Cool beans :) ‏December 7, 2015

The cold has hit! WOOF haha And the bad news is that our heater has broken. And our owner doesn`t plan on fixing it until the summer! So.... I guess I will be sleeping in 40 degree weather. :) Haha It isn`t the sleeping part. It is the getting out of bed part that is dificult in the winter. Haha But no worries. I have done it before, so I shall do it again. So I had a pretty good experience this week. :) It was cool because we were working working working, and then Elder West called us. He is in one of my old areas in this same zone. And he said do you remember Angel? And I was thinking thinking thinking, and then I remembered. It was a teenager that we found. And we taught him a couple of times. And he wasn`t comleting his commitments, and he didn`t want to come to church. SO we left him. Now it has been more than 7 or 8 months and Elder West knocked his door. And he opened it, and he said that he read the Book of Mormon, that he knows it is true, he went to church with his friend twice, and wants to be baptized. :) Man it is just cool to know that even though it wasn`t his time when I went. The Lord prepared him, and I got to plant the seed! :) Haha Cool no? I was pretty happy. I have had a good time with sharing the video Ha nacido un salvador. It has helped us get new investigadors. And it has been pretty cool. Lucas 2 10 And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. 11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. In spanish it says I bring you good news! Haha Isn`t it great news? We have someone that has saved us from our sins, mistakes, and hurt. Someone that takes away all of this. How many people do we know that maybe don`t understand why this is necesary? who don`t know in their hearts, that Christ has SAVED US!!! And we only have to accept it! I am sure thankful for the opportunity to share this good news. And I love it a lot. I love all of you a lot too by the way! :) I love ya guys! Elder Slade

Thanksgiving was great! On to Navidad!‏ November 30, 2015

FAM AND FRIENDS!!! Number one. the new video of the church is awesome! I hope you have all seen it by now! I hope to use it now. And number two! I want to implement an idea SUPER AWESOME!!! to get new investigators. We are going to get a member to dress up in the market as Santa Clause and have FREE FOTOS WITH SANTA!!! And it shall be awesome. Because we will deliver them to everybody after and share the new video with them and hopefully have like around 13 thousand baptisms. That is the plan. There might be flukes but we shall take them as they come haha! So good news DAVID is going to get baptized on the 13th of December!!! WOO HOO! I am very excited. things should be pretty great. The Lord really does make the ways so that the people can come to know his Gospel! :) I love it. :) But now here comes the COLD I am scared! Because the getting out of bed is the hardest part! But it also means that everyone is in their houses to open up to us! :) Haha So ya I am excited for this holiday season. And to work like crazy! Haha I don`t really have anything new or interesting this week besides that. But a crazy drunk guy preached to us from the book of Revelations. :) I love it. :) https://www.mormon.org/spa/navidad?cid=HP_SU_11-29-2015_dMIS_fSPC_xLIDyL1-A_ Check it out! Love ya family! :)

DIA DE GRACIAS!!!‏ November 23, 2015

Can I just stay, that I am PUMPED for thanksgiving! WOOT WOOT!!! Even though nobody really celebrates Thanksgiving but I WILL!!! I am talkin TWO CAMPECHANAS from GUERO PAPAS! HAHA I am excited. But everything is good. everything good. This week our progressing investigators both fell. We caught one drinking, and the other doesn`t open up... SOOOO back to square one. I am starting to think that I am doing something wrong. Because this happens quite often... But Hay que seguir! :) And I am happy and have many blessing to count. :) So that is good. BUT!!! This week in my studies, I read something really cool, and I shall start it with a question for you guys to ponder. WHY does the Lord want us to serve? Obviously there is to help one another. To be able to have more charity. BUT! I found another answer. :) Mosiah 5 13 For how knoweth a man the master whom he has not served, and who is a stranger unto him, and is far from the thoughts and intents of his heart? So in order to know someone. We have to serve them. In Order to know God, we have to serve him. How do we serve him? Mosiah 2 17 And behold, I tell you these things that ye may learn wisdom; that ye may learn that when ye are in the service of your fellow beings ye are only in the service of your God. We need to serve each other to be able to know God! :) So I invite you all to think of how we can serve each other more. And how are we doing in our calling to serve? Love ya all! :) Elder Slade :)

