Steven Zahm@ gretar
Well, this is odd… I very distinctly remembering replying to you, probably on 12/9 or 12/10. I remember because I took some extra time investigation the site load speed. I have a tool that runs (a third party service) that pings my site every 5 minutes. The sites time to first byte is roughly 300-500 milliseconds and average page load time is between 2-3 seconds with about 5 seconds being the longest. The site is pinged from various servers around the globe.
Where abouts are you located? Maybe that can account for the page load times you are seeing???
Back to your question, use the following shortcode:
[connections order_by="first_name|SORT_ACS" template="slim-plus" enable_pagination='FALSE' page_limit=9999]
Hope that helps, let me know.