A little Help Making a Logo in Illustrator

[Parsnip]

Hey, Im making a logo that utilizes the male bathroom sign, but instead of simply using a high-res image of it and changing it, I recreated it using the ellipse and rectangle tool. But all the parts are still separate. I've tried using join, but it doesn't work. Live painting or tracing dont work either as the lines become warped. Any ideas on how to overcome this and join the separate parts into a single shape?

[iDad]

I do not use illustrator but can't you just merge the layers? Or save as and then reopen to edit