This has been an awesome week! Not too much happened on Tuesday but on Wednesday we had exchanges so Äldste Groberg from Halmstad so we had a lot of fun trying to contact people.
Thursday we had our last district meeting of the transfer. For the study suggestions before hand we were told to read D Todd Christofferson's "Why the Church" from October 2015 and it was super good. The District meeting went well and we talked a lot about helping people understand the importance of church. We also had a member meal that night that was really good. It was a classic Swedish meal called "Flyggande Jakob" (Flying Jacob) for those of you reading my emails looking for Swedish Cuisine.
On Friday Äldste Stapley and I got to go the Copenhagen Temple in Denmark! A member took us and it was amazing. We also went and saw the Kristus statue with all of the Apostles because it's only about ten minutes away. It was super cool!
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| Copenhagen, Denmark Temple |
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| Copenhagen's Cathedral - The Church of Our Lady Christus Statue and Statues of the 12 Apostles were created by Danish Sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen |
On Saturday we had transfer calls! Elder Stapley will be heading back to the mission office and I will be going up to Norrköping! They will have 2 other Elders coming in to Helsingborg but I will be companions with Elder Olson. It's kind of cool because he's only a group (6 weeks) ahead of me and we met in the MTC so I am really looking forward to it. We went out and did some work the rest of the day and had dinner at the Bishop's house and it was super fun.
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| Äldste Ashford is moving North to the area of Norrköping |
Sunday was Easter and it was super great. I gave a talk on Jesus Christ and His role before He began His Earthly Ministry. I started by recapping the Plan of Salvation and I realized just how central Christ is to it. Think through every step of the Plan and think about if Christ wasn't a part of it. Without Christ volunteering to be our Savior in the Pre-Earth life, without Him creating the Earth, without Him instructing the Prophets of what to teach, without Him atoning for us, without Him dying and living again so that we could too, the Plan would not work. Christ is central to the Plan and everything He does is to fulfill Heavenly Father's plan and help us.
Today for P-day we went to the Sofiero again which is the Royal summer house here in Helsingborg and it was a lot of fun.
--Elder Ashford
The first picture is a selfie of us with the Helsingborg sisters and the Halmstad Elders.
Then there is the picture of Sister Pullins with all us Elders pretending to look cool in the back and failing.
Then there is the Kristus Statue.
The last two is me "holding" Syster Pullins' coat
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