Hey Family!‏ November 16, 2015

HEEEYYY FAMILY!!! :) So things here in the good ol mexico are good. Just livin the Mexican life yya know? But there is nothing really new. We just had our family and another investigator drop this week. Man I just feel like it has been pure let downs... BUT!!! HAY QUE SEQUIR! Haha I don`t really have anything new this week. And I am extremely tired. :) HAha but I am good and happy! Love you all! Sorry that it is short! Elder Slade

Buen Cambio!‏ November 9, 2015

SOOOOOO this has been a pretty good change. Lots of things have happened. And I have had MANY learning experiences. :) Which is good. So I can`t complain. God always blesses us sooo much! :) So I was trying to think about what to write and I remembered a funny, sad experience this week. Things like this happen to me a lot. and they are normal, but then I remember that they aren`t that normal. haha So We did divisions with the Youth and I was going to some appointments and contacting people in the streets and in their houses. And we saw a couple washing their car. So we start talking to them, breaking the ice, trying to wash their car. When the neighbor comes over and just sits down. And so we keep talking and contacting. Well they didn`t really want anything in the end. And so when we went to leave we shook their hands. But the neighbors hand was BROKEN!!! But she had it covered. And so I am pretty sure I injured her hand worse. :( But they were laughing and crying but I felt really bad... I don`t even know why she stuck her hand out! But ya just a funny little experience. With other news we have like tons of people that have progressed but are scared for baptism... NAMBRE!!! But its all good, because I can`t take away their agency ya know? Just need more patience! Haha But anyways! Woof another change has come and gone. So stinking fast! But I want to share a little story that I learned this week. That has helped me in my mission. Here it is. You can easily determine the caliber of a person by the amount of opposition it takes to discourage him. A student found a cocoon of a butterfly and delivered it to his biology teacher. She put it in a glass box with a heating lamp. A week later, the students saw a small opening appeared in the cocoon. The cocoon began to shake. Suddenly, tiny antennas emerged, followed by a tiny head and front legs. Students viewed the emerging insect progress throughout the day. At noon his wings emerged, the colors that revealed it to be a Monarch butterfly. He moved and shook, but try as it might, was unable to force his body through the small opening. A student decided to cut the end of the cocoon to help the insect. The butterfly emerged, but only the top half looked like a butterfly, the lower half was big and swollen. The insect was moving, dragging their wings pathetically and shortly afterwards he died. The next day, the biology teacher explained that butterflies are struggling to get through the small opening is necessary in order to force her swollen body fluids in the wings to be strong enough to fly. Without the struggle, they never develop wings. Opposition and struggles in our lives as people makes us stretch, bend, and pass the tests we confront. Opposition is needed to grow and become stronger, with more knowledge of how to win the battle against Satan. Opposition leads us to humble ourselves, seek the help of Heavenly Father and help us to be able to help others in their time of need. Trials can do two things. Overcome us, or help us. I know that if we always use our trials for the better. We are becoming the type of people that Heavenly father wants us to be. So lets all decide to use trials for our good. :) Love you all! Have a great week! Elder Slade

