Week 58 - Stockhizzle

Good morning my friends!
Pretty good week here in the Stockhizzle! Lots of good stuff going on! Teaching some cool people and grinding on the streets when needs be. ) But yeah, let's start with some classic highlights! This week we did the musical again which as always, is fun. My district leader gave me a chess board! (I'm being intellectual and learning how to play.) We cleaned out an apartment that the mission has to sell #nasty but it was fun! Mom you would be so proud of me the senior couples were impressed how good a cleaner I was. :) We had some member meals, had institute, helped someone move, again. Haha and we had the primary program in church yesterday! 

Sooooo, lets start of with a funny story to get y'all reeled in. :) You all know my love for rugby. So granted, I always have a ball with me.  On Thursday, we had a bit of time at the end of the night so I grabbed it out and tossed it to my comp. Elder Nelson and he tossed it back, so I decided to show off a little bit and give him some heat and hit him right in the chest. He tried to do the same and launched it and completely missed me and crashed straight into the window sending shards of glass in every which direction. Long story short, we got it all fixed now it looks as good as new. :) Kids, listen to your mom and don't throw balls in the house!! 

Way to go Elder Nelson...

So, embarrassing story from this week, I was assigned to translate yesterday for the primary program. Keep in mind about half of our primary is from the US and only speak English. I was told I had to only translate the Swedish to English. About 5 minutes into the program I got about 10 people come up to my saying I need to translate the English to Swedish as well. And I got super embarrassed and I was totally red faced for the rest of the meeting. And to add to the terribleness it was probably the worst translation job in history so.. yeah. :,)

We had a cool story with an investigator this week. So we found and have been teaching a Swedish guy, named Nils and it has gone well so far! In our last lesson we finished teaching the Restoration and gave him a Book of Mormon, and we asked him to read a specific chapter from it. Then yesterday on the train, the sisters from our area saw him on the train and talked to him. And what he told them is the cool part! He said that he had read more than 10 chapters from the Book of Mormon already, and he still sounds super positive and wants to meet again to talk about what he has read. :)

As a spiritual thought for this week, I thought about the primary program not only how adorable it was, but the knowledge/ testimony these kids have! They are so awesome. Like Christ said multiple time during his earthly ministry, become as the little children. As we humble ourselves as children Christ will be able to save us. :) So, this week think about how you can humble yourself and become closer to Christ through that. :) 

Thanks again for all the love and prayers and support y'all are seriously the best. :) I hope you have a good week and don't forget to keep the faith! 

Love,
Elder Baggett-- 

Äldste Charlie Carl Baggett IV

All the Stockholm Homies. :) from front to back, Sisters Cole, Andersen, Hopkins, Hulldin, Me and Elder Nelson,

Casual!

Proud Mom moment!

Dear Sister Baggett,

Last Friday your son helped clean an apartment to facilitate a move for a couple of other elders in his district.  He volunteered for the toughest job—cleaning the kitchen.  I worked in the kitchen as well, but he took the stove which needed the most work, and he poured himself into it. He took that stove and oven apart, including the exhaust fan and cleaned every millimetre of it!  I’ve never seen a young man work so thoroughly and so joyfully.  You have taught him well!  I just wanted you to know that we appreciate his upbringing, his example and his dedication to all aspects of the work.

Sincerely,

Syster Hales

Moving lunch!

Moving/Cleaning crew. :)

Week 57 - Super Good Week

Hey everyone! 
Super good week this week! We had a lot of good things happen, and had some fun! So let hit some highlights! Jerémé and Daisy (the sisters investigators) were baptized Saturday and were confirmed yesterday!!!! Super exciting. I will talk more about that a little later. We met a part member family, went on splits with the district leader in Gubbängen, helped 2 people move, taught a few other lessons and had interviews with President! So a lot going on this week! Super fun. :) 

So, the baptism on Saturday was soooo awesome. :) They found the church because Jerémé was given a Book of Mormon 18 years ago and just last year decided to read it. It is just so amazing to think about the power that is has. Just by reading sincerely, he could feel that. And then he told his wife all about it and she did the same! And both of them gave the most beautiful testimonies and I am so excited for them. :) 

Also this week, we also were able to watch the broadcast from our new prophet, President Nelson! :) That was so cool to see. It is just another confirming witness to me that Jesus Christ is at the head of the church. These are not any ordinary men, they are true followers of Christ. I am convinced that they will work through Christ for the benefit of the Saints, us! They are here to help us. If we look to them for guidance, we will never be led astray. :) 

As a spiritual though this week, I narrowed it down to one simple question I want you to sincerely ask yourself this week. What would your life be like without the knowledge you have of Jesus Christ? May we be more grateful for what we have and be more willing to share it. :) 

