Week 18 – March 10, 2014; Change is Good!
Hej (Hello),
It's
been a crazy week! Elder Miles was transferred to Malmö on Wednesday.
It's been a great nine weeks. I really couldn't have asked for a better trainer
to start my mission. Elder Miles taught me to love every minute of my mission
and work hard at every step along the way. We had a super fun last couple of
days in Kungsbacka. We also had one last pizza with our friend Jonas, a young single
adult that we've gotten super close to. After that, we went and visited all the
families that we'd gotten close to in the ward and he said goodbye to everyone.
It will be hard to do the same thing myself in the near future when I am
transferred. I'm sad we didn't get to finish our training together, but I
know Elder Miles will do great work as the new Zone Leader in Malmö.
My new companion,
Elder Knecht, is super cool. He only has six months left on his mission
and he grew up in Sweden until he was nine, so we have been practicing Swedish
a lot. He spent much of his mission as the secretary in the mission office,
so he never got to train anyone. He will be finishing-up the next few
weeks with me and then he's actually going to train another Swed in Kungsbacka,
making them the only double Swedish companionship in the mission.
Ironically, Elder Miles
and I have been trying to plan a day to teach a high school English class. The
teacher expected two American's to come in and teach a class about American
culture. He had to cancel a few times and the day we finally set up is March
19th, which will possibly be the day I leave the area and Elder
Knecht's Swedish greeny gets here. So, what was going to be a class about
America will now be taught by two Swedes, one of which will have been on his
mission for a day, so that will be interesting to see. Fortunately, Elder
Knecht lived in the states for a while and the new missionary has lived in
England, so it will all work out fine, but it’s still quite ironic.
Our first few days together
have been really good so far. We went to visit an elderly investigator on
Wednesday to do some service work. I made a wrong turn on the way out
and we got really lost in a really big apartment complex. It took us about
20 minutes to find the car, but I haven’t gotten us very lost after that, so
all is well. Elder Miles actually switched areas with Elder Knecht. The night
we got lost Elder Miles's new companion got lost too and called Elder Knecht
for directions. After the call I said, “Well, it looks like both of our
directions guys got transferred.” We had a good laugh!
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| Lost! |
This Sunday in
church we had one of those crazy situations that you only here about, that never
really seems to happen, happen to us. A man walked into church off the street
who found out what time church was meeting all on his own. He said he wanted to
learn about the church and he really likes everything he's read so far about the
Mormons. He also wants to speak English with us, and, oh... he's a
professional guitar player and he wants to jam with me and then have us teach him on
Wednesday. So, yes, the "golden investigator" does exist! I couldn't be
more excited for Wednesday!
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| Golden Investigator! |
Elder Knecht is
teaching me a lot about missionary work. He is really good at working with
members, so we've set up meetings with every ward leader this week to share our
vision for the work with them. We've also been setting up a way to help
the ward with home teaching as well. I've been extremely fortunate with
the start I've had to my mission so far and I am blessed to have another great
companion. I hope to finish strong in Kungsbacka and learn all that I can with
the time I have left.
Thanks for reading!
Äldste Stoeltzing
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