Finding a Miracle

Dear Family and Friends:

I'm so excited that Britney is going home! Unfortunately, I still have to wait a while before I can see her. Britney: make sure you let me know your new email address when you get home.

In other news, the church is doing something very big for Christmas this year. To learn more, and to watch a fantastic video about Jesus Christ, go to christmas.mormon.org. Watch it as a family, or with everyone else you live with. Then share it with everyone you know!

This week has been a great one for us. At the start of the week, we decided to pray that we would find a miracle - someone to be baptized that Sunday, although we had no obvious potentials and we couldn't think of any way to do it, short of other missionaries teaching an investigator who then conveniently moved into our area, all ready to be baptized. Every time we prayed to start a study, or before we went out to harvest, we included this in the prayer. By the end of the week, the prayers had paid off.

Throughout the week, we found no one; but on Sunday, half-way through church, someone just walked into church. He had been walking past the church building to go to church somewhere else, and he just felt like he should go there instead. We believe that our faith and our prayers were what led him to feel the spirit and to walk in. We'll be meeting with him tonight at 8.

Our goal for the month of December is 6 baptisms. After we prayed to know what our goal should be, I felt that that was the number we should shoot for, but I was hesitant to voice it because I didn't want Elder Hunt to feel like I was making the choice. So I waited for him to speak, and he felt that we should shoot for six as well. It was a testimony builder for me to know that it really is God's work, and he will guide us when we sincerely ask for it. And as well: we can and will have six baptisms in this month, through the grace of God.

Someone asked about iPads. We don't have too many details, they've been pushing them back for a while now, but there's a rumor going around that we're supposed to get them in January. We'll find out, I guess :) I've also heard a lot of conflicting information about how much it will be and other details, but I think the most common consensus is that it will be $300, that we will be getting iPad minis instead of regular iPads, and that we will keep them after our missions. (Like our bikes - paid for with our own funds, and then we have them afterwards.)

Thanks,

Elder Slade