Hej! We started off this week on monday by going to the Goteborg vs. Helsingborg futbol game! It was crazy, you don't even really think of Sweden as a big futbol country but they're still crazy about it for sure. Our team, Goteborg, won 3-1 and I think they're the best futbol club in Sweden right now, represent!! The Goteborg fans were singing and chanting the entire game non stop, I tried to start up a "lets go Seahawks" or "SEA...HAWKS" chant haha but it didn't work.
From the big game!
We had Valborg on thursday night this week and it's pretty much a holiday where you have big bonfires to get rid of winter and welcome in spring. We didn't have to proselyte after 5 pm since a lot of people were drinking and so we just had dinner at a member's house and then taught a lesson.
Our main investigator right now is Norbert, we met with him on thursday and showed him a baptismal calender that we made. It pretty much shows the month of May and the lessons we still want to teach him and then the date that he should be ready for baptism, which is May 30th! He was super hesitant and doesn't think it will happen so soon but you never know what God's will for him will be! We'll just continue to teach him and try to help him recognize his answer about the Church cause he's a smart college student and has been taught almost everything already.
We were walking around contacting on tuesday around 11 a.m and this drunk guy on a bench stops us and says he's a mormon and that he's a priest in our church. We were pretty skeptical but talked to him for a while and found out he actually met some sister missionaries and was baptized a long time ago. He said he stopped being a member after a while cause he converted for the wrong reasons, like for the sister missionaries, he actually said that haha his words, not mine! But we asked if we could come by and talk sometime and he said sure and gave us his address. So we've been by Lars twice this past week, he's 65 and lives alone in his apartment. He has a daughter in the Pingst kyrkan and a son who is atheist I think. But Lars is a smart guy and likes to study and discuss philosophy, science, religion, and kind of ramble on about his beliefs and also ask rhetorical questions that we sometimes try to answer. He is agnostic right now, he doesn't know if there is a God or not but he's built up a lot of reasons why there isn't one. I wouldn't count Lars as an investigator yet cause we just discuss religion with him and answer his questions with scriptures from the Book of Mormon but he's getting there! Last time we met he said he's always liked the Mormons as people so I think we've gained his respect at least!
We met an older guy named Bent on the sidewalk and when we asked what he knew about the Mormon church he said everything! We were confused but he said his dad was a member so learned a ton about the Church. He knew Bert, an older man in our ward, he told us he was meeting with the missionaries and backed out of being baptized about twenty years ago.
So we have a senior missionary couple that's coming to work in the Goteborg YSA Center, wooh! But they need an apartment to live in so what they did is switch the Sisters and us, so now we're living in Kållered and the Sisters are in the Kungsbacka apartment, and they moved the Zone leaders who live in Goteborg out of their apartment into the Kållered apartment with us to make it a four man so that the senior couple can live in the Goteborg apartment. So pretty much I'm going to start living like The Best Two Years in a four man apartment with Äldste Orr and Elinkowski! The apartment isn't as nice as Kungsbacka but it'll do, and it'll be nice mixing it up and living in Kållered.
I've been focusing on D&C 82:10 this week. God is our loving Heavenly Father and wants to help us and bless us and guide us as His children but we have to do our part and obey Him. Obedience brings power and exact obedience brings miracles, I can testify to that as I've seen both sides of the spectrum here on my mission so far.
Have a super good week!
Med vänliga hälsningar,
Äldste Hainsworth
From Sherri: I'm not sure why Tenny only sent 2 pictures this week. Maybe because they had to move? He couldn't get on his email until 8 hrs. later than he has the past 4 weeks, so, of course, after waiting until 1:30am for him to get on, I slept terribly trying not to worry about why he hadn't been online. I knew all was well, but I still worried a bit. Must be a Mom thing:) I'm SUPER excited that we get to Skype with him next Sunday for Mother's day!!!! After that, our next chance will be on Christmas! That seems soooooooo far away! (because it is!)
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