I hope everything is going well with everyone this week! By now the holidays and decorations are being taken down, so we are really getting back into the normal routine. But it feels good to be getting back in the groove of everything! The week feels like it's gone really quickly, but a lot has happened, so I'll get into it.
Firstly, the Book of Mormon musical started up again! It was closed for a month and a half or so during the holidays and new year, but now it's back, and I had forgotten how fun it is! The sisters in our area and us gave out about 200 books, and it was just so enjoyable! My Swedish has gotten better, so now I'm more able to converse with people, and I had a couple good conversations with people. Haha, it's a lot more fun when you can understand what people are talking to you about!
Another interesting thing we did this week was actually quite a bit odd. We helped a member in another ward with a funeral. And by that I mean that we were paul bearers. So I have officially helped to bury someone in a Swedish cemetery now. It was a strange experience, but everything went well with it. The cemetery was beautiful and old too, and that was awesome to see. Overall kinda weird, but also a cool experience.
Everything else this week was really good! We've been teaching a long and having some good progress with some recent converts, some less actives, and our investigators! And the sisters have an investigator family that's going to be baptized this Saturday, and I'm excited. We have a really cool experience about them actually. This last week there was some doubts and questions about the church that were expressed from this family that the sisters were teaching. They were nervous for the lesson because they didn't know all the answers to their questions and it was on some hard to answer and confusing topics. Our whole district did a fast for them and their investigators, that they will be able to have the Spirit with them and that they can help their investigators through their concerns so that they can continue and be baptized the following week like they'd planned. We all did the fast, then they went to their lesson. And when they got there it turned out that the family had been able to receive their own answer and spiritual confirmations on the topic, and their big concern was no longer a problem. It was a really cool experience, and it really showed me the power of prayer and fasting.
Anyways, the week has been nice and busy, and I'm expecting the next one to be the same! Have a great week!
Elder Nelson
Pic 1: Me, near the palace
Pic 2: The palace (and the super awesome water!)
Pic 3: So this is actually a giant light building thing, but for my purposed, a lightsaber
Pic 4: We made some super good curry!
Pic 5: This carved rock was at the cemetery, and was carved around 1000 AD by vikings!
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