A good one

Dear friends and family:

This week has been a pretty good one. Elder Storm and I are still going strong. I'm trying not to focus on how soon I'm going home, but it gets harder and harder because almost every missionary I talk to mentions it. :) I'm trying to get as emotionally attached as possible to our new goal: five baptisms this transfer. We know that this goal is inspired of God, and nothing is going to stop us from accomplishing it!

Abigaile came to church again last week. That makes five times that she has come to church. This time, she brought her brother with her as well. Unfortunately, she had a terrible time at church, because she felt sick. She ended up going to the bathroom, throwing up there, and then going home. We stopped by later to talk with her, but she looked terrible. We're going to try to see her again tonight and get her set with a date for this Saturday.

Maxime and his sons did not come to church this morning, because of an unfortunate problem that he had with his car. But we stopped by in the evening to teach him and his family, and he's still excited to be baptized and to join the church. He told us, 'you can just consider that this is my church from now on. I'm not going to be going to any other churches.' Unfortunately, we also found out that he and his wife are not actually married, although they have been living together for the last nine years. So now we are trying to get them married so that he and their sons can be baptized. This is made more complicated by the fact that his wife doesn't really like us that much, but she is the one who wanted to get married all of those nine years so that she could be baptized into her own church. Now Maxime is changing his mind and he wants to be married, just so that he can be baptized. And to make matters worse, he is going out of town today again for work. He doesn't know when he'll be back, but it won't be for several more days.

Those are are two most solid investigators for right now. We have a few other, less-solid investigators we are working with, but they didn't come to church and so the ones that we haven't dropped are on probation until we can find out what happened and why they didn't come.

Thanks,

Elder Slade