Pride week

I saw that you all were at Mantua yesterday from Nelson News so I assume the reason ya'll didn't write is because of that. No problem! So this past week has been pretty cool. The first highlight would definitely be the baptism of Marcus Joakim Isaksson. A while back Elder Jorgensen and I were contacting in downtown Stockholm and we were impressed to talk to this man. He was swedish, he was passing out scientology brochures, and so in exchange with his brochures we gave him a book of mormon and he wanted to meet with the missionaries. This last saturday we attended that mans baptism and confirmation. After his baptism, he bore testimony of the reality of the spirit in his conversion process and the power of the book of mormon. I was so thankful to see but a part of what that man is going to become! It actually brought tears to my eyes the power of his testimony. Because this overwhelming feeling came upon me on how quick the Lord can change someones heart and give them a tesimony! The Gospel is real. Steffany, our Peruvian investigator, got to attend the baptism along with her sister. So she was able to feel of the special spirit there. During the week we were able to teach her with the Elders that we will be giving her to, which I am excited for because the ward she is going to has a bunch of peruvians and chileans. I am so thankful to be a part of this work. Proselyting in stockholm is the ultimate referring work. a couple of baptisms are on way by people that we have found. And it still makes me happy even though they don't join the ward i'm in, they still are brought into the fold and have the blessing of the gospel in their lives! Johan, luckily, is in Stockholm ward's boundaries and he wants to be baptized on September 3rd. He was able to come to church, loved sacrament meeting, and could very likely be moved up to August 20th or something as long as he keeps commitments! Emma and Adam in Täby are doing fantastic. We were able to go by them and give them a Book of Mormon and FHE guide book to them and they appreciated it so much! I love that family, and am so excited for Mom and Dad to meet them! Sunday night was also a cool experience where we were able to do a fireside in the Södertälje ward COMBINED with a baptism. This father was being baptized by his son and they both came from a city north of Londrina, Brazil! So I spoke portuguese with them and caught up on good memories of brazil so it was a great experience! This week has been a pretty crazy week because we happened to have a lot of time to contact and proselyte WHICH IS A BLESSING! but when it is also Gay Pride Festival the same week, it makes things a little complicated. I would compare it to Carnaval in brazil, but gay... but it strengthened my testimony that you can find the prepared NO MATTER the environment. As we were contacting people on the street, the parade was coming. And so it seemed to me as if the (straight) people were walking away and the other were walking towards. So we walked on the side streets where people were walking away and we found this 22 yr old swede from congo who said he was in the direction of where we would be going. So we took him to the Institute center, away from all those abominations. We taught him about the Plan of Salvation and he told us a very personal experience about how he knows there would be life after death. He told us that after his father had passed away he had a dream and in the dream his dad was wearing a white suit, tie and shirt (coincidence?) He said he was in a cafeteria with his dad and his dad headed into another room and said "jag kommer snart" which means i'm coming soon. Interesting because the way he described it was exactly how the stockholm temple is arranged! Hmm... And so we taught right then and there about the Temple and it just clicked for him. So we look forward to seeing how he progresses in the gospel. We contacted this man last night from Dominican Republic. As we approached him he said he was hungry and tired and didn't have time. As the conversation carried on he told us that He has a strong belief in Christ but will never join ANY church. He said he was sick of being so easily tempted and wished that he would have more strength. He said "last time I helped the mormons they build me up a lot" It happened to be FHE in the Institute that night so we brought him there and there was a couple of people who spoke spanish there, played guitar with him and just welcomed him as one among the rest. It was AMAZING!

I know that the lord has his eye on all of us! He knows his sheep and it is ours to be worthy to be guided to the ones we can help! I love you all! Thanks for your prayers and support!

Love,

Äldste Webster (Wad)

P.S. I got my flight itinerary today... gross!

