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| 4) Templet |
And just like that, another transfer is in the books and Äldste Baggett and I will be staying together at least another 6 weeks! We've really been working hard and while it's been pretty tough to find people to teach the past 6 weeks, we're beginning to see a lot of really big miracles here in Stockholm. Also, the sisters here in Stockholm put in some serious work, but unfortunately they are doubling out and moving to Alingsås, so we will take over a lot of the teaching they were doing.
Äldste Baggett and I were able to go to the temple this past week in Västerhaninge! It was such an amazing experience. It was so great to finally go back to the temple as I hadn't been since the MTC. We were the youngest people in the temple by about 50 years so that was fun. Also, a random man in the temple came up to us and offered to buy us lunch and you better believe we accepted his offer.
This week has been super weird since we had taken our P-day on Tuesday to go the temple and we went on splits with the zone leaders later on in the week, but it had a super good ending to it. When I went on splits this past week with Äldste Martineau, we were out knocking on some doors on Lidingö. We end up meeting this older guy, 83 years old, with Alzheimer's, and he is not religious at all, but he just starts talking our ears off. He talks for a solid 30 minutes with us just standing there listening, and every time we tried to say something, he would just interrupt us and keep talking. Well, in the middle of the conversation, our phone starts ringing and I look down and it says GU Carmen (GU meaning old investigator) I'm just like....who in the world is this? And so I excuse myself real quick and take this phone call.
I begin talking with Carmen, and she begins to tell me her life story. About how she comes from Peru originally and almost all of her siblings are Mormon, and her Mom was Mormon as well. About how 2 months ago, the missionaries had called her the same exact day her mother died and how they had called her a few years earlier the same day she got divorced. About how she said she read the Book of Mormon twice, all the way through. About how tough her life had been recently and how she followed the counsel of her brother: "Call the missionaries"
We got the phone call Thursday night, and then taught her the very next evening. The spirit was so unbelievably strong and even Carmen recognized it. She kept saying how she felt this warm feeling, and how just kept remembering all her good feelings from reading the Book of Mormon and from what the missionaries had taught her before. We ended the lesson with a blessing and it was just so powerful! And Carmen even offered a closing prayer in Spanish, and Äldste Baggett and I understood it...#wild
Carmen ended up coming to church yesterday and there just happens to be a Peruvian family in our ward here in Stockholm, and she loved every minute of it. Please everyone, keep her in your prayers! Good things truly are happening here in Stockholm.
And as I write out this story, I remember back to the prayer that I said just the night before we got the phone call from Carmen. I asked that we could begin teaching someone who was ready to be baptized, and sure enough, and yet again, my prayer was answered.
I want to just invite all of you to check out general conference this upcoming Saturday and Sunday. This church truly is led by a prophet of God, Russell M. Nelson, and by apostles as well. We are so lucky to be hearing from them this next week! I know that each and everyone of us that watches conference has the chance to receive personal revelation- an answer to a question, a prompting to do something, or maybe even a confirmation that this church and this gospel true.
Hope you all have a fantastic week, Och Glad Påsk!
-- Äldste Steele
I want to just invite all of you to check out general conference this upcoming Saturday and Sunday. This church truly is led by a prophet of God, Russell M. Nelson, and by apostles as well. We are so lucky to be hearing from them this next week! I know that each and everyone of us that watches conference has the chance to receive personal revelation- an answer to a question, a prompting to do something, or maybe even a confirmation that this church and this gospel true.
Hope you all have a fantastic week, Och Glad Påsk!
Pictures:
1) My homie Tom Heidenberg that let me play his trombone!
2) a friendly cat we met while out tracting
3) also found some sick shades on the sidewalk on the way home one night
4) Templet
5) Last time at the musical with Paulino, Jeremie, and Ä. Martineau!
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| 1) My homie Tom Heidenberg that let me play his trombone! |
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| 2) a friendly cat we met while out tracting |
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| 3) also found some sick shades on the sidewalk on the way home one night |
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5) Last time at the musical with Paulino, Jeremie, and Ä. Martineau! |
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