Dear missionaries; President Beckstrand announced at this weeks morning office meeting that the departure date for your groups will be Tuesday December 30th.
Mom note: I guess we get one more fun skype from Sweden this year! Happy that we will be home a week later and he will be home in time to start school on January 2. Now on with this weeks letter:
Hey everyone! I'm glad to hear that things are generally going well with you all. It sounds like Utah was fun the last week or so; it sounds like everyone had a good time.
Things have been going well here in Sweden. This week has all in all been good, although there hasn't been too much out of the ordinary, so to speak. It's kind of funny, but it feels like we've been super busy and not-too-busy at the same time. I guess that's just sort of missionary work, though.
Generally the week was pretty straight-forward. We visited people, went contacting, met with some of the members, and so on. On Tuesday we had the chance to go to the H's house (the bishop and his family) for lunch, which was really nice. I've probably mentioned it already, but they have a nice little house up in northern Skåne. And Bishop H is possibly one of the nicest guys I know. It was a good visit.
Sometime during the week (I don't really remember if it was on Wednesday or Friday) we met with A and had a picnic at the beach. It was generally a really nice day for a picnic; good weather, nice and sunny. The only problem was that there have recently been a lot of wasps around, and they were quite attracted by the hotdogs we grilled. We caught quite a few of them in a cup, but there were still a lot of them. It was kind of funny and kind of annoying at the same time. But it was all in all a nice meeting; we talked for a bit and then played Kubb. Good fun.
In other news, we met up with a somewhat old investigator this week named MC. We're starting to teach one of the members from Africa Swedish, and she came along to that, and, after trying to help the member with some basic Swedish (he actually did pretty good), we had a quick spiritual thought and invited her to church, and she said she'd come, which was pretty cool because she had always been reasonably hesitant with previous invitations. Either way, the next day we saw her there, and afterwards she said that she enjoyed the meeting quite a bit! We'll keep working with her, but things look reasonably positive so far.
You asked about "What strengthens your faith when you feel down?"
This is a pretty good question. I would say that one of the things that helps, especially with faith (specifically), would be reading the scriptures. Even just taking the time for studies in the morning I think helps make the days a bit better. Maybe on a somewhat less faith-strengthening and more on a helping-when-I-feel-down note, I think just taking a few minutes (usually in the evenings or what have you) to relax a bit helps a lot. Sitting and not really worrying about things, ect., I think helps with stress and or discouragement. There was something else I was going to mention, but I don't remember exactly what now, so I'll leave it at that.
Hope all is well with you guys! Have a great week.
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