Week 36-- Frozen Lakes and Rivers are Roads Now
Tjena!!
Here are some highlights from the week:
We met an investigator (a person interested in learning more about our message) named N who I think I've
mentioned before. Anyways, mother of 4 kids, 33 years old, not the type of
person you'd think would be interested in the Gospel. She's the nicest and
happiest lady ever. We met her last Monday night and set up a baptismal date
with her which is exciting because that's pretty rare here
Wednesday, Aldste Callor and I drove about 2 hours north to Luleå
for District meeting and then spent Wednesday and Thursday with Aldstes Erdman
and Francis in Boden (30 mins North) on splits. I was with Erdman for the
time which was a great learning experience. He goes home in a few months so he
helped me out with Swedish tips and mission experience. There's a lake up there
that is completely frozen, and during the winter they make it a road. So we got
to drive over that at sunset (3 or 4 pm) which was sweet. It's hard to tell what
is normally water here because the sea and lakes freeze over and have a few
feet of snow on them.
M and N, the couple I mentioned last week, we
met with them on Saturday. We taught them about the Restoration of the church
and had a solid, spiritual discussion afterwards. She opened up and talked
about how she had an experience where someone or something had saved her life
(like an angel type thing) and she feels like there is more for her, a greater
purpose. I'm excited to see where that goes.
We were out tracting (missionary lingo for contacting people) last night and between apartment
buildings we heard something in the forest. Callor and I look over to see a
full-grown mother Moose staring at us. Callor yelled to run (he's got some
hunting experience) so we booked it to the next building and ended up going back
to take a video from a distance. But it was crazy to see a huge moose so close to
civilization just hanging out and eating trees.
Kjell, the branch president, asked us to speak on Sunday so Callor and I had the full hour. I prepped a bunch for it and we
had planned out we had to take about 20 mins each. I got up there and started
in, lost track of time, and ended up giving a 31 minute talk about God's Love
h aha I felt bad for taking Callor's time but it was a confidence booster to
know I can give a half hour talk in swedish no problem. There were 4 members
and Callor listening, so quite the crowd there huh?!
We got transfer calls last night and Äldste Callor is taking
off to a city called Borås which is in Göteborg (2 flights away). I wish I had
another 6 weeks with him because we've gotten so close. I'll be getting Elder Strong
who is the same age as Callor in the mission. I'm way
stoked to take over the area and get to meet Äldste Strong.
My spiritual thought comes from 1 Nephi 19:9 which talks
tells us that Christ suffered so much for us because he loves us all. Love is
one of my favorite topics to talk, study, and teach about because it is
something everyone needs. Jesus taught the greatest commandment is to love G
Ha det bra!
Äldste Gordon
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| Roasted brussel sprouts, tasted just like mom's. :-) |
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| A typical dinner here in Skelleftea. (Couscous) |
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| Horizon of snowy roads |
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| Surviving the snow! |
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