This week has been pretty wild.
Our teaching pool has grown quite significantly in just
these past couple days and two people we have been teaching have committed to
be baptized next month! Everything is just rolling along. At this rate, a
couple weeks down the road we might have so much to do we won't actually be
able to do it all with just the two of us. It's Skövdelicious.
On Saturday, Elder Martineau and I ended up in a town called
Hjo because of some travel shenaniganry. It's this really small town right on a
lake and it was absolutely beautiful. It had a really weird Twin Peaks kind of
vibe, though, and appeared to be peopled entirely by retirees. Everyone was
just strolling around and no one seemed to have anything urgent or anything.
Also, apparently there was no train station even though both of us distinctly
remember stopping at a Hjo train station on our way to Jönköping. Weird. We
both felt like we had entered the twilight zone or something. I don't think we could
find that place again if we tried.
Something here in Sweden that I find very striking is how
many people are truly very apathetic about any sort of religion. Granted, there
are a Swedes out there who have faith, but they tend to be few and far between.
The epitome of this attitude is exemplified by something a woman I met on the
street told me: "It doesn't matter if God exists or not."
That's not athiesm, it's just complete apathy. An
unwillingness to believe in anything. King Benjamin's exhortation to us to have
faith in Mosiah 4:9 is something that has helped me in my life and my faith.
His statement is not only that God exists, but that we can trust in Him. That
He knows all things and is always there and can comfort us. Essentially, King
Benjamin tries to show us that it does matter if God exists because in Him we
can find a loving and all-knowing Father whose purpose it is to bring us back
to him.
I love that. I know that God lives and I know that through
His Son Jesus Christ we can find the comfort and peace we need to be reconciled
with Him.
Love,
Äldste Cummings
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