(Mom's note - the the three that didn't get their visas are currently serving in Arizona.)
The title for this week comes from the weather, it's dropped down to about mid fifties in fahrenheit I think so it's been a little chilly and it's been getting windy. Basically it feels exactly like how fall comes in Minnesota, I just know it's coming.
As for this week
Monday we went to Stockholm for P-day and went to the Swedish History Museum with the Handen Elders and the Västerhaninge Sisters so that was fun. We got a whole bunch of good pictures too.
Tuesday we got to go to Stockholm again, this time we were helping out with taking all the missionaries that had just arrived that morning have their first experience contacting in Sweden. I was with Elder Strong and we got to go around talking to people. I hadn't realized we were supposed to be back at 2:40 so Elder Strong got an extra 15 minutes on the streets but it was awesome haha.
Wednesday we met with one of our recent converts which was awesome. She has a super strong testimony and it's awesome to see! We reviewed the restoration and it went super well. We also went on a short home teaching visit with a member with about 20 minutes notice before going to a member meal so that was also pretty exciting.
Thursday we had District meeting. Our district is now huge as we added the 4 missionaries in Hägersten with the transfer so now there are 14 of us with 4 skyping in from Visby. We were tracting later that night and we tried a door that had said to come back later. We knocked and asked if we could come in. The man was super nice and said they didn't have a ton of time but asked if we could just share real quick. We explained the Restoration in about 2 or 3 minutes and then were able to give him a Book of Mormon. He said he wasn't interested in meeting right then but he said he would read the book. It was super awesome though. I think we'll try again in a month or two.
Friday we had weekly planning so that took a while but we went tracting and I had quite the surprise. We knocked on this one man's house, he was very nice and said he wasn't interested but that his wife's sister was a member in our church and upon asking a question or two we established that she was one of the members I had met in the Norrköping ward! So that was super cool!
Saturday we swung by a potential investigator that we only had the address for and he is only there on the weekends. We have been trying for a month to meet him again and this time he was home! He let us in and thus began a 2 hour discussion, it was awesome! We even taught about the Plan of Salvation and a little bit more about the Book of Mormon among other things. He was rather non-committal for a little bit but I tried to just keep testifying of the truth of our message and inviting him to learn more and to try. In the end he said he would continue reading out of the Book of Mormon that we had given him last time and then we were able to get his phone number so we could meet again! It was awesome and I was able to feel the Spirit pretty strongly as I just kept bearing my testimony of the Gospel.
Sunday we had church and it was Fast and Testimony meeting. We had a great meeting and we even had two investigators there. After Sacrament meeting we took our investigators with us and a member and taught them the Restoration during Sunday School. We were able to answer some questions that they had and the member was awesome about bearing his testimony to our investigators. It was fantastic! We had a member meal later that day to which was fun and then we went out and knocked doors for awhile.
It's been an awesome week and I look forward to writing you all again next week!
-Elder Ashford
Pictures are of everyone from my (MTC) group last week that were at train the trainers (I didn't have the photo last week).
Then there are the awesome bathroom signs at the Swedish History Museum along with a picture of the group and my companion modeling some of the headware on display for people to try.
(Another Group Shot that Mom found and shamelessly "borrowed" on another Missionary's Blog - Thanks Elder Wilson!)
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