Week 66 - Prepare for Conference!

Hey everyone! 
Awesome week this week! Stockholm is now firing on all cylinders and things are starting to happen! So big news, kinda, we have transfers this week! And we found out last night that Elder Steele and I will be staying together in Stockholm one more transfer! And our wonderful sisters will be doubling out to ALINGSÅS! Super sad for them to leave, but also super excited for them to meet all my friends there. :) other highlights from this week we went to the temple last Tuesday! Felt amazing to be back. :) a member even bought us temple lunch. :)) we had exchanges with the Zone Leaders, we got 4 new investigators! Yeah you heard that right 4! So we met with this awesome. We knocked into a less active we're going to start working with, had a member meal with a Brazilian fam and they are attempting to teach me Portuguese. Hahaha the church dropped the Easter video in the Europe area and it is amazing! #AlwaysThere and last but not least, we met Carmen! Our shining star. Hahah 

But Carmen!! She is so dang cool. :) We were on exchanges with the Zone Leaders elder Steele got a call from her she is an old investigator from a while back. Her background is that she is from Peru and 4 out of the 5 of her siblings are members her mom was a member and she was having a really hard time with life in general, so her brother told her to call us and she did! We met with her last Friday, and the lesson was amazing! The spirit was so there and she recognized it. :) we invited her to church and she came! And loved it! So so excited to keep working with her! 

So last Wednesday we had a member meal with Vanessa, Anna and Will, I sent a pic of us and Will a few weeks back. They all come from Brazil. Coolest dang family. :) they asked us to stay for FHE, so we did and for that we had a competition to see who had the most scriptures memorized. Ya boy (me) pulled out the W. ) mostly because I had the 2 language advantage. Hahah Will also wants to help me learn Portuguese. So we will see how that goes. :) 

So as you all probably know, General conference is coming up this week! It is honestly my 2 favorite Sundays of the year! If you saw an announcement that said Moses or Abraham or Samuel the Laminate would be speaking to us, you would probably be super hyped to tune in, right? We should be just as excited to hear from President Nelson and Elder Holland and all of the others because they are Gods prophets on the earth today!! How cool is that? So this week I want to invite you all to do what you have to do to prepare for Conference then tune it and learn from the Lord's servants. :) 

I hope you all have a wondrous week! Y'all are amazing and I love ya. Keep the faith and serve someone this week. :) 

Love, 
Elder Baggett --

Charlie didn't caption this photo.  Not quite sure about it!  haha

Stockholm Temple

Ali Baba!

Charlie didn't caption this but apparently Ibrahmovic is a very famous soccer player that just left
his team in Sweden making 27 million to a team in Los Angeles making 1.5 million!

Crocs with socks!

Dopest Library man!!

Bob the Builder! haha

                                                

Week 65 - Spring is on the horizon!

Hello dearest friends and family!

Hope you have had a wonderful week! Spring is on the horizon! Still pretty far away though to be honest. hahah but really good week this week! We can start off with some highlights as usual. :) Last Monday, we went and played some basketball with some other missionaries and president Youngberg so that was super fun! We met a really cool couple from Brazil and we are going to go back this Wednesday! :) Got blessed by a crazy old lady, went on exchanges with Elder Winkel, got a free coffee and gave it to a begger, got a referal from a member in the states, #clutch had a few member meals and had church! So, overall good week I would say! 

So this week, we were out and about on Tuesday, so we decided to pack a lunch with us. When it came to lunch time, we found a best next to a conveince store and broke out our sandwiches and started muchin' before you know it, this guy comes up to us and starts talking to us. Totally thought he was a member because nobody  just comes up and talks to us. He then asked if we had any pain anywhere is our bodies. I was like uhhh no. He was okay and explained to us that he goes to this healing church as wanted to help us feel better. haha as we were talking to this guys, someone else comes us and asked for a new Book of Mormon because he lost his. haha what do you mean you lost yours?!? Then he just left. Pretty weird 10 minutes of my life. Maybe we should eat out more often. :)

Yesterday, the theme in Sacrament meeting was Keeping the Sabbath Day Holy. and we had a few really good talks that I really enjoyed. One of the members, Brother Karlsson, Talked about how not only is it a day for us to go to church and receive the spiritual strength for the week (which is a very important part of Sundays) but it is good for our physical bodies as well! To take a rest day every week is one that that scientists have proven as a benefit to us! It was cool to me to think about that The Lord really does know us inside and out! I mean he did create us ya know. haha He knows what is best for us and as we follow the commandments that he has given us. They are to help us progress not to restrict us. So this week, when you feel like complaining about something the Lord has asked us to do and think about why. Because I know as I do that it makes these commandments a lot easier to follow! 

I love you all so so much! Hope you have a great week! As always, Keep the Faith!!

Love,

Elder Baggett

Syster Haroldsen and Cole.  Me and Äldste Steele on the Tunnelbana.

Ingenting (meaning nothing) 0.7 km away

Horse cop

Week 64 - Hej!

Hey everyone! 

