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Tjena!

Hej awesome family of mine! It's awesome to hear that my parents are enjoying themselves in paradise! It's a good thing im over here callin people to repentence and saving sould or else I would be jealous! After I emailed you guys last week I went to a family home evening and they had a birthday cake surprise for me so don't you worry... Birthday well celebrated!

This week has been quite the week! Just keeping busy and loving the work! Monday we had a Family Home Evening with a family and our Baptismal candidate Pan which was a really good way to fellowship into the ward and make some friends BEFORE she gets baptized so it wouldn't feel that uncomfortable! That went really well! One of our investigators Marvin is from Peru but has lived here all of his life. He is a really cool guy and asks a lot of questions and listens really well. One of the things that's hard to get past is that he says he reads and prays about the book of Mormon but hasn't received an answer. But maybe with more teaching, patience and long-suffering he will be able to feel an answer. We will be teaching him tonight and showing him the Restoration video and pray for the best! We also helped one of our members buy groceries because she can't walk in the snow. We then left a nice message and she was truly thankful! We then headed off on Splits with the Halmstad elders! Elder Olsen stayed with my companion and I headed off to Halmstad with my district leader Elder Peterson! An amazing town... we were able to contact a man on the bus and he lived in Växjö's area so I can't wait to visit him! We then had some very nice teaches that night... we commited this one family from colombia to Baptism and they accepted! They won't be added to the Växjö Branch... but the more members in Sweden the better! The next day we came back to Växjö for district meeting and was amazingly taght by Elder Peterson about Working! Work Hard, Work Smart, Work w/ the Spirit! It's always good to get a nice weekly sharpening and focus in areas that I can improve on! The next day was challenging.. but rewarding! We had many teaches going on. Our first one could not accept the Book of Mormon as the Word of God, the second was Muslim and couldn't believe in something else, we then had an amazing teach where we taught a girl named Jocelyn who is from Latin America and was really accepting and so we commited her to be baptized but her only problem is that she doesn't have the support of her parents... which really is a big challenge but maybe if we go to her and teach her with her parents nearby they will be able to feel the same thing she has felt with us and SOFTEN their hearts! Patience. The next day was great and we taught a man named Majid and it is really hard to get him commited to baptism. He says that he thinks everything we say is right... but he also believes that the Muslim religion is right as well... they both feel good. So I told him that if he really does desire an answer to know which church to join... turn to the Lord for the answer... Ask.. Seek... Knock! After our testimonies he seemed strongly determined to do so. So we will see how that goes! That night we were able to but Pan's Baptismal program together and teach her some things she needed to know before! Everything went great! She's becoming more and more ready! The next day at church was really good because more peop+ople came more than ever! Testimonies were born about how teaching with the missionaries strengthenedtheir testimonies on the basics of the gospel! Spiritual Uplifting by small and simple means! Amazing!
Then after many fall-through teaches we had to go to the other side of the city for a teach and so I was determined to find a new investigator!
So we were sitting on the bus. All the seats filled up except the one next to me... and the one next to Elder Takahashi... (thats usually how it is.. the mormons are known here)
Then there was one person left and he sat next to my companion... as the bus started to go a guy ran to the side of the bus and pounded on the side to let him in... the bus stopped.. let him in and sat by me! We had to get off in 3 stops... (3 minutes) so he sat next to me... and me not being that good at bus contacting said... man its really cold outside huh? And he said yes and I asked if he studies here and he asked what I did! Which led it smoothly into why I WAS THERE! So he was from Chile and I told him that Heavenly Father has a plan for us.... And that Jesus Christ is central to that plan... And he said thats AWESOME! I pray to Jesus every night! This guy was amazing! So we talked a little further.. he asked for our number.. I got his... and the bus stopped and we had to leave.
It's amazing to see that the Lord gives a time and a place for EVERYTHING if we are willing to open our mouths and preach the gospel! Little did he know that he wasn't running to the bus... he was running to Salvation! I thought that was an amazing day!

Things are going great here in Växjö! Staying busy.. loving the work! Me and my companion and getting along and really enjoying how inspired it is that we are together at this time... learning from each other and enjoying our time!

Well family I love you all so much and thanks for your love, prayers and support! I'm sending a package to ya'll tomorrow with some sweet pictures! Hope you like em!

Love,
Äldste Webster