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It's been a great week here in Stockholm and the work is continuing to move forward. It's such a blessing to be a missionary in this city! Before I get on with what happened this past week in Stockholm, I thought to give you all an update on Gävle, my training grounds.
About 4 months ago, Äldste Berlin and I had been invited to help out at a primary activity at the church since they were going to be short on adults to help out. We were a little hesitant at first since we had some other things to accomplish, but we decided to go anyways and help out the primary. The activity originally was supposed to start in the afternoon, but due to some other conflicts, it started a lot earlier, around 11 or so. Well, Äldste Berlin and I show up to help, and it turns out they were good on adults to supervise, so we were just standing around not exactly sure what we should do. We felt like we weren't helping at all and that we were just taking up space. After standing around awkwardly for a good 15 minutes, we decided to find a room and start calling through the contacts in our phone. Well just as we were about to do that, one of the members in the branch, Karin, came up to us and said 'yo, det finns någon här som vill prata med er' och sen vi ba 'vem då??" It turned out to be a woman named Selma that wanted to come to the church and pray with the missionaries. If the activity had been a lot later in the day, we never would have met her. Selma is someone I talked quite a bit about in my final few emails that I sent while serving in Gävle. We taught her quite often and she was SO prepared, but just as we thought things were good to go, a new concern or a worry would pop up. We continued teaching and helping to resolve concerns and then it was up to Äldste Lewis and Tolman as I packed my bags and moved to Stockholm. Well, I'm here to say that those 2 Äldster in Gävle are straight up killing it and SELMA WAS BAPTIZED on Saturday! I was able to talk to Selma on the phone right after she was baptized and she was so unbelievably happy to have made that decision in her life. I hope that she continues to learn in the church and help bless the lives of all those around her.
As far as da boyz here in Stockholm, we are seeing miracle after miracle here, one of them being that even though an apartment building caught on fire in Karlaplan (pretty near our house) no one died and the firefighters were able to save a lot of people off their balconies.
We were able to teach Carmen twice this week, once on splits with my zone leader Äldste Craun, and the other time when Äldste Baggett and I felt impressed to swing by Carmen and read a scripture with her. I was thinking all day on what we could share with her and nothing was really coming to me, but about 15 minutes before we were going to leave, I felt impressed to share some scriptures from Enos Bok. We went over there and talked briefly, read a few scriptures, and then applied the scriptures to her life. She was completely shocked at the message we had shared because she said it was exactly what she needed that day. She had prayed and prayed to receive an answer to one of her questions and then we were able to visit her and the answer came as we sat there reading the scriptures. It's experiences like this that you just can't forget, and they happen on the daily. Life is so great as a missionary, and while it isn't easy at all and has it's fair share of "forgettable moments", I'm so thankful for the time I've spent here so far.
We've really been focusing a lot on the invitation that President Nelson gave at the end of conference last weekend:
"I exhort you to study the messages of this conference frequently--even repeatedly--during the next six months."
We have been studying and applying the messages from conference this past week in our lessons, contacts, member meals, etc. and it has been such a success! I'd just want to invite all of you to follow the counsel of the prophet as I have done, and I know your life will be better if you do!
Tack för allt ni gör! Ha det så gott! Ciao
It's been a great week here in Stockholm and the work is continuing to move forward. It's such a blessing to be a missionary in this city! Before I get on with what happened this past week in Stockholm, I thought to give you all an update on Gävle, my training grounds.
About 4 months ago, Äldste Berlin and I had been invited to help out at a primary activity at the church since they were going to be short on adults to help out. We were a little hesitant at first since we had some other things to accomplish, but we decided to go anyways and help out the primary. The activity originally was supposed to start in the afternoon, but due to some other conflicts, it started a lot earlier, around 11 or so. Well, Äldste Berlin and I show up to help, and it turns out they were good on adults to supervise, so we were just standing around not exactly sure what we should do. We felt like we weren't helping at all and that we were just taking up space. After standing around awkwardly for a good 15 minutes, we decided to find a room and start calling through the contacts in our phone. Well just as we were about to do that, one of the members in the branch, Karin, came up to us and said 'yo, det finns någon här som vill prata med er' och sen vi ba 'vem då??" It turned out to be a woman named Selma that wanted to come to the church and pray with the missionaries. If the activity had been a lot later in the day, we never would have met her. Selma is someone I talked quite a bit about in my final few emails that I sent while serving in Gävle. We taught her quite often and she was SO prepared, but just as we thought things were good to go, a new concern or a worry would pop up. We continued teaching and helping to resolve concerns and then it was up to Äldste Lewis and Tolman as I packed my bags and moved to Stockholm. Well, I'm here to say that those 2 Äldster in Gävle are straight up killing it and SELMA WAS BAPTIZED on Saturday! I was able to talk to Selma on the phone right after she was baptized and she was so unbelievably happy to have made that decision in her life. I hope that she continues to learn in the church and help bless the lives of all those around her.
As far as da boyz here in Stockholm, we are seeing miracle after miracle here, one of them being that even though an apartment building caught on fire in Karlaplan (pretty near our house) no one died and the firefighters were able to save a lot of people off their balconies.
We were able to teach Carmen twice this week, once on splits with my zone leader Äldste Craun, and the other time when Äldste Baggett and I felt impressed to swing by Carmen and read a scripture with her. I was thinking all day on what we could share with her and nothing was really coming to me, but about 15 minutes before we were going to leave, I felt impressed to share some scriptures from Enos Bok. We went over there and talked briefly, read a few scriptures, and then applied the scriptures to her life. She was completely shocked at the message we had shared because she said it was exactly what she needed that day. She had prayed and prayed to receive an answer to one of her questions and then we were able to visit her and the answer came as we sat there reading the scriptures. It's experiences like this that you just can't forget, and they happen on the daily. Life is so great as a missionary, and while it isn't easy at all and has it's fair share of "forgettable moments", I'm so thankful for the time I've spent here so far.
We've really been focusing a lot on the invitation that President Nelson gave at the end of conference last weekend:
"I exhort you to study the messages of this conference frequently--even repeatedly--during the next six months."
We have been studying and applying the messages from conference this past week in our lessons, contacts, member meals, etc. and it has been such a success! I'd just want to invite all of you to follow the counsel of the prophet as I have done, and I know your life will be better if you do!
Tack för allt ni gör! Ha det så gott! Ciao
Pictures:
1) Our homie Danut that hand makes chessboards
2) Hit up the Naturhistoriska Museet last P-Day
3) fire in karlaplan
4) more fire
5) Me and Äldste Craun #bro
6) Östermalm
-- Äldste Steele
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1) Our homie Danut that hand makes chessboards |
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| 2) Hit up the Naturhistoriska Museet last P-Day |
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| 3) fire in karlaplan |
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| 4) more fire |
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| 5) Me and Äldste Craun #bro |
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| 6) Östermalm |
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