Let me just go ahead and start with Sunday. The Halmstad Elders came down and worked our area with us, so I was with Äldste Porter. We went out contacting and we meant to just go out for an hour. We ended up talking with a guy from Uruguay for like 20 minutes and it went pretty well, but we ended up missing our train so we decided we would just keep contacting for half an hour until our next train came. We then ended up contacting a Swedish man. I was expecting it to be a short conversation like we usually get but it turned into a discussion that lasted at least 35 minutes. It was so awesome to meet him and hear about his life and to testify of the gospel. We actually ended up giving him a Book of Mormon and switched numbers with him. He was my first potential investigator I've gotten for my own area! We had had little success during the Christmas season finding anyone we could teach and we finally got one. Äldste Porter and I actually missed our second train while talking to him so we ended up going to the station to make sure we didn't miss the next one, but I know that that man was the reason why we missed the first train. We needed to talk to him. He was actually only the first of 6 potential investigators we got over the span of 4 days! It's so awesome that after a lot of prayer and work that we finally are seeing more success.
Monday we went to Malmö to do some shopping so I got a better winter coat, some other stuff, and a hand clicker for counting contacts! (It's so much fun to click it) Later that day we went back to proselyting and we talked to 21 people and got 4 lessons on the street and found 2 more potential investigators! I started getting really excited because after getting rejected so many times by people we were finally finding more people to teach about the Gospel.
Tuesday we did more contacting and downloaded a Book of Mormon onto CDs for one of our potential investigators. (well, at least the first half because we only had 10 CDs. Fun fact: we discovered that the Book of Mormon requires 23 CDs to get the full thing) We also found another potential investigator and gave him a Book of Mormon in Persian. (another note. I've started keeping track of the countries and languages I've run into because there are so many. So far in 4 weeks I've met people from at least 25 countries that I know of and probably upwards of 20 languages)
Wednesday we contacted, tried and failed to meet with a potential investigator, and I also did some family history. It was super cool because I actually found the parents for someone we didn't have before! I was so excited to find people that we didn't know about! We also got a self-referral so we stopped by, got his number and gave him a Book of Mormon. We then went contacting and actually found another potential investigator, it was awesome!
Thursday was where it started to get... interesting. We had a really good district meeting and talked about how we deal with trials and how we can learn lessons from our hardships. It was a really good reminder of why we have opposition and difficulty in this life. Speaking of opposition, I ended up dropping our phone and the screen went black... and it wouldn't turn on again... oops. We went on splits with Halmstad after that, and we were down a phone. We weren't able to set up any appointments without the phone so we went contacting. I felt like going to the less busy area of Landskrona, in the residential area for some reason so we went out and tried to talk to people. There were not many people at all and we didn't have many that wanted to talk to us. But at one point I just felt like following the spirit. I just felt like going down one road then the next, then cross the street, and sure enough I stopped this woman who was just running home. We had a really good discussion and we explained the First Vision. We gave her a Book of Mormon and she took our card. With the phone not working I forgot to actually get hers so I hope she eventually calls us. *fingers crossed*
Friday was the 13th day after Christmas which is another holiday so all the bus and train schedules were a little different. We met back with Äldste Murtonen and Äldste White to end splits. We then went to the church because they brought Äldste Porter's iFixit kit so he ended up working on our phone for about 4 hours, including during our ward Christmas party. He couldn't find a way to fix it unfortunately but we did discover that the mission office would reimburse us for it if we went to get it fixed.
Saturday we went to the store and turned in the phone, they said that it might not get fixed until the next week. We then went to Helsingborg in case we needed to use the Sister's phone to set up an appointment with anyone. The sisters then got a call from the store, our phone had been fixed within 3 hours! It was a miracle! We had been praying so hard to get it working again so that we could get a hold of investigators and it went from needing a week to a mere 3 hours.
On Sunday we got a call while we were at the church about a half hour early from one of our less actives that he wants us to help him get from the station to the church and that he would be there in 20 minutes. Äldste Murtonen and I had to rush to the station to pick him up, thankfully one of the members was willing to drive us. The sisters also had a new investigator. He was someone they had contacted on the street but never met with and he came to church! It was amazing! We have had so many miracles!
If there is one lesson I have learned it is that miracles happen as long as we have faith. In Ether 12:6 it says that "faith is things hoped for and not seen, wherefore dispute not because ye see not, for ye receive no witness until after the trial of your faith."
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