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The Work Goes Forth!

 Hello everyone! 

WHAT A WEEK! 
Here in the southernmost part of Sweden, the weather is pretty dang nice right now. The temperature is in the mid 40s and the the sun has been shining lately. Thriving. 

Some awesome, spiritual things that happened this week:
- We've been teaching a family (a mother and her two daughters) for a little while now, and we just put them all on baptismal date!! It was amazing. They are SO ready to be members of this church. 
- We had a good lesson with our friend named *John about the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and he's now considering baptism as well. 
- We taught about the Atonement and repentance a couple times, which is always a really powerful topic to cover. To share the good news that we have a Savior who had paid the price of our sins, and how we can be made clean again through Him is a blessing.
- We had SEVEN PEOPLE who are investigating the church come to church on Sunday. Sitting in sacrament meeting, I had an old Romanian guy on my right, a Muslim guy to my left, and a guy from Peru sitting behind me. And somehow, someway, it felt exactly like home. 
- We went contacting on Lund University campus, and I gave out 2 Book of Mormons !! It always feels good to get more Book of Mormons out into the world. 

Some other happy moments:
- We went out to eat burgers for lunch after we got our little family on date for baptism, and it tasted SO GOOD. It had been a minute since I'd eaten a burger. 
- We had a fun English class this week.
- We spent some time at a members house yesterday, and they asked us to explain what groundhogs day is...you guys, I never realized how weird groundhogs day is. It was absolutely HILARIOUS to try and explain to a group of Swedes that whether a groundhog can see his shadow or not determines the weather. I was laughing so hard. 
- That same member family had homemade semlor (Swedish dessert) for us and it was cute. 
- We rode in a double-decker bus and sat in the very front on the top which was vibes. 
- We went hiking today with our ward mission leader and some elders and it was fun. 

A scripture I've been thinking about this week is 2 Nephi 31:20. It's a classic:

Wherefore, ye must press forward with a steadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of hope, and a love of God and of all men. Wherefore, if ye shall press forward, feasting upon the word of Christ, and endure to the end, behold, thus saith the Father: Ye shall have eternal life.

Press forward everyone! There is so much hope to be found in Christ! When we feast upon His word, learn of Him, and follow His example, we can have joy in both this life and the next. 

Have an awesome week!
Syster Naatjes 
Castle for pday!

One of the young women drew a picture of me, so we obviously needed a side-by-side photo.

Andy's Burgers for lunch.

Syster Welton and I love Eslöv.

Random tree for p day!



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