Week 56 - Thanksgiving

I don't know how many of you noticed but I sent out 2 week 54 emails in a row so we will just pretend 55 doesn't exist and move one to week 56.

Monday we went to and played basketball again in Gubbängen. Our mission president even came and played with us for a while so that was pretty fun. 

Tuesday we went to the Senior center and talked with people there. Apparently there is this group of men that are retired that pretty much all they do every day is come to the center and play pool for as long as it's open.

Wednesday we baked cookies for one of our former investigators and wrote a card inviting her to check out the Chrismas Initiative. We left the box on her doorstep and we got a text an hour or two later thanking us for the cookies so that was awesome.

Thursday we had a really good district meeting on how to use the Book of Mormon in lessons and making sure to help people actually read it and understand what they are reading. I am currently the oldest missionary in the district at just over a year. The other members of the district are all at 6 months or less... So that's pretty interesting. After district meeting we had thanksgiving with a bunch of missionaries. One of the Senior couples made the dinner and it was a lot of fun. 

Friday there was a district leader conference video call so I got some training from President Youngberg along with the other district leaders in the mission and that was pretty cool. I definitely learned some good things from that. We also were able to give someone a Plan of Salvation pamphlet so that was super cool.

Saturday we ran into that guy we ran into last week that we talked with for awhile, his name is Kennith. We got to talk to him for a few minutes, he didn't want to give us his number but he did ask us for a Book of Mormon so hopefully we'll hear from him soon about it.

Yesterday we had a good day in church and then we had a member meal later that day and then that night we had stake choir practice since we have stake conference next week so that was really fun too.

This next week should be another busy week so it should be pretty exciting!

Have a great week!

The picture is of the massive box of cookies we gave to our investigator (there are 45 cookies in there).

--Elder Ashford