Samuel's Mission e-mail February 27, 2008

Everyone:

Well, I stayed here in the same area with Elder Vega, so we went to the temple today, which is why I'm writing late. So, let's see what happened:

Tuesday and Wednesday I don't have with me in my new planner, and I don't really remember anything particularly special happening on them. Thursday, we planned, tracted a bunch, and we dropped Karla and her family. It's hard to see them go, but I have hope that sometime down the line, they'll be fully prepared.

On Friday we had our zone meeting, and then we visited Joana again. We also tracted some and we did something else but I can't remember what and I didn't write it down, so... oh well.

On Saturday we had our normal correlation meetings, we visited Mario and his family (I can't remember if I've mentioned them--they're some less-actives from El Salvador that got referred recently and have some of their extended family living with them that aren't baptized yet.), we tracted a bit, and we had dinner with Anne. Anne is doing great--she was just called to be a Visiting Teaching Supervisor.

On Sunday, we had our normal church meetings, we visited a referral named Takunba (who is probably the first person I've handed a pass-along card to here on the mission that I've actually gotten a referral for later), we contacted a less-active family (the familia Dones), and we visited the Vasquez family briefly because they hadn't come to church (the kids were sick).

On Monday we had a normal work day, so we tracted for a while, we contacte a ref named Gladis, who turned out to be the mother of a less-active teenager who had been baptized while she was living with her member grandparents back in Central America, we visited the familia Dones, and we had dinner with Miguel. The Wilshire ward is starting up a temple prep class, and Miguel's going to be in it.

On Tuesday we had a really busy day. First, we visited Joana, then Melva, then a referral named Morgan, then Santos, then Mario & Family, then the Vasquez family, and then Gabriela Puente. Gabriela (Gabi) is the older sister of a member in our area who's been investigating for some time, but her work schedule has been getting in the way as of late, so it's only now that we've been able to recontact her.

Today, of course, we went to the temple, and we've washed our car.

I hear the weather back in Indiana has been a bit wintery. The weather here has had its ups and downs--as in, down to 50 and rainy, and up to the 70's and sunny. Right now, it's the latter of the two.

Elder Samuel Stephens
The only way to salvation is through Gethsemane. The only victory is the victory at the summit of Calvary. Welcome to the journey of the Disciples of Christ.
--Elder Jeffrey R. Holland