Samuel's Mission E-mail July 7, 2008

Everyone:
Well, this week was a little bit different, for reasons that I will proceed to explain. Starting Tuesday, Elder Bird was down with the flu, so we didn't get out much. We did visit the Villanueva family, who are a family in the Downey 1st ward that stopped coming recently. We went over and the sister said she'd been questioning some things recently, and asked us a couple questions (which we answered), but which didn't really seem to be her concern.
On Wednesday, we had a bit of a meeting where our zone talked with President Blackburn about what's going well in the mission and what needs to change. Elder Bird was still sick, so we didn't do much else. On Thursday we had weekly planning, and Elder Bird was still sick.
On Friday, we had a Ward Pancake Breakfast in the morning for the 4th of July, we helped the Larsens (a family in our ward) plant some flowers, Elder Bird was feeling good enough that we did some street contacting, and in the evening we played some games with our zone.
On Saturday, we helped the Saylors (another family in our ward) out with a yard sale and tried to pass out some pass-along cards during it. In the evening we taught Rosie (she's still awesome!) and did some tracting.
On Sunday we had church and tracted. Today we don't have much of anything going on.
So, I'm hoping that I didn't catch Elder Bird's flu (oh no, the Bird Flu!). I'm still feeling well, so that's a good sign.
Elder Samuel Stephens