Pictures from Växjö and BORÅS

HOORAY!!! Finally new pictures! He looks great! This batch includes two old companions... he's training now, as I said previously, but anyway... here's the little Aldste!

He's awesome, happy, and loving life!

Aldste Adam with his companion Aldste Barlow in Växjö

Hanging at a graffitti sign...

Adam with the twins he was teaching in Växjö

Aldste Barlow

Transfers and leaving Växjö

at the train station

Adam with three of his MTC companions!

Aldste Webster with two of his companions, A. Barlow and Takahashi!

I'm sure these are out of order... but at least you can see the cute little Waddily!
Aldste Webster and Aldste Bush
At the new digs in BORÅS

I guess he and his companion, A. Bush, were into taking pictures of each other
brushing their teeth... whatever!

At a Swedish celebration

Baptism of Zaki... July 3, 2010

Baptism of Zalina... July 17, 2010

This is at some Swedish festival...

Aldstes Webster and Bush

Doing "senior" stuff on the phone

Comps and the sunset! He sent a million pictures of sunsets... they are all amazing!

Helping Aldste Bush pack up... don't notice the mountain of garbage... what an elder! ;)
Bye bye Aldste Bush... Transfers... and training Aldste Stoddard in BORÅS.

August Miracle!

Well this is still the Lords work!

In the mission we like to submit "success stories" and I decided to do one... So here is what I wrote!

"And he said unto me: Knowest thou the condescension of God?
And I said unto him: I know that he loveth his children;
nevertheless, I do not know the meaning of all things."
After a long time of contacting and searching for the people whom the Lord has prepared...
No success was given. With our hearts drawn out to the Lord we continued to search.
Then came this man, as we had just turned around we had seen him, felt the spirit, and we stopped him.
This man was from Serbia. He didn't speak English, Swedish, or any language but Serbian, and that of the Spirit.
Communication was a barrier... and doubt was entering into our minds. But we decided to continue.
Kyrka was the word that he could understand, we invited him to church and that was that.
But wait, he came back to us and brought his wife and 3 children and said his bus card could only take him.
My companion remembered that a less-active spoke his language. We called her and was able to translate our message to them.
This family has come to church every week for the past 2 months. One day, when they came to church the translator wasn't there. But the ward mission leader was prompted to print out the 2nd lesson out of preach my gospel in Serbian. We had him read through it... I was reminded of a sharpening where we were told to MAKE SURE that our Baptismal commitments were straight forward, specific and direct. So, I pointed to one of the baptismal commitments at the end of EVERY chapter. He said DA! (yes). I pointed to "date" and we had decided one for the family of 5. Then came the whirlwinds. Many different things had happened to this family but because of the spirit that they had felt during church, and the Christ-like love that the members showed they could not deny their Faith.
Unfortunately, the Swedish government decided to kick them out of Sweden with a limit of a few weeks. The husband found out that his sister back in Serbia was a member of this church. What comfort that gave to our souls! Because of certain issues they had to leave even sooner and could not be baptized here in Sweden. They will now be going back to Serbia this week, with the dozens of donations recieved from the ward. Miracle after Miracle has happened with this family. Another testimony to me that this really is the work of the Lord. The family will come in contact with the church down there and will each be baptized with a testimony of the Restoration in their native country. They do not know why they came to sweden, they do not know why they have been born and raised without a dime in their pocket, but this they and all of us DO know that "He loveth his children". We are on the Lord's errand! With Prayer and Faith in Jesus Christ, ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN!
Not to mention, the less-active has become active in the church!
Onward Christian Soldiers... Onward!

That was the story! The Serbian family is off to Serbia this week, and so with tremendous hope... They will be married.. and then Baptized!

This weekend was our wonderful New convert Colette's baptism. It was an amazing experience and I only had to baptize her 1 time! It was a blessing! Her confirmation yesterday was offered in French by a member in the ward andthe Spirit was felt so strong.

Li a man from China has recently returned back from vacation and we taught him a simple lesson about the Fall and a need for a Savior... and the humble hearted Li asked us... "You mean.. Jesus Christ did that for ME?" Amazing spirit. And he came to church and was able to see our man Zaki from Afghanistan be given the priesthood.

Surendra from India is still doing great. We had an amazing teach with him over the weekend and we got preached to repentance. He told us that he had been not accepting Baptism because we had apparently never mentioned Repentance to him. But after asking for forgiveness, his real concern was that he needed to feel a mighty change of heart before he was baptized. So we promised him a lesson on Sunday about Repentance, and hopefully he will come to feel this need to be baptized with authority. He was also able to see Zaki be ordained and we know that he was able to feel the spirit. We will be going back to them this week and hopefully things will go well with them!

We also had a great time in Jönköping with my new district leader Ä. Barlow! It was good to see him again and catch up on Växjö! Turns out the Branch President has changed and Marvin (Peruvian guy I baptized) has gotten his Patriarchal Blessing! He is a ROCK!

