Skip to main content

Hej då SLC!

 Hallå alla! 


I'm currently sitting in the Salt Lake City Airport, waiting to board my plane to New York. And then Sweden! 

I suppose I'll take advantage of this opportunity to reflect on the FIRE last week I had in Salt Lake City South.

Item of business number one: Sister Tolman joined me and Sister Hendrix's companionship last week. And she is AWESOME. We were only companions for one (1) week, but I am SO grateful to have met her. 

Item of business number two: We found FOUR new people to teach! 
- Ben*, who is from Beverly Hills. He grew up Jewish, but his wife is a member of our church, and we taught him a lesson about why we're here on earth. 
- Pete*, who currently believes that we were dinosaurs before we began this life. (We're working on that). 
- Connor*, who is super curious and open to learning. He's an awesome kid. We were teaching him a lesson in the park last week when a toothless, crippled old lady wheeled over to us and started yelling at us for teaching him. Spit was flying, and she threatened to report us (for what?). It was hilarious. 
- Kristen*, who is super sweet, and really wants to get baptized. 

It was a great way to end my time here in the Salt Lake City South mission. 

I know this gospel is true. I know Jesus Christ lives. And I know we have a Heavenly Father who loves us, and knows us individually. 

Some things that made me happy:
-Pete*'s mom works at the Cheesecake Factory, and brought me a slice of the Chocolate Tower Truffle cake when we went over to teach him. 
-A church game night we went to had crumbl cookies! I won't have those for a long time.
(-Is it pathetic that the first two things on this list are dessert-related?)
-I realized this week that I'll be able to visit the members I've met here after my mission! 
-My district drove over to our apartment to say goodbye to me last night. I'll miss them.
-If anybody remembers Clark* from last week's email...he came to church yesterday! Yay!
-I got permission to eat dinner with my biological sisters last Monday before leaving for Sweden. 

I'm excited for what's ahead. Sweden's ahead! 

Have a good week everyone.

Syster Naatjes 

PHOTOS! 
Biological sister meet-up at Cafe Rio!

Classic church bathroom mirror selfie.

Neighborhood church event with Brother and Sister Vuyk!

 Our companionship being sad on my last night. Tragic.
 
Polaroid with Sister Tolman

Polaroid with Sister Hendrix

last district lunch!

A boy we've been meeting with got ordained to be a deacon on Sunday! 






Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Everything Cancelled

  Tjena!  Everything cancelled this week. Oops. That's alright. Literally everyone is sick it feels like! Whatcha gonna do. We spent quite a bit of time on the street, and... - gave out two Book of Mormons in a Arabic! - gave out a Book of Mormon in Ukrainian! - accidentally met a homeless man with no teeth that had recently thrown up and was gnawing on a rotisserie chicken wing. It was a little traumatizing to be honest💀 - met a man who tried to recruit us into joining his pyramid scheme - took a selfie with a woman from Cambodia who wanted a picture with Americans  We also: - spent an hour trying to match up three huge bags of socks #service - had a game night, and failed to teach some Sri Lankan men how to play UNO  - found a disgusting bug in our butter - read 3 Nephi 11 with our friend and it was awesome  - went on Splits with the Örebro sisters! Quick scripture: 1 Peter 5:6-7 "Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you...
Post a Comment
Read more

A fever and a new comp

Tjena! What a week. It was Kaos.  We: - ran around so that Syster Yoachum could say goodbye to everyone before leaving  - had hot chocolate and walnuts with our friend *Matt  - had transfers  - got sick **bonus points, I had a fever and felt AWFUL on transfer day so I stayed home at the apartment to sleep and break my fever before my new companion came to the area. #apostate **extra bonus points, my voice sounds like a grandma who has smoked for like 60 years - did a bunch of street contacting  - put our friend *Anna on date for baptism at the end of September!!! She's come to church 4 times now and she has such a pure soul. Love her.  My new companion is Syster Jaques, (pronounced like Jakes), and she's great! I think we'll have a fun transfer.  Yay! Have a good week everyone, and please enjoy the feeling of not being sick !  Syster Naatjes    Syster Jaques and I in the city hot chocolate and walnuts  the trio (eyes closed) Fika wi...
Post a Comment
Read more

Salt Lake City Swag

  Hallå everyone! This past week was pretty awesome. I still have no news of when I'm going to Sweden, but I assume it'll be at the end of this transfer. So three more weeks! (Probably.)  One of many miracles: Last Tuesday, me and Sister Hendrix were going to go bother a less active family that lives in an apartment complex nearby. We knocked, but they weren't home/didn't answer the door.  A couple doors down the hall though, there was a little boy standing outside and staring at us. So I walked over to him, and asked if his parents were home. He stared at me in fear for a couple of seconds, but then disappeared into the room--sending his mom to the door.  She invited us inside, and expressed how she felt like her faith has been lacking lately, and she doesn't know what she's doing in her life.  We shared a little bit about the plan of Salvation with her, and she told us that the past couple days she had been praying for God to send her a sign that he knows her...
1 comment
Read more