Let it Snow!

Well this past week has been quite the week wih weather, teaching, and just livin the good ol' missionary life!
This past week the weather has been quite crazy! Just the other day it go down to -20C So I think thats in the negatives in Fahrenheit. But thanks to the mother's many hand-warmers I am surviving!

This week has been filled with finding and teaching! Many of the people that let us come in are the Muslims. It's good that they let us say what we think... but most of their teaches turn into them teaching us. So We are going to start focusing on getting our point off... testifying that Jesus IS the Son of God and that prophets... the scriptures and pretty much EVERYTHING points to Christ being the Son of God. It has really made me think and study in my personal studies that there are so many religions... beliefs and theories that are so corrupt it really does bring meaning to the phrase that Satan tempts EVERYONE with the philosophies of men MINGLED with scripture. A really good scripture that I found while I was reading in Jacob was in the last chapter where it talks about the Anti-Christ who was well learned and convinced many of the Nephites to not believe because of his good language skills. One more reason why this church is so true and that God's church doesn't need the top-educated, well-learned people on the Earth, but worthy, virtuous and people willing to testify to all people that Jesus is the Christ through Pure Testimony by the Spirit.
We actually contacted this one guy on he street and we talked to him about how there is a prophet today that guides us and shows us what we need to do to live happy lives. So we aught him and he brought 2 of his friends who are also interested in religion and they were SWEDISH! But one of the geatest things that I like to do with young students or people who have beliefs on what THEY think is right... is to Testify to them that Joseph Smith wanted to know the same thing... and that Gods Church... the same as in the times of Adam... Noah.. Moses... Jesus... has been restored. And with a prophet and a Second witness of Jesus Christ (Book of Mormon) we can know the FULL TRUTH has been restored.... not just by miracles or by physical evidence that it is true or by literature... But by the TRUE CONVICTION of the Holy Ghost. That guy said that what we said felt right.... and that he felt that everything just made sense... but his friend who was with us was really trying to get us to deny our testimony and what we know and feel to be true. But I am really glad to have Äldste Takahashi by me so that we can bare testimony and confirm the others testimony to be true.
The Lord really does provide a way.... he is PERFECT... he has thought through and I am so grateful that we have the Fullness of Christs Gospel restored to us again so that there is no confusion!
So we felt really good after that teach and we will see how it goes with him this week!
There was also a pretty funny story this week. Me and Ä. Takahashi were contacting and we found this guy who was from India and we talked to him about the church and it was really strange to see how ACCEPTING he was... once we were done he offered his number and we were on our way... days later we called the number and he wanted to meet that day. So we decided to meet at the library and talk about the Book. Turns out he gave us his friends number.... and so we looked at each other and said hey... WHY NOT?! So decided to teach him and this guy's friend he brought with him. Once we were done we were able to get a return appointment with the first guys friend's friend he brought with him and a number of another friend. It is SO interesting to see how the Lord works through people that AREN'T interested too! So we will see how those teaches go as well!
Other than that we have been helping an inactive move into town and preparing our Baptismal date for baptism so that everything will run smoothly!
We also have another investigator who we teach and she is willing to do EVERYTHING.... read the scriptures... pray... follow Word of Wisdom, and be Baptized! EVERYTHING.... BUT she is Muslim and she doesn't know if she will be moving back to her country. So if she gets baptised and moves back her life would be in Jeopardy! It is pretty frustrating but we know that the Lord will prepare a way for the WILLING! Any advice?

District Meeting was really interesting... now we have to take a 2 1/2 hr bus ride to Halmstad to have district meeting. Bu our district is Helsingborg, Halmstad and Us. the Zone Leaders... the district leader and his greenie and us.. Haha it feels awesome to call someone else a greenie. Makes me feel old.. not. In district meeting me talked about Joy and how important our calling is and how we can find Joy in the calling! It really was amazing... he said that he did the math and if we do what were supposed to... than we will contact about 10,000 people a year. He also told us that the suicidal rate is 30-10000! So when we preach he gospel... were not only saving souls.. but we could be saving lives! Pretty interesting... I went better than how im saying it went.
But the Zone Leaders gave me my Birthday package a day before my birthday! so just in time!

so my birthday was pretty much like a regular day... I showered quicker and ate breakfast quicker to open my presents and I LOVED everything I got! Book of Mormon games..
The "And when ye shall recieve these things" book is REALLY good. It's something really good to start the Personal studies off wih! So we went into the ciy and looked for cake but they were all out and every store was closed! So we went home and made some Cookies and they were delicious! It was also really fun to Wish President Anderson happy birthday so we sang to him as a district and that was really fun. But I think tha just being out here on my mission already by the time im 19 is already an AMAZING birthday present for me!

But this is getting really long! But this week was amazing and thanks for all of your emails and love and packages!

Love you all to pieces!

Äldste Webster