Samuel's Mission E-mail October 27, 2008

Everyone:
Well, we get transfer calls tomorrow. I can't imagine they'll move either of us, but you never know.
As for our activities this week, on Tuesday we helped Maria Luisa and her sisters with their English, we tracted and street contacted, and we went back to some people who said to come back, but they weren't there. On Wednesday, we street contacted and tracted and taught some good lessons, although we didn't get any return appointments. On Thursday we had our typical weekly planning, we tracted, and Elder Mijares did a baptismal interview.
On Friday I was on companionship exchanges with Elder Stoddard. He actually just arrived in our mission--he was serving in the Torreon Mexico mission (the elder from my MTC district who went there was his zone leader, interestingly enough) but got sick and had to go home for a few weeks, and then he was sent here--so he's still getting used to LA. We street contacted for a while, finally contacted this referral near the beach we've been trying to contact (and he wasn't really interested), and I answered a lot of his questions about the mission here. Which reminds me, I've heard from Elder Bird now. He's doing a lot better, but the missionary department told him it'll be at least six months before he might be able to return to the mission field.
On Saturday, we attended a couple baptisms of people Elder Mijares interviewed, we invited some people to the Ward Trunk or Treat, and then we went to it ourselves and helped clean up afterwards. On Sunday, we attended a couple more baptisms after church, talked with the Eliches, who are a part-member family, and talked some with the Lisseys, who are some of our ward missionaries.
Today we had a zone breakfast with some members that apparently do this for the zone at the end of each transfer.
Well, I can't think of too much else to say right now. The Church is true!
Elder Samuel Stephens