Transferring again

Dear friends and family:

I'm astonished that I am transferring again. I had resolved myself to serve in Fort Myers for the last four transfers of my mission, but I guess that's not where the Lord wants me to be at this time. Elder Parker and I are both determined to leave the area in a good condition, so the new missionaries can come in and take up where we left off. We're cleaning everything really well, making notes about weekly meetings and future appointments, which members are available usually to come out teaching, and other such information.

The Fort Myers stake has been trying to focus on contacting prospective elders - members who have the Aaronic priesthood, and who have been members for a long time, but who have never received the Melchizedek priesthood. That has been a large part of our efforts this week, and we have seen a few miracles from that. One of them we saw when we tried to visit an inactive member who is married to a nonmember, both of whom lived in Utah for several years. They let us come in to their gated community, which is surprising because as they told us, they rejected missionaries every time we tried to come over for several years. They allowed us to share a quick message from the scriptures, which brought in the spirit. He is not ready to come back just yet, but that gave us the opportunity for God to work in their hearts.

Elando was unfortunately unable to come to church this week, because he was in Bonita. But Jorkens, a 19-year-old Haitian investigator who just moved here from Haiti, came to church and can't wait to be baptized! He's a little hard to get in contact with, because he is still in High School and he is going to college almost every night in order to learn English, but it's a blessing that we were able to work with him and we will miss him a lot, even though we will not be here to see him baptized.

I don't know exactly what time I will be skyping on Mother's day, because I don't know exactly where I will be. But it most likely be in the early afternoon for me, which means late morning for you. What time is church in Rye? Also, which skype account will you be using?

I'm excited to hear about all of my cousins receiving their mission calls. Yes, Austin is in the Milan, Italy mission as well.

Thanks,

Elder Slade