Week 53 - Hallååååååå!

Hallååååååå!
I hope you have all had a great week and a very Merry Christmas! This will be a little short this week, we kinda got cut on our p day since Christmas was on a Monday.. Anyways! Highlights from this week! Nothing too crazy until this weekend, but we had a few awesome lessons this week! Met with some new people as well as the regulars. :) we talked to tons of people about #Lighttheworld because it was our last chance! Cool story about that stay tuned. The obviously we had CHRISTMAS!! Here in Sweden it's a little weird, the celebrate holiday the day before. So we actually celebrated 2 Christmases we were with a Swedish family Sunday night then the Americans Monday night. So that was super fun! We had massive feasts of food. Tons of fish and meatballs and all that good stuff. :) we also got to watch Disney movies!! Little weird. But super fun. :) the member here are also THE BOMB. So generous to give us gifts. Mostly candy to make us fat.. then to finish it off I got to chat with the fam which which was awesome! Biggest highlight for sure. :)

So! About the Light the World thing. At the beginning of the month, President gave us a bunch of cards. Like 500 I think. And told us last week that he wanted them ALL given away. So we accepted the challenge. We got to the last day which was Saturday and we still had 80 left. I thought oh boy. Let's see if we can do this. Haha so we got going as nobody was having it and I got a little bummed but we kept on going! At the end of the night we ended up being able to give everyone of them away which felt super good! Just to talk to tons of people about finding happiness and Sharing it with others. :)

Super simple thought for the week, one of my favorite scriptures, Moroni 10:32, "Yea, come unto Christ, and be perfected in him, and deny yourselves of all ungodliness and if ye shall deny yourselves of all ungodliness, and love God with all your might, mind and strength, then is his grace sufficient for you, that by his grace ye may be perfect in Christ and if by the grace of God ye are perfect in Christ, ye can in nowise deny the power of God." Moroni is inviting ALL of us to come into Christ. Because that is where we will find true joy and happiness in this life and the one to come. :) the church is so true and I am so happy to be serving a mission right now. I know it where I'm supposed to be. :)

I love you all and thanks for your love and your prayers. :) and those of you that made videos to send me thanksssss! Those were so fun best present I got. :) I hope you have a great week and you hear from me next year! ) as always, keep the faith!

Love,
Elder Baggett

Week 52 - 356 Days?? Checkkkkkk

Hej på er!

First off, HOW CRAY IS THAT THAT I HAVE BEEN GONE FOR A YEAR. haha It's really weird to think that I have been a missionary for a year now. I have loved it sooo much. Anyways, highlights! This week we had zone conference. I will talk about that later. We had splits this week. I split pair of pants too! haha Taught a few lessons and  it was only negative 5 all week so that was nice too. :) not too much going on this week.

But! Zone Conference was AWESOME! We had a good training about developing Christlike Attributes. Then we had lunch then celebrated a "Youngberg Christmas" we included watching "It's a Wonderful Life" #lit Didn't even cry. First time ever. haha We sang songs and just had a good time. It was so great. :) Then after that, we were getting ready to head home, and some other missionaries had an idea to go caroling in the city center! So there were 5 companionship and we sang and passed out cards. So that was tons of fun and super effective too! 

Cool story, so yesterday, we had been collecting some "pant" which is bottles you can return for money and we decided to take them and cash them in. While at the store, we had about 50   which is like 6 dollars. Not a ton, but we were in line behind this family. I received this distinct prompting to give it to them. So I handed the receipt to the cashier and said put this on theirs. It wasn't a ton, but who knows it could have made a bit difference. :) #LightTheWorld

This week, I was thinking about what I could share with you as a spiritual thought, I didn't really want to do the typical "Remember the real meaning of Christmas" even though that's important, I thought of something else. I have noticed the times I am the most happy are when I am not worried about myself. I know that true happiness come from turning outward not inward. So this week. Go out of your way to  #LightTheWorld Doesn't even have to be something on the calendar. Just do something. I know the Lord will bless you!

Love you all and hope you have a Very Merry Christmas! :) Dont forget to Keep The Faith!

Love,

Elder Baggett

Caroling in Stockholm

Week 51 - God morgon allihopa!

