Language Skills

Dear Friends and Family:

We were able to do very well this week. God blessed us with nine member present lessons, and we almost achieved standards in member blessings and RCLAs. We'll keep working on them and make our strengths into... bigger strengths.

Marie E., the only nonmember in her family, went to the courthouse on Thursday to get the marriage license for her and Abacu. They are planning on being married on Saturday, and she is planning to be baptized on Sunday the day after. This will be Elder Kwon's and my first time helping investigators be married so that they can be baptized. They are both excited to go to the temple in a year to be sealed; we went down there for a temple tour with them on Tuesday night.

I've decided that the Fort Lauderdale temple is prettier than the Denver temple, or any others that I have ever been in before.

My language skills are coming along really well. At the beginning of my mission, I had wanted to be 100% fluent in every aspect of the language by the end. I've let up on those expectations since then. Here's a fancy chart showing where I feel my language skills are:

Language  Prof.   | Fluent                            | Native

English   --------------------------------------------|

H. Creole ----------|

Spanish   ---|

French    -|

Others    |

As part of our battle to get rid of bed bugs, we've moved all of the beds to one room so we can combine our efforts to eradicate them; and today, while Elder Kwon and I were waiting our turn to use the computers to email, we cleaned out our old bedroom thoroughly. It's now just our study room, and it looks fantastic. It's the cleanest I've ever seen a room in a missionary apartment. Now we'll see how long it stays that way.

To my loving family who just sent me a Halloween package: thank you so much, I can't wait to eat all of the candy that must be waiting inside. On Halloween, we have to stop knocking doors at five, and we have to be at home at seven. So we'll have plenty of time to go through whatever you sent. Thanks again!

Thanks,

Elder Slade