing to teach her as if she is preparing for baptism..
Friday we helped out at St. Vincent DePauls collecting hangers for 2 hours, for our monthly service with them and then spent the rest of the day knocking on doors and park contacting. We were able to meet and teach the Restoration to a few people that day. More doors than usual didn't answer that day.. We had set up another appointment with the Gentz for that night but you guessed it.. it didn't go through AGAIN. We finished off the day ordering Pizza Hut with a gift card some members gave us.. so that was nice :)
Saturday morning we had Correlation meeting with Brother Ollero, afterwards he took us out to Wendy's. We had an appointment fall through in the morning and then we went to a Branch activity that was held at a local Corn Maze! We spent a good chunk of the day at the corn maze with the branch, getting lost in the maze, petting goats and other miscellaneous animals.. going on a hay ride, and doing other fun things. It was really fun! It was a great opportunity to get to know the branch a lot more and gain some more trust with them! We had to leave early to make it to dinner with Brother Jacobson, he had a nice steak dinner waiting for us as well. After the wonderful dinner we finished off the day by going and giving a blessing to Sister Fredrickson who has been having a really hard time with some illness..
Sunday we had a full house in our branch building. A tour bus with some 40-50 people from Utah had been traveling the Mid-West, going to all of the temples and they stopped in Escanaba for church. It was cool to see a full house and have such power during the hymns. After church we visited people and knocked more doors. We talked to this super sweet guy named Rob, with a sick beard that held the conversation.. and also met some other really nice people we gave BoMs to and said we could come back. We finished the day seeing Josh and giving the sacrament to him.
It was a really good week! Too bad that Cindy dropped us and the Gentz cant keep appointments but Jill and Joseph are doing amazing and we were able to teach a find a lot more people to make up for Cindy and others! The weather is a lot cooler.. we were able to see our breath in the air last night which is cool/frightening for the future.. Things are going good though!
Elder Stevens
Some Pics from last Monday
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