Cross Jewlery ftw

Another week down!

This week was kind of a blurr.

There was one day where we were running from appointment to appointment and had no time for lunch. So we ended up taking a long dinner and buying a pizza. It was awesome. It was a tryffel pizza. I liked it.

We were able to find a lot of new people to teach, and it's crazy to think about how we can be so perfectly placed to meet the exact right people at the exact right time.

Earlier in the week, we hopped on a tunnelbana to talk to people, and met a woman who is from Ukraine. We noticed her because she had HUGE bejeweled cross earrings, and got her number! We were then able to teach her about Jesus Christ and the Book of Mormon with a member who translated it into Russian. Super cool.

We also taught a boy that Syster Bagley and I met in the mall two weeks ago--because we had noticed his cross necklace! #christianmoment

Other notable events:

- We met with David, who got baptized several weeks ago, and he was very upset that people sometimes call us "Mormons." He kept saying, "It's not Mormon's church, its Christ's church! Mormon is the book!" #youtell'em

- We had some students visit the church to see what a worship service looks like, and it happened to be a Sunday where the organist was absent. So one of the other missionaries struggled to play the piano while we sang every hymn VERY slowly. Haha. But we met with them afterwards and got to answer their questions, which was fun.

- Made chocolate banana bread.

- A lot of people guessed that I'm from Ukraine?

- Our sink broke.

God is real. Christ lives. Have a good week!

Syster Naatjes

Tunnelbana station

An encouraging note from our ward mission leader.

Kebap pizza for pday! #kebaptizethenewbie

Tryffel pizza #win

Comments

End of an Era

Hej! This past week has been great. As always, we've seen miracles. And weird things, too! But I'm just absolutely filled with gratitude to be a servant of the Lord. Especially this past week, for some reason. This week we: -had an awesome lesson with a young Father, who's just trying to mend his relationship with God. Very pure. - taught our friend *Anna and her 18 year-old son about prayer. - made breakfast and watched general conference with our members and our friends on Sunday morning. #swedishvåfflor - gave out a Book of Mormon in Persian to a sweet old lady who tried to speak Persian to us for like 10 minutes. - got to have a great lesson with our friend *Marianne, and she had a lot of great questions about conference. - got to eat some homemade rulltårta with one of our friends and his family. Very cute. - had in-person distriktsråd and the Elders made us lunch. It was like a finish version of baked macaroni and cheese. - fi...

I'm 20 now

Hej everyone! Thank you so much for all of the birthday wishes. Very much appreciated. This week was pretty eventful, actually! Some good stuff: - had Splits on my birthday, where I got to teach one of the best lessons of my mission. I don't know if I've ever seen a person more genuinely touched by the Plan that God has for us. It was awesome. - the sisters we stayed with threw a little party for me when we got back to the apartment that night, which was very cute of them. - I also gave out a Book of Mormon on my birthday, which was sweet! #bestgift - had another lesson with a woman from Ukraine who is really sweet and even reads the BOM on her own! - ate a lot of naturgodis. - met a guy on the tunnelbana who's mom was a witch, and we're meeting with him this week! - ate waffles at Pablo's house yesterday. Some not so good: - Had to block a creepy guy on Facebook. - had to live-translate our testimony meeting to English, which I am SO terrible at doin...

The blessed jalapeño

Tjena! This week was great! We got TWO MEMBER referrals and it turns out one of them met with the missionaries over twenty years ago and loves our church!! She said that the members of our church "are love." Super cute. We also: - went to a birthday party for a less active member and they served us papusas!! That was my first papusa experience. #shoutouttobeth - played innebandy at the church with some cool people - had a lesson about the nature of God with our friend *Mont. It was awesome. Everyone go read Alma 42. - accidentally cried in a Willy's grocery store - met a really nice old Swedish guy on the street, and answered his questions about us and our church for about 30 minutes. And his wife was adorable, too. - received a lasagna - spoke in sacrament meeting on Sunday! #nice On Sunday, I spoke about miracles. Our God is a God of miracles! He's done them before, and he'll do them today. Have a fantastical week. Sys Naatjes snow! ...

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