Hello family!
I have about half the time to email here in the Everett
library than I used to have, so my weekly emails may be much shorter and a lot
less coherent from here on out, but here goes!
This has been a week of miracles! The week before I came
here pretty much all of the investigators that Sister Bartsch and Sister
Sinclair were teaching jumped ship, but this week Sister Bartsch and I were
very blessed to find a few new investigators that seem very promising!
We have started teaching a 19 year old African American girl
named Osharrhea. Her entire family was recently baptized, but she has been away
at school in Alabama. Well she recently returned, and she is seeing how happy
her family is and she wants to be baptized too! She is so sweet. She came to
church and to a baptism and to our ward carnival this weekend and she loved
them all!
Last week Sister Bartsch contacted a guy named Robert on
campus, and he is so prepared! During our first lesson when we were talking
about the apostasy I felt like I should ask him if he had ever felt a
"personal apostasy" or a time of confusion and darkness in his life
where he felt like there was something missing. When I said this his eyes got
really big and he said "I feel that way all the time. Every time I'm not
with people, I go back to constantly wondering what is missing and how I can
fill this hole. But it's weird- it's like I don't even know what I'm searching
for!" We testified that our message is what he has been searching for, and
the spirit was strong for the rest of the lesson. After he said the closing
prayer he said, "I feel really good! I think I really want to give this a
try." The whole lesson was so golden and surreal that after the lesson
Sister Bartsch and I had to immediately say a prayer of gratitude before we
continued with our day. We can't decide if Robert is real of not. We think he
might be one of the three nephites coming to test our missionary teaching
skills. :)
I'm just about out of time, but really quick, i wanted to
invite you all to do two things:
1. Will you all take the time every day to have personal
scripture study with me? Even if it's just for five minutes, take some time to
start study with a prayer, study your scriptures, and end with a prayer too.
Don't even think of going one day without it! We wouldn't go a day without
feeding ourselves physically, no matter how busy or stressful or crazy that day
was, so why would we think of going a day without feeding ourselves
spiritually? Every day counts! I promise that if you make "daily devotional
time" a priority, the Lord will give you greater direction and peace
throughout every day. Take some time today to pray to Him and promise Him that
you will do this, then follow through on your promise and watch Him work
miracles in your life.
2. If you haven't already, go buy the book "The Power
of Everyday Missionaries" by Clayton Christensen, then apply the
principles that he talks about in your own life! It's only $5 and that money
goes to the general missionary fund, so no excuses! It is an amazing book, go
buy it and tell me what you think of it!
Love you all!
Sister Slade
We stopped to talk to a woman who was holding her pet snake
and she said that we could hold it :)
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