9Feb2015

Dear Family and Friends: It feels good to sit down and write to you :) Thanks for you letters. It's good to hear that Andrew's play went well and that others are up to good things. For me, this week was uniquely fantastic. The weather is warming up, and I rode on my first double-decker bus! The new people in our ward due to the ward boundary change are really great! The ward felt much more lively and warm yesterday than it had before, when it was already quite good. We have been teaching many Chinese lately. Yang, who has the chemistry laboratory I talked about last week, is really progressing! We had an appointment to call and read the Book of Mormon with him. We talked about the Holy Spirit while reading Moroni 8, and afterward in the prayer, I asked that we might be blessed with the Holy Spirit. After I said that phrase, he whispered "wow!" He also called us before we got to call him to remind us the call was happening :) He is really fun to teach! We are also teaching Jin, who studies economics. He always asks us about America's economy. We never know the answers to these questions :P But he has enjoyed coming to church, even if only to build a network :) And we teach Yihang, and we were put in his path twice so that we could teach him. We watched "The Restoration" movie with him. At the end, he said "WOW!" We asked "What did you think of during the movie?" And he said "The director must be very proud. It is a terrific movie!" Haha, he is a blast :) I went on exchanges for a day with Äldste Walker, and got to help teach a Persian class with him. The translator\main teacher, Mojgan, is a missionary and does a terrific job teaching many Persians throughout Sweden! It is good to be in Stockholm. I love the phrase "marvelous work" used in Doctrine and Covenants 4 to describe missionary work. It really is a marvelous work, of which I am so privileged to be a part! I hope you each have a wonderful week! Love, -- Äldste Daniel Schindler