July 8, 2014

Hey every one,

So for this transfer I am staying in Brive and will be serving with Elder Ahlemeyer. He is from germany. The other equipe of brive missionaries actually got taken out this transfer so now we are the only here. This means that the work load just doubled which is good. I am writing this tuesday because i was waiting in the trainstation in Toulouse for 7 hours yesterday since elder Ahlemeyer was coming all the way from switzerland. We left Brive at 7 in the morning and got back at 7 in the evening.

This past week was great. Our ami bello was baptized and it was a great service. Because it was up in Limoges we carpooled with members to get there. On the way up the member we were driving with decided to pick up a hitch-hiker. He was about 18 years old and had hitch-hiked his way down to france for vacation and was now headed back home to Belgium. After talking to him for a while we ended up teaching him about the restoration and giving him a book of mormon. He was really cool and it was a fun experience. 

Because the other 3 elder were leaving we got to visit quite a few members this week. It was fun being able to visit all the the families here. There are some awesome members here in Brive. One cool thing that happened while we were visiting a family was that we recieved a text from an ami who we hadn't been able to contact since my first week here. We had seen taught him a few times and had even engaged him to baptism but then he just disappeared and stopped responding to our calls or texts. We had been praying that we would be able to get back in contact with him and then he just randomly texted us saying that he was sorry that he hadn't responded because he had been having family problems but said that he knew that God was there for him during his trials and asked if he could see us again. It was a cool little miracle that was an answer to prayers. We are seeing him this week and hope that we can get him progressing nicely. 

I am looking forward to this transfer and hope that we will be able to accomplish a lot here in Brive. There is a lot of potential here at the moment so we are very hopeful. Anyway I hope that you had a great 4th of July and that you are enjoying the summer time. Love ya,

Elder Swenson