Letter dated 4May2015

Dear Family and Friends, The fourth of May be with you... Wait. So I heard a good joke today. But I forgot how it went. We had such a good week! We played soccer on Saturday with a bunch of friends. I tried out some soccer shoes which I recently found, and they made it way fun! This morning we taught Manuel tithing, for which lesson I'm always a little nervous. But when we started talking about it, he already knew what it was and said it was "no weird news" :) That was a great start to today! Yesterday was great as well. We had Stake Conference broadcast to our chapel here. It was terrific! Afterward we went to Andras's home so that I could get help with a bad back I've been having. Andras is Hungarian, the nicest guy ever, and a pro at accupressure, an ancient Chinese medicine. As I was getting accupressured, Äldste Ward was getting to know Andras's friend, Alan, with whom he's currently living. When I was lying on the couch with a bunch of vacuumed glass bulbs attached to my back, just relaxing, Äldste Ward set a baptismal date up with Alan! It was so cool to just listen to that conversation, lying on a couch with Chinese vacuum bulbs all over myself. It went something like this: "Do you want to be baptized?" "No. I have already been baptized in another church." "Our church has the authority of God. Would you like to be baptized with God's authority?" "Yes." !! Alan had been disinterested in religion from his past experiences, but when he came to stake conference earlier that day, he had felt something new and now really wants to pursue it! The pictures are of: 1) Downtown Södertälje! 2) "I didn't start the fire" 3) The fire, which I didn't start (lighting this is a large fire pile is a tradition done every April 30! It's called Vallborg. We celebrated with the Andersons and Birgirssons.) 4) Vallborg cakes! Love, -- Äldste Daniel Schindler