Zone Conference

Dear Friends and Family:

Elder Peterson and I have been putting forth a lot of effort into finding new investigators this week. Even so, unfortunately we didn't see any real results until Friday, when we had an exchange with Elder Allen and Elder Miller. That day was the day we started seeing a lot of results and miracles. We found several amazing people who we followed up with the next day. A few of them put in a strong effort to come to church yesterday, but were not able to due to their siblings/friends bailing at the last moment and so they had no ride to come to church. But they are excited to come next week, and we are excited to keep working with them.

Yesterday, after church, we had another amazing miracle happen. There was a child of record baptism at 5, so after church we had a little time to contact all of our investigators and try to get them to come and see the baptism, even though they didn't come to church. We had no success, due to the lateness of the invitation, until we stopped by to invite Christopher to come to the baptism. We didn't have much hope, because it was 4:40 at this time, and he had to depend on other people to give him rides. But we stopped by, and we met his roommate for the first time, Freddy. Freddy hadn't been there the last few times we had stopped by due to a new job at IHOP he had just received, but this time he was there and excited to see us. He knew a lot about missionaries but had not been to church since he was a little child. When we invited him to come and see the baptism, he stopped for a second, and then agreed.

He followed us to the church, and we watched the baptism together. Afterward, he had several questions about the service. He didn't know what baptism was, for instance, and he didn't know what the Holy Ghost was. We have a return appointment with him tomorrow. We can't wait to help him prepare to be baptized himself!

Tomorrow we have Zone Conference, which is a large conference with the mission president and about a third of the mission. (Probably about 70-80 missionaries.) The presidents' assistants serve in our ward as well, but they have been very good at keeping secrets from us and not letting out what will happen there. We're very excited to go and to learn tomorrow!

I still have no idea what I'm going to do for college. I haven't received a confirmation or rejection from BYU-Provo, but from what I understand the last date that they can tell me if I am accepted or not is this Saturday, so that will help me determine what I will be doing.

I'm sorry to hear that KaraLynne is in the hospital. I'll be praying for her. Is there any news on Sister Kayla Cummings yet?

Thanks,

Elder Slade