February 11, 2013

Hey everyone!

This week went by so fast. This transfer is only 5 weeks so that the mission will be on the same schedule as the MTC so time is flying by. 

This week we did a lot of finding and we actually had some decent success. They say that 1 our of every 1000 doors that you knock will actually let you in. This week we actually got let in twice so that was a miracle. These Hindu guys let us in and we started talking with them and they told us they have 23 million gods. It was a pretty crazy chat with them. It makes me happy that our religion makes a lot more sense. Most of us can't even listen to one let alone 23 million.

We are making some good progress with two of our investigators. One is Italian and speaks Portuguese and Italian and the other is Brazilian and speaks Portuguese. We have been using Portuguese speaking members to translate for us and it has been going well. Saturday a member invited us and our ami over for dinner and a lesson. We taught him by using the member as a translator. I have sat in on so many Portuguese lessons that I don't even need the member to translate what the investigator said half the time. It's crazy how much all the Latin based language are alike.

We should be fixing some baptism dates soon so that will be good.

This will for sure be my last week in Lux. I am looking forward to a change of scenery but it will be crazy to leave after being here so long.

Hope you all have a great week. I am so excited to hear about Brady's mission call!

Elder Lerdahl

February 4, 2013

Hey Everyone,

This week was a pretty good week. It started off pretty slow but picked up towards the end.

Tuesday we had a pretty awesome miracle. A guy that just moved to Luxembourg from Italy came to the church and told us that his wife is a member and that he wants to be sealed with her in the temple. We have started teaching him, he is really humble and accepting and this week we are going to invite him to be baptized. 

We are also teaching another guy from Brazil who just moved here to get married to one of the members in the ward. He is very accepting and has been doing a great job at keeping his commitments. They are working on their marriage papers, we gave them a goal to be married by the end of the month so as soon as he is married he will be baptized. It has been fun to teach him because we have been forced to work with the members as our translators, which has helped us to get to know the members more.

Yesterday was a pretty good day. ------- got baptized. He is the youngest son of the family that we have been working really hard with to reactivate. His Dad was able to baptize him and right after a bunch of men in the ward and us were asked to join in on the circle for the giving of the gift of the Holy Ghost. It is cool that even though he is not counted as our baptism that we were able to help the ward reactivate this family.

I can't believe it is already February. Time is going by so fast and I am positive I will get transferred in two weeks so that will just make things go by even faster.

Hope you all are doing great.

Elder Lerdahl

January 28, 2013

Hey Everyone!

Thank you all so much for the birthday wishes. I had a really good birthday. We went to a members house and we had burritos and cheesecake so it was pretty much the best dinner appointment ever. I also had another member in the ward give me some A&W root beer and Reese's peanut butter cups which are super hard to get here so that was awesome.

This last week was pretty good. We went down to Nancy last Tuesday for Zone conference and interviews with president. It was nice to see President and Sister Poznanski. It's crazy how rarely it is that we actually get to talk to them and it is even more crazy how much they remember about us.

This week we worked hard! We found a couple new investigators and we were able to fix a baptism date with one of them. The work is picking up finally here and with having a Spanish companion we are able to find a lot more investigators.

This week we have a really busy week planned out which should be great. Hope you all are doing great.

Elder Lerdahl