(Aldste Cummings)
Hello everybody!
This week was a party, let me tell ya.
Early in the week we went on splits with the
Kungsbacka Elders which meant I spent the day with ELDER BIRD. Which, as
always, was tons of fun. We actually got a lot done, too. Taught a lot of
people and helped them come closer to Jesus Christ.
To top it all off, we had lunch at an American
diner in the city that had an all-you-can-eat pancake challenge. The challenge
was to see how many American pancakes you could eat in 45 minutes. The record
is(was) 28. I partook just to enjoy as many pancakes as I wanted. It was a
thoroughly pleasant experience.
ELDER BIRD's experience was markedly less
pleasant. He was in it to win it and started scarfing down these pancakes. He
had been preparing his stomach for the past two days and even started dipping
the pancakes in water to eat them faster and more effectively. After a little
bit, the cakes caught up to him. Unfortunately, ELDER BIRD had to tap out at
16. A worthy effort. Please give him a round of applause.
The same time we were there, a Swedish guy,
Simon, was trying the challenge as well. When he had about 10 more minutes to
go, he told us that he had eaten 15 pancakes. 10 minutes later, we saw that the
waitress was erasing the whiteboard that had the previous record written on it
and replacing it with the "new" "record" "set" by
Simon: 29 pankakor.
ELDER BIRD and I were sitting right by the
diner's griddle--for easy access to more pancakes förstås--and knew that the
diner didn't even make 14 more pancakes in the last 10 minutes of the
challenge. Either way, we congratulated Simon and expressed our amazement by
his ability to eat pancakes 16-29 in 10
minutes. We decided not to call him out on it to keep the peace. Simon, if
you're reading this, I want you to know that Jesus knows how many pancakes you
really ate.
On Saturday, we were on our way to grab fika
with a man who wanted to hang out with us but wasn't really interested about
learning about the Gospel. We ran into him on the way to the cafe and decided
that instead of having fika in town, we'll just go to an outdoor zoo and walk
around.
It was incredibly fun. We were just talking to
him the whole time and seeing these animals in the beautiful Swedish forest.
Honestly, Elder Dumas and I were almost more impressed by the rocky landscape
than the animals. We also found this huge playground with a slide that was like
30 meters long and dropped like 10 or 15.
Anyway, we just had the time of our lives for
about an hour but the conversation--as it inevitably does as missionaries--made
its way over to the Gospel, and the joy that we find in a personal relationship
to Jesus Christ. We were talking to Anders--Not to be confused with any
previously mentioned Anders--about how much joy comes from Jesus Christ despite
our circumstances and how that joy changes us and motivates us to become better
people. In the middle of this conversation, we end up running into this family
whose kids needed help with climbing a tree and hopping on a pogo stick and we
just stopped and helped them out and talked to them for about 10 minutes.
Anders was so impressed with the love and kindness we showed to these complete
strangers that by the end of our little excursion, he was asking for us to
teach him more about Jesus Christ.
If you watched General Conference this weekend,
you would know that joy really does come from a love for and love from Jesus
Christ. His light permeates us and our lives. A true understanding of Christ's
live and love will transform your soul. I testify of that.
Have a great week!
Love,
Äldste Cummings
1. That's right, I live here (pt. 14)
2. Pancake #13
3.This rocks my world.
4. Very little explanation required here.
5. "[We] am the Lorax. [We] speak for the trees."
6.
7. Sunday, about 8:00 PM. That bucket was full
of 2 kilograms of candy on Saturday at 6:00 PM.
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