Samuel's Mission E-mail June 23, 2008

Everyone:
Well, transfers are this Wednesday, so we'll have to see what happens. I don't have my planner with me right now, so I'll have to see how much of what we did last week I remember.
Tuesday, we tracted for a while and we had our English class. On Wednesday, we had our correlation meetings with our wards. We've been revising the Downey 1st ward mission plan to include more specific, measurable actions. That's so important to have in a ward mission plan--if it's not specific and measurable, there's a 90% chance nothing at all will be done about it. It also needs to include things that the general membership will do, and not just the ward as a whole.
On Thursday we had our weekly planning, as usual. On Friday we had zone meeting and we taught Rosie one of the recent convert lessons. She's doing really well, despite the distrust her father has for the church. He was apparently baptized at some point but is rather disaffected with it right now. Apparently he believes someone is making a profit off of it.
On Saturday we did some service for the Taylors, as well as visiting several other members as part of a program we're doing to make a ward directory for the missionaries that will help with missionary work. On Sunday, Elder Chadwick and I taught the Downey 1st priest's quorum. We also did some tracting with one of the youth in Bell Gardens.
Well, I think that's it. I don't think anything else major happened last week. Today we had our zone "Olympic Games", which were fun.
Elder Samuel Stephens
...The time passed away with us, and also our lives passed away like as it were unto us a dream...
Jacob 7:26