Half Chinese

Hello, World!

I don't have a lot of time to email right now, so I'll make it quick.

This last week, I went on an exchange with Elder Tesch, my district leader, in his area. We harvest blessed for the entire day, because all of the appointments fell through. I didn't get to sit in on a Spanish lesson, but it was still good. We found some cool people. The second to last blessing we had was a person who cried after we said the prayer. That has never happened to me before. I was reminded again that we really can't do anything if the spirit is not there. The people have to feel the spirit, or else they won't ever change, and they won't ever repent. She agreed to be baptized on the 12th. I don't know what happened to her after that. Too bad we had to pass her.

Elder Winslow and I also had a great experience with harvesting this last Saturday. It wasn't an individual blessing, it was the experience as a whole. It was as if we couldn't walk ten steps without someone coming up to us and wanting to talk to us. For example, we gave out a card to someone who passed us because we were already talking to someone else; he walked a few steps, looking at the card, and then he stopped and waited for us to finish. He asked us about the DVD on the back of the card. We promised we would get him one. We ran back to our car to retrieve it, ran back, and gave it to him. We invited him to watch it and to come to church. On our way back to the car, we gave out another card to another man; he asked us to give another one to his son, and pointed out his house. We went over there and harvest blessed them. It was another blessing that was really spiritually powerful. I know that those experiences came because God prepared the people there and we did our best to follow the spirit to know where to go.

I am currently reading in the chapters in 3 Nephi where Christ talks to the people in America. One thing I learned just recently from reading them is in relation to lower/higher laws. The law of Moses was a lower law, given to the people because they were not ready to receive the higher law; and also because Christ had not yet come to atone for us. After he came, he established a higher law. It's not that the law of Moses was a bad thing; it was just a lower law. One thing I realized while reading these chapters is that this could be a symbol as well for the laws of Justice and Mercy. It's not that justice is a bad thing - on the contrary. It's just that there's a higher law.

Someone I met yesterday tried to tell me that I look like a mix between Chinese and white. He said I look Chinese because of my eyes. I told him that I didn't know what race I was, my ancestors are so diverse, but that that was the first time someone's tried to tell me that I'm half Chinese.

I can't believe how different each person is. I meet so many new people each day, and I try to get to know them in order to show my love for them. There are so many types of people. All of them are crazy.

The ward split just barely. Yesterday was the first day that the ward and the branch met separately. I had six hours of church. It was exhausting.

I'm just about out of time again, unfortunately.

Thanks,

Eldè Slade