Will you Slade into my DMs?

 (Elder Slade)

To the best friends and family a person could hope for!

This week's title come from someone we're teaching named Autumn. We were texting her back and forth and she texted "Will you Slade into my dm's?" I thought it was pretty funny! This week wasn't too eventful, other than that, haha! We've been helping a less active family start come back to church, and this week they attended church over zoom! They are making progress, and hopefully we can get them to full activity soon. This week I also hit my year mark! It was pretty uneventful, but it feels weird that I am now on the downward slope of my mission. I'm looking forward to this coming year.

Elder Maunana also ate the calf liver this week! It was a nasty purple color and looked gross, and to Elder Maunana, tasted the same way it looked. Along with other exotic foods, we made some hamburgers made of Moose meat that someone gave us. It was surprisingly good! Would reccomend.

This week I was reading a talk by Elder Bednar about looking outwards, when one's natural instinct would be to turn inwards. Christ always turned outwards while he was going through suffering. Doing so allowed him to complete what His Father had asked him to do. When we are in suffering and we turn outwards to help others, it is a sign of a Christlike Character, and will allow us get through challenges in life with joy and love, a much better alternative to self-pity and sorrow. I'd invite you to try to turn outwards this week, even if you are suffering.

Love you all!

1. The parrot of Doug Grover, an older man we are teaching.

2. Elder Holmes and I eating our Moose burgers

3. Cool snow spikes on the trees

4. Elder Maunana beat Elder Uolmes by eating 76 gum balls.

5. The infamous calf liver.