Member Mysteries

Well surprise! my e-mailing is today on Wednesday... but I'll just be
able to see the emails next week! no problemo!
This weekend was pretty exciting! Recently Elder Jorgensen and I have
made a list of members in our ward. We were thinking about all the
great missionaries that had been here before and how hard they worked.
Our first transfer together we were worked really hard. I think we
tracted almost every single building in Täby. So we began to think...
we had been doing everything the sam which we had done in our previous
wards... go to the bishop, have effective missionary coordination
meetings, well thought out progress record, carry out ward mission
plans... and talking to everyone we saw. But something just didn't
feel right. Recently we have tried something new. Member visits. So
what we do is we either plan in member visits (15 minutes each)
throughout the day and in between members we Find people, people who
live around them, on the way to and from... wherever. Come to find
out, that is really what this ward NEEDS! Besides the members that
always invite missionaries over for dinner, the members haven't had
that missionary spirit in their homes for over a couple of years.
Elder Jorgensen and I have found at least 7-8 part member families
that haven't had home-teaching or visiting teachers in 10 years. We
really feel that this is going to be a great way to bring the ward
back in the right focus, and love the people that reside in their
wards! So we have already gone through the ward list with the bishop
and picked out people that he would have us visit. We are also going
by people that the ward knows nothing about to see if there is
potential, and there IS! The other day we went by a "?" member to see
what his status was. We arrived at his house and he was home! he said
that his dad and he were both members but he also had a brother and
his mom who haven't heard much about the church. He said his family
would be busy in the up-coming weeks but we will be meeting him. He
told us that he came from Mongolia and in the stake they have a
Mongolian night every Saturday! So we invited him to that and he was
very excited! So we are going to be taking him this saturday, and
re-activate this kid so his family can be sealed! The other day we
didn't know how to find these people so we typed their address into a
GPS and we were driving along and we noticed that the road was ending,
come to find out that drove us right on top of a ferry! so
unexpectedly we got on a ferry, had to park and it just took us across
the river and we drove along and this ladies' house was probably the
furthest east you can get in our area. But this lady had also not been
visited for 10 years. She gladly accepted to read the Book of Mormon
and to bring someone in the ward along next time. I really feel like
things are just coming together in the Ward. It is something that
Elder Jorgensen and I have never done, because we always just felt
guilty about having our main focus be visiting the members. But we
strongly feel that this is what the Lord needs done here. Not to
mention, the Lord is blessing us with more investigators than ever
before! This is kind of like the Fisherman comparison elder Oaks gave
in PMG about keeping our line in the water all day long, except it
seems like the "bait" we are using is really strong and the fish jump
out of the water and come to us! The Lord's work is a miraculous one.
I found a quote the other day that will probably be my favorite quote
for my mission, which I have a strong testimony of!

"Faith is the power
Love is the motivation
Obedience is the price
The Spirit is the key
Christ is the reason"

I love this work! Talk to ya'll next week!
Love, Äldste Webster

Prophecies

sorry.. just giving you a heads up in case you are on right now! I'll be writing... just tell me whats been up this past week. (This email was written by surprise... we didn't know when his p-day would be so we had to scramble to write him while he was still on... he didn't get the news about Oliver till four days later... which is probably a good thing... don't need to worry him.)

wait... testing for what?? what are you SAYING? WHAT AM I NOT TO WORRY ABOUT?!?!?!?

haha... but seriously... whats up?

Sorry, i'm afraid this is how it's going to be while i'm here in the Office. P-days will switch pretty often. These upcoming 2 weeks we have Zone Conferences! Crazy how instead of being the little 13 year old boy sleeping in the back of the chapel to wait for Zone conference to be over... I'm on the other side... at the front of the chapel looking forward to give the Zone Conference messages! Our message is amazing! At the beginning of this transfer Elder Jorgensen and I knew exactly what we wanted to give our message about. That is The Re-dedicatory prayer for the Land of Sweden that the, then, Elder Monson gave for the Swedish people and missionaries!

We will be talking about the things that we need to do as missionaries, to bring to pass the prophecies of President Monson. I attached the prayer so you all can read and look at it yourselves. We will be focusing on 5 things. 1. Meeting with bishop 2. Member teaches 3. Progress records 4. Member referrals 5. Prayers for those in the ward, and ward's prayers for their missionaries by name.

This will happen throughout the whole country! Just imagine, Every family praying for the missionaries in their wards by name, and every missionary praying for their members to have missionary experience! The work is going to go forward in Sweden!

