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 Happy Easter ! 


I hope everyone had an awesome weekend.

Here in Sweden, Easter is actually a 4 day holiday--so they take their Easter pretty seriously. Which I respect. 

This year, I got to celebrate by speaking in sacrament meeting, and then eating meatballs and potato salad after church. Pretty solid celebration, though speaking on the day the Savior resurrected seemed like a daunting task. 

This past week we hosted the Stockholm Sisters for exchanges, and had some cool experiences with it!
- We went finding, and met a guy who wanted a Book of Mormon, and also wants to meet again! Pretty awesome. 
- We did an interview with a group of students in a religion class! It's always really fun to talk to students and answer their questions about why people in our church get married so young.😂
But we also got to talk about why we like our church, and the cool doctrines that we have that separate us from other Christian religions. 
- We had a cool lesson with a member who stopped going to church when he was 14. But he's super excited to come back to church, and take steps to come closer to Christ. 

Other events:
- We had a lesson in a KFC and got free ice cream. #swag
- A whooooleee bunch of lessons canceled. It's hard to meet people around the holidays. 
- A canceled lesson turned into a miracle because we ran into a member of our church on the tunnelbana who really needed a friend in that moment. 
- Our bishopric, who we meet with on Thursdays, brought påsktårta to our correlation meeting. 

I'm so grateful for the Savior, and I'm grateful for the opportunity we have to celebrate Him every Easter season. 

I know He lives! 

Syster Naatjes 

Splits ft. Syster Russon

Potato salad and meatballs moment.

Påsk picture outside the church! 

 I have no recollection of taking this photo, so I don't know the reason behind it. But yay! 


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