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General Conference!

 Hej everyone!

As many of you know, this week was the week leading up to general conference, where we hear from the modern-day prophet and his apostles. Which means that we spent a huge majority of the week focusing on inviting ALL of our friends to watch it. 

There's something powerful about hearing from real, dedicated, servants of the Lord. And it's important for everyone to have that chance! 

But amidst all of this, was a lot of chaos. Good chaos, mostly. But chaos!
- It felt like we needed to sprint to catch almost every bus and every tunnelbana we took. 
- We had a long, two hour lesson about the Gospel of Jesus Christ In a Wayne's Coffee--and by the end of the lesson, the guy we were teaching said he would like to be baptized! We're not sure if he really knew what he was agreeing to, but I guess that's why following up with people is important. So we'll see! 
- We gave an impromptu presentation about our religion to 6 high school students for about two hours and it was actually really fun! They had great questions.
- A lot of the people I tried to talk to on public transportation couldn't speak English or Swedish--which often turned into a broken conversation through Google translate. Or awkward smiling. 
- Right when we thought spring was almost here we got like 8 inches of snow. Tough. 
- We burnt our tongues really badly.
- We watched the first session of General Conference with the young women in our congregation.
- As a companionship we went through 13 bananas.

It was a good week. A little tiring, but always good. 

Hope all is well!
Syster Naatjes 

 In tacos we trust!

Snow in the city!

 Taking in the sun.

An iconic statue that we see every day. 

Sun in the city! (Ft. Elder Knudsen)


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