August 12, 2013

Hello family dearest,

This past week went well. I love working with Elder Asay. He is an excellent missionary and we work well together. So we started the week out by cleaning up the appartment and area book so that we could be nice and organized for the transfer. The areabook here in toulouse really needed to be cleaned up as we found progress records from 2001 which are different because they have the 6 discussions instead of the preach my gospel lessons. This made me realize how old Bryan and Dan are. Any way with that all cleaned up we have a much easier time being organized and getting work done with less actives and old amis. 

So I dont know if any of you guys did this in your missions but often we will go street boarding. This is where you set up a pannel with a question or scripture or picture and then contact around it to draw more people in and to give you a topic to talk about. Any way this week we did something like that but with a guitar. We basically use the guitar as a street board by taping a question to the guitar and then walk around playing and contacting. It works fairly well is more interesting for people to come and talk to us. Hopefully we can see some cool miracles come from this.

Now that people are getting back from vacation we are able to set up more rdvs. We had some cool lessons this week including one that we had in the back of a guys car. That was a first for me. Things are slowly starting to pick up for us here and we should see a bunch of miracles here in the upcoming weeks. I love being able to help people learn more about the gosple and seeing the impact that it has on their life.

Any way I love you all and hope you enjoy the last little bit of summer.

Elder Swenson