Hej!
February is in full swing and we are in the middle of semla season! We had the chance to go to a local bakery to get a typical Swedish pastry called semlor. It's basically a large roll where they cut out the middle, fill it will marzipan, whipped cream, and then they put the top of the roll back on and sprinkle it with powdered sugar. It tastes super good and everyone in Sweden gets at least one around this time of year :)
The office is losing one member this week unfortunately as our good friend elder Youngberg is getting transfered in the middle of week 5. We'll miss him, but he won't be too far away.
Yesterday was a great day at church. A young woman in our ward, Ebba, is going out on her mission this week to go to France. She gave a great farewell talk and the spirit was super strong there as she shared how she somehow always had known that she would go to France and it was so spiritually confirming when she opened her call. We got invited over to her farewell party afterwards and so we decided that we would attend for a bit and then go do our visits and knock on doors out in the area. Well after we made our appearance and talked to a lot of people, we decided to leave just to find out that we were completely parked in and we weren't coming out for at least 2 hours, and so Äldste Lewis and I just went out in the Swedish woods trying to knock on any house that we could find. It was a total change of plans, but we enjoyed being out in the Swedish country side walking 5 minutes between every house. We ended up giving a book of Mormon to a 12 year old and we met a single dad that really needed a good message that night, so no effort is wasted.
We went on a few splits this week and we got to accomplish a lot of great things on those! Some of the most memorable things happened this week as I was on splits with Elder Callor who was serving in the office before but is now a zone leader in Malmö.
We felt strongly we needed to go to Åkersberga and so we wrote down on a list 4 names of people we wanted to go by and the rest of the time out there would be talking to people on the way as we walked from place to place since we left the car behind at home. Well, after missing a train and trying to figure out which bus to take out to do the visits, we found ourselves waiting about 20 minutes for the next bus to come. As we wait there, we first talk to an older lady, and then a young boy that immediately runs away from us and then we come to the third guy that was about our age, maybe a little older. We begin talking and it takes forever for him to want to be a part of the conversation, but thne he finally starts responsding and then we soon come to find out that he actually has a Book of Mormon at home. We asked him how we got it and he said that it was from his friend Linus, and then that immediately sparked my memory of that morning when I went through records, I had read one that said 'friend to Linus' in the background information, and so then I proceeded to ask him what his name was, to which he replied 'Rasmus'. My mouth about dropped to the floor, this was one of the people we wanted to visit...I took out my sheet of paper with the 4 names on it, and I showed it to Rasmus to show that God is real and that he leads us. He knew that we needed to talk to Rasmus that day and you could tell that he really felt the spirit as we showed him. He isn't ready yet for the gospel but it was a super powerful expereincce for him and for us as our prayers were answered!
Additionally on that list of names, was a family that was taught about a year ago. They had just lost contact and so we wanted to try to go by again and see if they were interested. But before I go on, Elder Callor and I had set the goal to find a family in need of help. Well, we come up to the house and before we even knock on the door, we see a sign on the outside of the house that says 'Till salu' which means for sale. And so as we knock on the door, we find out that the family has been so unbelievably stressed and they just had a baby recently and the mom just started crying right there. This was the family that we knew that we would find and they were one of those written on the list! We offered to come back to give a message on hope and they gladly agreed and so that was very strengthening to my faith.
The work continues to move forward and we have a ton more stuff set up this week, including hosting a study visit for some people studying about our church at a local school and then there will be a concert on Saturday hosted by a Broadway actress Savannah Stevenson, so it's going to be a great week! Until then, ha det så bra!
Pictures:
1) Ä. Callor and i
2) Åkersberga
3) semla
4) semla pt. 2
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| 1) Ä. Callor and i |
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| 2) Åkersberga |
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| 3) semla |
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| 4) semla pt. 2 |
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