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A Busy Sunday

 Hello everyone!


We're going to hop straight in. 

This week we:
-Gave out more Books of Mormon on the street and by knocking doors. Always fun. 
- Finally met with a really cute family that had been difficult to meet with!
- Met with one of Syster Kearns' distant relatives who lives right outside of Lund! They got in contact with one another through ancestry and were able to meet and talk Swedish together! It was actually really cool. Syster Kearns got to explain that it was because of our religion that their common ancestors fled to the US, and is also now the reason why she's back here in Sweden. #fullcircle
- Got kicked out of a Svenska Kyrka by a svenska kyrka priest who asked us to take off our name tags. Classy. 
- Met a man who had no idea that his wife of 35 years is a member of our church and listened to him explain his deep, complicated, philosophical ideas. 
- Got rejected many times on the street.
-Had FIVE PEOPLE come to church yesterday! It was INSANE! We had our cute little family of three, an old Romanian guy named *John, and another guy who actually sought out our number and called us during the week wanting to meet. They all had good experiences, and the members here are always AMAZING at welcoming our friends to our services. It was a miracle. 

I have such a testimony that God calls and works through the weak. I'm not the best teacher, I'm not the best at Swedish, and I have MUCH to improve upon. But the Lord consecrates the effort that we put in to make His work go forward. Through him, we are enough. 

Have a nice week!

Syster Naatjes 

Photos:
 Unmotivated moment on the bus in Eslöv.

Lundafalafel 😍

Syster Kearns and I with the twisty tower in Malmö that you can't really see!

We literally go to Stadsparken almost every day and this past week was the first time I noticed a cage with a chicken in it. 

Elevator moment.


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