EVERYBODY goes to Saddleback

Dear Family,

It has been a good week. We have done a lot of tracting. We live in the shadow of a mega-church with tens of thousands of members called Saddleback. EVERYBODY goes to Saddleback, and they occasionally hold anti-Mormon classes there. It's hardened a lot of peoples hearts against the true church. So, we don't have a lot of success tracting, but we do it to show the Lord our willingness to work and in hopes to find that golden family.

We have an investigator who will be baptized early next month named John Rainy. He is friends with a girl who is at BYU right now and decided to look into the church and discovered its truthfulness. So, he's very steady and we are excited for him. We are also teaching a Korean family who are very nice and open. There is a 17 year old girl who is just waiting until she turns 18 to be baptized. There is a woman named Jan Smith who is very involved in Saddleback, but is also very nice and lets us in; we have a few roadblocks though, so we might not be able to teach her much longer. There's a nonmember married to a member named Owen Mongan that we are also working with. And those are the investigators that I "inherited." This transfer we are fasting to find a family that we can teach and baptize by the end of the transfer. We fasted Sunday. On Sunday night we checked on a Chinese referral named Xiaoyan Song and she was interested and made an appointment for Monday night. I worked my Chinese networking skills and got a couple Chinese members from Irvine to join us for the lesson and she's going to be coming to church and taking the lessons now. So, already a new promising investigator. Also, on Sunday a member brought a nonmember named John Moran who agreed to take the discussions and we're going to meet with him next Monday night at the bishop's house. Things are already looking up from that fast, and we'll keep working hard. There are some other people who look like they'll come to fruition soon too.

Our ward is a very large one. It has over 10 missionaries out in the mission field from there. We had a good Easter program and a good Easter dinner with one of the families. So, everything is going well. Tracting long hours during the day is kind of frustrating, but it's okay.

I don't need a bicycle. We have a full-time car because it's just that hilly.

Have a great week. I love you all.
Love,
Elder Myers