DISTRICT LEADER ~ July 31, 2018

DISTRICT LEADER

Dear Brother & Sister Francis,

We are writing to express our appreciation for your son, Äldste Francis.  Äldste Francis has been assigned to serve as a district leader in the Jakobsberg II area of the Sweden Stockholm Mission. He is a wonderful and well-prepared missionary, and this added leadership responsibility will be a blessing to him and to the mission.

A district leader is a position of sacred stewardship in the Sweden Stockholm Mission as it can have a tremendous impact on the culture of the mission and the missionaries themselves.

Thank you for your continued love, support, and prayer on behalf of your missionary and the Sweden Stockholm Mission.

Sincerely,

Michael J. Youngberg

Michael J. Youngberg, President

SWEDEN STOCKHOLM MISSION

Jakobsberg Week 24 - July 30, 2018

Hej hej!

This week was awesome!

We had two sets of splits this week, one with the zone leaders and one with the assistants! I was with Elder Craun in Gubbängen for the first one and then with Elder Harden here in Jakobsberg for the second. It was my fifth time being on exchanges with Elder Harden, I feel blessed to have served around him. He'll be headed home on Thursday, it's unbelievable how quickly the time has passed! 

-Here are some berries from where we did yard work (goosberries, yum!)

On Monday, we were able to do some service at the home with one of the people we are teaching! He is building a fence around his yard so that his son can play safely without running away. My job was to trim back an evergreen tree so that it wouldn't be in the way of the fence. It's been kind of a long time since I've done yard work, and I have definitely missed it! Elder Harden and I helped with the project again while on splits. We were able to talk with the man we teach about some good gospel topics, he has really good questions.

I got a flat tire on my bike a few days ago. It made it so that Elder Gordon and I had to take a few more buses than usual, but that was a blessing because we talked to some cool people and even became friends with one of our neighbors! Our bishop is really big into biking and he'll be helping us with the flat on Tuesday.

Jakobsberg Week 23 - July 23, 2018

Hello Again! 

It hasn't rained here basically the whole summer. I guess the skies were saving up, though, because on Saturday it poured on us on the way home! We began biking right as the storm started and we were soaked all the way through to the end. It was awesome!

On Friday, we headed to one of the cities in our area called Barkarby. We went by the home of a member in the ward but they must have been gone, and we had about 30 minutes until our bus came. We decided to start walking and contacting people for 15 minutes and then to turn around and contact 15 minutes back to the bus. A car had stalled in the middle of the road, so we were able to help push it to the side of the road. After that, Elder Gordon and I felt like we had done what we needed to do in Barkarby. 

Jakobsberg Week 22 - July 17, 2018

Here it is... the year mark email! I was dropped of at the MTC almost exactly a year ago from today. The time has flown! 

Zone Conference was last week on Tuesday! It was wonderful. Half of the fun is seeing all of the missionaries. I looked around and realized that I knew everyone at the conference pretty well besides the newest missionaries. It is so strange to have been out a year! The conferences are always really spiritually uplifting. This one was based on the talk 'Small and Simple Things' from a recent conference. It was focused on personal conversion, making sure to do the small and simple things.We were asked to read the talk "Small and Simple Things" in preparation. So many things were discussed! I think that my two biggest takeaways, though, are that I want to be better at asking inspires questions while teaching and I want to be better at doing the "small" things. Two specific things I am working on are intentionally following the counsel of our prophet and praying. 

Jakobsberg Week 21 - July 9, 2018

What a great week!

For the Tuesday night activity, we had a Fourth of July fest. It was fun seeing people from all over the world eating 'American' hamburgers, racing in a three legged race, and line dancing. I am proud to be an American! 

The next day, I was on splits with the new assistant, Elder Beveridge. We had a great day of tracting, contacting, and going to another Fourth of July celebration! Elder Gordon was here in Jakobsberg with Elder Harden. 

Jakobsberg Week 20 - July 2, 2018

Hälsningar från Sverige!

Did June feel short for anyone else? I can't believe it's July 2018! I hope that you are all doing well.

Each Tuesday evening, we have an activity at the church. This week, it was really well attended. Bishop Fhors gave a presentation about 'putting God first,' he is a really good public speaker. It was based on the scripture in Matthew 11:6. After the presentation, we played a fun Scandinavian game called kubb- look it up!