Samuel's Mission E-mail September 22, 2008

Everyone:
Well, I'm now officially in what may be my last area. It's called Malaga Cove. If you have a map of LA, it covers the southern part of Redondo Beach, Torrance, and Lomita, with a little bit of Rolling Hills Estates thrown in. So, some of it is kind of rich. My companion is Elder Mijares, from Colorado (His ancestry is from Spain, though). He actually goes home in December, and he's a district leader, so I'm junior again. There's not really much Spanish in our area (I did speak Spanish with one guy yesterday), so I guess they figure I don't need to work on my Spanish or something (or maybe they've just despaired of it ever being good, haha).
As for our week, on Tuesday we tracted and got ready for transfers. On Wednesday I transfered over here with Elder Mijares, and we tracted.
On Thursday, Elder Mijares had a meeting, so I took Elder Fliton (who's being trained this transfer) tracting for a bit, and then we had weekly planning, Elder Mijares did a baptismal interview, and Elder Mijares took me to meet a couple important people in the ward.
On Friday, we had our Zone meeting (Have I mentioned our mission goal this transfer? Our goal is to increase the number of investigators we have at church by 50%), we tracted, and we worked on contacting a list of people that Sister Alexander, a counselor in the Relief Society, gave to us, and found out that a lot of them had moved.
On Saturday, Elder Mijares had another meeting, so I took Elders Webb and Fliton (the other district leaders' companions) and we helped clean the Malaga Cove ward building. After the meeting, we tracted and worked on the list some more.
On Sunday, we had our church meetings, so I got to meet Brother Madrid, our Ward Mission Leader, and various other members. We also tracted and spoke briefly with some less-actives that the ward had asked us to visit.
Today, we played some kickball with the zone.
Well, I think that's it. Hopefully we'll find some investigators here soon. Given that this is probably my last area, it's about time for me to try some different things for working here. We'll have to see what we can do.
Elder Samuel Stephens
The time is far spent; there is little remaining to publish glad tidings by sea and by land
Then hasten, ye heralds; go forward proclaiming: Repent for the kingdom of heaven's at hand
--Hymn #266