A series of inconveniences

Hej everyone!

This week was good. We met with quite a few friends, and had some good lessons. Tried to, anyways.😂

Inconvenience #1: We met our friend *Steven at his house--which should have been totally fine, except for that his mom was in the same room and decided that she needed to take a hammer to a bag of salt to "make the salt pieces smaller" during our lesson. It was unbelievably loud, and we essentially had to yell in order to invite him to be baptized. Oops.

Inconvenience #2: We met our friend *Helen in public, at a little fika spot called Wayne's Coffee in order to have a lesson with her. Which again, SHOULD have been fine--except that a deranged man (in an almost empty restaurant) sat RIGHT next to our table and kept creepily staring at us and derailing our conversation with random questions about where we're from. Dang.

Inconvenience #3: We were having a lesson with our friend *Mark at the park, and a giant wedding celebration began right next to us with dancing and loud music and everything. Lol. Can't catch a break😂

But among the silly inconveniences, there is still a lot of miracles to be noted.

-We went street finding on Thursday, and gave a Book of Mormon out to a really cool guy who wants to read it and come to church!

-Our bishop asked to be in on a lesson with our friend this week! We're really excited for it.

- We did really well with our English fast.

- We had a really spirit-filled lesson with an atheist guy, and he said he'd try to pray for the first time.

-Lost a game of chess against elder Soukko.

Yay!

Have a good week.

Syster Naatjes

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