Sup family and friends!
So yup.. I'm being transferred.. haha I actually found out
last monday right after I send my email home. The president just called
and let me know. He didn't know where yet or who exactly I would have
but he said I can tell you what I do know.. S. Sprague will be moving.
Saturday he gave the actual call and I'm going to Stockholm zone so
Västerhaninge is my area! I'm super excited and super sad to leave the
Göteborg zone.. its been good to me :) My new companion is from Utah. That is exciting she is a super good missionary and
just a doll! We got to have a sleep over a couple weeks back and she
fell in love with my hair.. so I told her my secret haha.. you just do
it swedish style.. don't brush it so much. It does wonders. I still
don't get it really but I get tons of compliments.
My last week in Alingsås and on to new and exciting things. I
would have to say there were three parts of my week that I loved. Monday
night we taught a less active that I have so much hope for. He is
accepting everything like a golden investigator. Much more fun too
because he teaches himself. He was cured from cancer last January and we
are excited to bring the gospel and church back into his life. He is
excited too so if feels great. We then finally met with our investigator
Richard who is so so positive it kills me how hard it is to meet with
him. He cracks me up really.. when we meet up we ask, 'how are you? how
is work going?' He answers back with, 'where's the message??' He is very
willing to learn and hear the good word of God. He has a really good
knowledge of the Bible and he said he will think about being baptized on
the 28th. So we almost set a date. Since then we have not met him. We
try and try but for whatever reason things come up on his side anyway.
We sometimes drop to much for him I think but I guess that is the
struggle we'll never be rid of. The second thing was an activity we did
with the youth in our ward. We listened to something called, The
Missionary Next Door. So we discussed why we do missionary work and how
as member they can be missionaries too and what they can do and how they
can even then include the full-time missionaries. It went so well! They
walked away feeling like we really are on their side and that its not
that hard to invite someone. We even role-played with everyone. It was
absolutely awesome! The role play I really liked was if you date someone
outside of the church how you would ask them to come to church or meet
missionaries to learn more about the church. The third thing was a
miracle! We were having a ring stund and remember to call the sisters in
Västra Frölunda about their baptism with Alana for Sunday and when we
called they said we are actually having it today. We ended up being
invited and we have the perfect amount of time to make cookies for it,
visit an investigator, and make the train! We then put together a
baptism that was done in one day and it was beautiful! She is a miracle
of the summer of 70 and we were so happy to be apart of her too. We met
her at the baptism the week before and were able to teach her and show
her around the church for her first time while the other sisters were
super busy. We were happy to jump in. Especially after about 3 min.. We
asked her some question and she broke into tears just ready to accept
the gospel. I really have never met someone so so so ready and searching
and able to recognize instantly the difference in our church and in the
chapel. She was craving! Hungry! And she didn't even walk away from
that baptism without her own date. I really love Alana and I was so
happy to have met her and be a little part of her conversion.
Thursday was fun for district meeting we decided to go out to
find this large rock. Its sits between to large farms in a little
foresty area. It is where members of the chruch over 100 years ago when
the church was first here would come together and have church meetings
because they weren't allowed to gather back then. Man we wanted to see
it so bad. It rained so hard while we searched we about broke the white
hand book when it says no swimming. haha but we searched for over an
hour with a member who has seen it many times and we never found it. I
would have to say it was still cool and spiritual really to be standing
in the same grove of trees as those who risked so much to have the
sacrament. Almost the entire ward then moved to Utah leaving Alingsås
with almost no members. All of Sweden really left back then and built up
the church in Utah. We are excited to be here now to bring to pass the
second harvest that is happening now in Sweden. The zone leaders just
had a member referral and after 2 days the man wanted to be baptized. It
would have been yesterday in the Ocean but they are going to wait till
he gets back from Spain in 3 weeks. Miracles are all around us. AGH!!
One of cool note.. we have said good to tons of people now and
we went by Lennart that was supposed to get baptized but didn't. He is
still reading in the Book of Mormon and we had given him a gospel
principles book and he is already on Chap. 16 pretty sure thats like
half the book. There is still hope for him :)
Oh and one last thing it has rained SO much here its insane. A
member here said something I loved, "Back in old testament times it
rained 40 days and 40 nights and it was a catastrophe.. now a days..
thats a swedish summer!" haha agreed
Thank you for all you do. I hope all is well with everyone!!
Love Syster Sprague
ps my subject "I dont care cuz im gettin transferred" is referring to
that talk, The Missionary Next Door by Diana H. Hoelscher. You have got
to find it and listen to it. I love it. If not I have it and can show it
to you in like 4 months... AGH
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