April 13, 1988
We tracted on Thursday and Friday without much success. Sunday was church as usual, then dinner with the ward mission leader's family.
On Monday, my companion bought a copy of Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People. He
is hoping to get some ideas on how to work with members.
In the
afternoon we had our interviews with President Douglas. We had to
ride all the way down to Middlefield chapel which is near the south
end of our area. On the way I had a small accident but suffered no
injury or damage to my bike or pants or anything else. We were
hopping onto the side walk on the left side of the street; I went too
wide and my front tire was on the grass. I tried to get it back up
onto the sidewalk, but there was a bit of a lip and I toppled over
instead.
In
my interview with President Douglas I said that I was really
discouraged. He said that he knew Palo Alto was a rough area to
start in, but he was sure things would pick up. He was just so
positive that it couldn’t help but rub off on me, at least for a while.
On
Tuesday we went over to Stanford again with Elders Whopper and November.
We went to the memorial church and while we were there a man asked
me if we were Mormons. He said that he had a friend who was looking
for us. We gave him our address and phone number.
We played basketball this morning and touch football in the afternoon.
This evening, we
showed the video Our
Heavenly Fathers Plan
to a less-active member. She wants to become active but just can’t
seem to do it. We did, however, commit her to bring up the video to her
neighbors.
Sorry, but it wasn't an eventful week.
Love
Douglas
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