We'll, that's about it folks! Hope you all have a good week! Keep on the straight and narrow, and don't forget to keep the faith. :) 

God Bless,
Elder Baggett-- 

Äldste Charlie Carl Baggett IV

Sverigemissionen Stockholm

Jesu Kristi Kyrka av Sista Dagars Heliga

Week 56 - Stockholm

Hey guys! 
Hey first off, just want to say sorry about last week, it was a super crazy Pday and it just did not work for me to get an email off. So this one will be good I promise. :) a ton has happened the past two weeks. First, I have been transferred to Stockholm which I'm sure my wonder mother already informed you about. :) it feels good to be back honestly. We have been super busy with teaching lessons to investigators, less-actives, recent converts, you name it, we did it. :) Some random happenings, we got a call from the missionaries in another ward saying they need help being Paul bearers. So we said yes but come to find out there was no funeral this guy just needed help burying his dad. It was really sad, but cool to be a part of. :)  We were able to do the Book of Mormon musical again which was awesome!! I will talk about that later. :) We also went to institute which was super fun! I met lots of new peeps and talked with people I knew so that was fun! We didn't have ton of time for finding this week which is kinda sad, but awesome because we are so busy! I love being in the city and seeing the sights on a daily basis. So cool. :) 

Cool experience from this week, so the sisters in our area have this couple that they have been teaching who will be baptized this Saturday!!!! But they have had a few really big questions come up and it just so happened that some some the biggest commandments for left to the end. So they were really nervous for their lesson. They asked the district if we could fast and pray for them and their investigators. So we did! After the lesson they called us and were crazy excited! They said the questions that they had they answered through prayer and reading on their own. And that they already knew about some of the commandments that they had planned on teaching. It was just a confirmation of my testimony of fasting and prayer. I know it works and that it how we can see miracles and show our faith in Christ. :) 

As a spiritual thought this week, so we were at the Book of Mormon musical to pass out books and it was late on a Saturday night like 10:30! e got to stay out late. ) haha but right next to the theater is a massive bar and they were have a great Gatsby theme night. So everyone was dressed up in nice clothes and drinking and "having a good time" and as we walked by I thought about Lehi's dream of the Tree of Life. And as we walked away I got this super strong feeling of happiness and I thought to myself, " they're not really happy" and I looked down at the Book of Mormon in my hand and thought, "I am truly happy!" I am so thankful for the Book of Mormon and for the church and for the happiness and peace that it brings me. :) take some time this week to read Lehi's vision in 1 Nephi 8 and ponder how you can better hold fast to the iron rod. :)

Thanks for tuning in once again! I hope you all have a great week! If you're doing the right thing, keep doing what you're doing. If you're not, change. :) don't forget to keep the faith! Hear from y'all soon! 

Stor kram,
Elder Baggett

The suuunn!!!

Elder Nelson, me, Winkel and Lee

Elder Lee and I

Week 55 - Short on Time

Elder Baggett was short on time today and didn't send a group email.  Each week he sends us an audio recording and I took a few things from that for this week.

Tuesday was transfer day. Elder Hansen took me to the train station and I pretty much just hung out for 4 hours. I got some good sleep in. I slept a lot on that train. It's really nice transferring actually because you get a little catch up on your sleep which was good. I then got here to Stockholm and I met my new companion at the Central his name is Elder Nelson he's super cool. And then we met all the new sisters that came in.  There weren't any Elders that came into the mission but there was a ton sisters and we were able to welcome them. Then we headed back to the apartment and unpacked my bags. Our apartment is super nice and super small!
We met with a recent convert from San Salvador and he will be receiving the priesthood next week. We had lunch with a man from Egypt.  He is way cool we taught him and it was kind of hard to teach him without a translator and so we gave him a book of Mormon in Egyptian and invited him to Read it.  We had a lesson with a man from Albania.  Met with another guy from China who told me that he would help me with my Chinese.
On Sunday we had a country wide fast for the missionary work in Sweden which is really cool I'm really excited to see what comes out of it. All the members were talking about it and they're all really excited. Stockholm is pretty awesome with a lot of stuff going on. You know how much I love the big city and be in the middle of things.
So I am assigned as  a YSA missionary. We're in charge of going to events and going to Institute and going to family home evening and just stuff like that. We are there to be a support for the young single adults so that's really fun. We live in a really nice apartment. Super nice and everything is automatic. The mission home is probably like maybe 20 minutes away but if I were to take the public transportation it would probably take me about an hour. Stockholm is a smaller ward  but half the ward is American because the US Embassy is here in Stockholm so a lot of people speak English. There was a couple people that bore their testimony in English and Elder's Quorum was in English but then like everything else was in Swedish it was really weird because I don't really know who to speak English or Swedish to . There are also a lot of Chinese members here. I did take Chinese in high school that will help me a lot.
Have a great week!