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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

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