We've had a number of fun encounters this week so here we go.
Tuesday was wild. We went contacting in Brandbergen for awhile with no luck but then we came across this one man that we had kind of walked past a few times. We were both headed into the mall there and I said hi and then he stopped and started talking to us, we sat down because he was curious because we kept running into each other so he wanted to know more about what we were out doing. We talked for about an hour and taught the basics of most of the Restoration. He then invited us to his place for lunch so we went with him, and he started making us lunch. As we were eating one of our members walked into the kitchen... We were all quite surprised. Apparently the member and the man we met share the apartment with a few other people but we had no idea when we got there. After lunch we walked outside and were going to make our way to the bus home to do companionship study when this other guy calls us over. He says he sees us all the time and doesn't usually have time to listen but that day he did and was curious as to what we were out doing. He was walking his dog so we walked with him for about an hour and a half and talked about who we were what we did, and explained about the church by teaching the restoration to him. We even gave him a copy of the Book of Mormon. At this point the schedule we had planned was completely shot and the Mission President had texted us to see if we could do interviews that night so we headed back to the apartment, did studies and dinner, and then went to the church to call some people while we waited for our turn for interviews. It's always nice to have interviews. For ten minutes you get to have a one on one with the Mission president, it's great!
Wednesday we had correlation with our mission leader which is always great. It's nice to talk with a member of the ward for how we can work with the ward members. We did a lot of tracting throughout the day. We also had an interesting member meal. They had planned to feed us but most of the family was sick so the dad just bought us pizza and drove us home so that we could eat it while he brought more pizza home for the family.
Thursday was district meeting and we talked about acting as missionaries with power and authority. Our authority comes from our calling as missionaries and our power is evident when we act. It was super good. We then had a member meal and they took us out to a lunch buffet which was fun.
Friday we spent the morning planning and then knocked doors for most of the day but we texted one of our investigators and asked if she had time to meet over the weekend. She texted back saying that she could do Saturday evening and we looked and saw that we had a member meal, after confirming with the family we then texted her back and invited her and her two sons to come with us. It worked out perfectly!
The missionary that I replaced here in Vendelsö had told us that he kept thinking about this one family out in Söderby and suggested that we swing by so on Saturday morning we went out there. We knocked on the door, they answered and... they weren't interested. We tried another door that said to come back later... they weren't interested either. We had tracted in the area before so we decided to pick up where we left off. After knocking on doors for a while we came across a lady who went to school as a kid with a member, we talked a little bit about the apostasy and restoration and explained about the Book of Mormon. We asked if she was interested and she said sure and even said that we could come back later when her husband was also home. We gave her a copy of the Book of Mormon and traded phone numbers. We walked away super excited, while we had been hoping to meet with a different family, we were in the right area at the right time to meet this woman and now we have a family we can potentially teach! Later that day we had our member meal and it went super well. The two boys were very energetic but the family we were with did a great job of keeping them busy. After the meal we were able to teach our investigator about the Plan of Salvation there in the members' home. The Spirit was there and it was great!
Sunday we had two investigators come to church. After Sacrament meeting we met with them in a spare classroom with a member and taught them the Plan of Salvation. It went pretty well! The member did a great job of testifying of the Plan and the Spirit was definitely there. We had a great rest of church and went out knocking doors again in the afternoon. We also had a member meal for dinner.
It's been a great week and I am so grateful for the opportunities I have to teach people about the Restoration and the Plan of Salvation all the time. They really do fill me with joy with the knowledge that we have a Heavenly Father who loves us and has restored the fulness of the gospel here to the Earth today!
Have a great week!
Pictures are of a highly advanced security system we came across,
a massive snail we saw
and us (Äldste Anthon and Äldste Ashford) on the way to church.
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