Hello dearest family! Congrats to Jake and Ailin! I hope to hear a lot more about your baby boy and hopefully get some pictures! Thats so crazy that jakezinho will be a DAD! Man I have great examples for older brothers. I am thankful for all of you! I am 20 years old and I have been an uncle for half of them! This sharpening I have received the package for my birthday, a couple of weeks ago I got the valentines one so thank you all who contributed! This week has been a great one! Sharpening we wanted to re-hash with the zone the Standards of excellence for 2011. We did the role play like on the office where they held up nationalities on their faces, but instead we did it with ACTUAL investigators throughout the zone. They found them, helped the member fellowship them, planned the church experience for each of them, taught and invited each "investigator" to baptism! I think the Zone liked it. My interview was great with president. It had been quite a while since the last one. Not much was said, just reporting on the Zone, and told him how Malmö and myself were doing! The Lord really blessed us this transfer to be a high baptizing Zone. I am so grateful for the amazing consecrated efforts that the Zone put forth during this 13 week transfer.
It has been a great week. Dorothy and Obed the recent converts have been having problems coming to church because of dorothy's boss at work. Dorothy had been taking off work on sundays so that she could come before her baptism. And now afterwards, her boss has been giving her ultimatums. So it's been tough for her but she has a testimony about coming, just difficult circumstances at the moment. We were able to get in contact with her friend Shila and we commited her to baptism. After explaining more about authority she thought it made sense. The main problem is is that she got married in January, and her husband is back in Ghana. so when he comes to sweden in a month of two, he will hopefully be baptized along her side.
After sharpening, we went to Helsingborg to do work overs with the elders there. I was able to go with Elder Davis (a new missionary) and their area had been struggling a little bit. we started out the day with a power hour (hour of contacting right after studies and before lunch). And we had a lot of success! After lunch we had a full blank day ahead of us. A really cool miracle was that we had been calling and calling people to try and meet them but they couldn't that day. But the last person we called he answered. As we talked we told him where we were and he said wait there! As were were looking out of a window at a pizzeria a bus came around the corner, stopped and it was the man coming off the bus. We were able to talk with him, he was busy but interested to meet up another day! They had had troubles meeting this guy before but the Lord provided that amazing circumstance where we could invite him personally to meet with us! That night we had a tough time tracting. But the very last doors of each of the buildings had a family that was interested in hearing more! 3 families! We'll see how it goes.
Back in Malmö we were knocking doors the other day and no one was home, so we were going to go back into the car to go to another area. But we had a feeling that we should stay, so we walked to a specific building and went to the top floor all the way down and the last door was a Swedish couple (70's) and they were super accepting and took us in! they had met missionaries before, gone to church, but then the missionaries were transfered and they lost contact after that! They committed to come to church next sunday!
This week I definitely could see the Lords hand guide us to find the elect. I think too much I believe that the spirit will just come to us and tell us where to go. But I have learned that as I constantly remind myself "what can I learn from this" "where does the lord want us to go" we become actively seeking the spirits guidance. As we do that, our Faith will increase and miracles are wrought.
Love,
Äldste Wad
It has been a great week. Dorothy and Obed the recent converts have been having problems coming to church because of dorothy's boss at work. Dorothy had been taking off work on sundays so that she could come before her baptism. And now afterwards, her boss has been giving her ultimatums. So it's been tough for her but she has a testimony about coming, just difficult circumstances at the moment. We were able to get in contact with her friend Shila and we commited her to baptism. After explaining more about authority she thought it made sense. The main problem is is that she got married in January, and her husband is back in Ghana. so when he comes to sweden in a month of two, he will hopefully be baptized along her side.
After sharpening, we went to Helsingborg to do work overs with the elders there. I was able to go with Elder Davis (a new missionary) and their area had been struggling a little bit. we started out the day with a power hour (hour of contacting right after studies and before lunch). And we had a lot of success! After lunch we had a full blank day ahead of us. A really cool miracle was that we had been calling and calling people to try and meet them but they couldn't that day. But the last person we called he answered. As we talked we told him where we were and he said wait there! As were were looking out of a window at a pizzeria a bus came around the corner, stopped and it was the man coming off the bus. We were able to talk with him, he was busy but interested to meet up another day! They had had troubles meeting this guy before but the Lord provided that amazing circumstance where we could invite him personally to meet with us! That night we had a tough time tracting. But the very last doors of each of the buildings had a family that was interested in hearing more! 3 families! We'll see how it goes.
Back in Malmö we were knocking doors the other day and no one was home, so we were going to go back into the car to go to another area. But we had a feeling that we should stay, so we walked to a specific building and went to the top floor all the way down and the last door was a Swedish couple (70's) and they were super accepting and took us in! they had met missionaries before, gone to church, but then the missionaries were transfered and they lost contact after that! They committed to come to church next sunday!
This week I definitely could see the Lords hand guide us to find the elect. I think too much I believe that the spirit will just come to us and tell us where to go. But I have learned that as I constantly remind myself "what can I learn from this" "where does the lord want us to go" we become actively seeking the spirits guidance. As we do that, our Faith will increase and miracles are wrought.
Love,
Äldste Wad
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