sea2swe: Singing & Such

Well hej everyone!!

On monday this week Elder Walton and I and the Landskrona elders went to the big mall near Helsingborg and shopped around a bit and had a good time. We went to a member family at night, the Wagner's, they were super fun and we shared crazy stories of missionaries we'd heard and had a good time.

On tuesday we met with our investigator Terry and read out of the Book of Mormon. I love those two guys, so smiley and happy. We did some less active swing by's in the afternoon and evening.

On wednesday we read the Book of Mormon with Örjan, a great member in the ward here. We've also been having to go the last couple days without a phone because it had to be fixed by the office elder's in Stockholm and we got it back today....not fixed though....hopefully next week though! We had dinner at the Okassio's. One of their daughters, Maya, was celebrating her 8th birthday so we had hungout and had some DANG good homemade nutella ice cream and played with the kids. They're the best!

On thursday we had zone training in Malmö and talked about going back to the basics and being diligent and it was just what I needed to hear. And we'll get to go back for more next week at a specialized zone training! We had a great lesson in the afternoon with Dan our investigator, he's stopped drinking alcohol and coffee and is cutting back on cigarettes every week, so happy for him and his progress. He's an example to me.

On friday we taught Bai and Terry how to play cards. They loved it, we started off with Go Fish to teach them the names of the cards. So good, Bai asked Terry if "he had any K" and Terry laughed and said "nooo you stole all my k!". We moved on to Egyptian Ratscrew and had a ton of fun with that. We also read out of the Book of Mormon with them. We spent the afternoon weekly planning and then had a great dinner with the Rasmussen's. We had to take a short cut from their house to catch the train by running along the tracks and jumping the fence but we made it!

On saturday Maya Okassion was baptized and confirmed in church! It was a great service and a great opportunity to meet friends and family of the ward. We helped clean up after the service then got some pizza with the Landskrona elders and finished off the night with language study.

Sunday was a busy one for us, us four missionaries sang "Han sände sin Son" in sacrament meeting then Elder Walton and I taught a lesson in sunday school we found out about at the Rasmussens on friday night about the Book of Revelation and the symbols contained in it....in Swedish...needless to say it was interesting, but I think it went ok! After church we had an early thanksgiving dinner with the Wikström family, Brother Wikström is a professional chef so it was probably the greatest thing I'd ever experienced. We hungout with them in their super cozy home trying to recover enough from the dinner to have some dessert. We ended the night reading the Book of Mormon with Örjan.

I've thought a lot about the Book of Mormon this week and I'm grateful for the Book of Mormon and the power and truth contained in its' pages. I know that it's the word of God and have a testimony of how it can help us in our personal and daily lives. As Elder Holland said "“No wicked man could write such a book as this; and no good man would write it, unless it were true and he were commanded of God to do so".

Have a stupendous week everybody and I love you all!

Äldste Hainsworth