FAM!!!‏ November 2, 2015

Hey Family and Friends! How is it going in Utah! I can`t believe that it is already November! Things are FLYING BY!!! AHHH!!! BUT!!! I already have my awesome plan for Thanksgiving Day. My comp and I are going to buy TWO GIANT CAMPECHANAS EACH!!! MUAHAHAHA!!!! Haha Ya I am pretty excited. He doesn`t really celebrate thanksgiving but... he is always down for Campechanas. :) Who isn`t!? Haha this week has been pretty good. Pretty normal. Working hard. A couple of big disappointments but nothing that I haven`t already experienced. Haha that is the good part right? BUT!!! Elder Piper came to the mission. WOW!!! He is amazing. He is now one of my favorites. He speaks so powerfully. And he spoke about a lot of things that I don`t know what to share. But! Something really cool that I learned was about Councils. How it is that God always works in councils. Whether it is the quorum of the twelve. Or a couple in their family. Counciling brings power from God. I also learned that the Prophet NEVER says I recieved revelation and we are going to do THIS. It is always taken to the council. To the twelve apostles. And when they speak. they always start from the youngest in the quorum to the oldest. And they take a vote. And if even one of them doesn`t feel right. They take it back for more planning and changing. He said that it took two years for one project so that all of the twelve and the first presidency said yes. Isn`t that crazy? I always thought that the Prophet recieves revelation and takes decisions. Haha Something else really cool is this. Our opinion is important to the Lord in decisions. He also wants to hear and know what we have to say. About our lives. Or with our families. And for the Leaders of the chuch. Well what to do with the church. He takes into account all of this as well. He also explained very clearly about the priesthood. The opinions of woman are just important as men in a council. He talked about what it is the gives us the power of the priesthood. It isn`t the ordination. It is our covenants with the Lord. The ordination of the priesthood to men is a responsability, not a power. So with that explaination. Women that have all of their covenants have the same priesthood power in their lives as men. But men have to enter into the covenant of the preisthood. Or recieve the priesthood to be able to have the same blessings as the women. Haha It was just so clear and perfect the way he explained it. PURE DOCTRINE!!! I LOVE IT!!! But the coolest part was his testimony. In this moment I realized the truth of what Preach my Gospel says. It is not about the words that are said. Or the amount of knowledge that we have. It all depends on the conviction in our hearts. :) That is why we need to keep nurturing our testimonies. When he bore his testimony of the saviour. It was POWERFUL I am almost sure that he has seen the saviour personaly. But I want to be able to have the same conversion as Elder Piper. :) I love you family and Friends! Have a great week! Elder Slade :)

Here Comes the Rain Nanananana :)‏ October 26, 2015

So I love to talk to people in the rain because the take pity and let us into their houses. :) It really is so fun! And it is funny because my comp and I start our the day like jumping from dry spot to dry spot in the street and in the end we are just walking through the road with the water up to our knees. I don`t know why but those type of days just make me excited. My comp thinks I am crazy which is true. :) MUAHAHAA!!!! So things are good and calm here in Monterrey. Just working, and finding people. We have soooo many people but we haven`t been able to get any of them to quite take that decision! BUT we are working on it :) Just living the mexican life. :) I don`t have much time BUT!!! I will share an awesome scripture! :) it is Omni 1 26 26 And now, my beloved brethren, I would that ye shouldcome unto Christ, who is the Holy One of Israel, andpartake of his salvation, and the power of his redemption.Yea, come unto him, and offer your whole souls as anoffering unto him, and continue in fasting and praying,and endure to the end; and as the Lord liveth ye will be saved Remember that we need to offer our whole soul as an offering. When we take the sacrament! We should go every week with something to sacrifice. :) And if we do that every week. Hopefully in the end. There will be very little left! :) I love ya my peoples! :) Elder Slade

MILAGROS... :) ‏October 19, 2015

So we had an awesome tender mercy yesterday! :) We go to church. And we had some people in church. And everything was cool. I also got the opportunity to sing in the primary program. :) Ya... pretty awesome. But there was a guy that showed up. And I talked to him. You know like hey who are you? Where are you from? And he was like oh well. I live here. But my son is a member that lives in Utah. And he told me to go to church. And I decided that I would come for the first time. And I hope to keep coming...... :) And I was like hmmmm. That is very interesting. Can we go to your house? :) Haha I just love the Lords little surprises. :) So we got a new guy super escogido!!! :) Isn`t that the best!? Haha his name is Mercedes... Even cooler. But anyways. things are good here. I am still with my awesome comp! It was a joke that he told me that he was leaving... URG ;) Haha Man isn`t that soooo funny. Haha BUT!!! anyways. I am meditizando... or ponderizing? I think. A scripture suuuper duper cool it is this. Hel 3 35 35 Nevertheless they did fast and pray oft, and did wax stronger and stronger in their humility, and firmer and firmer in the faith of Christ, unto the filling their souls with joy and consolation, yea, even to the purifying and the sanctification of their hearts, which sanctification cometh because of their yielding their hearts unto God. I really feel like if we want to have help from God. And if we want to come closer to him. We have to Purify ourselves. And yield our hearts to God. And as we see in this scripture. It is difficult. It takes a lot of fasting and prayer. I would like to invite everyone to meditate. Fast and pray. to know what the Lord wants us to do next. I love you guys! :) Elder Slade