I think the spirit must have touched down

February 20, 2007
Dear Family,

How are you doing?

I'm doing pretty fine. This week, I went on exchanges twice. Once with Elder Wickham our zone leader, and once with Elder Mendoza. The highlight of the week happened with Elder Mendoza, an Elder in my district - we worked really hard, tracting a lot and contacting lots of people. Finally at night time, it was down to, well, do we want to keep tracting or go visit a less active or something. At that point it was very clear to me that we needed to do whatever was going to help somebody get baptized. So, we went tracting. We knocked on one door that turned out to be a Spanish member who manages the complex, and she told us that upstairs (which we were going to knock on anyway) was somebody we should try who was a single mom with 3 kids. We knocked on the door, and she said that her neighbor upstairs one more floor had just moved, but was a member of the church and before they moved, they had given her a Book of Mormon. Sandwiched between two member families, I think the spirit must have touched down in her house a time or two because she was prepared, she was receptive. She let us in to teach her, said we could come back, and also said that she was thinking about coming to our church.
God IS preparing people. If we work hard and are willing to just get in there and keep tracting, we'll find them. Her name is Linda.

Yesterday it was raining SUPER hard. Elder Moreno and I decided to rack up some "hot wife points" by tracting in this weather. We got pretty wet, but we found a couple people who said they'd accept a Book of Mormon. We're tracting the same complex again tonight. It's in La Jolla. It was pretty interesting - we prayed for the rain to stop ("thy will be done") when we pulled up to the complex but nothing happened. The building we were doing yesterday had two sides, both with about 20 doors on each side, so we started with the side on which the face of the building protected us from the full deluge. Literally at the last door of that side, when it was time to tract the other side, the rain stopped. It didn't just get a little lighter, it completely, utterly ceased. Just an example of the tender mercies of the lord. The last door we knocked on the second side was an inactive member from the Philipines who I think can be cracked with a little help from Elder Bednar's talk from conference. He still knows the church is true, I think he just needs a little kick.

We've been completely out of touch with Steve Dow this week. I've tried calling several times and he hasn't returned my calls. I wonder what happened. I sent the missionaries in his area over last night to make sure he was still alive and his car wasn't there. Maybe this mystery will be solved this week.

We had a good stake conference this week on scripture study. I love studying the scriptures. I'm about to finish the Book of Mormon again, for about the 5th or 6th time on my mission.
In our English class, we have a kid named Sibo coming now. He's been in the states for 3 months. He's about 10 years old. I think his parents might bring him to church one of these weeks. We met him at 99 ranch.

We did some contacting outside of Chinese restaurants this week. We didn't meet anybody who was really interested, but we talked to a lot more Chinese people than usual.

We did some reconnaisance work at the local college campus and found some "free speech zones" in which we can freely contact lots of the students there. That's a great opening for us.

On Sunday we went to our roommates' baptism, a Mexican named Eric. Elder Moreno gave the Missionary Invite and started crying all over the place when he bore his testimony. There was one nonmember there, a Mexican man who lives in Escondido, who went and gave him a hug after the invite. The Spanish elders are now trying to get this guy taught.

Anyway, that's all the highlights from this week. I hope you guys are doing well. I love you all. Thanks for the letters.

Love,
Elder Myers