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| View from our Bishops house |
Hello to everyone!
Sorry I got so intense with that last email, there have definitely been some amazing miracles this week! And snow! (Snö in Swedish).
It snowed like an inch in a day here in Landskrona before the rain came and washed it away. That happens a lot being like not even a mile from the coast. But it was definetly fun seeing the snow fall for maybe the second time in my life! #JagkommerifrånCalifornia
An answer to mom's question about if Swedish people eat healthy. Some people think that Swedes eat super healthy but those people are misinformed. Actually Swedish people eat horribly! We ate this stew yesterday at a members house which was super good, it was like a butternut squash soup with chunks of chicken/onion/carrot in there, it would've been fine but it also had CHUNKS of fetta cheese in it. Like huge chunks of really good but really fatty cheese. I was like dang. But yeah, they stay healthy by actually having to walk to places. You can't just drive everywhere like you can here. The average Swede is WAY more active than the average American. But there are definitely some large Swedes. You find 'em. They do kinda of stick out. Get it!?
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| Fish head at the store |
I'm sorry.
Here's the important thing though, last Monday the APs sent out this massive text to everyone about baptisms! They challenged every companionship to get one more baptismal date (a dop date as the Missionaries say here). We prayed HARD to get one! Almost every prayer and plan that week was to try and get a new baptismal date. And with all the amazing potential investigators we got last week like I told you about, should've been easy right? Wrong! We could not meet with any of them hardly. We haven't met with Rizwan to give him his Urdu Book of Mormon, he's never responded on his phone. We also haven't met with Linda, that lady I mentioned we met through a total miracle by her apartment complex not being locked. She is still positive but hasn't been able to meet this week because her grandmother is dying, which is sad but like, Plan of Salvation right? Bam!
Anyways, like we were having success this week but we were not sure at all how we were going to get that date. It was Saturday, and we were starting to worry, so we do weekly planning and pray and start calling all the contacts in our phone to try and get people to meet, and we call this guy named Richard. No background info, no address, just a name and a number. He doesn't answer at first, but calls back 30 minutes later, I tell him we're the missionaries that he (maybe) met on the street. He said he remembered us and asked where we lived in Landskrona, and we told him we live pretty close to the library. Suddenly, he said he'd met us there in 20 minutes and I said 'Uhhh, ok.' and he hung up the phone.
So off we set to go find this mysterious Richard man. Of which we know nothing of, except that he spoke English on the phone so he's probably an immigrant. We brought an Arabic and a Persian BoM just in case. Well, he showed up, and it turns out...............................He's GHANAIAN! I turns out my time in DC was spent for a good reason! I was able to name his native language and actually pronounce it right! He's an immigrant who moved to Italy (and speaks fluent Italian) and then to Sweden, looking for work. Anyways, he went to a Mormon church a few times and was familiar with the Joseph Smith story. But we taught him the whole restoration again and it was SO spiritual. He felt and recognized the spirit! Finally, he asked us what he could do to become a better Christian, I showed him Mosiah 18:8-10 and asked if he had been baptized, he said he had when he was 15 in Ghana but it was kinda against his will (he couldn't eat if he didn't). We invited him to be baptized again by his own agency and by proper authority and he accepted. His date is the 30th! We'll see if he makes it though, he needs to stop smoking first. Absolute Miracle. A complete gift from God. Everyone pray for him!
Yep. That's my week this week. Sorry it was so dang long, I'll tone it down next time.
I love all of you! The Lord has miracles in store for everyone!
Here's another picture of me.
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