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| The rest are just of the giant goat. enjoy! |
Tjenare Familj och Kompisar!
It has been such a fantastic week and it was another week where so much happened, I just can't tell it all. I am so happy that it is December now and Christmas (Jul på Svenska) is in full swing, with lights, and pepparkakor, julmust, glogg, and so much more. There is so much to be thankful for the Christmas season, one of those especially being that people have been so open to talk about Christmas and their traditions, which makes it easy for us to transition into our message of Christ.
Briefly in my last email, I mentioned Selma, one of our new investigators. I thought I might want to tell a little bit more about her progress, because she is so amazing! She has now been to church two times, our monday night activity, a relief society activity, has the number of almost every member in the branch, came to dinner last night with us at a member's home, and to top it all off.....she reads the Book of Mormon every day!! Selma originally is from Iraq, but moved her back in 2001, so has been here for quite some time. She has 2 daughters here in Sweden, but unfortunately she doesn't get to see them too often, so she has expressed so much how she just loves the new family she has at church now and just cannot wait until the day she gets to wear 'vit kläder och döpa sig'
A quick preview for the little story of the week. In Gävle, every Christmas, they have a huge straw goat in the middle of the city. It's called the JulBocken. Hence the subject line. But anyways, they had a huge dedication for the goat last night and there were fireworks and music, and pretty much the entire city of Gävle. It was so much fun and the perfect finding opportunity.
But anyways....A few weeks ago Elder Harper, Mihail, and I were waiting for a bus from the church back to Sätra where we live. As we were waiting there, a random man came up to us, saying a bunch of crazy things about drugs and members in the church using drugs and what not, and came to found out that he was a recovering meth addict as well. It was a super weird conversation and I hoped I would never seen the man again. But then fast forward to the first monday that Elder Berlin and I were together as we were waiting for the same exact bus back and the same guy came back to talk to us. Oh great...I thought, not again. But then I put aside all past thoughts and focused on the present and actually had a super fantastic conversation with him. We found out he is friends with some of the branch members and in the past has thought he's unwelcome in church because he's on certain medications to recover from his addiction. We cleared that up, switched numbers, and invited him to church. Sure enough, our man Patric walked through the church doors yesterday and had an amazing time. He asked for a Book of Mormon and wanted us to write our names and a note in the book. He also downloaded Gospel Library app and was just going crazy on it, talking about how he's going to read on the bus and send scriptures to friends and share them on faceboook. He is just all over the place and a little jittery, but has such a good heart and really wants to learn more. There's a lot of things to overcome for him, but we have faith that he will overcome it all. Don't judge a bock by it's cover!
Honorable Mention This Week:
-I talked to a lady on the bus briefly asking her if she liked chocolate because I had a ton of extra chocolate in my bag. She said sometimes, so I pulled out the chocolate and tried to give it to her. She then said to me 'Jag vill inte ha din choklad, och jag vill inte bli frälst' People are great.
But seriously, a billion things happened this week, but I just don't quite have the time to tell it all. Elder Berlin and I actually are about to go on a walk with a member who just became homeless and hopefully give him some spiritual strength to kämpa på.
Ha en fin vecka! Jag älskar er.
Pictures:
1) Christmas came a little early. We got some new bikes.
The rest are just of the giant goat. enjoy!
-- Äldste Steele
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| 1) Christmas came a little early. We got some new bikes. |
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| The rest are just of the giant goat. enjoy! |
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| The rest are just of the giant goat. enjoy! |
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