Another week already in the books! Crazy. On the bring side, people it is finally cooling down here!! The past 2 days have been back to a "normal" Swedish summer. 20-23 degrees, cloudy and rainy. :) much rather take that over the blazing heat we have been having. Anyways! Enough about the weather. Haha this week has been a really good one! We had another pretty average week, not too much out of the ordinary. We had lots of time to find which has been really fun!! Love finding. :) We had exchanges with Skövde. Elder Wolff came here to Jönköping! Last time I was on exchanges with him was before last Christmas! Haha crazy. We had FHE with the YSA and played some games. :) actually got pretty heated. Haha did some service taking out some old bushes! Need help in the yard? Call the missionaries! Haha we had apartment checks and passed with flying colors. Aren't you proud mom? :) had a few lessons with the people we are working with. Had interviews with President! Remember that guy I told y'all about last week? The one that looks up everything about the church? Well, his name is Rauno! He is such a good guy. I love teaching him and getting to know him, but anyways, he has decided he wants to be baptized!! In his own words he said, "it is time for me to be baptized. There is work to be done" I felt like a such a proud father when he said that. Hahaha. :) Super exciting!! So I lied... I guess a lot did happen this week. Great week overall!!
We were out doing service the other day and the members home we were at, they had an apple tree. We guess it probably about 60 years old. It had rotted out and eventually collapsed and it's not much a tree anymore. Really sad actually. But because I have a missionary brain I relate everything to the gospel. And I related our testimony to that tree. At the beginning, it takes a lot of nourishment and help to get to a point where it can withstand the elements. It continues to grow stronger, roots grow deeper and it starts producing fruit! But then, we start neglecting our testimony a bit. Not much, just a little at a time. Our roots are deep right? We should be okay. But we allow something to get into us. Something that slowly separates us from the lord. We start to decay inside. And one day, as soon as the elements come, even though we, at one point in time, had a very strong testimony, we break. So do what you have to do now to prevent those things from coming in between you and the Lord. :) Your future self will thank you!
This week, I actually got some pretty sucky news. Not really what I wanted to hear, but we won't go into that right now. But I was down about it. And I sat down at my desk to read some scriptures to try and cheer myself up a bit and I look up to see a little picture with a quote I have. It says "don't you quit. You keep walking, you keep trying" - Elder Holland. And that gave me the comfort that I needed at that exact point of time. Made me feel that God truly knows me and he knows what I am going through right now. And I also love the council from that quote, Don't you quit! Never quit! Even when the odds are 100:1, keep grinding! You will be richly blessed for that. :)
Well thats all folks! Hope you all have a wonderful week! Much love sent to y'all from Sweden :) as always keep the Faith!
Love,
Elder Baggett
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