Everyone:
I realized that I forgot to mention that we were having our temple day today last week, so sorry if anyone was worried. I also realized I forgot to thank everyone for the birthday packages and such. I really enjoyed everyone's cards and gifts (and Grandma Stephens can rest assured that her cookie bar arrived still in one piece and not at all too hard to eat).
Anyways, as for the news this week (I'm going to be a bit briefer since I figure everyone's tired of me saying "we tracted", but if you prefered it more detailed you can tell me)... Tuesday we taught Miguel the third lesson, which is about Faith, Repentence, Baptism, the Gift of the Holy Ghost, and Enduring to the End, and I taught the Libro de Mormon clase again (we covered 3 Nefi 27-30 and 4 Nefi). Wednesday we taught Miguel about the Commandments and we reviewed about some things with Marcelino.
On Thursday we planned really well for our week and then visited Norman and then got a bit lost... but we obviously eventually managed to figure out where we were again. That is one thing we've been dealing with since I'm driving now--I tend to get lost when we're outside of our area, which happens quite often since a lot of people in the ward who invite us over for dinner live outside our area.
On Friday we had our District meeting and we talked with Marcelino about prophets. We've determined that we're going to have to teach very slowly and review a lot with Marcelino since he seems to have trouble remembering what we teach--although he did remember Alma 8 almost verbatim from reading it the night before. He really enjoys reading el Libro de Mormon.
On Saturday we stopped back by a couple of people we had contacted while tracting, and one of them in particular, Manuel, could be good. We also talked with Miguel about his baptismal service--he wants to have it the 23rd of this month!! We also went to Stake Conference that evening--Elder L. Tom Perry of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles was there, and he spoke a lot about families and marriage, so we took notes down for future reference.
On Sunday we had the general session of Stake Conference, and I went to the Spanish Stake for their conference. Our mission president and his wife spoke (we liked their talks since they talked about member missionary work), as well as a member of one of the quorums of the Seventy. We also delivered some of the items some of our referrals had requested.
Monday was just a normal work day this week, but it was a pretty good one. We taught some good lessons off of tracting--we've been working more on making our first lessons more of a discussion, and it has really been reaping dividends. People open up a lot more when you talk with them instead of present to them.
Tuesday we tried some more to contact our referrals, as well as visiting a less-active hermana (Hermana Bello) and going to the Libro de Mormon clase. Today we went to the temple (after having some adventures with traffic which resulted in us being in a later session than the rest of the zone (other than our district leader and his companion)), and we've done our grocery shopping.
Elder Samuel Stephens
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