All of our investigators are doing well. We've continued to meet with Brandon who was recently baptized and he is still doing really well. We are still working with him towards the goal getting him to the temple to do baptisms soon. We also have been making some progress with another person who is from Sweden, so hopefully that continues on and he keeps progressing. Not a ton of movement, but things are still going.
This week was Stake Conference for us, so we went to a session on Saturday night and on Sunday. On Sunday I was asked to look up the scripture that were referenced during people's talks in English so that the person who was translating could read them. And it was more stressful than I thought it would be! Someone would mention a scripture reference and start reading so I had to find them fast so that the translation wouldn't be held up. Someone would say 'Isaiah 55 kapitel 8 till och med 9' and I had to turn there as fast as fast as possible. And it wasn't too bad or anything until someone quoted a scripture in 'ordspråkboken' and I had no idea what that meant! It turns out that that is the book Psalms in Swedish (maybe proverbs, I still can't remember). But the translation person turned to me and expected me to have the scripture opened up but I was just sitting there not knowing what to do. But besides that it went really well and I really liked Stake Conference!
We saw several really cool miracles this week, and I think I'll tell one or two of them really quickly. For one of them we were just walking down the street while going to the Tunnelbana (The subway here) station. We just decided to stop and talk to someone on a street corner, and as soon as we started talking we realized that they didn't speak English or Swedish. We couldn't really communicate with them, but we tried our best to explain who we were and that we were talking about Christ. The man spoke Spanish and kept gesturing to himself and us saying something. Turns out that he is actually a member from Colombia who is visiting Sweden! Through the wonders of Google Translate we were able to find out that he was lost and needed help getting somewhere. We were able to help him and he also wanted to know where church was this Sunday, so we gave him that information also. It was really cool to be able to help someone out so much and to just be there to give them some assistance when they needed it.
The other really cool thing that happened this week was while we were grocery shopping this week. We were looking at tortillas or something (Not important to the story) and then a person came up and started talking to us. She asked if we were Mormons and we were like, 'uh, yeah, that's us!'. She turned out to be a member who had moved here. She told us that she hadn't thought there was the church here because she was from another country, but we were able to help her and give her the address and time of our ward on Sunday. It was a strange meeting but was a cool way to help someone out.
Anyways, this week has been good and it has been a blessing to see how the Lord really looks out for all of us. He knows out circumstances and will help us when we need it. It was a blessing to be able to be someone who was able to help 2 of those children out when they needed it. Remember that the Lord knows you and cares deeply about all of His children, including you. Have a wonderful week!
Äldste Nelson
Pic 1-2: There is a church that we are near. It was pretty awesome inside!
Pic 3: The view over the water near Gamla Stan
Pic 4: It's me!
Pic 5: Christmas lights are coming!!
Pic 6: We walked out of our apartment and there was a horse... so I took a picture of it. Yup, that's the whole story!
(Elder Nelson's Mom here: Sorry this is sideways. It's right on my computer and I can't convince Blogger to change it.)
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