Week 20 - Nice Surprise
Helllooo you wonderful people.
Life is good here in
Sundsvall. I am really starting to notice how much brighter it's
getting. To steal a line from David Archuleta, "it's glorious".
Yesterday in sacrament meeting the sun came shining in and made me have
soo much energy, even though it was gone by the end of church. It has
started to feel like days again instead of just one long night. I can't
describe how exciting it is to realize that winter ends, but I can try.
They celebrate this holiday here in April I think in honor of winter
ending. PEOPLE LITERALLY LIGHT GIANT BONFIRES ALL OVER THE CITIES TO
CELEBRATE. Needless, to say, spring is pretty awesome, and it's just
around the cor-... wait no... sorry, getting ahead of myself here...
it's in like two and a half months 😠On the real though, winter here is
beautiful. Especially when it gets to be below 0 F and you get freezing
fog... that is so beautiful... You can see it glitter in the street
lights, and when you wake up, everything is covered in a thick layer of
frost. Also, there's this creepy mist that hangs out over the now
totally frozen bay when it gets that cold, and that is magical.
Top
story for this week started out looking like a pretty empty day
actually. We had one lesson and nothing else, which pretty much means
lots of tracting and contacting people in town. I was not that excited
honestly, but we went contacting in the morning anyways. There weren't
very many people in town, and no one was interested and we came back for
lunch. While my fingers were warming up I decided to read some out of
one of my favorite books which I cannot recommend enough: "Adjusting to
Missionary Life". (I bet you thought I was going to say the Book of
Mormon. That is my other favorite book that I can't recommend enough) I
read in the part about feeling discouraged. There was this advice that
really helped me out when I read it. It told me to give myself extra
credit for doing the things I wasn't excited about instead of being
critical of myself for not enjoying it. That was really good advice.
Then my companion could tell I was discouraged and told me about the
patience that missionaries in the scriptures needed, and that some of
the best missionaries in history were rejected and thrown in prison and
that you can't control what people decide about us and our message. That
was also really good advice and I was feeling a lot better now, which
was good since we had a whole afternoon of tracting still. Then I have
this idea to go to the church so we can do our companionship study
finishing this broadcast we started earlier and so that we could come up
with a really creative tracting plan. Turns out there's this party at
the church where they're celebrating the 20th day of Christmas where the
kids eat candy and dance away Christmas. (I love Swedish holidays 😂)
Turns out at this party there's like a family of non-members. Turns out
they were really interested in us and told us to come by sometime! Then
we talked for like 40 minutes to the grandma and her sister and they
told me if I come back to Sweden after my mission to give them a call
and they would find me a Swedish wife... haha but the point is they were
super nice and we had no idea this party existed and we ended up
finding a family out of it! I really believe that we were led by the
Spirit to find them.
Hope you all have a great week!
Love,
Äldste Denton
Creative finding techniques.
We're gonna get big one day. I can feel it.
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