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Hello dearest Family!

I cannot believe the miracles and blessings that have come to me this week! Well... right after I had emailed you guys we taught a girl named Nafiseh (Benjamin's friend) and we talked to her about the gospel of Jesus Christ and she has really enjoyed to hear our prayers and because she has a Muslim background, she loved the fact that we have no set things we have to say in our prayers, but we just express our feelings to a Father in Heaven who will grant us the righteous things we desire by the prayer of Faith. She loved it, as we talked about baptism and it's cleansing effect she told us... well before I get baptized I need to know all of the commandments! haha AMAZING! So, naturally we set up a baptismal date with her to we are truly excited for that! We are really being blessed!

The next day we had Zone Conference in Göteborg! It was held in the Institute Center which is pretty amazing! President Anderson introduced some new standards of excellence that he had been considering after President Teixeira's conference. 1 Baptism a week... and others... but that one was the one that stuck out the most. It was just interesting to think of changing our mind-set to having investigators progressing in the week... and less focus on transfer or monthly goals... but focus more on the weekly planning and how we can bring all of our investigators to Baptism by the end of the week. I really do think that this is attainable... just needs much prayer.. much Faith... and HARD WORK. The Assistants talked about Internalizing our purpose... which is to BAPTIZE. If we have a goal to teach lessons... we'll teach lessons... if we have a goal to get a lot new investigators we will get it... if we go in to a teach thinking that we will teach a good 2nd lesson we can leave the teach asking ourself... Wow that was an AMAZING 2nd lesson... but did I bring my investigator closer to Christ? or Baptism? Very good. Sister Anderson talked about Faith... and how we can get our investigators to strengthen their Faith in 3 ways.

Prayer Nurtures Faith

Obedience strengthens Faith

Scripture develops Faith

Pretty cool. Just some important principles to teach investigators to Stengthen their Faith. the Zone Leaders talked about John the Baptist. And How he we can be known as Elder___ the baptist... by strengthening our studies. It was pretty amazing... a lot of notes taken... spirit felt and it was amazing.

Our investigators are still doing great. A teach with Michelle a while ago we had prayed for her to get a job. The day after she recieved a job and has been really busy and working everyday... which made it so she wasn't ready for baptism. But she is still doing great and came to church... just needs to be a little more excited for Baptism.

Li has gotten back from Holland... and he went to amsterdam so naturally he broke the Word of Wisdom... so he just needed a friendly reminder and now that baptism is getting closer there is a little more resistance. But he is leaving for china on the 28th so we are contemplating on if we should get him Baptized before or after he comes back at the end of July...

Alinda we have been teaching about the Word of Wisdom and she decided to STOP! turns out her friend got cancer so she decided to stop. Not the best reason to stop but she stopped anyways... She has re-commited to baptism on the 5th of July and just really needs a testimony of Joseph Smith!

Surendra from India understands the concept of Authority and is looking forward to recieving an answer about the Book of Mormon. He says once he recieves an answer he will be baptized this Saturday.

Zaki from Afghanistan wants to be Christian as soon as possible but he doesn't realize that he is commiting to a lot more than just any ordinary Christian church but GOD'S ONLY CHURCH on EARTH. So yeah... he will be baptized when we feel he is ready.

This sunday was MIRACULOUS! We had 10 investigators in church... We were truly blessed. Michelle, Surendra, Zaki, Nafiseh brought a swedish friend, Alinda and the Serbian family... we had forgot about them on Saturday but Anja called us and said that the Serbian family called her and said they were ready to go to church and were waiting for someone to pick them up! They will surely be baptized but I just hope they will learn Swedish to be able to communicate with the members! The members were amazing inviting them to activities... getting their numbers... getting together a donation to get the Serbian family a bus card to get them to church... It is AWESOME! I love it here we are truly blessed. Me and Elder Bush sang I need thee every hour in swedish during sacrament meeting and it went very well acapella. Once we got home to eat lunch we couldn't do anything but get down on our knees and thank Heavenly Father for how much he had blessed us for our efforts!

I really got to go... but I love you all! the Utes in the pac 12?!?!? what in the world? will they still have the yearly rivalry game with the Y?! they cant drop that... Mantua sounds awesome and I can't wait to help build something up there why not?!? But I wish I had more time but HAPPY Fathers Day to Dad.... we all know how much we all love the Whoosie... he is an amazing man... Father... example... Mission president.. .stake president... who KNOWS how many countless lives he has changed! Congrats to Jake as well this Fathers day! HAIGH!

Well family... I love you all! This church couldn't be any more true and I am just enjoying life.

Take care... Pray Always... CTR..

Love,

WAD