Miracles

Dear friends and family:

First I'll summarize the missionary work that's been going on here:

Despite great effort on our part throughout the week to find people to get to church, we still saw the typical Sunday-morning dropoff of investigators. Some of them were called in to work, some of them were unable to overcome social anxiety, some of them didn't really have a good reason not to come. But despite being yet another week without having investigators in sacrament meeting, I'm still happy for two main reasons:

First, we had a miracle investigator show up to church. One of our recent converts showed up with his nonmember wife, who just moved here from Haiti. They came in just a little bit too late to see the sacrament in the chapel itself, but they walked in afterwards and she loved it - as well as the Haitian Creole Sunday school class afterwards. We'll be seeing them again tonight, and we're excited to help her be baptized on the 28th.

Second, we found a miracle on Friday. We knocked into Robert, who had recently had a rough divorce, and who had recently been contemplating suicide. After the prayer, he testified that he knew that God sent us to him, and he immediately accepted baptism. On Sunday morning, he was called in to work. He tried to call his boss to get permission to leave work for Sacrament meeting and then to come back, but he was told that if he left he would be fired. At the end of his shift, he felt terrible, and he told his boss that he couldn't work on Sundays any more. He said that his relationship with God was more important to him than his relationship with his work. He told him and us afterwards that there is no way he would ever miss church again. We are so glad to have found Robert, and to work with him. He is so prepared to hear the gospel!

It sounds like you just had a wonderful youth missionary experience there in Rye. How big was the event? Was it just our ward, or was it several wards put together?

You'll have to tell me how the concert goes this weekend.

A quick note: transfers are next week, so I will be emailing on Tuesday, not Monday. My guess: I'll transfer, Elder Peterson will stay, but I have no idea who will come or where I will go.

Thanks for everything,

Elder Slade