Samuel's Mission E-mail January 7, 2009

Everyone:
Well, it's the new year! Which means that I have only a little while left on the mission... that's crazy... so I won't think about it!

As for the week, on Tuesday of last week, I was on exchanges with Elder Yuill. He wasn't feeling well in the morning, but in the evening he felt better and we did some street contacting and answered some of the questions of this guy named Garet.
On Wednesday, New Year's Eve, we had a Zone service project where we made some cards for those serving in the military, and we street contacted a bit, and then in the evening (since we had to be back in by 6:00) we did our weekly planning. On Thursday we had a Mission Conference up at the chapel behind the temple. That was pretty cool--it was focused mostly on the Book of Mormon. We had the entire mission there. Afterwards we street contacted for a bit.
On Friday I was on companionship exchanges with Elder Holmes. We had district meeting in the morning, and then we visited some of his investigators and such, and did a good bit of tracting and street contacting.
On Saturday, we took a couple of the young men out and tracted for a while, and then tracted and street contacted some more on our own. On Sunday, we had our church meetings (now at 9:00 AM instead of 11:00 AM), street contacted, and tracted some in Elder Yuill's area to help him out.
On Monday I was on exchanges with Elder Otis in his area. We did some street contacting and tracting, and worked on contacting some of his referrals and less-actives and such. In the evening we went to have dinner and family home evening with a couple of families and one of the other sets of elders, but they were so late in getting there we ended up having to leave just as they were starting.
Yesterday, we did a lot of street contacting and tracting. In the evening we visited the home teachers of the Grants, a part-member family in the ward in which the non-member wife and daughter are both very regular attenders of the ward. The daughter recently gave a talk in sacrament meeting in which she said, "I'm not a member yet...", so we wanted some more info. And today we went to the temple.
So, it's been a bit of a different week, but we kept pretty busy. No new prospects yet, really, but we're working on it.
Elder Samuel Stephens