sea2swe: October 3rd - Suits, Not Jammies

Tjena kompisar! Lots of members have said they're glad Elder Kilton and I are staying another transfer so that's a good sign they're not too sick of us yet!

We're working with this awesome Swedish investigator, she's about the same age as me and just wants to be happy which her current Swedish party lifestyle isn't doing for her. We gave her Mosiah 2 to read and pray about it and she's really enjoyed the Book of Mormon so far. I know there's a power in that book beyond our own, I've seen it over and over on my mission.

We came up with this cool vision as a district where we want to "level up" this transfer. To do that we've attached xp to each key indicator and we've got to reach a certain level of xp to get to the next level. The goal is level 6 as a district by the end of the transfer. It's a fun idea to keep us motivated.

The Chinese guy, Winfred, from last week, we met with at the church and taught the Restoration and gave him a Chinese Book of Mormon. Sadly he's headed back home from his business trip so we can't continue to teach him but we encouraged him to find the ward in Beijing. We bonded quite a bit as we missed the bus back into town from the church at night so we walked and talked for an hour about life in China, his family, his conversion, etc.

We've been praying for progressing investigators and the Lord hasn't let us down. We met with Luis and Jacqueline this week, a nice Chilean couple with a fairy tale love story of how they met. We set up another time to meet right from the get go and are really hoping they're sincere in their search for truth. Cause honestly that's all it takes is sincerity.

Conference was awesome, we watched it in the church in English with some members (in suits not jammies, sadly). We watched all but the sunday afternoon session, one member stayed on sunday till midnight to watch it at the church but we politely declined his invitation to stick around till then.Though I received some much needed personal revelation the biggest thing I took from conference is how the Church is in good hands. It's led by men of God. I received that impression over and over again throughout the sessions.

Have a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious week!

Sending my love from Sweden,

Äldste Hainsworth

Our good friend Winfred