Some inspiring quotes,

"We know that when this attitude of cooperation permeates the missionaries and the members, the leaders of the stake and the leaders of the missions will be in a position to direct the efforts in such a way that the objectives will become realities." Our objectives (standards of excellence) is to baptize weekly! We look forward to the day when this will happen.

"Let this apply uppermost to the land of Sweden this day, let this be the day for Sweden, the time for dedication, and the hour where a great upsurge in the work will take place." Indeed, it will!

"...that this nation may indeed be an example to others, of that which can take place when the membership of the Church, the missionaries assigned, and the watchful care of the Lord all combine to bring about the desired result." It is through the Lord that will allow this to happen!

Anyways... we are really looking forward to the messages that the mission will be giving. This week we were really blessed! We have been praying that we would be able to find a place in the area that great success could occur. The beginning weeks had been quite humbling, the Lord was letting us know that he is the one that provides the miracle. And this week we were blessed! We have found families who are interested, some from Vietnam, Phillipines, Mongolia, SWEDEN, Poland, All over! the super cool thing about this area that we found is that it is a bunch of tall apartment buildings! And in each one of the 6 buildings there is a member that lives in each of them! Easy to get fellowshippers as well! Golden!

I'm not sure when I will be writing next but just to be safe, ya'll should write on Sunday or Monday of next week. Also, Mother's day call... we should probably start to figure out a time and if it is still the 2962114 number I will call!

Love, you all!

Äldste Webster

Surprise pictures!!!

I LOVE when I get pictures after receiving our weekly email!
Makes this momma very happy!
Anyway... Adam mentions the Koch family in his letter... this is the Koch family. She fed the elders steaks and yummy food, not to mention the donuts she made... keeping up with tradition!

Downtown Stockhom

The office elders

by the palace

A cool picture

Conference Weekend!

What a great weekend this has been! How blessed I am to have such a GIGANTIC FAMILY. Oliver being born on April 1st (judging by the pictures... I assume it's no joke) Congrats to Jake and Swaticus! I've got 5 new faces that I have yet to squeeze! Give them an extra one for me. I have noticed so much that the babies now a days have such a light in their eyes! It's really cool to see! Emma and Reed and Andrew are all growing up so much! Crazy little ones...

This week has been a week preparing people to LISTEN TO A PROPHETS VOICE! The first session began saturday night at 6 pm. So the morning of we took the elders in the office and went in to the city and sang Hymns of the restoration! 3 of us were singing and then 2 of us contacted! It was really an awesome time that we had together to sing the hymns of the Restoration the day the prophet was going to speak! We printed out flyers to the website and location where they could watch conference! There was a whole different element to talking to people because we could testify of a living prophet and say He is speaking today! Come and SEE!

In preparation for Conference I had thought of many questions that I needed answered. How thankful I am for Living Prophets and Apostles who receive inspiration to the worlds question and unfold it in such a simple way. I loved to see Grandfather speak! The picture of Nicholas(?) and Olivia was so cool to see! It's pretty cool to look at pictures of my family the same time as the whole world! (His last talk as well). Sunday morning we watched priesthood first. Bishop Koch was there with a whole BOX of home-made donuts! I was the happiest man on earth! It was really cool to finally see them! The Priesthood session was amazing! It was pretty exciting to hear how many times Elder Andersen used the words "missionary work" and "second coming". It definitely was a favorite among the missionaries. Then the first presidency spoke about Learning your duties and by Faith and Humility going out and accomplishing them. Also, an incredible amount of talks focused on marriage throughout all of conference! But we need not talk about that... yet.

After priesthood we got to take a drive to the Koch family's house. Their kids are so fun, and we watched the saturday afternoon session together. Prayers were DEFINITELY answered during Conference and I am so grateful that I can be a missionary at this time!

