Samuel's Mission E-mail November 12, 2008

Everyone:
Well, we had our temple day today, so I'll have a little bit more to write about this time than usual. On Tuesday of last week, we did a good chunk of street contacting and tracting, and we also taught Maria Luisa, Beatrice, and Blanca. On Wednesday, Elder Mijares got called on to do a musical number with Sister Inks during Zone Conference on Thursday, so he had to practice a bunch. We also street contacted for a bit.
On Thursday we had Zone Conference, and it was pretty good. I can't say I had any blinding revelations, but each time you learn how to work a bit better. On Friday, we taught Devin in the morning, and then we did our weekly planning. We also street contacted a bit.
On Saturday, I went out on splits with Elder Weber, who is being trained by Elder Yuill, an Elder in our district who's been sick pretty frequently, so I took Elder Weber out so that he could get out of the apartment. We did a lot of tracting and street contacting, and had a meal together at Olive Garden (the sister who was feeding us that evening invited Elder Weber and Elder Yuill, too).
On Sunday, we had our normal church meetings, and we were rather disappointed because Devin didn't show up. We've still been trying to re-contact him. We also street contacted and tracted.
Monday of this week was a normal work day, so we tracted and street contacted for four and a half hours. We taught a lot of lessons but didn't get any return appoinments. On Tuesday we had our car-free day. We helped out in the morning with moving some props and set pieces for a play (some other missionaries got permission to use their car for the service project and picked us up), and then we helped move a couple refrigerators (the members who asked us to help gave us a ride for that), and we taught Maria and crew, and we still had some time for street contacting in the evening. And today we went to the temple.
Well, for some odd reason, I've written a couple poems recently, which is really odd because I never write poetry. I was thinking of this one today in the temple:
Faith lifts us higher,
Repentence brings us low.
in Baptism we take the name of Christ,
and the Holy Ghost makes it so.
I know, not very poetic, but hey. And it still needs a title.
Elder Samuel Stephens