Not Enough Time

Today marks exactly two months of my mission. It's kind of weird to think about, because two months seems like a long time, and two years seems like even longer, but it hasn't felt like two months at all.

I think the times when I've felt the spirit the most have been during personal study. Apart from that, I've also had some great experiences with different lessons. A couple of days ago we had a lesson with Bernard's wife, (because he wasn't home yet). We were all talking in Creole, so I was doing my best to keep up with the conversation. She kept having questions. Eventually Frè Tony (our member) started sharing his testimony on how he knew that the Book of Mormon was true because he had worked on translating it into Creole. I couldn't catch all of it, that's just what they told me happened after the fact, but I could still feel the spirit a lot and the whole meeting changed tones from there. Also, there have been many instances where I have felt the spirit in other circumstances.

There is never (never) enough time to get everything done throughout the day. It's so frustrating!

I think that one of the main things that I've learned (or at least, am learning) in the Book of Mormon is that the ancient prophets only wrote what they thought was important for us to know. They only write things that are important in an eternal perspective, even though logically back then there would have been just as many or more temporal things to distract them with. They spent a lot of time writing these things for our benefit, even though it was hard to write on plates, because they care about us and want us to learn from their mistakes. In other words, they were doing missionary work, to help us come unto Christ.

Haitians are kind of weird. They have a weird tradition where they talk in the middle of prayers. (Such as "Praise the lord!" "Hallelluja!" and "Yes, Jesus, yes."

We biked for the first time this week. It's terrifying to drive in Miami, let alone to bike next to/in between 6 lanes of traffic.

I have some funny experiences with investigators, but I am almost out of time to write, so I'll try to send them in letters or in next week's email. For now, just pray for Lucy, who is trying to get Sundays off so that she can be baptized on Dec. 1st.

I'm out of time.

Thanks,

Eldè Slade