September 17, 2018 A Blast to the Past

Riddarholms Church, a burial place for Swedish Kings

Well, they say it takes a village to raise a child, and I guess it took all of Stockholm to raise Elder Bills. After so many experiences together, we kicked him out of the nest on Wednesday, and now he's

The narrowest street in Sweden

free to spread his wings and fly. It was really hard to say goodbye, but what happened on his journey to Gotland just confirms to me that God directs us to where we need to be. We've been working with a less active family, but unfortunately haven't been able to have contact in a couple weeks, and yesterday we finally got a hold of them. We mentioned that Elder Bills had transferred to Gotland, had actually run into him on the 3.5 hour ferry ride out to the island! Apparently he was on a way to a business conference and they had a pretty good chat, and now we will be visiting them tomorrow evening to teach them.

After dropping Elder Bills off at the train station I stayed with the Gubbängen Elders for about an hour while waiting for Elder Radford to arrive, so we decided jump on a few different trains and talk with people. While doing so, Elder Ahonen started talking from a man who actually comes from his hometown of Espoo, Finland! They started speaking Finnish together, and it turns out that the man actually helped build the Stockholm temple back in 1985! He even remembered the day that Angel Moroni arrived to be placed on top. He had learned quite a bit about the church back in the day, and he still has the Book of Mormon that he received. He doesn't live in either of our areas, but it was neat to be able to re-spark his interest in the gospel and the church.


Being with Elder Radford again has been incredible! It's been pretty fun to catch up on everything

This statue is actually in the middle of 

a roundabout. I have to admit, Europe's 

roundabout game is on point...

that's taken place over the last year. Despite being in the same mission, it's pretty amazing how different our experiences have been and how much we've grown. We've been looking at old pictures of the MTC and reading our journal entries which has definitely brought some good laughs and memories. It's been cool to be back with an old companion, and it's been one of the smoothest transitions I've had. We already know a bit about each other and how we teach, so all of our lessons so far have been spot on as we teach by the spirit in unity.


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