Great Week

Dear family,

Another great week! Germany won the world cup, which almost brought Sister Bartsch to tears. I love that girl so much. I still remember that one time when I was on my mission and the Broncos won the Superbowl... that was so great. :) We're singing "Come Thou Fount" or I should say "Komm Du Quelle" in German in Sacrament meeting next week. We'll be practicing every morning!

The highlight of this week was definitely seeing member missionary work in action! On Saturday we saw Hayley 3 times, once in the morning for a lesson, in the middle of the day when she came to tour a new church building at the open house we were asked to help with, and once at night when the recent convert we had dinner with invited her to come. This member, Amelia, invited us over for smores and hot dogs around their fire pit, along with Hayley, a less active that she visit teaches, and another recent convert. Partway through dinner without any hesitation she opened the conversation up to talking about the gospel and her conversion, and the spirit was so strong! The less active really opened up about why she had been scared to come back to church, and it was all because Amelia helped her and everyone else there feel so loved.

Hayley is progressing amazingly. She truly is one of those "Are you real? Where did you even come from?" investigators. She is already so well integrated into the ward, you can hardly tell she's not already a member, and in fact she told us that when she was little she used to tell people she was Mormon, even though it wasn't true. She's always wondered why she did that. Hayley's family is not happy at all about her decision to be baptized, please pray for her to continue to have the strength that she needs.

Unfortunately we weren't able to meet with a few of our investigators this week because of them being out of town, overtime at work, etc... This next week they should be back on track though and we have some potentials that should turn into new investigators too!

Love you all!

Sister Slade