Choices

Dear friends and family:

We have been having a great time this week working. Elder Peterson is as diligent as ever, and together we managed to apply zone conference and get more new investigators than we have any other week we have had together. We had five NI by Wednesday, and seven by Sunday. We're still working on refining our approach and getting members out with us more so that our investigators progress and come to church, but we have been having a lot more success finding the investigators to teach in the first place.

We have two investigators from last week who we consider to be progressing. One is Marie. The only thing that stopped her from coming to church was her son getting sick the night before. The other is Justice, who was all prepared to come to church and then her parents left instead and had her babysit her siblings instead. It was really frustrating, but we know that if we can get members over there to visit them and Justice's parents we can get both of them (and their families!) to come to church next week. We are also going to keep our focus on finding people to be baptized, and we'll repeat what happened last week... only better.

We went on exchanges with Elder Allen and Elder Miller on Sunday after church, so that Elder Allen could come into our area and so that Elder Miller could learn from taking over the area again. It was a good exchange. We got a lot done but did not find anyone for our own area, but Elder Peterson and Elder Miller had a miracle find who they're going back to see tonight.

Update on college: I was accepted to BYU-Provo! This is great, because I still have the option to go there, but it's also frustrating because now I have a much bigger choice to make. The four biggest colleges I am still looking at are BYU-I, BYU, UofU, and Neumont.

I was thinking about the next few months, and I realized that general conference is only a month away. That's right, my fourth general conference on my mission. (You only get four. Then you die.) Tomorrow is my 6-months to home mark.

What ended up happening with Kayla and everything else we were fasting for as a family?

Thanks,

Elder Slade