We had a cool experience with one of our investigators. Mario from Montenegro. Friday night we had planned on inviting him to church. We wanted to swing by another investigator who lived right next door. On the wat to the apartment we found her outside with her husband anyways! We were able to invite them to come! then we went by Mario's. He was not home and it was 10 minutes before we had to head home. My companion and I felt the strong desire to stay out for 10 more minutes and to invite whoever we see to listen to a prophets voice! The first person we saw... mario! He told us he didn't have his phone all day and said he wanted to invite his friend to conference too! After conference was over we were disappointed that he couldn't come. So the next day we headed out to see what happened. He was not home again... we called his phone and swedish man answered telling us that he had found this phone on the train. Mario had lost his phone. So we went to the man's place and got it from him. Now we will get in contact with Mario a lot quicker! haha

As we went to get the phone we tracted the houses next to him. We found a woman who was muslim, but was interested in a living prophet. So we will be going back to meet her and her husband and 7 year old daughter. On the way back, we decided to contact this man in his car... while we were in OURS! He said he believed in God but needed to get to another place in town, he was lost. (which is where we needed to go) so we told him to follow us. When we showed him the place he thanked us and he gave us his number! Quite a miraculous day!

I am so happy to be a missionary and have the chance to testify to this people. It was a cool thought to know that no matter what time it is... there is missionaries testifying of Jesus Christ. How grateful I am to be a part of His work.

Love,

Äldste Webster

Congrats to the birthdays in April! Laurie, Lara & David! I love you guys!

A sweet sister in Sweden, and friend of Brynns!! HOORAY!

This is a friend of Brynn's who's living in Sweden. She had the assistants over today for dinner. She was sweet to send this message to Brynn as an update on it all! Ahhh... I feel better now! An actual Aldste sighting!!! LOVE IT!!! Thanks Laura... forever! That does a mother's heart so good! LOVE you and love that you took care of my son!!

Laura Conover KochApril 3, 2011 at 6:27pm

Subject: your bro

He seems happy. We didn't get to chat too much--they watched conference for a bit, ate, and ran, but he's very nice. I sent donuts with Ryan to Priesthood session this morning so we could have steak and Lion House cheesecake this afternoon. Äldste Webster says hello to his family (what else can he say to tell you on Facebook? He may not even really be allowed to think the word Facebook.) It was lovely to have him here along with his companion and the missionaries serving in our ward. I think Ryan's going to post the picture he took for you.

I had an epiphany this morning--I remembered a general conference where an apostle talked about his family tradition of conference donuts. As I thought about it, I was pretty sure it was Elder Nelson. A search on http://www.facebook.com/l/712c6Qgv4Dbz9d6N2fCo0DDAJHw/lds.org confirmed it, so I felt cool that I was somehow participating in keeping the tradition up for your brother while he is on his mission.

Happy General Conference!
Laura

Pre-conference!!

Hejsan!

Thank you mother for the 2 memory cards. That's incredible that you got two, it will definitely last the rest of my mission. And a lot more! Mother I actually haven't gotten anything for quite a while from connor, mitch, b-man, riley.... they are all kinda slacking, so if you have pictures of them feel free to send them! At the beginning of this past week it was around 40's and things were beginning to melt! But now as Iook out the window. It is snowing again!

I'm really looking forward to conference this weekend! This past week has been an interesting time for me because the way I can get answers during conference is if I ask the right questions! And I noticed that I won't be having another conference here on the mission. Sad story... So it's been a great time of reflection for me thinking about what kind of a person I want to be by the time next general conference comes around. I read a talk from Elder Bednar today about how missionary work really should go down. (Ask in Faith talk) The full-time missionaries are full-time teachers of the gospel. The members are full-time finders! So I am just thinking about what things I can do here on the mission (as I find, teach and baptize) to prepare me for Finding (spreading gospel, finding a job, wife... etc) when I am a returned missionary. No, this is not trunky talk... this is preparation.

Anyways, I am loving it here with my 4 companions here in the office. This past week we have been preparing for a Sisters Training for tomorrow. The plan mainly is to strengthen their confidence in doing missionary work. Because they don't have that many opportunities to go on exchanges so this is a time where they will all get to change companions... go out and do what we all love to do, just building the courage to DO it! Also Elder Jorgensen and I have been talking about the messages that we want the Sweden Stockholm Mission to know, do, and love. We were reminded of the re-dedicatory prayer that President Monson gave for the land of Sweden. He says that as the missionary force and the members combine their efforts, the objectives that the mission and stake leaderships have will become a reality! So we wanted to focus on combining our efforts in "Accessing the power in Priesthood Leadership" so that what has been impossible in Sweden, will become possible.

