Aug 19

Been a busy week, as always!

Monday (8/12) - Went on a field trip to the Neville Museum again. Pretty fun, we didn't do a tour this time so we got to take our time going around. The seniors all loved it. I'm now the designated driver, and have come to find out that my companion is the worst backseat driver, so now we bike...a lot. We are hoping to get bus passes so we don't have to drive at all. We got to have dinner at a member's house. It was super good! Roast, mash potatoes, a yummy cucumber salad thing, and a cookie cake (she altered a cookie recipe and made it into a cake) which was amazing! She told us she is paying her tithing first before anything else and has never been so happy, even when she can't pay all her bills she sees the blessing that comes!

Tuesday - We biked to district meeting. We have another set of sisters! (3 sets of elders and now 3 sets of sisters, and a senior couple). Then we biked across town to try and meet with a referral..sadly no one was home. We did get to meet with investigators though! We got there an hour early on accident, but they were happy to have us over. He has studied every religion throughly, but says that our religion is the one for him. It's amazing how often I've heard this happen, but not surprising. After much study how can our church NOT be true :)

Wednesday - We went street contacting at Bay Beach, and still had a couple hours of our P-day time to use so we road the Zippin Pippin (a rollercoaster here). So much fun and no line! The kid that sat infront of us turned around and told us "I don't like rollercoasters so I'm going to scream a lot, just so you know" and boy did he scream! Just like a little girl, it was so funny! Then a investigator canceled on us so we went down a couple blocks to the farmers market and went street contacting some more. The farmers market here is hug! It takes up 2 blocks of the street w to e, and another one n to s.

Thursday - My companion was sick so we watch Mr. Krueger's Christmas and the Lamb of God (some of the few movies we are allowed to watch) along with a lot of Mormon Messages. My companioin felt better by late afternoon so we were able to go to our dinner appt at a  members house. We had fish that she had freshly caught at Lake Michigan. Then we ran off to Ward Corrilation and went over our final plans for our Church Tour we were doing Friday. A Brother  bought us all ice cream from Culviers afterward. I LOVE that place! Best stuff ever!

Friday - We finally got to 2 Nephi with a Sister, no real progress with her. We went over the Joseph Smith History with investigators. They are both listening to the scriptuers on their phones and following along and have made amazing progress reading the scriptures! They read every day now and always have family prayer before bed.  Church Tour...not much to say. We announced it in church, put fliers in the church programs, passed out fliers in RS. We even passed out fliers while we street contacted. No one came...we are trying to figure out how to get our ward into missionary work. The work can't progress nearly as well or fast with out them. We used the time to come up with other ideas to get the members involved.

Saturday - Biking again! Tried to see contacts, but alas they all fell through so we went street contacting. Met a sweet lady who lives in Northern Wisconsin. We actually ended up talking to her 4 times because we kept running into her. Really nice, but strong Catholic. There was a huge boat thing going on of old boats, they sail from harbor to harbor in the Great Lakes. Really cool. I'll have to try and send pictures when I can! We later rode the bus to a memberes and had spegetti with them. Great people. They have 2 kids  - who are 3 and 4 and bundles of energy! Horrible bike ride home because we were sooo stuffed! They make sure you don't leave their house hungry! We even got left overs to take home. I have a real nice tan line where my CTR ring is, kinda cool to see the difference of "before my misison" and now. I'm also getting a watch tan line :b

Sunday - Went to church with our landlord so we could visit Sister E (an 87 year old lady in our ward who can't come any more). She has out lived 3 husbands. So sweet and cheerful! Our landlord made some pestachio bread and it's so good! I never liked pestachio before, but she knows how to use it! Biked to a referrals house, but it was an old address.

Well I'm out of time! I love you all so much! I hope you are all doing fantastically well! I wish you the best!

With love,

Sister Kern