Prayers that Reach Heaven

God eftermiddag! This week was another one for the books despite the nice bipolar spring weather of sun, rain, snow, and clouds. Here's some of the highlights:

Mikael's back on the path of progression after taking care of his brother and that difficult situation. We had an awesome lesson with him and he brought up how he wanted to come to church before we could invite him to come! Sadly he wasn't feeling well but he's positive and things are looking up. Also Kent got called to be the ward mission leader!! After 2 months of no mission leader Vendelsö's gotten the best mission leader possible, Kent's my favorite! 

Elder Groberg and I were out contacting last night to reach our goal we'd set for the week. Out of desperation since Vendelsö doesn't have many people to contact and lack of time we stopped two younger teenagers who we usually wouldn't have talked to, they looked about 15 or 16. They ended up knowing a bit about the church being Christians themselves and being very curious, asking lots of questions. We were more than happy to answer them and teach about the most important message in the world, the Restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Elder Groberg and I commented afterwards about how refreshing it was to have genuinely curious minds to teach, it was awesome! We gave Melanie and Sky a Book of Mormon and promised them blessings and answers to their questions as they read and prayed and learned more. 

I gave a talk this week! It was on the topic of hope and it went really well. I shared an experience I had with prayer in Växjö that inspired a lot of hope in myself, I don't remember if I shared it so I'll share it again. I was having a tough time in Växjö and not much was going on so prayer was something I turned to for support and help. One night I kneeled down and said my personal prayer and was asking for help, help to keep moving forward and that things will get better. As I was praying, I had this overwhelming feeling that I can't describe but I felt in that moment the prayers of others. I felt the prayers from home, prayers from my family and friends and people I don't even know lifting me up and empowering me. I'm grateful for the power of prayer and the hope it instills and I'm grateful for the prayers offered on my behalf, they don't go unnoticed. 

Puss puss kram! 

Äldste Hainsworth

 Frolicking in the meadow

Member meals just might be the craziest part of missionary work

This is the busiest street in our area, called Brandbergen, where most of our contacting goes down

 Hanging out with Daniel Malmsten, a Helsingborg legend

Mall of Scandinavia

Digging a nice trench