Elder Joshua Mason: Week 28, Mostly Good Things 3/28/2016

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SO a TON of miracles were poured out on us this week! Thanks to everyone who has been praying for us! We really appreciate those prayers!

Michelle came to church this week AND came to a dinner at a members house afterwards! She really is getting a social conversion to the gospel which is incredible. She really has been opening up to us as well and really sharing some experiences that made her want to come closer to Jesus Christ. We're more than stoked! We're having a hard time scheduling due to many other church activities but for right now it looks like Michelle's baptism is still good for the 16th! Everyone shout hooray!!! Also good is that the other Elders in the ward also had another female investigator in church with a baptismal date.....who is about the same age as Michelle! They can totally fellowship each other and we are hoping beyond all hope that they can be baptized on the same day.

We also had an Easter miracle yesterday! We had about an hour to track before we were to go home. Well, we found an apartment building (that wasn't port coded) and went to the top floor, and knocked on 1 door. That's it. It was a younger woman and her Atheist mother and her Muslim boyfriend who let us in. Do you know how many Swedish people let you into their home at the first knock? None. Muslims yes. Swedish people no. After recovering from shock we were able to get a restoration lesson out and leave her with a Book of Mormon. Her mom was not interested and neither was her boyfriend, but we got her number and will meet up with her again hopefully this Saturday! It's kinda fun getting to teach people with no previous belief in God. Like, this is how you pray. We call God our 'Heavenly Father'. Yes, you just talk to Him. It's fun, see?

So yeah, new investigator, her name is Dorainn.

This is a picture of fish that the Malmsten family had for Daniels birthday. It costs about 800 krowns (about 100$) It looks really ugly. I'm glad I didn't eat it.

Anything else? We haven't met with the Iranian family, they're been out of town. Unfortunately we haven't met with Austin either. Hopefully he'll come to church next week.

The bad news is that we met with our Arabic investigator again and he's in trouble. Apparently we're not the first Christians he's met with and the Muslims he's been staying with were not happy with his Book of Mormon. We thought he had permanent residence! So he's trying to find a new place to stay and we can't teach him anymore until he's found a safer and more permanent residence. It honestly makes me super mad. I really like Islam, there are a lot of good teachings, but people are completely misconstruing them. Ugh.

Anyways, haters gonna hate.

Anything else? OH yeah one more story, so we were out contacting (like you do) when we walked into a Danish man and his Ghanaian wife (I of course asked if she spoke Twee and ate Yams.) And their 6 year old daughter. This was amazing; the Danish man (his name is Dennis) asked his wife if she was interested and she kinda mumbled yes other something like that and Dennis was like, well, I guess my wife is interested so I guess I'll tag along. That is the SPIRIT working. I honestly have no idea why anyone says yes to us. It makes no sense. But when someone feels something they don't recognize, they start to get interested! That was a great example of someone trying to explain that they didn't really know why they were interested but they were. We unfortunately couldn't get their number out of the contact though! It was super awkward! So we walked away and felt really bad, praying that they would call us. We said a quick prayer later that we would be able to receive their number, and we walked down the street and turned the corner and BAM there they were again, like 5 hours later. We asked for their number and they gave it to us. They were out of town this Easter weekend but hopefully they'll be able to meet us this week. Super cool miracle!