sea2swe: The Week of Never Ending Activities

Hey it's official Christmas-music-listening-to season now, we made it everyone!

We've begun meeting regularly with our investigator Göron who has a lot of health problems but is such a good guy. We got him out to an activity the ward had on saturday and are just working with him on a social conversion cause he's got that strong testimony of the church, just needs help feeling comfortable with the ward and the members.

We went back out to Påarp and met with Tommy our motorcycle guy again. We chatted for awhile and it feels like Tommy and us are old pals even though we've only known him a few weeks which made it feel natural to share the message of the Restoration with him. He accepted a Book of Mormon and we bore out testimonies of it. We went by Emma from last week and her dad answered and said she wasn't interested. Well maybe greenie me wouldn't have gone back but I'm not giving up on Emma so fast, if we're getting dropped it's gonna be from Emma herself!

We held a game night for the young hip people of the ward (YSA's) and it was a total success! Almost everyone we wanted to came and Terry our investigator came and dominated in blow pong, we had ping pong going, spoons, treats, it was such a good time!

We spent a couple hours on thursday whipping up a couple dozen rolls and two apples pies for thanksgiving. We gathered with an American family, a Canadian family, and a half American half Swedish family at the church for dinner. It wasn't a Hainsworth thanksgiving but it was super tasty and we had fun playing magic tricks on the younger kids.

We had a super fun activity saturday night where we acted out scenes from Disney movies and dressed up, talk about theatrical gold. Then we had another YSA activity kinda like BYD on sunday at the Wagners which was way fun. We did a Julmust blind taste test (Julmust is a seasonal drink comparable to rootbeer in Sweden) and the Ikea Julmust actually won so go buy yourselves some Ikea Julmust kids, Sweden's favorite!

President Beckstrand called yesterday and told me that I'll be training a new missionary in the coming transfer! So I'll be heading up to Stockholm on friday for Train the Trainers then picking him up a week from this Wednesday in Stockholm. Exciting stuff!

Christmas season is upon us and the Church has released the Christmas video A Savior is Born along with the website mormon.org/christmas. Go check it out and share it with others, there's nothing more important than discovering why Jesus Christ was born and what it means for each one of us.

Peace and blessings,

Äldste Hainsworth