Week 47; September 29,
2014 – Lost Sisters and Found Opportunities!
Wow, fast week! This one’s
been really fun! So, P-day was awesome! Sisters Gambles, Clingler,
and Verolla went home last week, so we had to do something awesome for them.
It's pretty sad to see them all leave. They came to Sweden in one of the most
famous MTC groups in the mission. Some of us lovingly refer to them as the Relief
Society, because that group made-up at least a quarter of the sisters in the
entire mission. So, to go out with a bang, we arranged a scavenger hunt to take unique pictures throughout Stockholm. I was on Sister Gambles’ team, so we
ran through the city trying to see as much as we could in an hour.
Scavenger hunt... Taco anyone? |
We got to
the Royal Palace and one of the challenges required us to get one of the guards
to smile and take a picture with us. Sister Gambles tried, but he
wouldn't flinch, so I told him, “she's about to leave the Country and the last
thing she wanted was to see a Palace guard smile.” He agreed and cracked a little
smile for them! We may not have won the scavenger hunt, but that picture was
Epic!
Smile and say... Cheese! |
Tuesday we
had another great lesson with Andreas. He said he'd gotten some tuff news
that his father had been diagnosed with advanced stage lung cancer and he probably
wouldn’t live much longer. He said that he could handle the news. Despite the
fact that he's still struggling with some parts of the gospel, he knows
that families can be together forever, and he knows he'll see his Dad
again. Afterward, he told us a few incredible stories about how the spirit
helped him do some amazing things. He said he feels the spirit so much
stronger when we come by and he wants that feeling so bad. I told him
that we're not the reason he feels the spirit, but he was feeling the
spirit because he was saying things that he knew were true and the spirit was
testifying to him that the things he was saying where true. We ended the
lesson a little teary-eyed. I know that he is going to be okay because he's
starting to realize that the truthfulness of the gospel that he feels in his
hart is more important than the questions he hasn’t been able to answer yet.
District Breakfast |
Wednesday we had our
last district breakfast before sister Gambles and the others went
home. She will be missed and she was super fun to serve with. We actually
lost the Sisters in Västerhaninge because Sister Sandalin was transferred up to
Gubbangen, a Little North of us. That meant our area got bigger, so we
inherited a ton of new potential investigators! I think that will be a good
shot in the arm that will help us get the area going even better. We'll be
running up and down the train tracks, trying to get in touch with all the
new people we now have to work with!
On Sunday we had one of
the coolest experiences we’d seen in a while! We felt like we should go
down to a town called Ösmo that we had just gotten from the sister's. There
were several people that we wanted to swing by and see, but there was no one home
at our first stop. On the second try, however, we were looking for someone
named Therese and when we walked into the apartment complex we saw a lady walking
out of the basement with a ton of clothes that she needed to carry
upstairs. We asked her if we could help, but she didn't want us to bother. We
insisted, and helped her take her stuff up three flights of stairs. I asked her
at the top if she'd be interested in taking a few minutes to talk about Jesus
Christ. She said she'd actually met with some missionaries before and she stopped
talking with them because school had gotten too busy. I said we can teach her
a lesson in five minutes and she let us in because we were so helpful to
her. I asked her name at that point, and she said, “Therese!” It was the
lady we came to see! The timing couldn't have been more perfect and I know
we were directed to Ösmo at that time for a reason. The short lesson went
really well and we taught her about finding strength through prayer.
She liked having a quick lesson and invited us back in two weeks! It was a
great experience and I'm so thankful for the Lord’s help in crossing paths with
Therese at exactly the right time.
Get off the fence! |
Have a great week
everyone… I’ll see you guys in the relatively-near and not-far-distant future!
-Äldste Stoeltzing
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