Tuesday we managed to watch both the Women's and Sunday afternoon sessions of General Conference! Yaaay! They were fantastic. I love conference. I feel like I never fully appreciated conference for what it is before the mission. As a missionary it's pretty much the biggest event of your life every six months. It's so amazing to listen to modern day prophets and apostles that speak to us today in our time.
Wednesday was another busy day with helping serve lunch again at RIA (they love us there). We then read in the Book of Mormon with a member again and had a great meeting with our branch presidency.
Thursday was district council and we reviewed some of our zone conference discussion, specifically having to do with studies. My studies have been really awesome this last week and I think a lot of it comes from President's challenge to STUDY the Book of Mormon and Preach My Gospel daily. Study implies actively searching for things and the Book of Mormon and Preach My Gospel are our primary tools. The more effort I put into my studies the more I get out of them.
Friday someone came and fixed our balcony door so that it finally closes. Yay! We did weekly planning and did stake reports. I was finally able to pick up my bike (again...). We had a member meal and then had some time to do some finding.
Saturday was filled with a lot of finding. We had a lot of good conversations and spent a lot of time out and about. But all of the finding we have been doing this week has had some results. This week we have been able to hand out 4 Book of Mormons. At the end of last transfer our branch mission leader gave me the suggestion to set some personal challenged and the very first one I set was was to hand out 20 Book of Mormons before the next transfer. Last week was difficult and we only gave out one the whole week but we put in an extra effort this week and gave out 4; we now we are at 17 with one week left to reach our goal. As we set inspired goals that stretch us and work towards them God will put the people in our path and make the other necessary arrangements.
Sunday was an awesome day. We had an awesome day in church. I even got to speak! So that was fun. We also had dinner with some members again and talked about the importance of having our own testimony. At one point several of us shared our experiences of how we knew the Book of Mormon was true and you could just feel the Spirit. It was awesome. We then had a little bit of time to work with and were able to go out and knock some doors and while we weren't able to give out a Book of Mormon that night or get let in we had a good conversation with this one guy, despite only having about a half hour to be out that night.
Today we went out walking through some of the older houses in Gammal Gävle so that was kind of fun and I put some pictures down below.
I love being a missionary here in Sweden and it's crazy how fast the time has gone. I am so grateful for all that I have learned here, whether that be about the people, myself, or more importantly the Savior.
Wishing you all a great week!
--Elder Ashford
Precious brother in Christ,GOD is for real and HE knows you and HE sees you and HE loves you. now,if you too love HIM and Truth,it is important you come to know a well known documented and verified truth(although,hypocrites try to deny it by telling silly lies);that is the book of Mormon is totally worthless(Never a Tribe of Israel went to the Americas to give birth to the Natives-the DNA test denies it-and far less the Lord JESUS. Truly,the so called original manuscript with the "pearl of great price" were mere lists of obituaries written in the old language of Egypt.which Smith had purchased in a library and not discovered in a wood,and the "apostles" in Salt Lake know it well;by the way,'cause Hyrum and Joseph were Freemasons,many rituals followed in the temples come from masonry). We have,already,a perfect testament,which you can find it in the GOSPEL(Galatians 1,6-9,Jude 3-4). May the Grace and the Love of our Heavenly Father find a warm welcome in your soul,so that his Holy Spirit can protect you from deception,sin and hell(Luke 12,1-12);until the day-if,you turn earnestly and with humility to our Lord JESUS to get his personal revelation with his forgiveness and holy freedom;and,so,to taste his fellowship with his peace and mercy-you too 'll enter the joy of Paradise. In god's love and Truth
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