4th of July and World Cup!!!

Hello family and friends!

It has been a good week, and a lot of stuff has happened! Life has been good, and we had several really special things this week, and here they are!

Sweden made it to the quarter finals for the World Cup! And some exciting news came with it. Our whole mission got permission from our mission president to watch the game with Sweden VS England if we watched with members or investigators! It was awesome! So we went to the home of one of the members who was having a little party at his home, and it was super fun! We may have lost (at least we didn't get beaten too bad) but we got to watch the game and spend some really good time with members! Heja Sverige!

It was the 4th of July this week! And there luckily is a family in our branch and the mom of the family is from the US. So they invited us over to have a 4th of July barbeque with them. It was really fun, and it felt good to eat hotdogs and hamburgers with them. America is pretty awesome! Earlier in the day though, we were invited to go and meet a recent convert near the ocean, right on a rocky beach. We went, and he actually brought us watermelon, and we ate that right next to the ocean. It was beautiful!

Earlier this transfer, probably around 3 weeks ago, we were street contacting people in the downtown on Sundsvall. As we were leaving for the night, someone ran up to us and asked if we were Mormons. He said he had a friend that wanted to meet us, but only took a card and left. Then yesterday (Sunday) we were about to leave church, and the man we gave a card to called us. After 3 weeks, he called and asked if we could meet his friend, we said yes, and he said he and his friend would come to the church right then. So he came with his friend, and it turns out that it was an inactive member of the church who has moved to Sundsvall from Gotland but didn't know the church was here. It was an amazing little miracle of how we got in contact with him again! And, on top of that, we have will now be meeting the friend who first took the card. It was a tender little miracle we saw this week.

I see many small miracles everyday as I try to do what I can where I've been assigned. God knows us, knows our efforts, and will bless us as we do what we can. It is a pleasure to be serving the Lord in Sweden!

Have a wonderful week everyone!


Elder Nelson