This week was pretty good. Last Monday for P-day we went to Pizza Hut with a bunch of other missionaries to celebrate our zone leader´s birthday. Then we all went to the church to play basketball. It was a fun P-day.
On Tuesday we had a mission tour conference. With Elder George R. Donaldson of the third quorum of the seventy who came and spoke. It was a really good conference. He talked a lot about following the Spirit so that we can really help people with their specific needs.
On Saturday we did exchanges with the zone leaders, so I was with Elder Floyd for most of the day. It was pretty fun. Elder Floyd is very talkative so we had a good time and talked to some people on the street. At the end of the night we met up at the zone leaders´apartment to have dinner together. We made something we call a meatza, a pizza made of meat. It was super good. We had a bottom layer of ground beef, then tomato sauce, peppers and onion, bacon, cheese, and bacon flavored sauce on top. Unfortunately, we didn´t take a picture, so we decided we need to make it again sometime, haha. For dessert we had american cake with american frosting that Elder Floyd´s parents sent to him for his birthday. American food is pretty good. Elder Held is from Denmark, so it was his first American cake. He said it was really good.
This week it has started getting a lot warmer here. Yesterday it got up to about 60 degrees! It was really windy so it wasn´t too warm, but it was super nice to walk outside and not be cold! It´s also light outside until a little after 5:30 now, which is pretty nice.
For a spiritual thought I would like to share a story from the book of Helaman in the Book of Mormon that I read this week. Two prophets, Nephi and Lehi, were in prison and some Lamanites were about to come and kill them. But, through a miracle and because they remembered the preaching of their fathers, these Lamanites were converted to the Lord. In fact, they ended up being more converted than the Nephites who had had much more preaching and experience with spiritual things. I think this story is a great reminder that we shouldn´t judge people based on their background. We can never know who someone really is in their heart, and what great things they are capable of when given the chance. We are all children of our Heavenly Father and each have a great potential to do good.
I hope that everyone has a great week!
Elder Smith
Pictures!
1) My MTC friends! There´s me, Elder Treat, Elder Heiner, and Elder Hemmingsen
2) A cool panorama of Stockholm. Look at the bottom left corner
3) Stockholm again, but with a better picture of me, haha. The sun was out
4) Cake!
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