God morgon allihopa!
Good morning everyone!

Super good week this week! Found some cool people. Working hard like usual :) highlights from this week! It snowed yesterday!!! We got like an inch just in the hour we were out contacting so that was super fun. :) we tracted a bunch of houses, not too much success but it was really fun to be out in the cold pounding some doors! I finished the book of Alma! We had the opportunity to check out the first presidency Christmas devotional. Which was awesome! If you haven't checked that out yet, do that! :) Our ward had a Christmas concert and last but not least we got a baptismal date!!!! Whoop whoop! :) so that it super exciting to see our hard efforts finally paying off. :)

This week, we had a lesson planned and a member meal right after. Little background I HATE being late to things especially when other people have to wait on me. Honestly gives me anxiety. Haha but we had a lesson planned with this part member family and it went way longer than we planned on and we were in the middle of this lesson, the spirit was suuuuper strong and everyone was super into it. I checked my watch and realized we missed the train to get to the members house. Usually I would have just said we gotta go and peace out. But the spirit was able to just say chill. It will be okay. And it was! We were able to finish the lesson and it went really well. Then we got to the members 45 minutes late.... but it worked out. :) I love all of the different ways the spirit can talk to us and help us!

This week I was reading in the book of Helaman in chapter 3 and I came across one of my favorite verses. Verse 35 reads, "Nevertheless they did fast and pray oft, and did wax stronger and stronger in their humility, and firmer and firmer in the faith of Christ, unto the filling their souls with joy and consolation, yea, even to the purifying and the sanctification of their hearts, which sanctification cometh because of their yielding their hearts unto God." It reminds me to stay humble because none of us has "arrived" no matter what stage we are at in life we can always become better! This week look how you can improve yourself in a few little things because through small and simple things, great things come to pass. :)

I hope you all have a great week! Thanks for all the love, prayers and support from all of you. It truly makes a difference. :) Love you all and don't forget to Keep the Faith! :)

Love,
Elder Baggett

Week 50 - Happy December

Tjena mina vänner! How is it going? This week was a pretty good one! We got a lot done, met with some cool people and found some more cool people! :) let's start off with some highlightssss! It's now December, so obviously. It was 1st advent yesterday. We tracted in the boonies. And it is officially winter. We now have to tract with flashlights is gets so dark. Hahah we had interviews with president, we Skyped into district meeting. we had a part member family come to church. I would say it was a pretty good week this week! :) 

Funny story from this week. Elder Hansen and I were working out this past Thursday, and we were going hard on some abs. And after wards I was flexing and all of sudden I felt my stomach and there was a good sized lump right under my ribs. I thought well this can't be good. So I want to bed. Hahah the next day it hurt super bad. So I gave the mission doc a call and the prognosis is popped blood vessel under my abs. #lit. So now I can't work out for a few days. :)

Cool story from this week, so we were out in a city called Floda on Saturday to have a big reacting session. We were just getting going and we found this dirt road looked like it lead to nowhere. But Elder Hansen and I decided why not? So we went for it. We walked for about a kilometer and we came to this super big neighbor in literally the middle of nowhere but we were about to find and talk to some really awesome people and it was really fun. :) I was cool to see the Holy Ghost showing us where to go without us even realizing it! 

Spiritual thought from this week, I was reading in the book of Alma chapter 48 and came across a super cool verse in verse 17. "Yea, verily, verily I say unto you, if all men had been, and were, and ever would be, like unto Moroni, behold, the very powers of hell would have been shaken forever yea, the devil would never have power over the hearts of the children of men." Let us all be liken ourselves unto Moroni. :) I know that as we keep trying to become better the adversary will become weaker and weaker against us! 

Thanks for tuning in once again. :) I hope you all have a wonderful week! And you will hopefully hear from me next week. Don't forget to Keep the Faith! :) 

Love, 
Elder Baggett-- 

Week 49 - Glad Tacksägelsedagen! (Happy Thanksgiving Day)

Hey everyone! 
First of all, happy late Thanksgiving and happy cyber Monday! Haha. I hope you have all had as good as a week as we have! Things are getting going here in Alingsås! :) highlights from this week, it was thanksgiving! Which isn't celebrated here, obviously. But we were alone to celebrate with our district! We had a lunch after district meeting. :) I have pics. I gave a talk this Sunday on personal revelation, we taught young men, and we had a investigator come to church!! So that was super awesome. :) it was also transfers, but nothing changed here. We found some cool people and got a new investigator! So I would say it was a pretty good week! 

