Tjabba!!! It's been another great week here in Stockholm and an even better Easter weekend, having the chance to listen to our prophet, Russell M. Nelson, and all the other apostles and leaders of the church. We were able to spend a lot of time with other missionaries and members in the ward this weekend and it was really awesome to get strengthened together as disciples of Christ.
I thought to share a really cool experience that happened this past week! So this past week, several new missionaries got here straight from the MTC and the assistants sent us a text asking us if we could go greenie contacting with all the new missionaries. We said of course, and came to hit up stan with some greenies on their first day here in Sweden. It reminded me so much of my first day in Sweden 7 months ago, not knowing what was going on, tired out of my mind, and getting 'nej tack' yelled at me to everyone I tried to talk to. I decided that I wanted this new missionary to have a legendary experience for his first day, and not get wrecked like I did. So I thought a lot about it that morning and all the way leading up to contacting, on how I could help him have a good experience. And then the idea came to me!!
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| 1) the jerseys |
Just the day before, Elder Baggett and I had met these two guys that make super good fake soccer jerseys and actually had bought some Sweden Zlatan jerseys from him and become bros and secured a pretty nice discount for any future purchases. I decided that I could take the greenie first to the soccer jersey stand and talk to one of my friends before we jump completely into the water talking to strangers. So, I get paired up with Äldste Whitaker and we go immediately to Hötorget to talk to our soccer jersey bros. When we first get there they thought I was back to buy some more jerseys and so they pulled several out of a box, and I was like kompisar....I don't want a jersey today, I came to teach the gospel with my friend here. I already knew their background since I had asked them the day before, and they weren't really interested, but I thought to ask them who in the area would be interested in learning more. The head honcho thought for a few moments and was just like, the lady that own the stand next to me is Christian and would probably love to speak with you.
So we walk on over and just strike up a conversation with her and pretty early on in the conversation we found out that she had just gotten in contact with missionaries down in Hägersten. She talked about how she wanted to go to church super bad the past sunday, but her son's soccer game went too late so she couldn't come, but she was so interested in the church and was so excited to learn more from the missionaries. She told us about her two sons who hadn't been baptized yet and that they probably would get baptized in the church and how also she wasn't super set in the beliefs she grew up in and she definitely saw herself getting baptized in the near future. Every question she posed was just perfect for us to give the answer to and we gave her a Book of Mormon and assured her that she was in good hands with the missionaries in Hägersten. I was so happy that I was able to follow the Holy Ghost and meet such an amazing person and one prepared for the gospel, and I'm glad that Äldste Whitaker was able to have a good first day (even though he forgot his jacket in his suitcase and about froze haha)
Keep on keeping on! Have a great week everyone. :)
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1) the jerseys
-- Äldste Steele
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