Dear friends and family:
This is the second-to-last email I will send to you while I
am on my mission. I only have one more P-day after today, and that P-day will
be spent packing and looking forward to seeing all of you just two days later.
Elder Storm and I have had a better week than we had last
week, but we're still a little frustrated with the progress that we have been
making. We worked really hard, and we were able to improve (progress) in many
key indicators, but one key indicator that has notoriously stayed the same is investigators
at sacrament. This is the second week in a row that we haven't gotten anybody
to come to church; as a matter of fact, these are the only two weeks that Elder
Storm and I have been together that we have gotten no investigators to come to
church.
Sonia is our only solid investigator right now - her and her
nine-year-old daughter. We have been working with them for a week or two now,
and she came to the baptism of Alicia and Alvin on Saturday. She loved it, and
the chapel tour we had with her afterwards; and she finally offered a prayer,
for the first time in 3 or 4 lessons, because of the spirit that she felt
there. She was solidly committed to come to church, but unfortunately she took
a cold medicine the night before that caused her to sleep in several hours. We
were disappointed, but we're going to keep teaching her and get her to church
this Sunday so that she and her daughter (and her mother) can be baptized on
the 12th. (After I go home... sad face.)
I performed the baptismal interview for Alvin on Thursday,
before he was baptized with his girlfriend Alicia on Saturday. (They aren't my
investigators, I'm just mentioning them because I did one of the interviews.)
It was my first baptismal interview, and it will probably be my last...
Thanks,
Elder Slade
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