Apartment Bonding & Non-Alcoholic Beer

From May 25th, 2015

Hej everyone! So this past week kept us busy and things are picking up more and more every week and it feels so good! It's so fun living in a four man too, we have a lot of good times with the zone leaders and we've gotten pretty close. We eat lunch together pretty often and then also ended up all brushing our teeth together crowded in the bathroom one night, what better bonding can you ask for?

We've been teaching our awesome investigator Norbert and had a really great member present lesson with him about tithing and fast offerings. He's also coming to FHE tonight at the Goteborg YSA Center so hopefully he makes some cool YSA friends from that and sees how fun church activities are! 

We met up with Bent who is now a progressing investigator!! There's not much to teach him since he knows everything about the church but we talked with him about the character of Christ and just tried to bring the Spirit to the lesson.

We went clear out to Varberg this week with a member to visit a less active, his testimony is so strong but he needs help finding a job. He's an immigrant so it's annoying cause he needs a job contract to become a citizen but to become a citizen he needs a job contract sooo it's tough but we're getting some home teachers to start visiting him regularly so hopefully that helps! 

Tons of people came to futbol this week and even an inactive member, it was super fun! Everyone here is in pretty good shape and no one really sucks at futbol so it makes the games really fun and intense. We did some yard work for a member that has cancer so needs help taking care of everything and we had a bbq with him afterwards, got to try non alcoholic beer (tasted gross). 

We had zone training on wednesday and it was great, we learned about how to be more effective with extending commitments and it's something we could definitely use with our investigators! We all went to pizza hut after, all you can eat pizza buffet, sooo good. Weekly planning was great this week and we were able to make a list of about two dozen people to swing by so we've been busy with all of them! Found some potential investigators! 

This week I've been studying a lot on the plan of salvation and how having an eternal perspective makes all the difference as a missionary and with helping others come unto Christ. We can receive so much comfort and peace through hard times as well as happy times if we remember our purpose here on earth. I know that each one of us has divine potential and infinite worth.

Have a great week y'all!

Med kärlek,

Äldste Hainsworth

 P day at the Botanical Gardens.

 Doing a "swing-by" out in the country.

 When I saw this picture of all these logs, it looked just like something we'd drive by living in the Pacific Northwest.  Except this is in Sweden.

 The white bike is Äldste Christensens, the bike to his left was burned somehow! God protects His mssionaries!

 Sherri:  All these yellow flowers that look so gorgeous have the unfortunate name of Rapeseed.  An oil is extracted from them.  They were all over Denmark, too.

 Super good dessert at a member's home.