On Monday we were able to help move that lady into her new apartment again. We're doing it in portions, we're going to be finishing off the move tomorrow. It's so cool being able to look out the window that high and see a different perspective and view of the town. We did that for a good portion of the day and finished up our Pday doing the normal things.
Tuesday we had District Meeting in the morning and then afterwards Elder Schoenfeld and I went on exchanges and stayed in Escanaba. We were able to knock a lot of doors and visit some various people. The Wilbers called us up out of the blue and invited us over to dinner so we were able to have dinner over there in the evening and have some great food.
Wednesday morning we had the soup kitchen for a couple of hours and then knocked more doors. We were able to meet this really nice guy named John that let us into him home, out of the cold. We taught him and he accepted a return appointment which ended up falling through but he said he still wants us to follow up. After that, we had to head down to Cedar River to exchange back. Elder Jensen and I had to hurry back up to Escanaba as we had a dinner appointment with the Less active family that went super well. We noticed half way through the dinner that Elder Schoenfeld had taken the phone, so we were left phone less. Luckily for us, they noticed rather quick and decided to turn around and drive all the way back up to Escanaba, drop the phone in our mailbox and then head on back down to Marrinette, about an hour mistake. We returned to our apartment before heading to go see Joseph and Jill, so we were very relieved to find our phone in the mailbox. After grabbing the phone, we headed off to Joseph and Jill. President Schmidt was able to make it to the lesson and it went soo well. We taught about Following the Prophet and the Importance of keeping the sabbath day holy. The spirit was super strong and President Schmidt was a great person to bring. They were able to make it to church this Sunday which is awesome! They even stayed for all 3 hours and the potluck we had afterwards! Great Progression!
Thursday morning we went to the church so that Brother Ollero and Elder Jensen could practice for the Musical Number they gave at church on Sunday. Which went really really well. Elder Jensen played the Piano and accompanied Brother Ollero singing Savior Redeemer of my soul. Later in the day we visited Sherry. We shared a General Conference talk that we thought would apply to her. The lesson went pretty well. We also saw this less active family named the Lamarches that we have been trying to get into their home for like 4 months.. hahah so we were finally able to get in and teach them which is great! To finish off the day we had a great dinner at the Pughs home.
Friday we did our monthly service at St. Vinnys which involves us picking up hangers off clothing racks for 2 hours. That was fun, after that we did our weekly planning and then visited and talked with various other people. We were able to talk with Bunny for the first time since the Holidays. She kicked her daughter out for various reasons but we were able to set up a time to go teach her. She also gave us a referral of someone she thought would like our message. She gave us the phone number to this big black guy named Terry. I was able to call him up later that day and he's so cool! I talked with him on the phone for like 30 mins about various things, I taught him the restoration and about the Book of Mormon and he's really interested in sitting down with us. We're going to meet with him with Bunny at the upcoming appointment. Pretty excited for that! Later in the day, Brother Sagataw took us out to Dinner at KFC and we knocked more doors in the freezing wasteland..
Saturday morning Elder Jensen and Brother Ollero did some more practicing at the church. We had our lesson with John fall through but we were able to go out and talk with various other people. Captain Jim called us up and ended up taking us out to Rapid River to a restaurant named Jacks. Its always a great time when you're with Captain Jim.. We ate at Jacks and he drove us around showing us various things. Good day.
Sunday morning we had Branch Council and then had Branch Conference. Lots of people drove up from various parts of the stake to talk with us and set us on the stakes vision for the new year. Joseph and Jill were able to come, it was a little odd for them, as the meetings were more towards yearly goals for missionary work and what not, but I think they understood. There was an awesome potluck after church that they stayed for and everyone was able to socialize which was great. The rest of the day we visited people and knocked more doors trying to stay as warm as possible! We visited and gave the sacrament to Josh in the evening and finished off our night with that.
This week was especially cold but we were still able to push through it and get some good work done. Time is sure flying!
Elder Stevens.
Sorry for the lame pictures, I didn't have any with me in them this week. One is the road right outside of our apartment, show casing how Escanaba doesn't salt their roads, so they're quite slick. The other is a little bridge as were standing on the ice, looking under it.
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