Busy week

Dear family, I'm out of time this week, so I've just copied and pasted my letter to President again. The biggest news from this week is that we had a super powerful lesson with Hayley this week where she told us that she has received an answer to her prayers, and she knows that it's all true! She loved church and loves reading the Book of Mormon and is so excited to be baptized! Unfortunately, we also found out that she lives in Bothell and has simply been commuting to Everett for work and to see friends. It looks like some Seattle missionaries are going to get a an absolutely golden referral, and the Sammammish Valley YSA ward will be blessed to have Hayley.

I love you all!

Dear President Bonham,

Happy Anniversary! Since you're both soooo old and have gained so much wisdom together, you can tell me, is Jesus Christ truly the secret to a happy marriage and family?

The Lord has been using us as finding tools recently, and all in one week we've had to pass-off most of our investigators to surrounding areas. It's a good thing the church is just as true in Bothell and Lynnwood and Lake Stevens as it is here! We are looking forward to finding prepared people in Everett this week though :)

Sister Bartsch and I are very excited for the Mini-MTC we are organizing for our ward. We taught the lesson in relief society yesterday and the ward is definitely getting excited about missionary work. In the words of Sister Bartsch, "I was about to pull a King Lamoni and pass out the spirit was so strong!"

I have been studying the meaning of the atonement this week. A few days ago we went to talk to a group of YSA talking on the side of the road, and one of them asked me, "Well why was it necessary? If God is all-powerful, why did it have to happen?" It was so cool to be able to share scriptures from the Book of Mormon with him and have a good long discussion about everything that I had just finished studying! What I loved the most though was being able to share my testimony, that I really do know that Jesus Christ is my Savior, and even though I still don't understand fully the reasons of why it had to happen, the spirit has witnessed to me through prayer and through actually using His sacrifice in my life, that the atonement is so real! I hope the guys we talked to will accept our invitation to simply try, and to experience the reality of the atonement for themselves.

Lots of tender mercies and lots of feelings of love every day.

We are expecting miracles in the coming week.

Love, Sister Slade