June 3, 2013

Hey everyone,

So this week we got an unexpected surprise. Last week we got this text from the assistants that said, should we call saint etienne about the new elder? We sent back a ? in reply to their accidental text. Anyway long story short we now have a third elder in our equipe. His name is Elder Conault. He is french and he is waiting on a visa so that he can go serve in madagascar. He hasn't even been to the mtc yet. But he is awesome and will be serving here for about 9 weeks. Since he doesn't speak a ton of english, he will be a big help with my french because we don't speak a lot of english now. 

So I had my first question about kolob in a rdv this week. I just thought that that was interesting.

So we have been trying to work a lot through members and this week with the help of a new french elder in the ward we set up a good amount of rdvs with members and their friends. This upcoming week should be a good one. This past week we have been putting alot of focus on endearing the members. We wrote little personal notes with a scripture refference on the back and put them in the members mailboxes. They all enjoyed it and it's true that we can easily brighten someones day by just doing little things for them. 

So when we walk back to our appartment at night we pass by this bar/nightclub thing. The other night as we were walking home there was a group of people outside waiting for it to open. When we walked past we were met with a chant of "Hey mormons come join us! hey mormons come join us!"  It made me laugh. Every day in this world we are bombarded with temptations and this was just a funny example of that. We should learn from their example and invite everyone we see by saying "Hey world come join us!" This gospel is happiness and everyone who isn't a part of it is missing out on all of the joy and blessings. We should all be missionaries and invite those that we see to come join us. Just like Lehi and the tree of life, after we have tasted the fruit the next thing we want to do is invite others to come and partake.

I love you all

Elder Swenson