Elder Miller and I after our Exchange.
This week was crazy,
Monday was pretty normal however at 6 we drove down to Green Bay and stayed the night with the Zone Leaders.
Tuesday we Blitzed the Zone Leaders area, I went with Elder Fry. Since the Zone Leaders are a Spanish set of missionaries, we went around knocking on people's doors, asking them if they knew where any Hispanics lived. Its was pretty neat. Since Zone Conference was the next day, and they needed to prepare a musical number for the meeting, Elder Hill and I got dragged into singing along with the ZLs and the Hmong Elders. We practiced some at the church so that we would be ready for the meeting the next day. Later we had a really good dinner with the Arkos family. They don't speak English but they made some amazing Mexican food.. I was grateful to be there. In the evening we had a really good lesson with these 2 kids named Christian and Duber. They spoke English and I got along with them super well. Over all it was a good exchange. We stayed the night again at the ZLs apartment, the A.P.s also stayed the night that night.
Wednesday we had a really good Zone Conference! Lots of inspiring and uplifting messages and ways that we can be more effective as the weather changes. (Which its changing fast) Our musical number went pretty well.. Elder Hill and I sang the First Verse of I know that my Redeemer lives, then the Spanish Elders sang the Second Verse in Spanish, then the Hmong Elders sang the 3rd verse in Hmong and for the 4th verse we all sang it in English. It was very powerful! I had never performed in front of that many people singing before.. After Zone Conference we went on an exchange with the Marinette Elders. I went with Elder Miller and we spent the rest of the night driving back to Marinette.
Thursday we had a really good time in Marinette. We taught one of their Less actives that they're working with named Manny. Manny is super cool! We went over the Book of Mormon with him and the importance of it. We spent most of the rest of the day knocking on peoples doors and visiting various potentials. Elder Miller is a really good friend so it was awesome to spend the day with him. Since we had a lot of appointments in Escanaba Thursday night, we weren't able to exchange back until Friday morning. So I spent another night in Marinette.
Friday morning we exchanged back first thing in the morning. It was nice to be back in my own area.. haha However we spent most of the day weekly planning. However we were able to knock some doors and meet 2 really awesome ladies that we might be able to start teaching. In the evening we were able to get in with a returning less active family named the Jones. We taught them the Gospel of Jesus Christ and really focused on daily repentance and the sacrament. It went really well.
Saturday we had Correlation meeting with Brother Ollero in the morning. He took us out to Wendy's afterwords. After that we went to Sister Bizeau's kids birthday party as she really wanted us to come, and some of the branch would be there. That was fun. We were going to help Sherry fix some stuff on her trailer but because there was snow flurries and it was really windy she canceled that.. which left us to just knocking doors the rest of the day. We really had to bundle up as it really is quiet freezing here now.
Sunday we had church, which we were asked to teach Sunday school and priesthood on very short notice. Those went well though. After church we finished up studies and of course knocked some more doors! We stopped by some of our investigators we hadn't seen in a while, and while we were stopping by Shannon, her husband who we had never met came out and angrily told us to stop coming by. He went on to say that he didn't care if his wife or kids took the lessons and talked with us, he just didn't want it in his home.. He was quiet angry, but I thanked him for being upfront about it and we started talking about a lot of things. It was pretty funny as he did a complete 180, he ended up inviting us to go play basketball with him and some buddies in the mornings (which we already do with President Schmidt, so we invited him to ours) and he might let us help out with some house repairs hes doing. Funny how people can turn around so quickly if you just get to know them.
Welp, the week flew by as I was barely in our area for most of the week! Things are still going well though, just continually trying to meet and see everyone were working with!
Happy Thanksgiving!
Elder Stevens
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