Cool experience from this week. Elder Hansen and I were going out to pound some doors and planned to do this one area on the other side of the lake. As we were walking over there Elder Hansen said maybe we should knock those buildings. They were a few buildings down from ours so I figured that they had already been down. So we said a prayer to see what we should do. Honestly I didn't get any prompting (one that I noticed anyways) on what we should do, so we said well we're already here so we might as well do it! So we did and found 2 people that were interested in the same building! Wasn't super big but after I could tell that that was the Lord putting those thoughts into our heads to show us where the prepared are. :) 

This week I was reading in Alma 36 about Alma telling his conversion story to his son Helaman. And it talks about how when he was sinning against the church how great his pain was. But as soon as he repented and turned to the Lord, that pain and anguish was filling with amazing joy and love and comfort. :) so this week I would invite you all to read that chapter and see what you can change in your life to repent and come closer to Christ:) 

I love you all and hope you have a great week! And Keep the Faith! :) 

Oh and by the way don't forget about the Christmas initiative which begins on December 1st ! Visit Mormon.org to see what you can do to #LightTheWorld. :)

Love, 
Elder Baggett-- 

Week 48 - It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

Hey everyone! 
I hope you have had a good week! It sure has been great here in Alingsås :) highlight from this week. Well most important, IT SNOWED YESTERDAY. so needless to say I'm pretty pumped about that. :) we had splits With the zone leaders and the district leader, we met with some investigators, some less actives and a part member family! So it has been a pretty busy week! Feels good to be busy. :)

This week, we had a cool experience this past Saturday, we had a really busy day planned with lessons, members and all that good stuff. So we quite literally had no finding time. We had set a goal at the beginning of this transfer to contact at least 10 people everyday. And i honestly didn't know how we would do it. But towards the end of the night unfortunately one of our lessons had to cancel, but on the bright side, we had time to contact! It was a bummer we didn't have that lesson, but it was super cool to see the Lords hand helping us accomplish our goals in a very unexpected way. :) 

Spiritual thought for this week, we were in sacrament meeting yesterday and there is a YSA girl that is leaving on a mission this week. So she gave her talk and she was talking about how as soon as she decided to go on a mission everything seemed to become really hard. She related it to Ether 12:6 where it says, "faith is things which are hoped for and not seen wherefore, dispute not because ye see not, for ye receive no witness until after the trial of your faith." And how we need to have faith that the Lords knows what we are going through and he know what is best. :) 

That's about it for this week, I hope you all have a good week! And and very happy Thanksgiving! Eat some stuffing for me. :) And as always, don't forget to Keep the Faith! Love y'all. 

Love, 
Elder Baggett

Week 47 - Tech-saaavy

Hey everyone! 
Another week in the books! Crazy how fast time flies here. It was a really good week this week! Continuing to work really hard. Some highlights from this week, we got haircuts, we found some way cool potential investigators, set up some solid lessons for next week, so that's exciting! We had a ward Halloween party that we helped out with, we did service, we watched lots of the district and we last but not least, we had zone conference! :) 

So to explain the subject, at zone conference President Youngberg announced that our mission is now a technology mission! Super cool! So, now instead of having tablets, we will be getting personal smart phone that we will use for like everything. Haha so that will be really cool! :) also at zone conference we talked a lot about the Book of Mormon. And how we can better work with the members. So it was really good! Getting ready to boost us into this new transfer. We are going to start setting up mission plans with everyone in the ward, exciting! Haha 

Cool experience from this week, on Saturday I wasn't really having it. I wasn't having the best day and we were just getting rejection after rejection. Then we contacted a drunk fellow that just wanted to bash with us and I was a little flamed. Haha But my amazing companion noticed that and said, "Elder, let's say a prayer" so I said, "Yeah whatever.." and he said it in the middle of the street. My attitude didn't change immediately, but I just kind of forgot about it and by the time 10 minutes went by, it was like nothing ever happened. :) I know prayer works and the Lord is here for us. :)

