Clocks Back!

Goddag kära familj!
Congrats to the Utes for being #5! Super cool! I'm looking forward to the results of the TCU game that would be super intense! But someone will be going through the gate leading to eternal life that day so I would say thats more important! Give Emma a BIG uncle Adam hug for me! I am very proud of her!
Well this last saturday night we turned our clocks back an hour so we got an extra hour of sleep sunday morning so that was superb! But lets get to the business of investigators! We have met a man from Lebanon, his name is Yassine. He has had a tough start to his life. He had been put into prison and tortured, rejected by his family, and since he's been out he has moved all around Europe, written 3 books on religion, and just a very intelligent man. He told us that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints attracted him because of how central families are in our church. So we explained to him why that was and gave him a Book of Mormon to find out for himself. He said that he would! Daniel from Indonesia has been having problems with smoking but recently has began to LOVE the Book of Mormon, he told us how the story with Nephi and his brothers was a lot like his story. From that he knew that it was true. Because he said that we challenged him to baptism on November 27th and he accepted to work towards that date as a goal. Tuesday night was something very special! We were able to get all 6 recent converts (except one who is living with her sister in another area for now) and Li and Michelle (Both Chinese) to come to our Ward Mission Leader's house. Here we had a member named Arnold Ahlström talk about the Book of Mormon. That man can teach with POWER! It was amazing. He talked about the Book of Mormon being the only true book on this Earth, the Holy Ghost and how to recognize it, and about China. The spirit was so strong and really did touch every person that was there. A couple of days later we met with Michelle and asked her how it went. She said that the spirit touched her so strongly, so we committed her to baptism for the 13th of November. She said that she would but would have to ask her parents first. We agreed. We then met with Li and asked him if he would be baptized on the same day and he had agreed. Following up, Michelle had asked her parents and they were against any sort of thing that would change the Chinese culture, so she let that get to her head and said she would not be baptized. Sad day. Since the missionaries have been meeting her for a while we decided to ask her if she knew that God existed if she would be baptized and she said no. But promised us she would read sincerely and pray. But since our expectations and hers don't align, we said goodbye. The next day we met with Henrik from SWEDEN and talked about baptism and tat eerything that we say relies on the truth of the Book of Mormon, and he told us that he believes the Book of Mormon is the word of God. So we challenged him to baptism on the 13th of November but he told us that he feels its too early but was willing to go for it! We teach him in this little common area in his apartment where he shares with other students. A student named Minh from Vietnam came up to us and asked us what we were talking about with him and we told him and he was interested. A couple of days later we taught him literally from scratch and focused on Baptism. He told us that he would want to be baptized to be clean from his sins. But we told him to read in the Book of Mormon. because he was going to be out of town for a week. He said can I take this book with me on the airplane? We said ABSOLUTELY! So he told us he would read and pray. He gave us an amazing sincere prayer at the end. Saturday we met with our bishop and was actually able to put into practice what one of my district meetings was about. How can I help attitude for the bishop. So we did that and he told us that he wanted us to keep baptizing and said that he would need help in his yard before the winter comes. So we'll see what kind of fruits that will bring!
This Sunday was pretty exciting. Henrik, Li, Rajish (allan's friend) and a guy we found on the street came to church! It was really exciting. We have recently received some Headsets for our new converts and our investigators who speak English! What a blessing that was. Because we didn't have to speak that loud. But just into a mic! We were able to bring Li to a member dinner after church and he loved it! After the dinner we had an appointment with a woman from Cosovo. She has three children who mean the world to her. So we asked her what her children mean to her. Then compared the same Loving care to her Heavenly Father and how he wants all of his family to return to him. So we taught her the Restoration and how through a prophet, we have received the authority to be with our families forever. She loved it and told us that she WANTED to read the Book of Mormon. After her we were excited to finally meet with this student from India, but he wasn't home. We waited by the bus stop and up came another student from India, so we talked to him and got on the bus with him and because he was christian he wanted to know more. He thought that a modern day prophet sounded good. So he said he was interested and will be meeting him on Wednesday!

The Work is moving forward. Heavenly Father really helped my testimony this week that even though some investigators fall through the cracks, there will ALWAYS be someone else ready to hear the message of the restored gospel! And that's our job, to remain worthy to be guided by the spirit to find those people then to have the Faith to Open your mouth!

We will be going into Göteborg today to play some basketball with my district so that will be super fun! Sorry this is a very long letter. I will be going now!

Jag älskar er! Ha det gött!

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