Hej allesammans!
This week was so fun! So much happened, it was incredible.
On Wednesday to Thursday, I went on splits with my MTC
companion Elder Bird (he's the one who
intentionally hits "Reply All" every once and a while) who is serving
in the area south of us, Kungsbacka. It's been at least 7 months since I saw
him so it was so fun catching up.
We helped move a piano from this weird yoga-cult up in the
rocky ridges above Kungsbacka. It's just a group of men and women who all live
together in this isolated cabin who have a creepy circular rock amphitheater
thing they made complete with an altar with a bone on it (?¿). Super normal.
But they were nice and were giving away a piano for free so it was cool.
We were gonna go visit this non-member family Elder Bird met
because they had a slackline in their yard and Elder Bird does slackline but on
the way there they had to cancel so we biked to visit a less active member
instead.
The member and let us in and was really nice and one thing
led to another, and Elder Bird took out his slackline (which he only had in his
backpack because we were already on our way to the other family when they
canceled) and another thing led to another and we spent like two hours with the
man and his wife and his son's whole family (who had all actually written
themselves out of the church a couple years back) and had tons of fun with
them. Elder Bird and his companion will be going back to this former-member
family to slackline more, learn to sing, and play tennis. It was an incredible
experience and Elder Bird is an incredible missionary.
Elder Dumas and I saw this really cool teeter-totter thing
that went like up and down and side to side and moved around in a circle and so
we tried it out and I fell off but because I fell of we had this really nice
twenty minute conversation with this Canadian woman who was nannying some kids
in the neighborhood.
On Saturday it rained buckets and we had some minor
flash-floods. Of course we were out knocking doors and such so we got soaked.
At that point, we were already drenched so we figured we might as well enjoy ourselves
a little. We had so much fun.
We also got talking to this guy earlier in the week who
didn't have any real faith and at first wasn't interested meeting up to talk
more. Even though he rejected our invitation, we didn't stop talking to him,
rather we just kept trying to get to know him. He was a cool guy and it was fun
to talk and he ended up taking us on a little walk through the city on his way
back home. At the end of it, he asked for OUR phone number and wants to meet up
again and come to church activities! It was incredible to see how we were able
to ultimately speak to him by just showing genuine love for him.
Sorry for the long email, we just did SO MUCH this week that
I figured you all would like hearing about. So many people that we talked to
through so many different methods. "Thus we see that the Lord worketh in
many ways to the salvation of his people."
Have a great week!
Love,
Äldste Cummings
p.s. I have a ton of cool pictures but they're not uploading
or anything so I'll have to send them some other time, sorry.
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