Tuesday we did a bunch of finding work. We actually ran into one of our potential investigators so that was pretty fun. We only had her phone number before but it was super good. We explained a little bit more about the Book of Mormon and then had to leave to go have dinner with some members. We had Flygande Jakob (Flying Jacob) which is delicious. It's a pretty common Swedish dish.
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Wednesday we went to the Gubbängen chapel for when the trainees meet their trainers, the three of us trainers who were waiting for our missionaries got sit through the training they gave while we wait for our new missionaries as their plane didn't arrive until about noon. After the larger group that arrived the day before all got their trainers, received a little bit of training, had lunch, and then left for their new areas we were left until our new missionaries came from the airport. A little while later they came and we got a shortened version of what the other missionaries had of meeting their trainers and everything which was exciting. My new companion is Elder Langford from Midland, Texas. After that quick orientation we went home to Vendelsö and got to work. Elder Langford is great, it's been fun to work with him. He's also a solid foot taller than I am so that's interesting, especially since our apartment has low ceilings in some parts so he's been a little cramped at times.
Thursday I led my first district meeting, it went pretty well but it was definitely my first district meeting so I'm still getting the hang of things. We had Elder Lanford's first member dinner so that was fun as he hadn't had much experience to actual Swedes yet.
Friday we did some service for a member of the ward. We dug out around his garage for him and then helped do some landscaping in his back yard. We found this giant cement block in a pile of dirt, it was probably 18"x36"x8". It probably weighed somewhere around 250 pounds. We managed to load it onto a trailer along with a bunch of other stuff to take to the recycling center. We then had dinner with another member family that night and knocked some doors nearby.
On Saturday we did weekly planning and a lot of knocking doors. There was this one lady that we were just standing outside her door about to move on when she came out for a smoke. She hadn't seen us and so I said hello and she more or less jumped she was so startled. After her initial shock she smiled about it. It was pretty funny.
Sunday was pretty awesome. We had a Stake Conference and L Whitney Clayton of the presidency of the seventy was there. It was a really cool conference. There were a few speakers but there was a lot of stuff that was really applicable to life. He talked about the story of Lehi's vision as well as tying it to the story from a general conference talk that related it to how a plane has to be exactly on course or else a miscalculation of even the slightest degree can have a massive impact on the trajectory of the plane. We got home from that and then we had some time. We met a guy and talked with him for a while, but he wasn't interested in the church other than to know a little more about it. We then traveled to Västerhaninge's chapel to see a broadcast from Elder Ballard to the Europe area. IT WAS AMAZING! I loved it. He talked about how we need to believe in miracles and believe that we can make miracles happen.
Have a great week!
-Elder Ashford
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