Back in Miami Shores!

Chè fanmi ak zanmi mwen yo:

I'm back in Miami Shores Creole! I never thought it would happen, it's pretty rare to go back to an area where you've served before. I started my mission here, I left for six months, and now I'm back! Hopefully I'll get a few more transfers here, it really is a great place. The people are all great, you get to speak Creole almost all the time, I've already had four Haitian meals (two of which included griot! Delicious!) and, I'm back in one of the only two Haitian Creole areas in the mission that includes a Krispy Kreme!

Unfortunately, the Krispy Kreme wall has been taken down, as of a few months ago, but the wall itself isn't as important as the donuts.

Also, I love my new companion. His name is Elder Felkins. He came out a transfer before I did,

Elder Felkins and I are getting along really well. Not quite as well as Elder Van Wagenen and I did originally, but still very well. It's a relief that we already have such a great relationship, with little or no tension. We're already teaching together pretty well, and we'll keep working on it as well until we either become perfect teachers or until we are no longer companions.

I'm getting pretty close to finishing the Book of Mormon again. The chapters in Ether have always been some of my favorite chapters, because it shows patterns very clearly that are harder to spot in some of the rest of the Book of Mormon. Mormon even explicitly points some of them out. I love it.

This week, we saw many miracles. One of them was a family that we found while harvesting. The mom's desires are to live a better life, and to do what God wants her to do; and she and her family are both excited to prepare to be baptized. Unfortunately, she got violently sick on Saturday night, so they could not come to church, but they still are excited to prepare to be baptized so we'll keep working with them.

For the record, I didn't know where I transferred to or who my new companion was until Wednesday. I couldn't have told any of you where I went before that.

I realized that I didn't tell you much about my new mission president. That's because I don't really know much about him. I've only seen him in person once so far, we're not getting interviews with him until the 25th of this month.

It's exciting to see the house changing, even though I only ever lived there for about two weeks. Were you going to put carpet up in the loft? I don't exactly know how to install carpet, what the process is or how expensive it can get.

Also, I found out that my release date was pushed back a week. Now it is September 3rd, not September 10th.

Scripture of the day: Ether 14:18: "And there went a fear of Shiz throughout all the land; yea, a cry went forth throughtout the land—Who can stand before the army of Siz? Behold, he sweepeth the earth before him!"

Mèsi anpil, mwen renmen nou,

Elder Slade