sea2swe: Week of Faith

Tjänare allesammans! Here's a couple of the highlights of this rainy but great week that seemed to fly right by.

One of the funniest things happened on my mission this week, at least judging by how hard we laughed. We were with Bai and Terry on friday who I love so much and will miss a ton when I leave Helsingborg. We were talking about weird foods they eat for Chinese New Years (happy chinese new years!!) and they brought up turtle soup. We were confused and asked them to explain how they made it and so Bai tells Terry to google it and show us. So Terry hops on his computer and searches "turtles" and obviously just pictures of like cartoon turtles and some real turtles appear and Terry was confused and just sat there wondering why we were cracking up. So Bai came and helped him out and typed in "Chinese New Year's turtles". Sounds silly looking back on it but in the moment we could not stop laughing. The language barrier makes for some funny experiences.

On thursday Elder Scott and I traveled out to Klippan which is a cool little town about 40 minutes outside the city by train. We went out there to visit and member and his girlfriend who randomly called the church phone (luckily a member was here to answer it) and said they wanted to talk with us. The member's named Wisdom, from Nigeria and his girlfriend is named Ann Marie, from Sweden. They live sambo which means together but not married. They had some questions about getting married and mostly about baptizing their baby. We gladly explained baptism in the church and how we wait till they're accountable to choose for themselves and they were suprised but liked the idea of a baby blessing too. We also asked Ann Marie if she'd like to be baptized and she wasn't sure. We'll definitely be going back because this family has so many blessings waiting for them if they build their family on the rock of the gospel (3 Nephi 14:24-27).

We had a great challenge this week from the zone leaders of inviting someone to be baptized everyday this week. It was a big lesson to me of not being afraid to fulfill our purpose as a missionary, which is to invite people to come unto Christ, even if it's on the street or at a bus stop. Most of the time they say no or I'm not sure but that's the beauty of it because we're inviting them to come unto Christ and opening our mouths and that's all the Lord asks. When we INVITE we SUCCEED. That's my lesson for the week, try and understand the people then be bold! Everything else will fall into place from there.

Deuces and Pusses!

Äldste Hainsworth