Faith is like a cinnamon

(Elder Slade)

To the best friends and family a person can hope for,

It's been a good week. We did lots of service this week, consisting of helping someone move a dresser, building a fence, and painting a woman’s house. (Not all at the same time, though that would be pretty impressive!) It felt good to take a bit of a brake from all of the teaching, texting, and calling and just help someone out. We also did an exchange this week. I went with Elder Vea, who was a reassigned missionary who served in Zimbabwe, and who's from Tonga and the U.S., so it was fun talking with him. During that we got tons of food! We got zucchini bread, cake, ice cream, hot dogs, potato salad, and coleslaw, all given to us to take home. The struggle is real.

This week, we've really been focusing on finding new people to teach though. Most of our prayers included asking to help us find. We've also tried to especially focus on activities that would lead to finding in our planning. Because of this a miracle happened! We went to one of our dinner Appointments the other night and when we got there, they said that they had just randomly invited an entire nonmember family to dinner as well! We started talked with them, and they said we could stop by sometime. So, we stopped by a few times this week, began growing a relationship with them, and they said we could come over next week sometime and start teaching them! Hopefully we'll be able to catch them! But this to me shows how the Lord really does answer prayers. There are many blessing in store, that are just requisite on us asking for them, and trusting in God's will. The power of prayers is real!

This morning we also got transfer calls. While Elder Baron and I are both staying in our area, we are being moved to a different zone, the St. Anthony zone. They are also making me a district leader. I don't know what they were thinking, but I know that the Lord will help me! As far as I know, my role is to organize exchanges with the Elders in my district, and lead our district councils. It will be good. The title this week actually comes from a few weeks ago, when Elder Baron was trying to say "Faith is a synonym " when he actually said "Faith is a cinnamon". I think Elder Baron was on to something there. If you think about it hard enough, I think he found the meaning to some of life's greatest questions.

For those of you who are potato enthusiasts, put in your calendars August 19th and October 27th. They are National Potato Days! Exciting!

Pictures:

1. An awesome bumper sticker. I'm Elder Slade, and I approve this message!

2. A cute dog at on of our service projects.

3-4. Elder Vea and I with the house we helped paint. If you look closely, you can see that I got brown paint in my hair. I'm not very good at staying clean when it comes to paint.