Spiritual though for this week, I read the talk, Gods compelling witness by Ted R. Callister. From this past general conference. There was a part that I really liked from it. He said,"If one will take the time to humbly read and pray about the Book of Mormon, as did my friend, and give ear to the sweet fruits of the Spirit, the he or she will eventually receive the desired witness." I know that is true! I have a testimony of the Book of Mormon. It is true! That is why I am here spreading this glad message to others. :) I will take the words from president Monson, if you don't have a testimony of the Book of Mormon, do what is necessary to obtain one. :) 

I love you all heaps and hope you have a wonderful week! Stay out of trouble and don't forget to Keep the Faith. :) 

Love, 
Elder Baggett

Göteborg!

Who thought I would ever smile raking leaves? Not me!

Skål!

Hideous ties you find under the bed. haha

Got TP??

Our fantastic first mummy. lol

Week 46 - Hallå mina vänner.

Hallå mina vänner. :)
Hello my Friends :)

This week was killer! We got a lot done and we able to serve a lot of people. No new investigators, but we found a few potential investigators! So that's fun! Highlights from this week,It was Halloween this past week! Happy Halloween all you party animals. We did some service, had a bunch of member meals, I found the best salt licorice. Seriously so good. Passed apartment check with flying colors. Not to brag or anything but my last 3 apartment checks they have said that ours is the cleanest. Soooo ;) and we had fast Sunday! So I would say it was a pretty good week. :)


Cool story for this week, so we had dinner with our ward mission leader last night and it was about 8 when we got done. So we decided we would contact some people then head home. Keep in mind, the sun sets at like 4 so it is super dark and cold and NOBODY is outside. haha but we walked down the street and the only person there was a YSA member. So we walked up to him and he was like oh, who are you? haha so we did a role play contact with him on the street which was pretty fun. As we were wrapping up, there were 2 people coming down the street and he said, first or second? I said first and he said go get em. haha so we did and he ended being a super cool guy that is down to meet with us sometime! So that was pretty fun. :)


This week I have been thinking a lot about trusting the Lord in all that we do! Sometimes that can be the hardest thing to do. It feels like we are walking in the dark, be we have to trust that the Lord knows best and that he wants to help us! "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths." Proverbs 3:5-6 It is a promise that he gives us! He will direct your paths when you put your faith in him. :)


Well, thats all folks! Hope you have a fantastic week! Keep the Faith and Happy November! :)


Love,
Elder Baggett

The quote though. hahahaha

Now I have the spirit and the force!

Train Selfie!

How many kids can look at one phone?!  haha

Sunset!!! By the way this was taken at 4:35 pm!

Week 45 - Keep the Faith

Good morning my beloved friends and family! :)
How is it going? Things are going along just fine here in Alingsås! My comp and I have found some cool people and also met with a few cool people. So that's pretty exciting! Tender mercies from this week, DAYLIGHT SAVINGS was yesterday. So that was lit. Let me tell you how nice it was to get an extra hour of sleep. :) Elder Hansen got to teach his first lesson! And give his first talk! Which he did super well on by the way. We have lots of time to knock doors and contact. We did some service. And we had member dinners. Good stuff! 

Cool story from this week, so on Friday we had a member dinner planned at 6 and it was about  5:40.  We were out contacting in the town and we saw the member that we were having dinner with. He said just come over right now if you want! We felt prompted to say no thanks, we will come at 6. So we did! And he said okay cool see you then. We then kept talking to people. 20 minutes went by and we said we would talk to one more person then head to dinner. So we did and the guy we stopped is so awesome! He knows people in the church and already knows a ton of stuff and agrees with it! So we are going to meet him this week! Pretty exciting. :) 

So as a spiritual thought this week, I have been thinking about what I can share with y'all and I came across a talk of President Monson that he gave a few years ago in April 2009. It was called "be of good cheer" and there was a quote that I loved! It said, "Be of good cheer, the future is as bright as your faith" and that is so so true! We need to have to faith that Heavenly Father has a bigger plan for us than we can see and if we rely on him our future will be bright. :) this week I want to invite y'all to read that talk and see how you can apply it to yourself. How you can be of good cheer through the hard times. I know it will help! 

