Prayers needed!

This week has been a rough week as far as numbers go, and there were a few things that happened that we could use your prayers for too. As of right now Sister Turley and I don't have anyone on date for baptism. We went to meet with Sandra on Thursday, and we could tell something was wrong from the minute we all sat down. Sandra wants to wait on her baptism. She said that she isn't trying to find a reason to disprove the church, because she knows it's true, but she just came across something that she can't accept right now….Our Heavenly Father knows us so well, but Satan knows us as well, and he does everything he can to prevent people like Sandra from following Christ. Sandra was very emotional throughout the whole time she was telling us she wanted to wait on her baptism. She wants this for her and her family so badly. Instead of teaching her the lesson we had planned to teach on Thursday, we talked a lot about faith, and we shared with her some thoughts from Elder Holland's talk, "Lord I believe, Help thou mine unbelief." Keep her in your prayers.

We're really struggling to find more people to teach so that we can have progressing investigators too. This is something that we fasted about yesterday, and we decided that there's a single woman in her mid-40's that we need to find.

The highlight of the week was teaching an 18-year old girl named Kelsey. Kelsey is from Arizona, but she came here to visit her best friends family. She came to church with them this last week and the week before. The week before last Sister Turley and I taught the gospel doctrine lesson on baptism. On Tuesday she called and asked if she could take the discussions! We taught her twice this week. There is a special light about her. She said that what we are telling her seems to "make everything all fit together" and she said that she's been thinking a lot over the last few years about how when she has kids she wants to raise them with a strong foundation in Christ, but she's been wondering what is the best way to do that. She committed to baptism after the first lesson, and last lesson she agreed to say the prayer (she was too nervous to the first lesson) and her prayer gave me warm chills, the spirit there was so strong. We're sad that Kelsey is going back to Arizona this week, but the missionaries that will continue teaching her when she goes back sure are lucky!

Writing you guys is kinda frustrating, because there is just too much that has happened and too much emotion involved with the work here, that it seems like my letters don't tell you what it is actually like at all. I had another awesome experience I wanted to share with you, but I'll send it in a letter later. I like writing special experiences in letters, because it makes them feel more personal and sacred- like they're going to be preserved- rather than just typed up and sent over email.

Love you bunches!

Love, Sister Slade

(Note from Nancy: If you want to hear more personal stuff, write Britney a letter!  She just gave you a big hint that she writes really great snail mail letters!  And our snail mail letters have been amazing!)