Week
83; June 15, 2015 – Thrust in Your Sickle With All Your Might!
Hey
guys it has been a really good week. It was absolutely beautiful. The sun
was out the whole week and it finally feels like summer! We met some
amazing people and everyone seemed so happy to talk since there hasn’t been
rain in June!
On Tuesday we met Stefan
and talked about the special Stake Conference we watched with Elder Holland
over a broadcast. It was an amazing message and we went over Elder Holland’s testimony
of the Book of Mormon. We later shared the same message with Jay, who is
tearing through the Book of Mormon right now, and he loved it. He said
that everything feels so true to him. But, he still feels like his faith is
true, so he's going to continue to read and pray for an answer.
Later that day we called
Claus who was baptized about nine months ago. We are helping him to get ready
for the Temple, so we told him what he would need to do to be ready for his
interview. And, this week we're going to help him do some family history work in
preparation for the Temple!
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| Thrusting In Our Sickle with All Our Might! |
Wednesday was cool. We went
to help Jose cut his grass. It got really long so instead of using a lawn mower,
we used sickles… Haha! It puts that whole “thrusting in your sickle with all
your might” thing into a whole new prospective (Doctrine & Covenants 4:4;
11:3; 12:3; 14:3; 33:7)! It's not easy to cut grass like that… Haha. I see why the metaphor
is used, because if you literally don't swing the cycle with all your might, it
won’t cut the grass. So, in that sense, missionary work really does take
all our effort to gather people into the gospel. We were exhausted afterward,
but it felt cool to look at the small field that we chopped. I'm sure I'll be
dead tired after my mission, but it will fell amazing to look back at these two
years and know that my efforts have made a difference.
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| A Swedish Graduation Celebration |
Along the way, we had
some great finding results. We were blessed to meet a ton of people
tracting and we found two new investigators while we were street contacting!!!
We ended the week
helping our Bishop build a new greenhouse and he showed us how to make a
foundation with gravel and sand and make it level. We finished most of the
project this week, but we'll get to see the finished product next time we go
over!
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| Building a Firm Foundation |
Midsummer is coming this
week, so that’s going to be awesome! It’s quite a celebration in Sweden. Have a great week everyone… I love you
guys!
Äldste Stoeltzing
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