Friends and Family,
Well, here we are, at the last week of the transfer. It's been a great transfer so far, and an even better continuation of training Äldste Thompson. It's making me pretty sad that we might have to part ways soon and move to new areas and get new companions. Tears may or may not be shed when I'll finally have to let my son fly away from the nest of eagle shield bay....
I've officially been in Sweden now an entire year!! It's so crazy to think that a whole year ago I was doubling into Gävle with Äldste Harper. We've planned this Friday with the youth in the branch to burn a white shirt in commemoration of one whole year, so stay tuned next week for those pictures!
But anyways, we had a last door miracle yesterday! I almost cried tears of joy when it happened. So here we were, in morning planning. We were about to plan in the last part of the day and I felt really strongly we needed to set the goal of someone with baptismal date by the end of the night. I first asked Ä. Thompson if he had any goals or thoughts on what we need to accomplish at the end of the day, but nothing was coming, so I shared what I thought we could accomplish, and so then we set the goal to find someone that was ready for baptism and then thought about where that person would be. I felt it wasn't on our list of focus people and that it was going to be someone we tracted in to in Domsjö. Setting this goal and plan required quite a bit of faith, but we planned it out and went through the day until we had the last hour-hour and half to go tracting in Domsjö. Well, we start knocking, and while everyone we knock in to was home, all of them were not interested. We even had one lady yell at us from behind the door and told us that she was calling the police. It was pretty discouraging, but at the same time we were laughing quite a bit because the people we were meeting were saying some weird things, like 'Halloj'.
Well, it was 8:55, and there was one more house that I felt we needed to knock on. We come up to the door and we knock. A woman comes and answers the door and Äldste Thompson just impressively starts taking the conversation. We first come to find out that she is a swedish as a second language teacher, and this got me excited because I've been wanting to meet a swedish teacher that can help us get better at Swedish. Then, as we are talking, her son peeks his head around the corner and goes oh hey what's up steele! And I'm like wait, I know this kid, and it turned out to be someone that Äldste Hansen and I had played basketball with about 4 months ago. They gladly welcomed us back any time this next week and we walked back to our car, overjoyed that we had just witnessed a last door miracle!
Patience and faith are essential for each an every one of us to truly experience the blessings that God has in store for us. A lot of times, we are going to have to go through our trials in life, and sometimes even cry out, when will this end? But, I know that God will always provide, even if it's the fourth floor, last door, or even the 'fourth watch' as talked about in Mark 6. May we all be patient and have faith in our lives!
Thank you everyone for the support! I hope everyone has a great week and don't forget, in the great words of one of our neighbors, 'Jesus kommer mycket mycket mycket mycket snart'.
Hejdå!
Pictures:
1) It looked like we were underwater
2) the sun has finally begun to set here in Sweden
3) ski jump in Övik
4) the ski jump is a lot scarier at the top
5) Me and one of my zone leaders, Äldste Hartin
-- Äldste Steele
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| 5) Me and one of my zone leaders, Äldste Hartin |
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| 1) It looked like we were underwater |
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| 2) the sun has finally begun to set here in Sweden |
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| 3) ski jump in Övik |
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| 4) the ski jump is a lot scarier at the top |
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