So a LOT happened this week to prepare yourselves. Actually but I'd first like to give a shoutout to my cousin Steven in Liberia! I don't think there's another mission less like mine than his. Except for the fact that we keep meeting African people. We were actually on a train going to church the other day when we heard this African man across from us speaking English on the phone, and all the sudden he ends the phone call with ''Hakuna Matata.'' And we were like what? What a wonderful phrase! I turned and said 'Jambo' to him (it's Swahili for Hello, which is the Lion King language) and he was slightly impressed. He was actually from the Cameroon but had worked in Kenya for a while, we unfortunately didn't have time to teach him or anything because it was our stop. But we gave him a card.
#Funnystoryoftheweek
But we've actually had quite a bit of success partly from hard work and mostly from amazing blessings, remember that Michelle girl I mentioned a while ago who had a problem with tithing? Well we meet with her again with Daniel Malmsten (a member in Landskrona) and explained tithing to her and she feels much better about it! Amazing! She came to a dinner at the Malmsten's house on Saturday and we invited her to renew her Baptismal date and she said yes! Go member missionary work! April 16th! Ok sorry to many exclamation points. But we're super excited for her, the work is really progressing. She'll be hopefully coming to church this Sunday.
We actually met with another family (that is the most exciting word a missionary gets to hear, a FAMILY of investigators) from Iran. They speak pretty good Swedish and are incredibly nice to us, we met with them and explained the Book of Mormon (gave them one in Persian) and they were super grateful and very positive, the only drawback is that they're going out of town and we probably won't meet with them again for like another 2 weeks. Also, (this is an iffy thing) they're not Muslim and actually have a burning hatred towards them. Like really bad. Called them wild animals a few times. Like, we're not Muslims...but...yeah interesting.
We got another Persian speaking investigator as well, his name is Mazen, he was very nice and respectful, but I wouldn't say he was quite as positive, mostly because we taught him at the library where this random town drunk (who never shuts up) actually found us and sat in on the lesson the whole time. We just tried to ignore him. SO maybe not the most spiritual lesson I've ever had. Take what you can get I guess.
Then another crazy thing happened!
Guess what it was!
I'll tell you!
First of all you should know that we got a new ward mission leader, his name is Brandon Spackman, he's actually an American who served a mission in France and works here. He is probably the smartest person on the planet. Like has every scripture memorized ever. But he's super busy so we also got an assistant ward mission leader named Simon Vikström! He's 18 and like our best friend and speaks great English. He's also about as tall as dad. (about 2m) BUT! We were sitting in the 3rd hour of church yesterday and a random African man walked in! I turned to Simon who was sitting next to me and I was like 'who is that black man' and he was like 'I don't know.' So I went over and introduced myself. It was his first time in church, his name is Austin and he heard about it from one of his African friends who apparently used to investigate the church. He's friend Nigeria and speaks Igbo. We explained that it was just the third hour, and we and the other 2 missionaries (and a member) taught him the restoration after 3rd hour. He loved it! We'll meet him again this Wednesday. The only thing is that he didn't seem to get that he would need to be baptized again.
Sorry there are so many long stories. I got kinda carried away.
But that's it for me! The Lord's work really does go forward, and he really does love each and every one of you!
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| These are the photo's from Nimis. Basically some dude just went Phineas and Ferb and built these huge castles....which we climbed all over with the zone leaders. Super fun. |
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