Firstly, we got the chance to go to the Stockholm temple, but only to clean it! It's closed for the next two weeks for cleaning, so we were invited to go and help. I wished we would have been able to go and visit the temple and do some temple work there, but at least we got to go and help prepare it for people to come in the future. And honestly, I was just happy for the opportunity to be at the temple, it's such a great place to be! Haha, and as a bonus, I was given a mop/sweeper thing and was told to clean some of the ceiling. And I can't say that I'd ever mopped a ceiling before, so that was interesting too!
Our ward had their Christmas party this week! At it we had a Julbord (traditional Swedish Christmas food), sung songs, and then the primary kids did a Nativity scene. It was really fun! We got to help set up all the decorations and helped to organize some of it, and it turned out well. The food was good, and included stuff like meatballs, ham, mashed potatoes, sill (picked herring), and a few other things. Then the nativity well done, and the singing was awesome! For the singing there was a Brother from our ward who just played the songs on his bass guitar from memory and we all sung along with him (we sung each song twice, once in Swedish and once in English for the American families). It was a really good party!
We've met a lot of really cool people this week, but one of the highlights was a new convert we got to meet with. He is pretty inactive, and it sounds like it's really hard for him to get to church. He is actually homeless, so he can't really get out to where our church is located we learned. But he is the most kind guy you'll ever meet. We didn't have a good place to sit and talk where we met him at the Stockholm Library, so we went to a nearby McDonalds. While we were there the new convert went up to buy some food for himself. He came back with a bag of several burgers, dropped them on the table, and said, 'boys, I got us a bag of burgers!' He was just so nice to us, even though he doesn't have a steady job and doesn't have an apartment right now. We are seeing what we can do to help him and help him find some help, or at least work on getting him a way to get to church each week. It was amazing to hear about how strong a testimony he has even though he doesn't have the money to get to church often or to even afford many things. It was an example to me about how our physical circumstances shouldn't determine our faith in God, but that we should be steadfast at all times. It was awesome to see!
It was a great week out here, and I'm hoping that this upcoming week will be a good and safe week for all of you! For anyone who hasn't seen it, I suggest watching the 'Light the World' initiative video, it is a super good one!
Äldste Nelson
Pic 1: Statue thing near our apartment (I know, really descriptive)
Pic 2-3: Castle/Museum down the street from us
Pic 4: View from a bridge over the water (also near our apartment)
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