Hey everyone!
This week has been a fun one. It started with saying goodbye
to Elder Dumas 😥. I'll miss that man. It
was a wild 12 weeks. Sanna bröder skicka det tillsammans.
I stayed two days with the elders in the northern side of
Gothenburg as we waited for my new companion, Elder Nelson, to fly in. Two of
the four elders up there were going home that next day so we got to help them
get ready and say goodbye to them at the train station. I've never been around
a missionary on the day he ends his mission. It was an interesting feeling.
In came Elder Nelson and we immediately got to work. It's
been really fun so far and the time has been flying by. The other day, we were
knocking on doors and we had half a loaf of pumpkin bread that we had baked for
a friend that we decided to try to give away to someone that night. So we
talked to people the way we normally do, but at the end of the conversation
would ask them if they wanted cake (Swedes make fun of us if we call it bread).
That caught them off guard and started laughing when we explained the
situation. Everyone said no, until this one nice man accepted our pumpkin
bread. Mission accomplished.
It snowed on Saturday and because of Daylight Savings Time
the Sun sets before 5:30 so that's pretty fun.
The scripture I chose this week was brought to my attention
by a talk given at General Conference by Elder Uchtdorf of the Quorum of the
Twelve Apostles called "Believe, Love, Do." Really good talk, would
highly recommend it. I was reminded of it when one of the people we were
teaching mentioned that in the past couple of months as we had been teaching
him and he had begun to gain faith in God and Jesus Christ that his life
"feels like more."
He had a little bit of a difficult time describing what he
meant by that, but he didn't need to. We knew what he was feeling because we
had felt and do feel it ourselves. As we come to Christ and come to know Him,
every facet of our lives is enriched in an indescribable yet powerfully
noticeable way. As the Savior Himself so poetically stated, we "have
[life] more abundantly."
Have a great week!
Love,
Äldste Cummings
1. Dragon Ball Z ft. Elder Dumas
2. Dumb and Dumber
3. First snow of the season.
4. Well hello there.
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