So as you can tell my the title here we go:
Bad news:
Remember the investigator that the sisters gave us? His name is Jamil and he was supposed to be baptized this Saturday. But we haven't been able to meet with him since the sisters left! We hardly answers his phone now and is super busy. We're not sure if he really is just super busy or if he doesn't like us or something I'm not sure. But this last Sunday was the first time he hadn't been to church in like a month. We're pretty worried. We'll keep calling and inviting and hopefully we can meet with him soon. AHH! Pray for us! I love Jamil!
Good news: ESAN! (last week I spelled it Ejsan but it's Esan) Quick miracle: We really wanted to get Esan to meet this member family who lives in the same tiny town (Gittorp) outside of Örebro so that they could give him rides and stuff. And they invited us and him to dinner on Friday night. WELL, his phone had no money on it and we couldn't get a hold on him and we were pretty bummed. But, we went to the dinner anyways, and at the bus stop in Nora on the way to Gittorp, lo and behold who do we see at the bus stop? It's Esan! Total miracle! He had time and came to the dinner with us and that family gave him a ride to church that Sunday (yesterday). So we were VERY thankful for that. Esan now has a baptismal calendar and things are looking good for the 18th of June! He's rock solid.
We also (besides Esan) had 2 other investigators in church which was awesome! That's a lot here in Sweden. One (I think I might've mentioned her before) her name is Neneh she's from Gambia and she really loved church! So did John! John is this other miracles man from LA actually who saw us walking home and called out to us like, 'hey are you the Mormons?' and he gave us his number and came to church!
Other interesting things:
- Elder Swenson and I have picked up doing family history work! We came home Wednesday night after moving the old sister out and moving the new sister in and were just EXHAUSTED and our lesson cancelled on us. We really didn't want to go out contacting so we decided to us our weekly media hour to do family history work. (Neither of us had ever used that hour before) and it was GREAT! Doing family history work with all the churchs resources is awesome and doing it in a ridiculous language is ever more fun! SO I made a bunch of sources linking our Swedish ancestry to their birth and death dates and added them to family search. And Elder Swenson found 4 new names he sent home to his family to do work for! Do family history work it's amazing!
- I played the organ in Church yesterday
- We also taught a bunch of primary kids in 2nd hour yesterday. That was fun.
- We got 2 new sisters! One is a visa waiter like me and this is her first week in Sweden. She waited in Vegas west mission.
- We're having zone conference on my birthday (this Thursday)
As always I love all of you and I love my mission!
1. The 4 of us! That's sister Eldridge (right next to me, she's the greenie) and Sister Jackson on the right. No I don't know why I'm not smiling.
2. This was a handy man truck we saw, the motto basically means 'We do the job your husband had promised to do'. We thought that was funny
3. A selfie of us and this stoned dude from Somalia, he was pretty cool.
4. Us saying goodbye to sister Woolsey after we put all her luggage on the train!
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