Well that's all I have for today! So I hope you all have a great week! Thanks for tuning-in to this episode of The adventures of Elder Baggett. Don't forget to keep the faith my lovelies. 

Love, 
Elder Baggett

Can't really see it, but there was a cool rainbow :)

I'm a maaaaniac!

As you can see there were a lot of people out last night..

I caved, and decorated my PMG.

Week 44 - Tjenare!

Tjenare!
How is it going?!? This week was a super good one. :) where to begin? First, props to my super sick comp Elder Hansen. I remember what it was like the first little bit. Wasn't very easy, but he it taking like a champ. Working super hard, keeping me in check. :) we are starting to get things going here for us! We have found a few super awesome potential investigators and we are really excited to start working with them. Other highlights from the week, we went on splits. Super fun. Elder Olson and I were here in Alingsås. We have been getting in contact with the YSA's in the ward which is honestly the best! It's so fun to work with people our age. :) 

Cool story, so we tracted into a man by the name of Hashmat last week. We told him we were from the Church of Jesus Christ and he said "I want to come to church! When and where?" So we told him. And yesterday, he came! He loved it. The members were super awesome and talked to him and such. He said to a member, "this was the first time in my life I have been to church. But definitely not the last!" He is so awesome. :) we look forward to meeting with him more. 

Spiritual thought from this week, so I was reading a talk from conference that was given by sister Oscarson. She talked about serving those who are nearest to us! I am really bad about that sometimes. I think that it's only service is you do something big, but it all starts with the little acts of service. :) The most important people in our lives are the ones closet to us! Our families! So this week, I would invite you all to read her talk and see how you can better serve those nearest to you. :)

Sorry It's a little short this week, today is a crazy day! Hope you all have a good week and you will hear from me soon!  :) Don't forget to Keep the Faith!

Love,

Elder Baggett

Our district

Elder Olson and I!

My son's first Kebab Pizza. :)

I thought you would enjoy this Dad. haha

I can ride my bike with no handlebars. ;) look at this weather too!

Week 43 - Hej på er! :) (Hello to you)

Hey everyone! 

This week has been wonderful! So we had transfers this past week, so Elder Scott hopped on a plane to the other side of the world! We were able to travel up to Stockholm together, so that was pretty fun! So, that means, new comp! His name is Elder Hansen and he is from American Fork! Super cool kid. I'm really excited to get to know him and to help him get into the swing of things here in Sweden. :)

Two cool stories from this week! So the first one is a "fourth floor last door" kind of a story. But I always knock building from the top down, so it is a "first floor, first door" story. haha anyways, we went to swing-by an old investigator but he wasn't home so we said, we came here for something, so lets knock some doors! We knocked 5 or 6 buildings and it was almost time for us to catch our bus but we decided to finish the building. The last door, we didn't even have to knock. He opened the door to leave, so we just talked to him in the hallway! He was super down and even said, "I'm free most Sundays, can I come to church? and we set up a return appointment! Pretty cool if you ask me. :)

This one isn't really a story, but we will go with it. This past week I have seen the Lord help me sooo much as I am training a new missionary. I have seen my Swedish go up tremendously and I just love the work that much more! The Lord sustains who he calls is a true statement! 

I was reading in Mosiah this week about the story of Abinidi. Man isn't that guy just the coolest?! I LOVE his courage because he knows that the Lord is on his side. and as long as he is doing the right thing and doing his part, The Lord will protect him. That also applies to us today! Maybe not to the same extent as Abinidi, but if we follow what the Lord asks of us, he will protect us and bless us. :)

Well, that is all I have for this week. I hope you all have a fantastic week! Love you all. :) you know what comes next...

Keep The Faith!! :)

Love,

Elder Baggett

 3 Gen pic!!! Elder Nielsen me and Elder Hansen  Grandpa, Dad and Son haha

Elder Beckman!  We went to H.S together!  He made it to Sweden!

His first street! Such a proud dad :')