Time moves so weird on a mission. With many things it moves way too fast and in other senses it moves super slow. Well I feel like I just wrote an email. But that was a week ago. Weird!
This week has just been weird. Not too much happened in Halmstad. We didn't get any teaches with investigators. It's kinda hard for me not to be sad about it. My trainer/companion is used to some weeks being super slow. Part of the problem is everyone is on vacation. Like people here ALL leave. I'm not positive what day but they are having something called the Tall Ships Race and it comes here to Halmstad. People are giving up their houses for visitors to stay because they can make money. Like with the olympics.. i guess this ship thing is a pretty big deal. Our job is to do A LOT of contacting. Were gonna give out so many pass along cards! I wish there was a record. I'm gonna beat it.-haha we will beat it. Still weird to me that its never just me but us.
So we've had a hard time getting out of bed on time. We're never late for studies or anything.. we just miss the working out. I feel bad. Partly my fault. Syster Kiser has no motivation and will follow after her companion. She is also a little "trunky" mission term for ready to go home basically. I don't blame here though. Her guy from home purposed in May and she is a little excited haha. Duh! One of these days she really wants to see some wedding dresses on a P-day. So anyway I feel bad because I don't have much motivation to get up and work out. So we don't. I'll change that this week. I'm trying really hard to follow things to a T but that one is hard. Just because if I go running.. I can hardly walk the rest of the day. So.. yeah working out is not so easy. I can't wait for my orthodics :)
On wednesday the mission president and his wife came to Halmstad. They put a devotional together and like no one came. At church everyone was so excited and then almost no one came. They have such a beautiful chapel here. I guess the ward used to be much bigger. So many are inactive.. it kills me. Their last bishop is inactive now. His wife still comes sometimes. Crazy. Well Syster Kiser and I have big plans for this place. It used to be an Elders area and it has just became a sisters area. There is a reason for that and were gonna figure it out. It's crazy to me how much I didn't know about my own church.. the members are supposed to do the finding work. The ward should have a ward mission plan. These things don't get done. Well I've been a member my whole life.. how come no one told me??? Halmstad is not going to be in the dark. We have a sweet ward mission plan and a lot of it is bringing back the inactive.
Our zone conference on Thursday was very specific in that we are to find, teach, and baptize. But in order to do that we will be strengthening our members we already have and bringing back the less actives. There is no point in baptizing all these people if they don't have a strong ward to come to. The members play such a huge part in these peoples lives. The missionaries give them the gift of the holy ghost and then the members help them open that gift and find all the treasures it holds. Helps them feel comfortable in this new strange world they just entered into. Even our language is very new for most.
Becoming a missionary has been the best thing I've done in my like up to this point and maybe forever. There are many things you could never experience without being a full time missionary. I hope to experience many if not all of these things. I love this work and only hope at the end I've made a difference for even 1 person. We come in contact with so many.. BUT we all have agency and many times it is used to reject the message we have to offer. God's divine plan says they will all hear and accept the message. I really cannot wait for that day. :) You have down days because your soul actually aches for those who reject you, but someday they won't. Just as Christ said.. forgive them for they know not what they do.-But they will someday!
My purpose is to invite and inspire those who don't know the truth. Like in Alma 5:62 come and be baptized unto repentance that ye may be partakers of the fruit of the tree of life. 1 Nephi 8:10 the fruit will make one happy and why are we here? - to have joy!
Love all of you!!! :)
Love Syster Sprague
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