Äldste Ashford's Sojourn in Sweden: Week 98 - Never have I ever... eaten a Vietnamese dinner before.

Monday was pretty interesting. While we were emailing the rain was just pouring down from the sky. Thankfully it cleared up in time for us to go out for the night. We swung by this one guy that we have had a bit of contact with and he just invites us in to eat with him and his family... We had like a legitimate Vietnamese dinner, on the floor and everything, definitely a first on my mission haha. We also managed to swing by someone else we have had contact with and challenged him to try the Book of Mormon challenge and read from the Book of Mormon and he seemed interested to try it.

On Tuesday we had a feeling that we should try going out to this area we had never been to before and so we tried it and the second door we knocked on took a Book of Mormon so that was cool!

Wednesday was our usual busy day with helping serve lunch at RIA, reading with Ulrika and coordination meeting. It was awesome though because after coordination meeting and dinner we were able to teach this one older lady we started teaching about the restoration and it went really well!

Thursday was the first district council of the transfer. It's pretty interesting because when I first got to Gävle we had a lot of missionaries that have been out for awhile but now we have a few more that are still pretty new to Sweden so that's exciting. I also shared a thought from a great talk from Dieter F Uchtdorf from October 2012 titled "Of Regrets and Resolutions". I felt like it had a great application to missionaries but I think it's a good reminder for us all to make the most of what we have before it's too late.

Friday was a really busy day. We had a lesson in the morning with one recent convert that we have been working with. Went home and squeezed in lunch weekly planning before heading out for a member meal. We then came home for some more planning and prep for 2 more lessons that we had that night. It was busy but super awesome!

By Saturday night I was exhausted. We had Innebandy in the morning and then helped a member move in to the branch. It was interesting because he was moving in from Norrköping so I already knew him and the two other guys that helped to drive the truck and unload so that was a pretty fun reunion. We also had a chance to get some good finding work in.

Sunday was pretty great. We had a good Sacrament meeting and had someone from the stake come to speak. We also had sort of a linger longer meal after church so that was good. After church we came home and I hadn't been feeling the best. I felt pretty tired but we went out and did some finding anyways. It was nice because as we went out I had the energy I needed to be able to get through it and we were able to reach our weekly goal by handing out 2 Book of Mormons within the hour and a half we had and one was even okay with us coming back to see what he had read. It was awesome!

Pictures are of us being totally soaked from the rain one day,