The investigators we have are slowly, but surely coming!

Gary (england) is not doing so well. We taught him and his daughter Kimberley at the church and they had accepted baptism in the teach previously. It just so happened that we were going to teach them lesson 3 and we committed them to a specific date. They got a little scared of the date so we just invited them to church. The next day, Gary called us and said that they had been talking and they didn't feel so comfortable. But he would still give church a try. So we are going to invite them to General Conference and feel that spirit that is there as we listen to the Prophet!

We tracted into this man from Montenegro whose name is Mario, who had just moved here a couple of weeks ago. He speaks English, catholic, and really interested to find out about the Restoration. He prayed at the end and we felt the spirit there. This man feels really positive!

At church we had invited at least 7 to come but 1 man came, which I am so grateful. He is a swede named Anders, at the beginning of sacrament meeting he wasn't willing to sing the hymns... just excuses. But the fast and testimony meeting was so spiritual it was amazing! By the end he was wiping his eyes a little bit, could really feel the spirit there and sang the closing hymn! This man had a weak Faith in God, but because he chose to come to church, no doubt, his Faith was strengthened!

Those are just a few highlights from the week. This Sunday I will be going over to Brynn's friend Biskop Koch's house for dinner with my companion and the elders in their ward between conference sessions! So I will for sure be taking some pictures!

I love you all, thanks for your letters and prayers and support!

Love,

Äldste Wad

Great Weekend!!

Hello! well this weekend is quite the weekend to report about! The Lord has blessed us so much and I am so grateful to be where I am right now. So one of our investigators named Julia (Poland) is so great. She is probably in her 50's or 60's and is the most relaxed, happy person there is! Just this weekend we found out just why. A while ago she was bitten by an insect of sorts. And because of this, it led to her getting a brain infection (meningitis?) So she had forgot pretty much everything we taught her. But this weekend my testimony of that we are made out of both Body and Spirit has been strengthened! As President and Syster Anderson picked her up to go to church, she just up and came (because she forgot she had to come). We saw her there and the members welcomed her so well. A few asked her "is this your first time here?" And she answered no, right after we had to correct her and say yes it IS your first time! But as we sat down for sacrament meeting she was just so into it all and so happy! She stayed for all 3 hours.

That evening we visited her and asked her how she felt at church. She didn't remember a single thing from church, but she told us she could remember the feelings that she had while she was there. She told us she remembered how much of a "familiar feeling" it had and how welcoming the members were. She felt like she was apart of a great family. It is clear that she doesn't remember the small details, but the Still Small details... she remembers! The next day we taught about the Word of Wisdom. She committed to live it, but as we came back yesterday, there was cigarette's all over the place! So she forgot about what we taught her. Elder Jorgensen and I felt like something like this would happen. So we got a notebook for her to write in. What we are going to have her do is write in this book, what she learned during our lessons and how she felt. So that as she progresses, she'll be able to read and remember what she has been taught! We taught her about the gospel the following day and how christ cleans us from sin. And so we invited her to be baptized and she brought up her concern about she had been baptized as a baby. We answered her concern quickly and simply and she understood. We showed her how we baptized and she kinda just shouted for joy. So we invited her to be baptized on the 9th of April! She accepted. So we had her write down what she committed to and what it's going to take to get her there. On her refrigerator lies a Baptismal Calender. As we teach her it reminds me of 50 first dates. But i'm going to call it, 50 first teaches! How she continually forgets what we teach her, but through repetition and her feeling the spirit, she will remember that baptism is the right thing to do! Really amazing actually.

