Tuesday we had splits with the Uppsala Elders so they came up to Gävle and Elder Tolman and Elder Dawson immediately caught a train to the edge of our area while Elder Jordan and I headed back on down to the good ol' Uppsala. It's a pretty city that's definitely a college town and is extremely bike friendly (some of the roundabouts straight up have a bike lane). We got to Uppsala and Elder Jordan and I had a good time running an English class at the church with the sister missionaries in Uppsala and then we went out and did some good finding work and had a great time.
Wednesday we went to the Uppsala trainstation and met up with our companions again and then Elder Tolman and I had another busy day ahead of us. We helped serve lunch at RIA again which is fun as always and then we went right after to the library to meet Ulrika and ran into 3 other members too. The library was pretty busy, probably because it is one of the few buildings in Sweden with air conditioning and it has been one of the hottest summers Sweden has seen. After our time at the library we brought our bikes into the shop to get worked on... not having bikes and having to use only buses has been a bit of a transition haha. We have been using those things a ton.
Thursday was the good old district meeting and we did some follow up on zone conference about commandments and someone mentioned something which I thought was awesome. God gives us commandments because He loves us, and how do we show our love for him? Keep his commandments (John 14:15). We also had coordination meeting with our branch mission leader and we knocked on his door and his family had all just gotten home from vacation about 10 minutes before haha. But we had a great meeting.
Friday we had an awesome lesson. We have been teaching this one man for the last few months, ever since I got to Gävle, and we had a quick lesson with him that went super well. At the end he even said the prayer! We have been asking him every lesson and he has never felt ready or comfortable enough to do it with us, although he does it on his own, but he finally said one and it was awesome! The Spirit was definitely there.
Saturday we had innebandy again and it rained a little bit and dropped down to 19 degrees celsius for the day so that felt really nice. We also had our Chill Kväll activity and we made spaghetti and we had about 15 people there and we played some games. Somehow I managed to win the cookie face race in about 5 seconds, how I don't know, whether it was skill or good luck I don't know either but it happened.
Sunday we had a great day in church. We had a great sacrament meeting and then it was funny because in sunday school we started with an object activity trying to describe the importance of good leadership. Elder Tolman and I were asked to stand back to back, each with an identical set of legos on the table in front of us. Elder Tolman was then to construct something and describe it and I was to try to replicate. I did my best but let's just say we didn't get the same result.
I read a really great talk by the way this week from 2014 by Elder Holland titled "The Cost—and Blessings—of Discipleship" https://www.lds.org/languages/eng/content/general-conference/2014/04/the-cost-and-blessings-of-discipleship. It really enjoyed it. He talks about how being a disciple of Christ is not and has never been easy or convenient, but the joy and blessings that come from it are so numerous. I really liked it a lot.
I wish you all a wonderful week!
Here is a picture of a "weather station" we found while tracting. It is a remarkably technical and highly accurate apparatus with such indicators as "if rock is wet - it's raining" or "If rock is white - it's snowing" or even "if rock is gone - tornado."
-- Elder Ashford
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