Letter dated 12May2014

Dear Family and Friends: It was super great to chat with dad, mom, grandma, grandpa, Weston, Andrew, Nick and Chris yesterday! Fantastic to see you and hear you! Things are going great! We are quite busy with a lot of things right now. In Lund there is a young adult center that is great because it's in the middle of the city and an activity happens here just about every day to which we can invite our friends. As well, there are many, many members here that we visit and whose friends we get to meet. So the missionary work is very busy and effective here, which is really fun! I've really been looking forward to telling you about what happened to one of our investigators, Carl, this week! He is a Columbian Swede who is really fun and who's been taking English lessons from the missionaries for a month or so. We met with him and Jeremiah, who's preparing to go on his mission, on Wednesday to teach about the gospel, and it began as a pretty rough lesson, we were watching "Finding Faith in Christ," and I accidentally dozed off during it because I've seen it so many times and was pretty tired, but luckily I woke up just as the last scene finished! (That was lucky, phew!) We taught about how God has given us Jesus Christ and scripture, and how we can find out if God is there through prayer. He really wasn't very interested at all then. But he said he would come to institute the following day. He came, the lesson was on the book of Mormon in the Book of Mormon and really enjoyed it :D He said that it felt good to him to read the Book of Mormon and that it made sense! We gave him a copy of it and he's been reading it, and says that when he reads it he wants to keep reading to find out what happens next! He came to church yesterday and liked it too! I love being a missionary and being here to help these people with the message that I know is true. I know that Jesus Christ is our Savior and friend and that He is the way back to our Father in Heaven. I love you all and hope you have a great week! Love, Äldste Daniel Schindler