Everyone:
Well, sorry I didn't mention that today was our temple day. Or did I? Anyways, that's why I'm writing today instead of Monday (I still haven't died, just in case anyone was wondering...). Anyways, again I am a bit short on time--we kind of forgot today was going to be our Preparation Day and scheduled some appointments for today, so we're kind of busy. As for the week... Tuesday we had a really good day where we were able to meet a lot of people and teach some good lessons. Wednesday, however, not only was Halloween, I was also sick all morning and into the afternoon. I was still a bit shaky in the evening, but I did manage to drag myself out of bed to go see National Treasure with some other missionaries for our Halloween activity.
Thursday I was feeling better, so we planned and visited Norman like usual and tried to contact people we'd missed while I was sick on Wednesday. Friday we had Zone Conference down in Palos Verdes (which is quite a ways south-west of Watts, and in a really rich area, too), so we were gone most of the day for that, but we did meet with Marcelino. He's not doing so well right now--his daughter, Lupe (Guadalupe), who is possibly mentally ill, stole someone's car and crashed it into another car and a van, and everyone has been demanding he replace the damaged parts. Fortunately no truly serious damage was done, but for someone living on the edge of existence like Marcelino, even minor repairs are far, far out of his purchasing power, so he's not in a good situation. It also doesn't help that we've been talking with him about his marital situation and it turns out that he's asked his 'wife' to marry him before and she's refused and she's continuing to refuse right now. He's willing to just separate from her, but 1: now is a really bad time to do that, and 2: we don't want to pull the family apart, so... we have quite a dilemma.
Saturday we visited some people and then in the afternoon into the evening we helped out with a fireside put on by the Saints Unified Voices directed by Gladys Knight. It was pretty neat--hopefully some good missionary work comes out of it. Sunday was a pretty typical day. Monday we visited Marcelino again, as well as some other people. Tuesday we visited Hermana Smith. She's not doing so well--she'd been in great pain, and we'd given her a blessing and the pain left, but she's still pretty ill--and she has to wait until the 26th for her operation.
Well, everyone, that's all I have time for at the moment. I just have one thing to say--some of the less-actives we've met with this week have given me such a testimony of home and visiting teaching. Home and visiting teaching don't get done much out here, and it seems like a lot of these people have gone less-active because of that lack of non-Sunday contact. So no matter how unimportant your home teaching might seem or how strong in the church your families might seem, visit them!!!!! Visit them, visit them, visit them!!!! You never know if you might be the only thing that will turn their course from drifting away from the church to full activity.
Elder Samuel Stephens
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