Micronesia/Guam - Reports to the Mission President September 1983

9/4/1983 - 9/10/1983
Dear President,
We had the seminary reps come this week and setup the seminary in two of the branches. In the Sapuk branch the teacher is expecting and she will be leaving the island in about a month. This will leave me to teach it until she comes back, which will be quite some time. We might start teaching an English class since there are a lot of non-members requesting to go to the one in Mwan. Since Sapuk is so far away from Mwan, many kids cannot attend. Thanks! Love, Steve

9/11/1983 - 9/17/1983
Dear President,
I'm working on the discussions a lot now and hopefully this week we might do some tracting... alone. Mote is learning the first half of the first discussion, and I've just about got all of the first part finished. Our discussions [numbers] are going down because we've finished teaching many people, and many can't [be] baptized because they like to be taught but they won't commit to anything. What do you do? We are trying. It's hard for us to get investigators in Sapuk, but we're working on the language all the time, so we'll try hard to get ready to go out on our own. Love, Elder Monson

9/25/1985 - 10/1/1983
Dear President,
Elder Mote and I are ready to give the first discussion by ourselves. Now we need to find more people to teach. We had a great seminary party this week, but the Sapuk members didn't show. We surely invited them to come but they didn't come because they expected us to give them a ride. We can't give them a ride every time they want one, or we would've gotten them. Looking forward to get the next MGM soon. Love, Elder Monson