Letter dated 20July2015

Dear Family and Friends, Wow! What a week! It is so good to be here :) The two of the best things were teaching Maria and Andrés and teaching Kashif. Maria is a member of the Swedish (Lutheran) church, and Andrés a member of our church. We prepared a lot for this, the first real visit, and it was such a good time. They are very friendly, good people. They even have a a spare basement that they would like us to rent from them. That would be ideal for us, so I am hoping we can move in! We talked to our main man about baptism before he moves back to Pakistan -- soon -- and it felt good to him. In addition, he had been a missionary before for 8 years and so he would change by proselytizing for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints! He said that it would be hard, and that he would need a lot of copies of the Book of Mormon and of Gospel Principles, and that he would need to organize a team so as to introduce the church in that part of the world. But today, we found out that there is a district of the church in the city he comes from! (One of only three districts in the whole country.) So it will be relatively easy for him to get involved! It is so amazing how the Lord prepares ways like this :) I love you lots! Have another terrific week! In the pictures, we've got me and a nice river we found on the way to Karlstad last week, me and a crew working on felling a tree (Äldste Rasmussen came back that day for exchanges), and of me re-enacting an epic fall from many moons ago. Love, Äldste Schindler