As for what actually happened this week, we knocked a lot of doors.
On Wednesday we managed to contact 3 different Jehovah''s Witnesses in a row walking through Brandbergen so that was interesting. Later in the day we had a pretty cool experience though. We had planned in the morning that we were going to knock on doors somewhere and we had seen a few new places that we wanted to try but I felt like we should go through one of the areas we had been knocking on and try to go through a few streets we hadn't been through yet, there was one in particular I wanted to try. We had started by tracting in a different area but felt like it wasn't going very well and felt like we should try that one street that we had talked about before. We got out there and then decided to start at the far end of the street and work our way back. The first few houses were not interested but as we climbed up the hill to this next house (there were no steps) we met a young guy who was working on fixing it up. We talked for awhile and got to know him a little bit better and found that he actually had a few Mormon friends. We continued talking and explained some parts of the Restoration of the Gospel and the Book of Mormon. He accepted a Book of Mormon and said he would read it. He said we were welcome to come back some other time to talk more about it but that he was normally only there on the weekends and lived in the city during the week. As we left it struck me as well as my companion, Elder Anthon, that that meeting was not by chance. In our district meetings there has been a lot of focus on following the Spirit and we definitely felt guided by the Lord. There were so many things that directed us there at that time in that short window when that man was actually there when he normally wouldn't be. It was a really amazing experience. We then went out and got dinner with a member. Plus I hit 9 months on the mission!
On Thursday we had district meeting and the Zone Leaders were there with us. It was pretty fun and we continued talking about being led by the Spirit in our finding efforts. We got to practice with some role plays which went really well.
Friday we did some planning in the morning, knocked a bunch of doors, and then had a pretty fun member meal. The wife was one of the women who bore her testimony during the missionary work focused lesson that I talked about last week. She had had a lot of experiences with the church before but it wasn't until a friend lovingly encouraged to at least meet with the missionaries once before she really saw the truthfulness of the Gospel and how the Lord had prepared her. It was fun to be able to have dinner with her, her husband and their kids and get to know them a little better.
Saturday we tracted a bunch more and then we talked to a guy on his way to a party. We had a real quick discussion and we got his number so that we could meet again and give him a Book of Mormon.
Sunday we had a Fast and Testimony meeting in church. We had an investigator come and we taught him about the Restoration during the second hour class and it went super well.
We have Zone Conference tomorrow and it we were told to study a little bit about the Great Apostasy and the Restoration. It was something I had already been thinking about a little bit and it was great to be able to study it a little bit more. The Gospel of Jesus Christ was twisted a lot after the death of Christ's Apostles. I love though that God restored that Gospel through Joseph Smith and through the Book of Mormon to teach us again about those beautiful, powerful, and simple truths. I love teaching people about how God loves us and has always called prophets to teach the people and how He continues to do so. I love the Book of Mormon. I know it to be true. I hope you all have a wonderful week and take some time to read it and ponder the miracle that it truly is.
The pictures are of a moose we saw while out proselyting Monday night,
a sign to a day care playground which says
"Welcome to Trumman -Be scared of our children, always close and lock the gate, thanks!"
Finally there is the classic warning that you see in every Swedish elevator
warning of the danger of having objects to close to the door in an elevator...
I swear, Swedes must have nightmares about it or something because it is everywhere.
- Elder Ashford
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