A Preach My Gospel Missionary

A Preach My Gospel Missionary

Sept 5

Hello Loved Ones!

Well since I last left you its been a great adventure. We had some time to write in Syster Browns buddy book last pday and say goodbye to Syster Brown who is now in Gävle. Wednesday was interesting because Syster Jenson's train didn’t get in until 7:30 at night so Syster Vistaunet and I were companions for a day. We were so excited to get our apartment cleaned and organized we took a lot of the day to do just that. We moved the furniture organized everything and now our apartment is like a new house! It’s amazing! Once Syster Jenson arrived she wanted to do nightly planning! I was so excited! Words do not describe how wonderful this transfer is already and will continue to be! We all get along really well and we plan and make back up plans just like how we were trained to be. On Friday we had our weekly planning time, it was something special. We went up to a tower and looked out over Göteborg and made our transfer goals together, our personal goals for the transfer and created a time capsule that we hid behind a rock of the wall. Its awesome! I’m so excited for this time together. That’s what we call what used to be called transfers because we don’t have those anymore. =) 

Our Swedish class seems to get bigger and bigger each week. I love it! Its the time where we realize that we actually know Swedish. Even though sometimes I still cant follow a conversation perfectly. The people we teach are so kind and patient when we aren’t sure of the rule and we have to look it up. I love them

This week we had a little bit of a scare from our investigator Ely (ellie) she was contemplating moving to Mälmo because they offered her a job. We suggested to her to pray and read the scriptures before making her decision. Syster Vistaunet approached her after Hjälföreningen (relief society) and asked her what the plan was. She had read and prayed a lot and has decided to stay! We are so happy! She is just the sweetest person! She is patient with my Swedish as well. Sometimes I dont know a word so I have to use a lot of little words to describe what the one word means but she waits and understands its great.

So this transfer we got Elders in our Ward. Äldste Smith and Äldste DeLeuw. They are pretty awesome. We had a middag after church yesterday and they invited all of the missionaries. Now we missionaries are the same as a big family here in Sweden. But the Murphy's took us all in and gave us delicious food. We are going to be working closely with them as well as our ward. Our Bishop here is working hard with missionary work and creating a vision for our ward. We are all excited to be a part of it.

Well the time has arrived! Challenge Time! This is where the title comes into play! (Yes Jag tyker om exclamation points!!!) Anyway, as my companionship has taken lots of time to make plans and set goals this time together. We have decided that we are going to be Preach My Gospel Missionaries this transfer. Do everything to jot and title. I’m pretty excited about that. I studied a lot from the book before I left and considered it my baby. Now its pretty much considered my arm. =) Its that important trust me! We are of course following the Spirit because that is what PMG leads us to do. As for us missionaries Preach My Gospel is like an extensive handbook that has practically all the answers when combined with a few others. Now as normal members of the church you may think that you are exempt from this handbook. This is not the case! Every Member a Missionary! Remember who said that? Me neither But I know that its in the first chapter of PMG! Enough with the silliness, Let’s get down to business- to defeat the Huns!! Ok not really but Seriously! Preach My Gospel is the basics of our faith. It has the answer to most of the questions people have about our Church. How often do we take time to study a little bit from it? I know that before I was going to serve a mission I didn’t even own one. SO my challenge is for all of you reading this to get a hold of a Preach My Gospel and study from it a little every day. It is full of activities that lead you through scripture chains and answers to many different questions that we have all had at least once in our life! I know that when we take time for those things that are important, like reading our scriptures and saying our prayers we are showing the Lord how important He is to us and really prioritizing our lives. We can no matter who we are or what we do take a few more minutes and study all of the great literature that The Lord has provided for us in our day! 

Thank you all for all that you do! I’m so thankful to have such a powerhouse of strong spirits backing me up! You all are amazing! I hope you have a great week!

Love Syster Juker

Pictures include weird yellow watermelon that was delicious, Pictures from our planning stuff, Syster Jenson and Syster Vistuanet, etc