This week really flew by. We got our transfer call on Saturday night so I sent a text to the Delgado's saying, "We just got the call from the Zone leaders with our transfer information. Good things end too soon. :'( " We got a call less than a minute later saying, "which one is leaving?" I had to explain that the call said we were both staying here in Växjö, but Sister Delgado wasn't too happy about me teasing that way. We're on level ground again though. We're excited for our next 6 weeks in Europe's greenest city.
This week we got the chance to tour a radio station, and that was really fun. We got to play Mormon Tabernacle Choir's "How Great Thou Art" on live radio! It was pretty fun. That was our YSA activity for the week, and we had a pretty good turn out for that. We did some more tracting this week, and had pretty good success with that. We taught a lady who was very "skeptical" as she put it, and questioned everything we said. All she knew about the Book of Mormon was what she saw in the musical. Things went pretty well there, so we'll see what the future brings. We had a fun visit with a less active member who lives pretty far from the church, and it was a ball there. He's really funny, and we had a cake with him. His dad painted a lot and did wood projects, so he had model planes that were wooden, but scale models of WWII planes, and had a few trains, bowls, candlesticks, and so on. He's a really fun guy.
On Thursday after district meeting a group of evangelical missionaries pulled us aside and asked us if we had any pain in our body that they could pray over and heal. We told them we didn't, but talked to them about church and the Bible and Christ and such, and My companion got to teach a good lesson about the restoration, while the guy I talked to was telling me how the Book of Mormon was a false teaching, and he had already read it. It was funny though because he was agreeing with everything I said about the priesthood, and the Holy Ghost, and how God still speaks to us today, but somehow he doesn't believe the Book of Mormon is true. My question is how is it a false teaching if it never contradicts the Bible, and teaches a lot of the same stuff, just with greater clarity? Obviously it's true, and the Bible and Book of Mormon support each other. That guy was just a little crazy. I made sure to be nice to him though, and not criticize at all what he was doing. I just invited him to partake of the truth, and he didn't want to yet. His friend was pretty interested though.
We did some more Family History work with our miracle man from last week, and we're getting him to meet with our basically family history expert in our branch. I'm excited for it. This guy will get baptized soon enough. He's got a wonderful spirit with him, and he's going to love our family history expert.
Football on Saturday was really fun. I'm still pretty terrible, but I pulled out two goals, one with my head, and the other with my foot. We got some pictures since Elder Delgado decided to follow along and watch. It's one of our members (the guy on the far right) and his family and friends who are all non-members that we play with. They're great people, and some of them have been coming to our YSA activities. He's a great member missionary, and has a bunch of great friends.
Last night we were doing our coordination meeting/weekly dinner with the Delgado's, and left a message about the book of Job. The funny part is neither my companion nor I told each other what we were studying in personal study this week, and it happened to be Job. We talked about how Job was a perfect man, and we need to strive for perfection as the savior commanded us, and how perfection is not being flawless from the beginning, but being perfect entails that we learn line upon line, precept upon precept until we are perfect, and Job's ultimate test of his conversion was when he had lost everything and his friends were even criticizing him, and he still chose to choose God even though the heavens were silent to him. He knew what was right, and didn't need a spiritual prompting to do what was right, so in face of the adversary he was able to choose the right proving that he really was perfect. Sometimes the heavens are silent to us, but we know what is right and what is wrong, so it's important for us to stay on the right path, and make the right choices even if we aren't being prompted or immediately blessed for so doing.
I love you all, and keep up the great work at home! The church is true, and through Christ we may be perfect!
mvh,
-Äldste Liddle
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