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December Begins

 Hej Alla! 


Another week gone, and another week closer to Christmas! 

It seems like this week we taught the Restoration quite a bit! And something that I learned, and actually didn't expect somehow, is that the Spirit is REALLY strong when you recite the first vision:

"I saw a pillar of light exactly over my head, above the brightness of the sun, which descended gradually until it fell upon me...When the light rested upon me I saw two Personages, whose brightness and glory defy all description, standing above me in the air. One of them spake unto me, calling me by name and said, pointing to the other—This is My Beloved Son. Hear Him!"

 Which I did, three times this week! (In Swedish, of course.) 

1. We had a lesson at a members home, and it was actually the first time we had met this investigator. He was an older guy who had a friend that was a member of the church, and had requested a Book of Mormon from us. We went through the Restoration, and I recited the first vision. The spirit was strong enough that our lovely member family actually felt prompted to invite him to baptism immediately afterwards. He said he'd consider it, haha! 
2. Another guy, about 22 years years old, requested a Book of Mormon, and we met him at the University library. He's quite religious, and is super curious and open to learning more about our faith. Again, I had the opportunity to recite it--and the spirit became almost tangible. 
3. A less-active member brought a friend along with her to church, and then we taught him a lesson during second hour! It was awesome, and he's also considering baptism! 

Christmas-related events:
- Our ward had a Christmas party, where I was put in charge of the meatballs😳 if anybody knows Swedes, their meatballs are quite important to them. So I was a little stressed while I fried like 200 meatballs in the church kitchen.
- We had a couple friends that came to the party, and it went really well! 
-There's like 5 Christmas trees up around stan now and it's adorable. 
- Something I didn't know is that sometimes Swedes will dance around the Christmas tree while holding hands and such, and that was SUPER cute. We got to do that at the party. 
-Syster Taylor and I put up Christmas decorations in our apartment so we can feel festive. 

The miracles continue. 
- We had lessons with like 4 new people this past week! 
- We went to buy falafel for lunch on Saturday and a lady came up to us while we were ordering and said she recognized Syster Taylor from Facebook. She's now going to meet with us this upcoming week! 
- One of our awesome members referred us to their friend and we're going to start meeting with him regularly! 
-We got in contact with many less active members! 
- One of the people we met with asked us to learn more about Christ's crucifixion, and I had studied it in the Bible THAT MORNING! And I usually don't study out of the Bible, so that was really random and definitely NOT a coincidence. 

There were many more, that I don't have time to go into detail about, but I'm grateful for Christ, I'm grateful for Christmas, and I'm grateful for the Restoration of His true gospel. 

Oh, and everybody should eat a meatball this week. Just because. 

Syster Naatjes

Photos:
Christmasss

Syster's Lunch last pday! 

Jul break the fast ft. the lovely Rebecka

It's finger lickin' good.

Syster Taylor being disobedient.





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