sea2swe: October 11th - Arne Says Hi!

Hey family and friends,

The temperature has dropped this week and it's here to stay. I've gone from a white shirt and tie to a sweater and jacket in about a week. I personally enjoy it, I like the chill, it's cozy in a way. Even if all the citizens of Norrköping have disappeared off the streets.

This has been a week of blessings. Some weeks you work looking to the future for the reward and some weeks you can directly see the rewards as you work and this week was the latter. We received four new investigators this week and had three in Church. It just makes me excited to keep working and see what happens.

Our young Swedish investigator is doing well. She read in the Book of Mormon and said everything she's read and learned so far has helped her feel a little more peace and hope in her life. We've had a frustrating problem cause another one of our investigators is her coworker and he's brought up the Church and us at the workplace which she doesn't want. We talked to our investigator about it and hopefully he gets the message. We don't want to lose her cause of something like that!

We met the coolest guy in the world this week! Adrian is a 17 year old Swede who's known the missionaries for a while now. He's totally changed his life to follow the gospel because he's on a search for happiness. He used to be a professional magician and can do any card trick David Blaine can do. So sweet. He's planning on being baptized when he turns 18 in January. He came to church on sunday too!

We met with a random less active and expected to just get to know her and share a nice message but we were pleasantly surprised. Her boyfriend was sitting there on the couch and he wanted to change his life and get the happiness his member girlfriend had. He looooves to talk and can sporadically say some disrespectful things to his girlfriend but he has a good heart.

Anyways that's what's new here in Norrköping. I love the members here, sunday is always the best time of the week for me! Have a great week!

Peace and blessings,

Äldste Hainsworth

Ps: Arne, a member in the ward, is here in the room hanging with us and he says hi. He doesn't speak English but he's a stud.