Lots of Lessons

Dear Friends and Family:

How great a pleasure it is to come before all of you this week. My name is Elder Slade, I will be conducting this email. I will also be presiding.

Elder Hunt and I had a terrific week. We were able to work much more closely with the members, and this week we had 9 member present lessons! As well, two of our investigators came to sacrament meeting yesterday. Both of them have dates to be baptized this week. (One on Saturday, the other on Sunday.)

We had several miracles this week that I am really excited about. One time, while Elder Hunt was on exchanges in Fort Lauderdale South's area, Elder Chartrand and I were harvesting and we found two old ladies, a mother and a daughter. We prayed with them, and invited both to be baptized. Both rejected because they had already been baptized, but we testified that God really had sent us to them to invite them to be baptized again in Jesus Christ's church. We invited them to pray and ask God, to receive a confirmation for themselves that this was true. Gertrude, the daughter, (herself about 60 years old), started praying. Halfway through the prayer, she received her answer, stopped praying, and told us she wanted to be baptized. It was incredible!

Elder Hunt and I are very excited this week to go to the Christmas conference. The mission only gets together one time every year, unless a special occasion comes up (such as a visiting general authority). That one time is the Christmas conference, at the beginning of December. As part of the festivities, there is a talent show, a while elephant gift exchange, a meal, and we also receive training from President Richardson on how to be better missionaries. It'll be fun :D

As well, we have zone training tomorrow. We have big plans already on how we can make this week even better, and apply what we learn tomorrow and on Wednesday.

Thanks for all of the updates on what's going on at home. It's really nice to hear from all of you, and to be a part of your lives. I'm happy to hear that Britney got home safely (no longer Sister Slade) and I can't wait to see her and Becky and Jeremy and Thomas and Claire for Christmas!

Thanks,

Elder Slade