SALIMA!!!

Hello family! Sorry this letter isn't going to be so long. We had some technical dificulties in the library so were back at the church and P-day is almost over.

Well this week the Branch and us as missionaries have really been blessed.
Me and Äldste Takahashi have really been focusing on Finding potential priesthood holders to make this Växjö Branch really start functioning by themselves. We have found this man from Africa named Baba and has accepts anything that is GOOD and uplifting. So we definitely fit into that category so our first visit with him was the Restoration and he commited to read in the Book of Mormon. The second visit was even better. He wanted to know "what was the fastest way to get back to God." So we taught him the Plan of Salvation. We made sure that this teach was focused on the Gospel and Jesus Christ. Because once he accepts those and has a desire to follow both... he will be on "that path". Baptism seemed like something that wasn't too foreign but he really wanted to know more about Jesus Christ and what he did, then he would be able to accept his message. PERFECT LEAD IN to the 3rd lesson. It really is great when their needs match Preach My Gospel so theres not much we need to adapt to! We also found another man from Canada and he is Catholic but has a family and they are pretty believing so BELIEVING is always a positive thing here in Sweden! We are also blessed by having a young man from Utah who moved here to study and he already IS LDS! So we just have to show him where the church is and get him passing the sacrament! One of the miracle families we found is doing great. the dad is who we teach because he is the only one that speaks Swedish but they are moved here for good and not sure which Christian church seems right. Man i'm glad we followed the prompting to go to his house! Our main man Marvin from Peru decided to go with the experiment and be BAPTIZED on Mar. 20th! So exciting! So we are working with him a lot to get him converted to the Gospel and not US and OUR teaching. He's been keeping his commitments which has been a HUGE blessing! Our other investigator Eliza from Pakistan is still doing great and our prayers are still with her that her country might humble themselves and Open up to chirstianity... still doing great there. Two of our members... as we helped them with things around their house asked us for blessings so I gave my first one in SWEDISH! YIKES! It would be nice to have their home teachers do it but if they ask... what can you say? District Meeting was really amazing and uplifting where we talked about Planting Seeds and how that is one of the most important things we can do... because even though through all of the rejection... it's important to leave that GREAT last impression and to get them feeling the spirit even if they say NO. Speaking of which we taught the 3 guys from college again and they were really interested to HEAR about the Plan of Salvation. As we taught we could really feel the spirit bear witness THROUGH us to get them to understand and Believe. After their very sophisticated questions having NOt to deal with their salvation.. they were answered and they said, "if we could get ourselves to believe in God and christ then this would be the first thing they would believe in" We bore testimony to them but they could not get themselves to believe in this busy stage in their life. But one of the greatest things that happened was we both still felt confident that what we said really did PLANT SEEDS.
Sunday was great and the chairs were FILLED! Even though most of the chairs were members we were blessed to see the less-actives that we visited come to church and remember the covenants that they have made. Only Marvin came out of the many that we invited but still felt positive about it all. the high-councilman was there and gave us some really good advice on what to look for and who to teach to make the branch succeed. We also were able to teach a man who teaches religion and his wife and kids. There is MUCH potential here in Växjö and we just need to excercize the Faith to provide the MIRACLE!

Today we planned on going biking to a castle but after all the snow had melted... it was a BLIZZARD TODAY. So we stayed in and cleaned and wrote letters!

Congrats to the BRS in they're little BABY BOY! for some reason I wasn't so surprised that it would be one. WHATS ITS NAME! CMON! ANYways... good luck Sama and Lara with your wedding.
Sorry this letter was probably poorly written but I love you all anyways and I'll keep Pres. Farnes in my prayers!

I love you all!

Äldste Webster

PS theres Sharpening and Stake Conference this weekend! SO STOKED! LOVE YOU ALL! the baby looks like a PIMP! (in a cool way of course)

Love you momma!