This weekend some of President Anderson's family came to Sweden and they have a 16 year old grandson. We were able to take him out for a night teaching. And he loved it. We met with this man from England, his name is Gary. He has lived here for 20 years. He has two dogs and my companion has severe allergies and asthma so he wasn't able to teach the whole time. (Because he couldn't breathe). But he endured and so it was me and Presidents grandson. We taught him the plan of salvation and as soon as we got past pre-mortal life his 16 year old daughter walked in! She spoke swedish better but her dad is from england so she spoke fluent english. She joined us in the lesson. It was a great teach, after that we asked him if he had any questions, he didn't have any questions and said it seems right and I think this is something I can follow! As he said that we asked the daughter (Kimberly) what she thought, and she said, "I think it's good, there are some parts that I could really connect with." She loved the 3 different kingdoms of glory and she was just staring at the kingdoms. So we talked to them about what they needed to do to get to the celestial kingdom. We invited them to be baptized individually and they both said yes! So today we are taking President Anderson and giving them a chapel tour, teach about the Gospel and invite them to be baptized! Today will be an amazing day!

Much more happening, but those are the highlights! yay for baby blessings! Elder Stoddard says hello! (my first born who is a secretary here) Next week the P-day will be on tuesday!

Love,

Äldste Webster

The oldest church in Sweden!

Aldste Jorgensen, Aldste Webster
The assistants at the oldest church in Täby, Sweden

Meetings!

This has been quite a week! And I can't believe March is half way done! Throughout the week we have gone throughout the mission and visited some district meetings, had leadership training, went on exchanges and drove everywhere! Every Monday we have staff meeting where the Andersons, assistants, secretaries, and the office couple (Lundquist - they have family in Bountiful) come together to talk about things that are happening and need to happen throughout the mission. After that we meet with President to talk about specific district meetings he would have us go to, or areas we could do work-overs at. One of our investigators who we found who's name is Julia (Poland) we were able to teach on Monday before we left. We were able to bring Syster Anderson with us to practice her swedish! She did an amazing job! We taught her the Restoration and syster Anderson reminded me so much of Mom and her portuguese. Even though she wasn't able to get off 100% of what she wanted to say, the love that she had for that person and the spirit that was there could patch up whatever miscommunication there would have been. She was able to invite her over for lunch on friday and that is a story within itself! Tueday morning we took a trip in our car (named Julius) to Göteborg! There I was able to see my 2nd greenie Elder Nelson (and yes, we did get a picture on our knees) we participated in a district meeting there at the institute center and then we went to Alingsås for the day to do workovers. I was with a brand new missionary Elder Hinkson and we had a great time together and found a teenager who is willing to meet with them! Fun stuff. we then took a drive over to a city called Kungsbacka for the night and stayed over there. In the morning I noticed I had no voice and a very bad cough. So we took a drive down to Lund, got some medicine, but no dice. But I continued to smile and just support my companion as he gave the majority of the Leadership training. That day in Lund was the Leadership Training where the district leaders and Zone Leaders from Malmö and Göteborg came together. I was able to see Elder Winegar again and Elder Bush! they are both studs and seeing a lot of success down in Malmö! We went on exchanges that night and I was with Elder Bush. We taught an ex-member of the church and we invited him to be baptized and he said that he would be sometime in April so that's rally exciting! Then we taught an investigator that I knew, named Joseph and gave him directions to the church! Then, the following morning we drove back from Malmö to Stockholm where Elder Jorgensen drove for the very first time after 1 and 1/2 years! that same day it snowed and he told me that it was his first time driving in the snow EVER! which was quite frightening but he did a good job! haha We got back and the following day we had a lunch with Julia and President and Syster Anderson! It was an amazing time we had together. We talked a lot about families and how important they are to Heavenly Father's plan for us. At the end, syster anderson invited her to church so that she could see their family that is coming in to Sweden today! We should be having a good church tomorrow! Not that exciting of a week as far as investigators go. But I'm learning a lot in how to prepare for meetings, teaching with the spirit, and praying for the gift of discernment. It's amazing to see hoe vital that gift is throughout our lives. Whether it be in teaching, being a friend, raising a family... Heavenly Father will help us out to discern what we can do to bring them closer to christ. Pray for the gift of discernment. That's my tips for the week!

I love you all so much! Thank you for your wonderful letters and support! Too bad the U isn't in March madness. But there's always next year! Boo ya!

Love,

Äldste Webster

Busy Week!

Hejsan!

