Terrific Week!

Dear Friends and Family:

We had a terrific week! We improved or were consistent in all of our key indicators, except for recent convert and less active lessons. Those went down drastically, but we will improve on those this week. We're already off to a good start, we had one yesterday and we have two planned for tonight.

We have several investigators this week that we are excited about! One in particular.

Her name is Jislaine P. She is an old Haitian lady, and pretty much from the moment we talked with her, she felt the spirit and she followed its promptings. She already knows that the Book of Mormon is the word of God, and she enjoyed church immensely. She has several good member friends already. Part of the Haitian gospel principles class was spent with all of them having a discussion about all of the lies that pastors and other people have told them about Mormons, about polygamy, whether or not we are Christian, and a bunch of other anti subjects. She put in several good comments! She has a strong commitment to come to church every Sunday. We can't wait for her baptism this weekend!

Elder Fisher and I have been blessed so much over the last week and a half. We have found so many miracles. One thing that I feel like I relearned was that the harder we work, the harder God works for us. We've really been focusing on always working hard, and continuing to spend all of our time during each day. We've been able to find many awesome people from just going out and working more, even when we feel fatigued and lazy.

We will be having a specialized mission training on the 24th of September. We can't wait for it! My guess is that it has something to do with iPads... but we'll all have to wait and find out.

Thanks,

Elder Slade

P.S. Quick miracle that just happened while I was emailing: someone called us. Someone had harvest blessed her husband recently, and she heard about it and wanted to learn more about the church. She called us, and asked what principles we follow in the church. I briefly touched on following Jesus Christ, the Law of Chastity, the Word of Wisdom, and the Book of Mormon. She asked how someone can become a member of the church. I told her. She wants accepted a date for the 14th, and we're going by tonight to see her. Yay!