Everyone:
Well, this e-mail may be a bit longer than usual due to the unusual Preparation Day schedule. Starting with Sunday of last week... Sunday of last week we talked with a young adult at the SG2 ward named Miguel Nunoz (that second n has a tilde over it) who someone told us wasn't a member. We ended up inviting him to a baptism that was happening that afternoon, so we went and waited for him, but he never came. It turns out his car broke down, so he wasn't able to come. I did hear that Rito, who I was teaching while I was back in Westchester, did indeed get baptized that day, as well.
Monday of last week we took one of the young men from the SG2 ward named Jesus (with an accent mark over the u) out with us. We tracted for a while, and in the evening we taught Marcelino. Marcelino is doing pretty well--he says he can see how his days go better and he feels good as he's reading the Book of Mormon, so we're pretty excited for him.
We had Zone Conference on Tuesday. It was a good Zone Conference--Elder Lund of the Seventy taught most of it. He talked about improving our teaching, helping our investigators develop faith, and following the Spirit. That ended up taking most of the day.
On Wednesday we contacted some referrals and visited Sherri again. Sherri is doing very well--she's very excited about being a member, and she is looking forward to fulfilling her new calling. More on that later.
We also got a call in the middle of the night from Elder Hoskin telling us that we were going to be doing some service at the temple the next day.
On Thursday we got up early and went up to the temple with our zone. The temple is having its cleaning time last week and this week, so we helped out with that. Elder Allred and I polished the oxen around the baptismal font and vacuumed in the men's dressing room. We also visited Norman.
On Friday I was on splits with Elder Thurston in his area. We did some good work--this is Elder Thurston's first transfer, so I was helping him out a bit with his Spanish and such.
On Saturday we went to do some service for Sherri, but she told us she wasn't ready yet so we rescheduled for next week. We also visited a couple less-actives and contacted a referral.
Sunday we had church, of course, and we were pretty excited when both Marcelino and Miguel were there at SG2 ward. We also talked with a man named Melvin in the SWLA branch that turned out to not be a member and live in our area, so we arranged a meeting with him, too. In the afternoon we tracted a bit and visited Hermana Smith. We also helped out President Allen (The SWLA branch president) by working on tracking down some less-actives that had apparently moved into our area some time.
This morning we actually went over and taught a referral, and then we played kickball with our zone.
Elder Samuel Stephens
For what doth it profit a man if a gift is bestowed upon him, and he receive not the gift? Behold, he rejoices not in that which is given unto him, neither rejoices in him who is the giver of the gift. --D&C 88:33
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