Baptisms

Dear friends and family:

We've had a great week. We had two baptisms on Saturday, for Jacquito P-L. and his wife, Marie. They, along with Olriche G. (who was baptized last week) were confirmed yesterday. Elder Peterson and I are thrilled to have had so much success this last week, and we're excited to make this transfer the best one we've ever had.

Elder Peterson is a really great missionary. He isn't afraid to go and talk to anybody, and he gets along with everyone. We have slightly different styles of tracting when we knock on doors, but we'll work out the rough edges in another week or so. Elder Peterson loves computers, and worked in IT before his mission, so we have a lot of things in common. (Although, he doesn't program. I'll convert him if we have enough time together. :D)

One of the things that we are still struggling with is finding new investigators. This is especially a problem now, because after we split from a tricompanionship again, each area had half as many investigators in the first place. And now we have baptized all of our investigators, leaving only a few follow up appointments as a source of new investigators. But we made a goal of 5 baptisms in this month, and we still have all of this week to find the last two people, so they can come to church for two Sundays, and then be baptized on the 28th (the last day of the month, but still in February. :) ).

We have zone training tomorrow, for which we are very excited, and we're bien animados to have a wonderful month of February!

News on the bed bugs: they haven't really been biting that much over the last month or so. Occasionally we get one or two bites, but the problem seems to have been temporarily eradicated. What about you, my beloved family? Do you still have bed bugs?

Thank you for all of your letters of encouragement and your effort on my behalf. It's nice to hear from you and to see how you are doing. I have a few questions, for all of my siblings who are in school; what classes are you taking? What class is your favorite, and why? Your least favorite, and why? And... how do you feel about Britney being engaged? That was a surprise. I didn't see it coming at all.

Thanks,

Elder Slade