A movie of a mission

Tjena!

The title of this email is not to say that this past week has been especially amazing, or that anything particularly life-changing happened--though there are definitely miracles every day!

It's more because of the fact that we were quite literally followed by a camera for two whole days this past week...

Long story short, Syster Jacques and I met a guy in Stockholm who was quite interested in our missionary work, and he wanted to make a short documentary about us as missionaries in the most secular country in the world. So this past week, he and his crew came to do some filming with us!🙃

Pros:

- got to meet some cool camera crew men

- they bought us lunch two days in a row #schnitzel #freefood

- when awkward things would happen on the street, we had a crew to look to and laugh with #feltliketheoffice

- they had great questions

Cons:

- it was awkward to have a camera pointed at me

- it was exhausting

- I have now been recorded while speaking in Swedish which I NEVER want to listen to

- they kept interrupting our lesson

But in terms of other news--we have a couple AWESOME and progressing friends.

- our friend *Mont has already read up to 2 Nephi in the book of Mormon ON HIS OWN and really likes it

- *Carlos has a real desire to grow his faith, and even agreed to be filmed in the documentary which was CLUTCH of him

- we met a guy on the street who really wants to get a Book of Mormon and asked US if we could meet

- we swung by to visit a lady who we gave a Book of Mormon to a couple weeks ago, and she said she wants to take the lessons!

This is your friendly reminder that:

"Adam fell that men might be; and men are, that they might have joy."

Go and find the joy! It's one of our biggest purposes in life!

Syster Naatjes

documentary crew ft. Alessandro, Emelio, and Dick

zone conference in Göteborg

I don't remember why we took this

soup Sunday!

last pday birthday party

Comments

Everything Cancelled

Tjena! Everything cancelled this week. Oops. That's alright. Literally everyone is sick it feels like! Whatcha gonna do. We spent quite a bit of time on the street, and... - gave out two Book of Mormons in a Arabic! - gave out a Book of Mormon in Ukrainian! - accidentally met a homeless man with no teeth that had recently thrown up and was gnawing on a rotisserie chicken wing. It was a little traumatizing to be honest💀 - met a man who tried to recruit us into joining his pyramid scheme - took a selfie with a woman from Cambodia who wanted a picture with Americans We also: - spent an hour trying to match up three huge bags of socks #service - had a game night, and failed to teach some Sri Lankan men how to play UNO - found a disgusting bug in our butter - read 3 Nephi 11 with our friend and it was awesome - went on Splits with the Örebro sisters! Quick scripture: 1 Peter 5:6-7 "Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you...

A fever and a new comp

Tjena! What a week. It was Kaos. We: - ran around so that Syster Yoachum could say goodbye to everyone before leaving - had hot chocolate and walnuts with our friend *Matt - had transfers - got sick **bonus points, I had a fever and felt AWFUL on transfer day so I stayed home at the apartment to sleep and break my fever before my new companion came to the area. #apostate **extra bonus points, my voice sounds like a grandma who has smoked for like 60 years - did a bunch of street contacting - put our friend *Anna on date for baptism at the end of September!!! She's come to church 4 times now and she has such a pure soul. Love her. My new companion is Syster Jaques, (pronounced like Jakes), and she's great! I think we'll have a fun transfer. Yay! Have a good week everyone, and please enjoy the feeling of not being sick ! Syster Naatjes Syster Jaques and I in the city hot chocolate and walnuts the trio (eyes closed) Fika wi...

Salt Lake City Swag

Hallå everyone! This past week was pretty awesome. I still have no news of when I'm going to Sweden, but I assume it'll be at the end of this transfer. So three more weeks! (Probably.) One of many miracles: Last Tuesday, me and Sister Hendrix were going to go bother a less active family that lives in an apartment complex nearby. We knocked, but they weren't home/didn't answer the door. A couple doors down the hall though, there was a little boy standing outside and staring at us. So I walked over to him, and asked if his parents were home. He stared at me in fear for a couple of seconds, but then disappeared into the room--sending his mom to the door. She invited us inside, and expressed how she felt like her faith has been lacking lately, and she doesn't know what she's doing in her life. We shared a little bit about the plan of Salvation with her, and she told us that the past couple days she had been praying for God to send her a sign that he knows her...

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