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| 2) shaved my head again |
Hejsan familj och vänner!! I am officially no longer a Greenie! #graduated
Last night we received transfer calls and we found out that Äldste Harper will be transferring down to Stockholm to be a proselyting office elder. So he'll be filling book orders, and taking care of travel, and whole bunch of other things that the mission president will need. I'm really going to miss him, especially since we both thought we would be staying 3 transfers together, including Thanksgiving, St. Lucia, Christmas, and New Years' together, but the Lord knows better!
For this next transfer, I will be companions with the one and only, Äldste Berlin, who just got done training my boy Äldste Bird down in Helsingborg. I am so pumped to be companions with him because he is one of the most outgoing in the mission and that really is what the area needs. Also, funny story, I met Äldste Berlin's family at the MTC during tours, so what a small world! The transfers will go into effect Tuesday night when Äldste Berlin arrives in Gävle and it will actually be a 7 week transfer, so it will end early January!
After writing my email last week, and just feeling really sad about pretty much everything, I knew that I would have a lot better attitude this week, and sure enough, the week turned out to be pretty good! While we didn't teach a whole lot, and while we froze quite a bit in this pre-winter chill, I did it all with a smile on my face. I thought back a lot to the reasons why I came on the mission and why I'm still here. Coming into the mission, I was doing this for me. I was doing this because I knew it was what I should do and that it would be a blessing to me in the future. But as the months have gone on (4 months to be exact!), I've come to realize that I've stayed on the mission because I actually care about other people. I do all I can to help other people learn about this amazing gospel and I really am happy doing it....I just had to think about it and change my attitude! I'm so glad to be here in Sweden doing this amazing work and it will only get better from here.
Probably the highlight of the week was when we taught a man named Alexander. Alexander is a preacher from the Congo, so that made things a little interesting, but we had our bro Mihail (currently my best friend in Sweden and best member ever) there to help. During one point in the lesson, he told Alexander how missionaries give up everything to come out here and share the gospel. And then Mihail said how much he admires us and looks up to us for all that we do. Here I am thinking about how inadequate I am and how many weaknesses I have, but then Mihail said that he admired us. It really gave me an insight on how our Heavenly Father and Christ feel about us. A lot of times we are self-critical, and focus on our weaknesses, but in reality, Christ just sees us for the good we have. And in the end, Christ will be able to make all of our weaknesses strengths. (Ether 12:27)
Hope all of you are doing well! Have a Happy Thanksgiving!
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| 1) We got some snow finally! It snowed 4 of the past 7 days, but it also rained in that time frame so a lot of it melted. |
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1) We got some snow finally! It snowed 4 of the past 7 days, but it also rained in that time frame so a lot of it melted.
2) shaved my head again
--Äldste Steele
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