Monday, August 6, 2018

Vad saknar vi?

Email written: 8/6/18

Tjena!

Another week down and things are still in full swing here with Äldste Thompson! We continue to teach and invite others and there really isn't any other better work that I could be doing right now in my life.

We had lots of different training meetings this week, plus interviews on top of that, but we still had plenty of time to visit with our good friends that our progressing in and learning about the gospel.

Sometimes, we teach people that speak Swedish as their second language. We started teaching a lady that speaks Tamil as her first language and it is very hard to understand her Swedish. We gave her a Book of Mormon in her native language and we invited her to read it. We started reading in the Book together, her in Tamil, us in Swedish. But, as I listened closer to what she was saying, it was just her saying 'Jesus, Amen, Christian' over and over and over again instead of her actually reading the scripture, so that was an interesting experience. Not sure how much we can help her haha.

We also had the chance to teach this one family this week that just couldn't seem to accept the Book of Mormon. We are such good friends with them but in the end it just came down to you believe that, we believe this. The mother just held her Bible in her hand, told us how important it was to her, and then just asked us, what even are we missing?

Immediately, the wheels in my brain started going a million miles an hour, thinking of just one thing that I could share with them. It needed to be something that meaned a lot to me and I also needed to think of our end goal of anyone that we teach the restored gospel to. I thought to prophets, Apostles, the plan of salvation, but the thing that mattered most to me in the end and the thing I shared, was Temples and Eternal Blessings for families.

I know that in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, we can be sealed together as families for time and for all eternity, and it is only in this church, that we have that authority to perform that! I'm so thankful to be a part of an eternal family, and I hope to find the ones here in Sweden that want those same blessings that I experience, and will experience in the future.

Until next week, ha det så gott!  

Pictures
1) Övik hamn
2) Örnparken
3) this morning at skeppsmalen
4) skeppsmalen 
5) surströmming museum 
6) man eating surströmming on a video display   

-- Äldste Steele

3) this morning at skeppsmalen

4) skeppsmalen 
5) surströmming museum 

6) man eating surströmming on a video display

1) Övik hamn

2) Örnparken

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