Hello from Yooper-ville :)
This was a very interesting week, on Tuesday we drove to Marquette, MI to have a District meeting, and on Tuesday afternoon we drove to Green Bay to spend the night with some Elders down there. On Wednesday we met the new Mission President and enjoyed a wonderful lesson from him about how the Gospel blesses Families and how this should be the focus of our message to people.
This was a very interesting week, on Tuesday we drove to Marquette, MI to have a District meeting, and on Tuesday afternoon we drove to Green Bay to spend the night with some Elders down there. On Wednesday we met the new Mission President and enjoyed a wonderful lesson from him about how the Gospel blesses Families and how this should be the focus of our message to people.
There isn't much of a Fourth of July celebration here in Manistique. Elder
Thompson and I did a lot of tracting and we were sore, tired, and hungry all
day. But our efforts were successful; we met new people and re-established
contact with some other people that Elder Thompson had known from previous
months. Then came the fifth of July and we were blown away by the number of
people we saw. It was as if the town of Manistique had boomed in population. We
saw the tail end of a children's parade, and so we decided to do street
contacting for the first time in Manistique history. FYI: Manistique is part of
the Germfask Township area, and has been
open since October 24, 2012. I'm
the fifth missionary to be here. Continuing on, we thought the fifth was impressive,
the sixth scared us!!! There was a big parade with marching bands, and the
whole police force was out marching along with the firemen... we found out that
the police here have two snowmobiles and the town of Manistique sponsors a RACE
CAR. We had a fun day and enjoyed the firework celebration (not really, we
could hear them from our apartment).
Sunday was great but we don't fast on the first Sunday of the month here because the ward does a luncheon, we fast on the second Sunday of the month. Things run a little differently around here, in case you didn't know already.
All in all, we are working hard, having fun, learning, and working towards getting our group to becoming a branch. Our church attendance yesterday was an all-time record of 32 people!!! Attached are a few photos, including the light house where we jog to every other morning. It’s a little over a mile away from us.
Love
Elder Luymes
Sunday was great but we don't fast on the first Sunday of the month here because the ward does a luncheon, we fast on the second Sunday of the month. Things run a little differently around here, in case you didn't know already.
All in all, we are working hard, having fun, learning, and working towards getting our group to becoming a branch. Our church attendance yesterday was an all-time record of 32 people!!! Attached are a few photos, including the light house where we jog to every other morning. It’s a little over a mile away from us.
Love
Elder Luymes
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| Manistique's Race Car in the parade. |
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| Our landmark lighthouse that we jog to. |
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