Dear friends and family:
We baptized Louisane and Jonal this week! It was one of the
most stressful baptisms I've had on my mission. It seemed like everything was
going wrong. The baptism was scheduled for 3:00 pm, but as we started preparing
for it we discovered a leak in the church building, and our bishop (who was
going to baptize them) called and said that he couldn't come anymore, he had an
emergency that he had to take care of. He was also going to give them a ride to
the church for the baptism, because they don't have access to a car on
Saturdays because somebody else uses it to drive to work. So we tried our best
to get everything resolved and to keep the baptism at 3:00, but when we drove
the the investigator's house to help the other member we asked to give them a ride
find them, we discovered that Jonal had been in a car accident earlier that
day, and that both of them were very shaken up. Louisane was worried that Jonal
had some sort of health complication despite the fact that he said he didn't
feel any pain. We weren't sure what to do, but the baptism definitely wasn't
going to happen at 3.
Then we decided to try to join our baptism with the baptism
for the Spanish ward that was going to happen at 6:00 the same day. So we
scrambled to make all of the phone calls, and to talk with Louisane and Jonal
and to convince them that God still wanted them to be baptized on the same day.
To make a very long, stressful story short, we finally managed to get them to
the church and to have them baptized. The baptism started a little late, and it
was a bilingual baptismal service, so it took twice as long as it would have in
normal circumstances... but Louisane and Jonal are baptized finally, and they
were confirmed yesterday!
IMPORTANT! By the way, our mission office is changing the
way that we handle mail. They will send you a letter with more details.
Basically, don't send my anything at the mission office address any more. They
don't want to worry about forwarding things to wherever we live. Instead, send
things to our home address. Currently, I live at:
18441 NE 20th Ave
North Miami Beach, FL 33179
...No, I don't live on the beach. The mission doesn't want
to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars a year for a single apartment there.
Thanks,
Elder Slade
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