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| with Elder Karlsson |
Elder Karlsson arrived here in Karlstad on Wednesday, and it's been a great week getting him up to speed here! It's been really neat to be with a native Swedish speaker and I feel like I've already learned things in the last 4 days that I've been trying to understand for quite some time now.
A spirit of missionary work has really come over the branch in the last week here and has taken form in us receiving three referrals from them. They've introduced us to some of their friends and in every case their friends have enjoyed meeting us and have asked us to teach them more about what we believe. The vast majority of people that say no to us as we speak to them on the street or at their door only do so because they are unsure of what listening to us would imply for them and find it much easier to say no then to worry about it. When we've had the chance to meet people in normal settings, introduced by trusted friends, there has been nothing uncomfortable or unnatural about speaking with them and the gospel conversation is driven by their curiosity of what makes us so happy and why we do what we do.
This last Tuesday we had a really neat opportunity with our Elder's quorum president. He works at a high school here and invited us to join him there for lunch. The purpose was not to proselyte, but as
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| Our Elders Quorum president |
we sat at lunch one of his colleagues sat down with us to eat. It didn't take long for her to notice our name tags, and then it was pretty fun to watch the confusion on her face until she finally asked, "How can your name tag say that you are the oldest (Äldste in Swedish literally translates to "Oldest") when you're like 20 years old? It provided a perfect opportunity to tell her how we've come here to Sweden as representatives of Jesus Christ which she found very fascinating. She doesn't have a belief herself, but she really enjoyed talking with us and invited us to come visit her at home and teach her more along with our Elder's quorum president.
Äldste Sirrine
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| The last day with Elder Olson |
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| Cool building in town |
