Hope it's been a good week for you all so far. We have general conference coming up this week so I'm excited and looking forward to that! I really am interested to see the messages and focuses that we have in store for us. The last week was a good one too though!
This week we had Zone Conference down in Malmö! It is always fun to meet old mission friends, talk to new people, and learn a ton of good stuff. Put mission President is such an inspired man! I love being around him and catching the vision for the mission and for the country. The focuses were really good and it was great to be able to meet, talk to, and give a Book of Mormon to someone on our train back to Landskrona after Zone Conference.
We helped a family move from one side of town to the other and it was nice. Haha, the best part was the partially working elevator that led to us having to walk a total of around 35 flights of stairs throughout the move. It was good exercise and it felt nice to help some members that needed it.
This last week we planned to go out to a little tiny village outside of the city where we live. It was a little community of around 20 houses and there was apparently a less active that lived there. So we went out, knocked them, and went by the member. And it turned out that the member had actually moved away around 10 years ago, but his ex-member mom still lived there. After avoiding death from her 3 rambunctious dogs we ended up talking for a while. We talked about the area where she lived, her family, and eventually why it was that she left the church. And her answer had made me think some. She said she didn't like all the rules and how she just felt so restricted, so she made the decision to leave them behind. If we do not feel the joy or spiritual feeling that comes through the gospel and by living it, we won't last in the long run. I don't think anyone can really just obey out of pure feeling of responsibility forever or else they will burn out. So I encourage you all to take a step back and think about the joy, peace, belonging, and internal spiritual growth that comes through the day to day obedience and remember why it is we actually choose to follow God.
Have a wonderful week!
Elder Nelson
Elder Nelson's Mom here: a sister from the ward in Helsingborg sent a few pictures after church yesterday.
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