Elder Felkins

Dear Friends and Family:

Elder Felkins and I are doing great, here in Miami Shores Creole. We get along great, and we work really well together too. We are currently attending two sessions of church - one ward and one branch - each week. It can be exhausting, but it is really fun as well. I was here seven months ago, when the ward split, and it's amazing to see the changes that have come in that time. At the time that the split happened, there were about 30 people attending church each week. Now, there are about 70-80 people each week. One week there was 96 people. The progression is great to watch.

This week we saw many miracles. We have had many great experiences with harvesting and finding new people to teach. On one day, we found three separate families who all accepted coming to church and getting baptized. Unfortunately, they were English, so we had to pass them to the sisters... but they will still be awesome and amazing for the sisters to teach and to baptize. Our goals this week are to be the two most diligent and obedient missionaries to exist in the history of the world. (No, I don't have hubris.) Then, we will qualify for the same blessings, but for our own area, so we will have many awesome people for us to teach!

I finished the Book of Mormon again this week, and I've started over from the beginning. The last few chapters are probably some of the best in the book, I really love them. This time through, I am going to make a focus on the spirit. Each time the spirit is mentioned, or someone is guided or directed or comforted, I will pay close attention to that and apply it in my life.

For some reason, this week in the branch, there were professional photographers there, who were taking pictures from all sorts of different angles of the congregation. I don't know why they were there, but it was really distracting for me. I wonder if the Miami Beach 2nd Branch is going to show up in some sort of LDS.org video... :D

Attached is a picture of my companion, a Haitian member, and myself. She wanted a picture of all of us together, so here it is.

Thanks,

Elder Slade