That's awesome to hear about the cabin and how close it is to being ready and stuff... keep me updated! Fun things!

This week has just been a great week and a real testimony builder for me on how great this Work really IS!

Thanks for everything you do and I love you all!

Äldste Webster

(ps... The mother speaking here... I got a pen drive full of pictures. I'll be posting them soon! :) SOOO CUTE!)

Aldste Webster is training!!!

Here is the picture from the mission website of Aldste Webster and his new companion
Aldste Stoddard! They will be staying in BORÅS and Adam is training Aldste Stoddard!
Carry on ye Messengers of Zion!

Gå ut med tro!‏

Hello dearest family of mine! Well these past weeks have been quite the adventure! Although I was expecting to stay with Elder Bush... I really am humbled to be called to this assignment! I love this work! Well my new companion is Äldste Stoddard from a little town next to Portland, Oregon! He has a family of 10 kids and he is the youngest! Turns out that he has been in Brasil before visiting because his brother served there. Pretty exciting. Training is just an amazing experience. Reminds me of all of the things I learned from my trainer whether they be good or not so good. Right now I am just trying my best to give this elder the best impression of Sweden and the people as possible! His first day here all of our teaches were in English so it was a good opportunity for him to get settled in with a couple of English lessons. Our second day they were JUST in swedish so it was a humbling experience for both of us realizing how far we have come\ need to go! Our investigators right now are doing great but they all seem to be missing one ingredient.

Colette our investigator who will be baptized this Saturday is doing GREAT! She has continued to read in the Book of Mormon and has known that this is the true church since day 1. It is amazing and much easier to teach the people who are prepared and will hearken to the Lord's spirit. Just teaching her and many other great investigators have reminded me that it is not me doing the miracle but more and more every day I begin to see how much the LORDS hand is in HIS work. I think Humility is KEY to recognizing and following the promptings of the Spirit. When you have that eye ALWAYS single to the glory of God, and always STRIVE to keep the commandments, that is when we become worthy to\ willing to recieve and follow the promptings of the Spirit. The Spirit is key in EVERYTHING we do. It's not always the most logical thing, and it may not be the answer you are looking for... but if we follow the promptings... greater happiness really does come into our lives. I was able to feel that last transfer and I hope to be able to ALWAYS have that with me. As y lovely momma says... Obedience, Faith, and Prayer. Just DO IT. ANYways...

Ok.... coolest experience that happened just now... I am currently sitting next to an african guy and he looks over to me and asks me if I am Christian... YES! He asked me where he could find a church because he had just moved from Nigeria to here about 3 weeks agfo and he feels really bad because he hasn't been to church. He wants to serve God. SPEAKING about prepared! Man how do these miracles keep happening?! I'm pretty sure I never want to leave Sweden. NEVER! So we will be meeting him this wednesday! His name is Joseph.

The Toskic Family from Serbia will now be leaving in 21 days because the government is sending them away. Turns out that the dad had talked to his sister and she is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day saints! Now I am comforted to know that whether they be married here or in Serbia... They will be baptized! Once again... I am humbled. They were able to come to church yesterday and are still doing great.

We have met this super humble Swede and we believe he is prepared. He has read out of the Bok of Mormon even more and has come to feel of its power. He just believes that Every Christian church is the Body of Christ so it doesnt matter which one he joins. So Ari (his name) will be coming sooner or later.

We also ran into a man names Robert who is a 7th day adventist. He isn't really active in that church and is wanting to know what differs our church from others and desires a stonger Faith in Christ. I think we can help him with that. Our Chinese investigators are coming back into the picture as they are now back from China I will soon be reporting about them!

Surendra from India is very ready to be baptized. He knows that the Book of Mormon is the word of God... But can't connect the picture with Joseph Smith. He says he gets the same message out of his church as he does ours so he doesn't see the necessity to be baptized again. We gave him an amazing scripture to read and he has been keeping commitments... so I ampositive that he will come to know that this is true in no time.

Many of our Indian friends have been really busy with school and work... But things should be settling down in the next couple of weeks.

Alinda... we are back to the beginning with her. And now she understands where the Book of Mormon comes from and has commited to read and Pray even more now because she UNDERSTANDS what she's praying about. Turns out that the missionaries who began teaching her didn't clarify too well. But she knows that this is the true church of Jesus Christ and wants to be baptized. She just can't deal with Joseph Smith being a prophet. But we have illustrated it for her and she seems to understand and will continue to pray about it.

As you might be able to notice our investigators... it all comes down to Joseph Smith. Any tips on getting our investigators to be more convinced by the spirit that the Book of Mormon was translated by the power of God... and the authority being restored. Maybe with the commitments we give them it just takes Patience... im not sure! But continued Prayers go out to all of them!

Well family this week has been great and I look forward to another transfer of Miracle working! Thats where its all at!

Thanks to everyone that has written me and I will for sure be sending pictures TODAY so you should be getting them by the week end. Get ready... they are SWEET!

Jag älskar er! Kyrkan är san!

Äldste Webster

WAD