Hitting my 6 months as an ordained, set apart servant of the Lord tomorrow, wow!
On Tuesday we met with our ward mission leader Samuel and discussed the area and about doing a branch activity which never happened, Växjö could really use some branch activities, we might just have to do one our self! After Samuel's we went to a members house and had a great time. They both served missions in Sweden back in the day so they showed us their old picture flip book they used to teach they're memorized, scripted lessons from. Crazy how times have changed, I sure am glad I just have to know the basic lesson plan and follow the Spirit. They also shared with us some Swedish words specific to Småland like en lase, which is garbage.
On Wednesday we took a long bus ride through some beautiful scenery out to Virserum. We had a really great lunch with some member's out there, a couple there was from London so the whole lunch was in English, weird! After we got home we went and weeded an elderly member's, Allu's, patio with Jan-Erik, a member. For some reason my back was really bugging me those last couple days but the service went great, no worries!
On Thursday we got up earlyyy and went down to Malmö for zone training and interviews with President. We had a great training about finding those that will receive you and being prepared to receive those people. Afterwards we went to an all you can eat buffet and then hopped back on the train to sit out the food coma we'd just gotten ourselves into. After we got back we taught Mia, a member, and had a good discussion on the gospel of Jesus Christ.
On friday we had a craaaazy day. The whole day felt relaxed and normal but we ended up teaching a TON of lessons and just getting some fantastic numbers! It was just so weird cause it didn't feel like we did anything differently or were sprinting from place to place, it just all happened. for example we swung by a potential investigator who we ended up giving a Book of Mormon to and teaching and getting a return appointment for Wednesday. It was just an amazing day and one that I won't forget anytime soon.
On saturday we had open church and just really embraced the word open, we opened both double doors, all the blinds and put a big sign out on the sidewalk for people to see, but still no one came in! We'll keep on trying though. In the afternoon we went to a member's house then played soccer and some local kids joined it, so fun!
On sunday we had church then lunch then did some potential investigator swing by's then we had another awesome weekly planning session and got a lot of stuff set up for the week ahead so I'm really excited! Oh and we talked with a group of teenage kids for a bit when we were walking around, they said "tjena grabbar, hur mår ni?" which is pretty much "whats up guys how're you doing?".
I really like an example in the Book of Mormon we learned in the zone training about Nephi and Laman and Lemuel. Both had spiritual experiences but one was humble and willing to act and the other two weren't. That's the difference, we need to be an agent, not an object as Elder Bednar puts it to really be effective in all that we do.
Oh I forgot to mention that last p-day I bought my first pair of Tiger of Sweden pants! Tiger of Sweden is known among missionaries for being THE coveted company to get stuff for, super swedish, super slim and super good quality. So I found these 1400 kr pants that fit me great for 400 kr so I couldn't refuse.
Hälsningar,
Äldste Hainsworth
A taste of our neighborhood
Sometimes old people forget about fish on their patio...
View from my desk
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