Wow to fall-throughs and responsibility! hello sunshine though!

Wow. this week has been CRAAAZY! The weird thing about this week is that we still feel good because we know we tried OUR BEST.
the thing about this week is the following:
Every day had at least 2 fall-throughs and the Branch (as we realized it during weekly planning) is a mess.
BUT the work IS progressing here in Växjö and we are finding, teaching, and baptizing all who are interested.
During this week we have had a really humbling experience to see how much work this branch needs done. So many things have happened its hard to write it in one email. But the Växjö Branch is a lovely branch. The President is a great man but can't think all for himself, thus nothing gets done, thus he gets no support from the mission leader, relief society president, and his counselor. People aren't progressing in the branch because they are not given callings, thus no home-teaching & visiting teaching, thus every member feels lonely and not important. With permission from the Stake we get to take on resposibilities of other people's callings! We pretty much are starting from SCRATCH here in Växjö and the responsibility is really HIGH. So with much prayer, my companion and I are really going to focus on Less-actives, and getting members that are men the priesthood, and finding people who can help this branch get back on its feet again. Seeing how it was only us, president, and our 1 new convert who came to Stake Conference on sunday. VERY nice.
Although this seems like a lot I really have been feeling like this is something that I can do to really show Heavenly Father how much I love these people in the branch and how much I need him every day to guide us to do the right things.
Our baptismal date Marvin has been doing great and has so many questions so its really fun to teach him because we tell him what he needs to know and he asks us his questions. He is doing great and well on the way through the gate and on the straight and narrow!
Tony, a christian who believes in about 99% of what we do but Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon. We finally got the chance to teach him because his schedule is so crazy and we challenged him to read the Book of Mormon and to Pray to see if Joseph Smith was a prophet, because if he recieves an answer about that, that he should be on the right path to baptism too!
Many.. at least 50% of our teaches fell through this week but have been really blessed to see how much the Lord needs us here to preach REPENTANCE to these people. We have been finding Families and potential priesthood holders because of our diligence by working EVEN through the tough fall-through times. We had to drop some of these great investigators because of their constant fall-throughs and not keeping commitments. It really is too bad that we have to do this but we know that the Lord HAS PREPARED SOMEONE for us. In our contacting and tracting we have been getting straight to the point of BELIEVING IN GOD and the Resoration. We know that if we do all we can to INVITE EVERYONE (less-actives, actives, never-changing muslims, atheists, cats, dogs, mentally unstable people, you NAME it.) to come unto CHRIST... God will prepare someone, and put them in our Path so that they can receive the blessings of this ONLY TRUE GOSPEL on the earth. I say this because my compaion and I found someone on the street and we met him a couple of days later to come to his house. This place happened to be a Mental hospital converted into CHEAP housing for students. So we had the chance to sit in a Prayer session with muslims because they kindly invited us to do so. As we watch I stood AMAZED and Grateful that me, and my family and friends have the actual truth in their lives, and we don't have to spend 5x a day in SORROWFUL Prayers to be loved by god. We had the chance to bear testimony to them that God loves them no matter what they do... we do not have to win over his heart because he is waiting for us to do something wrong to chasten us... but that God GAVE his SON... ONLY BEGOTTEN... so that we could recieve forgivness in what we do. God ill ALWAYS love us... and that did nothing but gave me hope that their hearts will be softened and will be able to see the wicked traditions of their fathers and come unto CHRIST and LIVE HAPPY LIVES!
MAN!
That's all I got. THIS church is TRUE. I know for a fact because of the Holy Ghosts promptings in my HEART... of happiness, joy and not just for now on earth, but ETERNITY... this is the ONLY true church... no matter how much satan tempts us... When he bites us in the bum.. we turn around and say HEY... that hurt... and KICK HIM IN THE FACE.
We have been teaching our less-actives the message of Charity and Gods CONSTANT love for us. One of them closed with a prayer by saying "thanks for the priesthood". the shortest and most POWERFUL prayer I have heard.
The church is TRUE. Gods has loved us in the PASt... NOW and WILL forever!
GOOD LUCK to sam and Lara on your wedding! Way to be by taking that next step and on the pathway to achieve THE HIGHEST degree of glory. I love my Family. We are the bomb. Don't change. Just be normal... keep going to church... be grateful for what you have. Just look back.. seriously... we have the coolest family ever! And TRUMAN to ADD to this AMAZING bunch.
Wow... random tangent... but things are going good here. Not many teaches to talk about but my Testimony has grown so much... that is all.
LOVE YOU ALL! Thanks for being who you are. Once again.. the church really is true...
Äldste Webster
P.S. this week was the first days with the weather being over 0 degrees celsius though my whole mission. Sunshine is coming... snow is melting... and trees are becoming GREEN! A HAPPY SIDE to sweden I have yet to see is coming!
peace,
WAD