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Otto Paid a Visit

 Tjena! 

This week, in all honesty, was a trial. It felt like every plan and every lesson we had fell through. It happens. 

We did quite a bit of Facebook finding and contacting and such. 

But among the dull, there were some huge miracles that we saw:
- A couple weeks ago we went door knocking, and gave a Book of Mormon to a guy at his doorstep. We asked if we could come back and talk more about it and he said that would be great! So Syster Welton and I met with him on Monday night--and he is SO prepared to learn about the Gospel. He had a ton of questions, and had already read the first couple chapters of the BOM. We went through both the Restoration AND the Plan of Salvation-- and every time we read a scripture, he would ask us for a pen and then underline the parts that he liked. It was awesome. 
- We taught another school class at the church along with a member! We did a quick little lesson about the Restoration and then helped answer questions. It was really fun ! 
- We had a lesson with the family who's getting baptized yesterday, and went through what tithing is. It went super well! The mom of the family let us know that she's always liked to give, and how she KNOWS that God always gives us back more than we sacrifice for him. And that's the truth! God appreciates every effort we make, and blesses us for them. 

We also:
- made chocolate chip cookies at the end of a hard day.
- had our English fast, where we went the entire week only speaking Swedish. 
- had a fireside with Sister Michelle Craig via zoom ! That was cool. She talked about how we can see others with the love that Christ has. So that's been something I've been working on. 
- Watched Big Hero 6 in Swedish as a mission after the English fast, and I'm pretty sure my humor is officially broken. I've been without media for a while now, and I was laughing way too hard for a children's movie. 
- listened to a guy mansplain tectonic plates to us.
- Ate meatloaf wrapped in bacon, courtesy of a member family. 
- Experienced the effects of "Otto," the name of the storm that came through in Southern Sweden. Somehow it's really funny that the storm had such a Swedish name, but I guess that checks out. 

All in all, there's ALWAYS  miracles among the dull day-in and day-outs of life. I would encourage you all to look for them! 

Have a nice week!
Syster Naatjes 
Posing as the depressed Statue on a depressing day.

Right after we got inside after almost being blown away by Mr. Otto.
 
Syster Welton got into BYU so I made her hold up the BYU "Y". I later realized that we were making the wrong hand signal, and that is, in fact, not the BYU "Y" and instead is a weird looking llama. Too late now. 

The Semmel Burger at Burger King. Enough said.

Another day, another bus selfie.






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