Samuel's Mission E-mail September 29, 2008

Everyone:
Well, we're getting settled into routine, here. This was an interesting week. Starting on Tuesday, we tracted a bunch, and we tried visiting a couple part-member families as part of our zone goal. We did talk a bit with Amy Morelock, a non-member daughter of a part-member family, but nothing came of it.
On Wednesday, we had our Zone Conference. Elder Callister of the Quorums of the 70 was our main speaker, so it was pretty good. He talked a lot about how we have to remember how important this is and act accordingly. By the time we got back from zone conference, we pretty much just had time for dinner.
On Thursday, we visited Alma Campos, who was someone who waved to Elder Mijares and Elder Ashby (who was in this area before me) and invited them over. We found out she had been attending another ward but had moved. Apparently the missionaries never started teaching her, so we're going to start. We also tracted a bit and had our weekly planning.
On Friday, we tracted for a good while, and we worked more on contacting some part-member families. On Saturday, we did service for the Bluemels, an older couple in our ward, by helping them put back some dirt they'd moved from the side of their house while it was being painted. In the afternoon, we tracted some more. We also got a call from Alma telling us that her daughter was sick so she wasn't going to make it to church.
On Sunday, we had our normal church meetings, tracted, and finally got in contact with another part-member family, the Frenches. Elder Mijares and Elder Ashby had been teaching them before, but had lost contact for a bit. We'll be visiting them again next week to teach them again.
Today, for our activity, we played tennis with our district. Or, rather, half of our district played tennis and the other half played basketball.
Well, I think that's it. Hopefully Alma will progress--it's a good sign when they've been to church before and liked it.
Oh, and a quick note--please try to hold dinner appointments with missionaries down to around an hour. We like talking with you as much as you like talking with us, but that just makes it harder for us to find a way to say that it's time for us to go. So please make it easy for us.
Elder Samuel Stephens