Mid October!

Hello dearest family! Just wanna give a shout out to Andrew, McKenna,
Russell and Emma's Birthday all coming up so soon! You guys are
awesome! You probably can't even read this or don't even remember me
but your uncle Adam loves you! haha Congrats to Whoosie as well I hope
you all had a fun week up there in Mantua! To Mother: yes I have
gotten your ONE package and it is almost gone. I also heard the other
one is on its way to my apartment! SWEET! Thanks so much! By the way
Borås is a ward. Also the best one. Well this past week was pretty
exciting... Started out with Zone Conference! We each gave a 5 minute
talk about the Sacrament as we were paired off and one gave it, the
other coached. Sister Anderson was in charge of them. We were taught
about working with the members, receiving revelation through church
attendence, and talking with members! Just so happened to be something
that I desperately needed! It was a great experience to learn about
different ways to interact with members, getting our investigators to
church while involving the members in the process, and a lot more. The
assisstants talked a lot about the Captain Moroni story in his letter
to Pahoran. the moral to the story was United We Stand... Divided we
Fall! It is so true. It really brings missionary work to a whole new
level with gaining the trust of the members in order to bring the
prepared children quicker to the fold of Christ. My district is made
up of 3 areas or.. 6 elders. One of the areas called me the other day
and said that they found a student from Portugal! So this week we will
go on exchanges and I will be able to brush up on some of my lost
portuguese! haha There aren't that many baptismal interviews going on
right now at the moment my district has a hard time finding
investigators so I am planning on talking about pretty much restating
what was said in Zone Conference! GO TO THE BISHOP! That's where it
all starts.
Our investigators are doing pretty well. You will see some familiar
names that have been taught for a while, we just hope to get them
going. Unfortunately this week we had planned to meet Alinda after a
while and she left us a text that said that she appreciated what we
and the ward have done for her but she wanted to be Muslim like her
parents. We were pretty shocked but I remained comforted in the
knowledge that the Gospel is based on ACTION... we have to actually
APPLY it in order for it to change our lives but that was something
she never did. So we move on! Li chao who has now felt the spirit and
wants to be baptized has the fear of communism. He is a member of that
party so if he joins the church and goes back to China, he isn't sure
what would happen. Neither were we! So we called a chinese member in
another ward during one of our teaches and he didn't know either! So
we hope and pray that it will turn out ok! Michelle has a testimony of
the Book of Mormon and has felt the spirit, but is looking for a
bigger sign because she has always grown up Atheist so she feels like
she needs a bigger sign. So next time we will be going through Alma 32
with her and show her how we recieve a testimony. Henrik is a semi-
autistic man from Sweden and took a long time to teach last time
because he got off on a lot of tangents. We have been emphasizing the
importance of Authority with him but it doens't get through to him. So
we tell him to read and to pray about the Book of Mormon. It works
everytime if people would just DO IT! During the week we have tracted
into a couple of Albanian and Serbian families that we should be
teaching soon so that will be super exciting to get some Families into
the Teaching Pool! We have also met a man from Indonisia who is super
excited to read the Book of Mormon, his name is Daniel. He said that
he would be baptized once he recieved an answer about the Book of
Mormon. Other than that we are staying busy with teaching our 6 New
converts and making them feel comfortable with the members of the
Ward. Well, the weather is starting to get cold again and I am going
to go purchase a nice Swedish coat! Other than that Stake Conference
was this weekend and Henrik came with ALL of our new converts where we
had a super spiritual new-convert meeting with a member of the seventy
Craig T Wright. Super awesome meeting to build up the new converts! We
had an amazing time! Well dearest family... the Work moves on and I am
loving it! My companion is great, happy and pumped and we are both
getting along and happy and healthy! Once again I have procrastinated
the day of sending my pictures to you but I PROMISE they will be GONE
this week! haha

I love you all! The church is true! Do what you love, love what you do!
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