Samuel's Mission E-mail January 12, 2009

Everyone:
Wow. This is officially the beginning of my last full week as a missionary. That's pretty crazy. Well, I guess it has to happen sometime.
As for last week, starting with Thursday, we had a car-free day, so after weekly planning we walked into our area, contacting as we went, and tracted for a bit, then ate dinner, and then got picked up by one of the ward missionaries for our ward correlation meeting.
On Friday, we had our normal district meeting, we tracted and street contacted, and we visited Sister Cowgill, who has been going through some very difficult times recently. On Saturday, I was on exchanges with Elder Roark in my area. We did a little bit of street contacting and tracting, and we also visited the Reeds and some other less-active or part-member families.
On Sunday we had our normal church meetings. We actually had an investigator there--Florence Ndetu (I think that's how you spell it), a Kenyan who had been attending another ward with some friends for a while and decided it was time to go to the ward in her area. We should be teaching her on Friday. After church, we took a couple youth out tracting with us. It went pretty well. In the evening we visited the Frenches (a part-member family) and street contacted a bit.
We don't have much of anything going on today. Probably I'll work on packing up a few more things and starting to see if I'm going to have to mail any more stuff home.
Elder Samuel Stephens
The time is far spent; there is little remaining to publish glad tidings by sea and by land
Then hasten, ye heralds; go forward proclaiming: Repent for the kingdom of heaven's at hand
--Hymn #266