Hej!
This week had its ups and downs, but a couple really weird things happened. Last P-day was pretty fun. We went with two other elders to a store called TGR, which is like a dollar store but a little more expensive. But it had a lot of random stuff for pretty cheap. Elder Downing, my district leader, and I both got pedometers, so we have been texting each other our step count at the end of each day. He usually beats me, but I win sometimes so it´s okay. Unfortunately the belt clip on mine broke the other day when I was taking it off to check my number, so now I just keep it in my backpack and I don´t think it´s as accurate anymore.
On Wednesday we were walking by a forest on the way to tract some apartments, and we decided to go check it out. There was a huge rock that was basically a hill, so I climbed up it. At the top what should I find but a coconut! That was the highlight of my day, haha. It was funny because Elder Dickson and I quote Monty Python and the Holy Grail a lot. I attached a picture of the coconut to this email.
On Thursday a member woman asked for help moving her piano, so we went over with the zone leaders. We thought we would be moving it a long ways, but she just wanted it on the other side of the room. Then she gave us lunch! She is a super nice member. And her apartment has an amazing view of Stockholm. I think she waited around 10 years to get it because the housing situation in Stockholm is so bad.
This week we met with an investigator named Kim. He is really involved in the Swedish church, but thinks we are interesting so he meets with us. So when we went in to the lesson I wasn´t expecting anything special. But then we started talking to him, and he said that he feels like people in his church haven´t been living their faith like he thinks they should and that he is very impressed by how we do live our faith so he has been thinking a lot about converting. It was crazy. He is a super nice guy with a lot of faith, so I think he will get baptized someday soon.
Yesterday in church Elder Dickson and I got to teach the primary about the Restoration and Joseph Smith. There was one 8 or 9 year-old boy who had a talk that day for primary, and he basically taught the whole restoration in five minutes, with scriptures and everything. I was super impressed. Then the primary split up between older and younger kids. We taught the older kids first, and they were all super knowledgeable about the Restoration so it was really fun to teach them. Later on we taught the younger kids and that was a bit more challenging, haha. They were also pretty good though.
Something I really liked about yesterday was getting to bear my testimony to the kids that I know that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God, and that we can all know that. We have been given the Book of Mormon, prayer, and the Holy Ghost to give us all the opportunity to find out for ourselves that Joseph Smith was a prophet and that this is Christ´s true restored church.
I hope everyone has a great week!
Elder Smith
1) We found a coconut...
2) Stockholm view right behind Elder Dickson and me
3) This is in the subway station. Hagsätra is the name of the subway line, and Trevlig Helg means happy weekend, so it was fun to see
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