5 Baptisms!

Dear friends and family:

This week, Edwin K. was confirmed! It was a great blessing. Brother Yorke gave it. After sacrament meeting, Ed said that he felt happy. He has been very excited to be a member, and he has been telling people that he was LDS for several weeks now. I'm glad that he found the church and has finally received the gift of the Holy Ghost!

In other news, Charles was baptized! His Mom, Nardine, was able to get work off this one Sunday, to come to church for the first time in about 8 years, and to be there for his baptism. It was a temporary solution, and it won't work again for a while, but Nardine is upset that she isn't coming to church and she is trying to find a more permanent solution that will allow her to come every week. Charles, however, is very excited about his baptism yesterday, and he's excited to be confirmed next week as well. After he was baptized and changed back, he bore his testimony to the audience. It was a very powerful testimony.

More good news: Lornise, Nislade, Erlanda, and Ketty were baptized yesterday as well. They were happy to be baptized as well. We had the baptism in the evening, at 7, so that their parents and grandparents would be able to come. Disappointingly, none of the parents came at that time anyway, so there was no parental support at the baptism itself. They all want to be baptized, and they are happy that their children are making that step, but they have their priorities skewed a little. The four who were baptized are getting a lot of support from the young women in the ward, and we are going to put a large effort into raising the parents' desires as well.

We had a member referral this week, a woman named Kaitlyn. Brother and Sister Yorke tipped us off about her and told us that she was coming to church on Sunday. After sacrament meeting, we walked over to talk with her and asked about church. She enjoyed it. We asked her if she would be baptized next Sunday; she enthusiastically agreed. We'll be teaching her for the first time tonight, and we can't wait to see her.

This week, we again struggled with finding. We didn't neglect finding or harvesting, we just haven't been able to add to our teaching pool that much. But God has blessed us to find in other ways, and we will focus on finding this week so that we can continue to have a healthy teaching pool.

Fact of the day: Mozilla Firefox is better than Google Chrome, and especially Internet Explorer.

Thanks,

Elder Slade