What a CRAZY week this has been! So... just so ya'll know P-days aren't entirely for sure yet. The people in the office usually take P-days on Saturdays but we were probably going to change it to Tuesday or Wednesday. Some day where it is less-productive during the day. Because Saturdays are really nice here. But, this up coming week we have a leadership training in Malmö so we will be traveling all week so we might just end up writing you guys this upcoming saturday as well. I'm sure we will just be taking P-day whatever day just fits the best! But I guess just write me on Fridays and that should do! Anyways, The beginning of last week has been crazy, President has only "doubled-in" the assistants twice so learning what to do, staying on top of everything, preparing for leadership conferences, and still doing missionary work has left me quite tired! But I am learning A LOT!

Last weekend when we first got in, we got to train the new missionaries that had just come in! An amazing experience was that we got to introduce the standards of excellence to them all. And we asked them all a question "In the Sweden Stockholm Mission we..." and an elder said, "baptize?" timidly. Another said "Baptize." Another, "Baptize!" And then we picked out the large elder from the group and we said, "what do we do in the sweden stockholm mission?" And then he shouted, "We BAPTIZE!!" And right as he said baptize he BANGED on his table and the glass that he was drinking out of SHATTERED all over, so there was glass EVERYWHERE! It was very dramatic and more than we could hope for to get these missionaries psyched to baptize!

On tuesday we had Zone Leader Råd (council). And it was really good. I was able to see Elder Winegar after a few days and we just had a great time up here in Stockholm. We practiced "empowing our district leaders" through phone calls by poking holes in the bottom of plastic cups and tying a string between two cups. Like phones! I remember as a child trying to do those and it didn't work. But it did here! Must be the climate or something... HAIGH.

On Wednesday we had Leadership Training where the Zone Leaders and District Leaders came to the mission home. We mainly talked about VISION for the transfer and what to do to accomplish them. (Exchanges, district meetings, etc...) The days before we were basically preparing for both of these conferences! It is definitely different than a normal missionary life. It was pretty cool, as we were preparing for one of them, we were completely running out of ideas. And so we decided to go out and find for an hour or two and as we came back we were able to think of plenty! We now know that its good to take some breaks once in a while and go out and PREACH!

The last assistants didn't leave us with any investigators so we started from ground ZERO. We found a man from England who has lived here for 20 years. Gary, we were able to teach him about the Restoration and he was going to go out of town but he told us that he would be reading it on the plane and as much as he could. After the prayer, he told us that he might have his daughter read as well! This man is prepared.

We also tracted into a guy named Muntir from Iraq. He is christian. the first time we talked we gave him the Book of Mormon. The second time we came by and he told us "I read some, you can have it back." Grandfather's talk has always helped me tell everyone "That is not the right answer for someone who has read the book of mormon!" As we clarified more about the Book of Mormon he understood it's role and what he needed to do. He asked us if we had a church and he committed to come and see! Him and maybe his family will be coming this week! It was so cool to see he countenance change as we were able to testify of the book of Mormon.

We also tracted into a girl who is 20 years old who speaks swedish, english, arabic and persian. She (Kim) was so happy as she saw us! She didn't believe in God but enjoyed going to churches. She was interested in meeting and coming to church sometime! We'll see where that goes. We contacted this woman from Kenya (Miriam) and she was with her husband. The husband was atheist but we mentioned the Gospel of Jesus Christ and she got so excited! We set up an appointment and she said that she had 4 other friends she would like us to meet! EXCITING! Täby has got some great things happening soon!

We were able to meet president for a bit and he basically told us that he called us both so that we would both be ready to take over the mission when they leave in July. So me and elder jorgensen will most likely be there when the Newel's come! That will be quite the task. President asked us to look over a booklet that they would be sending to them in preparation for Sweden. It reminded me of the experience where a 20 minute car ride ended up taking 3 hours from the mission office to the home! So if Mom and Dad have suggestions about mission president transitions let me know!

This up-coming week we will be driving through Borås, Göteborg and finally Malmö for Leadership training! So that will be an adventure. I was able to take the prayer picture with elder Winegar. But not with Elder Nelson in Borås so when we go through there we will take a picture! Then I will send them to ya mamma!

As you can see there are plenty of things going on... but thats all I feel like talking about for this week!

Thank you all for your support and e-mails! I love you all so much.

Love,

Äldste Webster