Samuel's Mission E-mail August 27, 2008

Everyone:
Well, I'm writing on Wednesday again, but it's not because of going to the temple. Or, it is, but not in the normal way. I'll get to that in a bit. Starting with last week:
Last Tuesday, Elder Bird had a doctor's appointment in the morning, and he wasn't feeling that great the rest of the day. In the evening, we had a practice for the fireside, so I talked with Elder Pepper and one of the ward members about what I was going to need. On Wednesday, we had our zone conference. It was a pretty good one. In the evening we had our correlation meeting for Downey 1st.
On Thursday Elder Bird wasn't doing so great again, so we worked on the media stuff. Basically, I looked through parts of some of the Church videos (Finding Faith in Christ, The Testaments, and Joy to the World, mostly) and wrote down what clips I wanted (I.e. from 56 min 25 sec in to 56 min 50 sec in or something like that).
On Friday we were on companionship exchanges, so Elder Brixius, companion of our district leader, was here with me. We tracted for a good while (trying to make up for the times Elder Bird hasn't been able to), and in the evening we visited a couple people and invited them to the fireside.
On Saturday Elder Monita took Elder Bird with him to clean out an apartment the mission is closing, so I was with Elder Brixius again. We tracted a while in his area, and then in ours, and then Elder Bird came back and we returned to our normal companionships.
On Sunday we had our normal church meetings, and then Elder Bird was feeling really bad, so we had to rest. It always seems to be worse for him the day after he does something physical.
On Monday, we had service up at the temple! We went up and raked up mowed grass for several hours. Then we came back and showered and had dinner. Then on Tuesday Elder Bird was feeling really bad (probably because of doing the service on Monday), so we rested again. In the evening, we had our correlation meeting with the Downey 1st ward, including one of our new ward missionaries! We had two new ward missionaries called on Sunday to help out the one we already had, so I'm pretty excited about that. I think this is the first ward I've been in where I'll really be able to work closely with the ward missionaries. Of course, part of that was laziness on my part in the past, but... it's never to late for repentence!
Well, that's been our week. We don't really have any big plans for today (just fireside practice in the evening), but Elder Bird does have another doctor appointment tomorrow, so hopefully they'll be able to do something to help him out. !Perseverar hasta el fin!
Elder Samuel Stephens