Samuel's Mission E-mail October 20, 2008

Everyone:
Well, this transfer has gone really quickly. This is the last full week, and then transfers are two days before Halloween. I doubt either of us will get moved, but stranger things have happened.
As for the week... let's see, I wrote on Wednesday, right? Well, later on Wednesday we tracted some, Elder Mijares did a baptismal interview, and we visited Wendy. We're pretty sure we're going to drop her the next time we visit her--she's not really progressing at all.
On Thursday, we had a car-free day, so we used our bikes. In the morning we planned, and then in the afternoon we tracted for a bit and did some street contacting. We also tried to visit a couple part-member families, but without any luck.
On Friday we had our normal District meeting, we tracted and street contacted, and that's pretty much it. On Saturday I was on exchanges with Elder Johnson in the Palos Verdes area. We did some street contacting and tracting, and in the evening we helped out with an activity the Chinese Branch was holding (no, none of us speak Chinese-they had it mostly in English). It was kind of a combined concert/DI drive that they had invited a lot of non-member friends and such to. It was pretty cool.
On Sunday, we went to the Spanish Cabrillo Branch sacrament meeting in the morning to try to get to know a few members that could help us with teaching Maria, Beatriz, Rosie, and Blanca, and then we went to the Malaga Cove meetings. After that we street contacted a bit and then we went and taught the above-mentioned four sisters. Maria and Beatriz really seem to be progressing, but we need to work more on including Blanca and Rosie (Maria and Beatriz ask a lot of good questions, but Blanca and Rosie just kind of sit there for the most part it seems). Teaching a bunch of people at once is harder. In the evening we worked on visiting some part-member families, and we did actually talk with the Harlines for a little while.
Today we're actually having some kind of fall activity involving pumpkins up at the mission home, so we did some tracting and street contacting in the morning before doing our shopping.
Well, I think that's it for now. Keep your testimonies strong--share them with others!
Elder Samuel Stephens