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This week has just flown by! It feels like the week ended just as it was starting. The zone conferences have started for this transfer and that means missionaries have started receiving new phones and getting access to Facebook and a bunch of other resources not originally available to this mission. Our zone conference is a little bit later than everyone else's on the 27th of April, so we have a little bit of time, but pretty soon I'll be back on Facebook! Vad konstigt alltså! I know that these changes are really going to help the work go forward here in Sweden and prepare the way for the Second Harvest.
Speaking of the Second Harvest, look it up if you don't know what it is. Second, Äldste Dale G. Renlund, a member of the quorum of the twelve apostles, will be visiting Stockholm at the end of the month!!! Äldste Renlund is a Swede and so we're hoping when he comes to visit, he holds a talk in Swedish. It's going to be such a cool experience and we're all really excited for it. Apparently a few weeks ago, Äldste Renlund sent an email to one of President's counselors, Leif Mattson, saying something along the lines of "Prepare the members, the Second Harvest will happen" I just get chills typing that out. I've said it before and I'll say it again...It's such a blessing to be serving a mission in Sweden. #bestmissionintheworld
We really had a great week here. Whether it was meeting the head of professional baseball in Sweden, or helping out some fellow Americans get from Stockholm to Amsterdam as part of a Red Bull competition, or spending the day in the mission office booking travel and filling orders, or the weather being nice enough to go out in short sleeves and no jacket, or even starting to teach a new investigator!
Our new investigator, David, is actually someone who used to meet with the missionaries quite frequently but lost contact for a couple of years. His kids all ended up getting baptized, but David never was, but one of his kids started coming back to church, and so David wanted to receive visits from the missionaries again. When we came to teach him, we sat down and he pulls out all of his study materials, which was a bunch of scriptures and study manuals in both English and Arabic. He looked at us and said "before we begin, I want to let you know that I know that Joseph Smith is a prophet" We had such a great lesson about prophets and David actually ended up teaching us a lot of it since he's studied so much. There's a few roadblocks that are stopping him from making that step, but we're hopeful for the future and glad to start working with him and his family!
That's about all I have for this week. Keep being awesome! Vi hörs om en vecka! Ciao
Pictures:
1) Vilken utsikt!
2) David and I, as we were walking out of his apartment, I saw a Real Madrid hat and I just might a comment about how cool it was. He picked it up looked at me and said it's yours now
3) POE baby
4) Met some tourists from Russia that have met with missionaries before, so we gave them a Book of Mormon in Swedish as a souvenir
-- Äldste Steele
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4) Met some tourists from Russia that have met with missionaries before, so we gave them a Book of Mormon in Swedish as a souvenir
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