I'm dressing up as a missionary this year.

October 31, 2006
Dear Family,

Happy Halloween. I hope that you all eat plenty of candy and stay safe. I'm dressing up as a missionary this year. We're staying in because that's the mission rule. We're planning on using tonight for having Elder Jensen make calls to all the former investigators he's taught and try to make appointments with them before he leaves. Next week, I'll be with a new companion, and Elder Jensen will be gone.

Keep working on Faith in God, Lisa. That's a great accomplishment.

That's awesome that you got contacts, becky. I'm surprised mom didn't mention that they were colored as smiley faces or something.

I think the mixer is a great birthday present, mom. I look forward to partaking of some of the goodies.

Dad, how was your trip to Texas? Did you have a good time? Did anything interesting happen?

Yesterday, we spent another day down at 99 ranch for about 6 and a half hours. We found a new English class student, and he seems to be somewhat interested in learning the gospel too. Many more people seemed like they wanted to come, but didn't sign up yet. One of our current English class students actually brought a bunch of Chinese friends to the stake Halloween party.

We had dinner with the Johnson family last night. We set up a time to have another lesson with the mom. We're pretty excited about that. This is the part-member family, where the mom is Chinese Buddhist.

On Saturday, we went singing/contacting in the park. 5 missionaries stood and sang hymns, while 3 contacted people. I sang. It was a good experience. This unique idea was suggested in zone conferences by President Garner.

We met with Gavin again on Saturday, but we weren't able to get him to come to church. His roommate Rubin says that if Gavin converts, he'll start coming to church too.
On Saturday night, we had a tip-off that there was some sort of Chinese party (non-church related, just Chinese community) at the Poway Civic Center, so we went to check it out. It turned out, it was just a karaoke dance, and so we left some flyers and went our way.
Besides those things, we just had the typical missionary work schedule. Some tracting, some contacting, some check-backs. Nothing phenomenal, but we're optimistic that things will happen on the Lord's time-table.

I hope you have a great week. I love you all. Send me some Halloween pictures.

Love,
Elder Myers