7/30/2012

Good afternoon everyone! well as aubs said yes this week has flown by! they r starting to go by faster and faster which is just the best feeling! haha Yes aubs we have a cell phone. haha no u cant call me :( Anyways this week has been unreal weather wise! i guess its still rainy season but it hasnt rained forever, but its still nice and cool and cloudy. Also i have a scripture for u guys to read in alma 26:27. I was also wondering if u could send me all my friends weekly emails home on dear elder? i know thats kinda a big thing, but i would LOVE That! just eric kent billy and spencer. The country is just going on as usual with the death of their president. ha no we rnt getting a new apartment unfortunately but they are supposed to be putting in some money to get it fixed up but ill prob be gone by then. We have zone conference about every month and district meeting every week. our zone is our district so yeah. We eat at members houses like once a week prob. 


OK so for my week. ON tuesday we had our district meeting as usual. After, elder zoll came to our apartment to make a list of all the things we need fixed in the apartment. ALso he brought the mail. I had TONS! haha thanks so much! i also got a package from grandma eggett and loved it! I also loved all the articles and elder gagnes emails. I seriously felt like i was at home while reading all of them! I got the thing that josh millheims mom sends out about all those guys on their mission and it made me so dang mad! they all have cars and eat sweet food and have no idea how hard it is here! ah!!! u hear that guys?! u suck! ha We then went out and our appointments failed so we visited Priscilla. She is awesome and we have definitely established the relationship that we need with her so hopefully it all works out! We then visited elizabeth and tried to dig up the reason why she hasnt been coming to church but she always says oh nothing ill come! ugh its so frustrating and sad! I think they might really be hurting for money and cant even pay transport to church. she hasnt been paid from her job in ten months and godfred just does odds and ends stuff. We then taught ellen a small part of the plan of salvation cause she had to help her dad pound fufu. she is awesome and will be baptized sometime next month. July is freakin finished! crazy! 


ON wednesday every single one of our appointments failed. So we did alot of gc's and contacting. blah... That night the ward had kind of a farewell party thing for Sampson and paulina. they left friday. thats who elder evbuomwam are in one of the pics with. We r gonna miss them. I also sent a letter to the address of the old house so be looking for it. whats our new address? 


Thursday we had our weekly planniong under the direction of the zl's. haha we then went out and taught our sweet new investigator barbara. We taught her lesson one to apostacy. its so frustrating to explain to people as plain as u can that the true church was lost and then restored and there is only one true church and its ours, only for them to tell u oh well i cant come to urs cause i have to go to mine, after we invite them!!! ah! everytime! we r always like uh... did u not hear anything we just said? We also saw kinsley and it went ok, but he has the same problem i just explained! We then saw ellen and ate fufu! 


ON friday we two really awesome spirtual lessons were the spirit just took over and i had no idea what i was eeven saying. haha its the best when u can truly feel urself being an instrument in gods hands like that. it was like i was in 3rd person! ha The first one was with barbara and the second with alfred, who we havent seen forev. bb promised she would come to church hardcore and sunday came and went and she never came. freakin heck! Alfred says hell come next week and he better or hes gonna be dropped! We then contacted and had a lesson with two sweet people a bro and sis, Shadirach and deborah. 


ON sat we had a lesson with rhoda about the temple and she really wants to go now which is awesome! she also wants to really marry Albert (the guy who referred her and baptized her). haha We then taught a new investigator Judy. She is a student at the campus in our area. she is pretty cool. we taught her the doctrine of christ and it went really well. we can only meet with her saturdays though unfortunately. We then met with a member bro gyimah. he told us his freakin sweet conversion story. he said he used to drink all the time everyday, and one day he woke up the next morning after drinking, and there was just vomit everywhere. he asked him self what he was doing and what kind of life was this. he then prayed and asked god to help him change, and he promised to stop drinking if god would do that. that sunday he just decided to come to our church and the rest is history! freakin sweet right?! We tthen taught our two new investigators shadirach and deborah. we taught them to the apostacy and it went very well so we r still praying they will work out! Our other former investigator now, richard also failed us twice! in one day! and then failed to come to church! 


Yesterday after church we went and taught bro gemco. we taught him the restoration. it went good until the end when he told us that he cant come cause he has his church! ah!!!!! Everyone says the same thing! ha we then met a new awesome guy Peter. he is a pastor. we taught him the B.O.M and it went awesome and he accepted it totally and is way excited to learn more and he cant wait to get a bom! It was sweet how we met him. we were just walking with nothing really to do and he was just randomly sitting on the side of the road by himself in a chair. so i was like well thats weird, lets talk to him, then bam! haha Well thats it folks. love u all! 


Love, Elder Slade