Super good week this week! Feeling super good. Mentally, Physically Spiritually and all of the other -ally's. :) haha we had a ton of things that happened and I don't have a ton of time, so we will try to make this quick and not miss anything. SO, highlights, we had zone conference on Tuesday. Went super well! We talked a lot about the new phones that we will be getting next transfer! So that was cool. Wednesday we had institute, and I have a crazy story from that. So stay tuned! Thursday, we Elder Steele and I went back to high school! Details to come on that as well. Friday, nothing too crazy happened, Saturday, we had a day full of members! Lunch AND dinner so that was nice. :) Then Sunday we had ward conference and a member meal! So good, really good week I would say! 

Since I am lazy and Elder Steele already typed it up you get to hear this story from his point of view. :)

"On Wednesday nights we have dinner at the YSA center and then usually stay for institute right afterwards if an investigator or a less active we are working with comes. Well, as we started eating dinner, I was eating pretty fast. I was hungry and the food was way good so I wasn't just going to take little bites. We'll, I'm pretty sure you all know where this is going...I started choking and I start panicking. I pick up my glass of water and start chugging down water but all of it is getting stuck in my throat because there's food in it. I quickly stand up, pushing my chair back and dropping my fork on my plate. I look at Elder Baggett and he's just like "umm...what?" And then I point to my throat and he still isn't understanding and then I remember back to elementary school where we learned the international sign of choking and so I put both hands around my neck and then Elder Baggett springs into action. My life has already flashed before my eyes and this point. But, just as I thought I was done for, my comp comes behind me, doing the Heimlich Maneuver, saving my life in front of about 20 other people. Thank goodness for Elder Baggett!"

Crazy stuff! S/O to Kathy and Tawnee for teaching me how to save lives.

Then on Thursday, Elder Steele and I got invited to go and teach and one of the private high schools here! Here in Sweden they have religion class all through high school. And right now, they are studying Christianity and specifically Mormonism. So we made up a little presentation and not going to lie, I was pretty freaking nervous. This is a class of 25 or so 18 year olds that speak a lot better Swedish than I do. But we got in there and just got to work! We were able to talk about everything we wanted to and they asked a lot of really good questions that we were able to answer. So that was really fun. Glad we got the opportunity to do that. :)

The other day I was studying spiritual gifts and that was really cool something that was really cool that stuck out to me more that usual, was that there are sooo many gifts that we receive from our Heavenly father and not two gifts are the same, but there isn't one that is better than all the rest. He loves us all so much and that is why he gives us these things so we can be blessed as well as those around us. One cool thing that I did, was I read my Patriarchal blessing and I found those things that Heavenly Father has blessed me this week, wrote them all down and I picked two to work on this week! He has blessed us with so much and we need to be prepared to use those traits and talents when the time comes. :)

Hope you all have a wonderful week! Love you all tonssss! Don't forget to keep the faith. :)

Cheers,

Elder Baggett

Us and our High School class :)

Elder Lee and I @Zone Conference

Week 63 - It's cold here!!!

Heyyyy!
Super good week this week as always! Still working hard finding people to bring to Christ. :) we did a ton of stuff this week it feels like. Haha highlights from this week!! We got a good amount of snow it got down to about -20 two days this week. So that was fun. :') we had a few member dinners, we talked to a ton of cool people on the subway! Had district meeting, and met with Nils!! So it was a really good week I would say. We had a ton of time for finding so we switched it up as much as we could. Talked to people on the streets, called people, knocked doors, on the subway, ya know all the good stuff :) but really good week I would say!

But we did have a cool experience from this week! So, Saturday we had a completely white day, nothing planned so we planned lots of finding obviously and it started out pretty bad... We got out at 10:00 and contacted for about 2 hours and talked to literally nobody. We tried, but it ended up in a lot of awkward situations and people not wanting to listen. But Elder Steele and I wouldn't let each other get down. So we got reenergized with some lunch and studies and got back out. Some more of the same but we stayed out trying to get through it. Then, (little background, there has been this old investigator we have been trying to get a hold of but have never been able to. We talked about it in weekly planning to get a hold of him this week) and we contacted into him! He still wasn't super interested in meeting but he still reads the BoM every now and again so maybe one day! it was honestly such a miracle! Then, that evening we planned to go out tracting. And it went pretty well! We found an area with some younger more open people. Still nothing super crazy though. Then we said okay, last port then we have to go catch the train. And literally the last door we knocked on was an amazing family that invited us back!! It was so cool to see the miracles come after the trial of our faith. :) 

I was studying prayer this morning, and I came across this in the Bible dictionary and I really loved it. :) "Prayer is the act by which the will of the Father and the will of the child are brought into correspondence with each other. The object of prayer is not to change the will of God but to secure for ourselves and for others, blessings that God is already willing to grant but that are made conditional on our asking for them. Blessings require some work or effort on our part before we can obtain them. Prayer is a form of work and is an appointed means for obtaining the highest of all blessings." And I love that! Remember as you pray that it shouldn't be a rote thing. I would invite you this week to look at your own prayers and ask yourself how can I make my prayers more meaningful and better align my will with Gods. :) I know that as you do the lord will bless you so so much! 

I love y'all and hope you have a good week! Thanks for the the love and support it doesn't go unappreciated! :) as always, Keep the Faith! 

Love,
Elder Baggett--