Carter mentioned a while ago that Sweden will become a technology mission. Based on that, I asked Carter about the IPhone he will be getting and what he will be using it for.
This is all the info I have about the technology stuff,: we will be getting smart phones, not tablets. They will have data on them just like your phone and we will have access to Facebook, and other social media apps for the purpose of furthering missionary work in our area. As far as when we will get them, the only info President Youngberg has received from Salt Lake is that it will happen "Sooner than later". No idea what that means. As far as how we will use them, I don't know that either. I suspect they will give us training when we get them. They have already started training us to be disciplined with technology. I imagine there will also be a fair amount of firewalls and stuff. Also, each missionary will have their own phone which will be there's to keep after the mission. I don't know anything else about that. The way they'll keep areas organized with contacts is that each area will only have one SIM card that will stay with the area. One of the phones in the area will have the SIM card in it and will work as a hotspot for the other to call, text, get access to contacts, and use the internet. It's all controlled from Salt Lake. Once we all have our phones and have completed any safeguard courses we need, they will switch on all of our phones at once. I think though that for the most part we will be using them to find people, organize efforts, spread light, and help people through chats or whatever learn about the gospel. The bulk of our teaching and stuff I imagine will be in person though. It's just another tool to help in the same work.
You know, I have learned to really understand testimony, truth, and faith being here in Sweden and talking to people about those things every day. People here in Sundsvall are super nice and basically religious compared to most of Sweden though. Like my companion was trained in a place with like maybe 11-15 members and where the people were not so friendly. He spent most of his winter without investigators just contacting and trying to find. He said people would get super mad if you brought up religion to them and just tell you all the reasons that God doesn't exist and then cuss them out. I haven't been cussed out yet (that I can understand) but we've certainly heard a lot of atheist views and arguments, and let me tell you, some of them can sound pretty convincing. I remember reading the story of Korihor with a recent convert helping her to combat those arguments. I realized after reading Korihor's argument against Christ that we had heard all of those things come out of people's mouths before... In fact, we had heard all those things that day we were reading... It's interesting to note that God's way never changes, and honestly Satan's way doesn't really change either... he uses the same tactics generation after generation. People think they have out-thought God or that society has "grown out of faith," but it's really the same things people have been saying from the beginning of Earth's history. And it still isn't true. Anyone that really tries it out can know that.
Quick update on the sun, I took
some pictures yesterday at different times of the day to help you get an
idea for just how dark it is here. Also, we are supposed to get an
awesome northern lights show starting tonight as early as 4:00 in the
afternoon. So excited! We've been able to see them twice already, but
this one is supposed to be really good.
We met with some
awesome investigators from like a year ago last night and they
committed to baptized also when they received a witness our message is
true. Super awesome older couple. After a slower week, it was an awesome
way to end the week.
Enjoy some pictures and check out the last video... haha it's pretty funny.
Love you guys have a great week!
Äldste Denton
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