Samuel's Mission E-mail November 3, 2008

Everyone:
Well, the new transfer has begun now. It's crazy to think that I now only have one transfer after the current one. So anyways, we've had a pretty good week, so I'll get straight to the details.
On Tuesday, we did a fairly good-sized chunk of tracting, and in the evening we got transfer calls. As suspected, Elder Mijares and I stayed together, so I guess I'll get to see what a last transfer is like (again) right before I have my last one.
On Wednesday, we tracted even more, and we got a referral for Devin, who had been being taught outside of the mission (he has a girlfriend who's leaving on a mission soon who lives in Northridge, whereever that is). On Thursday, Elder Mijares went to the Zone Leadership Meeting, so I tracted for a bit with Elder Webb, one of the other district leaders' companions. We ended up getting the assignment to make a Book of Mormon costume, so we spent most of the rest of the day making that. We also met briefly with Devin to show him around the ward building.
On Friday we had our normal zone meeting in the morning, in which we introduced the Book of Mormon costume, we tracted, and then in the evening, since we had to be in early for Halloween, we planned. The Zone Leaders actually street contacted with one of them wearing the costume and apparently had a good bit of success.
On Saturday, we tracted a bunch more, and we met a man named Leo. He seemed really prepared--he'd been asking God about why there weren't prophets and apostles around any more and things like that, so we taught what was probably the most detailed first lesson I've had with someone. We're pretty excited about going back this week.
On Sunday, we had our normal Church meetings, we stopped back by a couple people we'd taught that seemed interested but couldn't make a return appointment, and we visited the Reeds, a part-member family, and found out that Brother Reed was recovering from some back surgery.
Well, we're pretty excited about the couple of new investigators we have. I've been joking with Elder Mijares about how we'll find all these investigators right before he goes home and then I'll baptize all of them right before he goes home. We'll have to see if it works out that way. Here's to making my last couple transfers my best!
Elder Samuel Stephens