We met with Simon and Lise Lotte, that was
actually an exciting meeting. We get there to just Simon standing in
the room where we normally meet. The first thought that I had was that
they were in another big fight, because this had happened before. But it
was different. Simon told us that Lise Lotte was upstairs comforting
this mom that just found out that she is going to lose her kids because
she hasn't been doing well enough in rehab and coming over the problems
that she has. It was some pretty serious stuff going on. Then Lise Lotte
comes down telling us that she just offered that we could pray with
this mom and give her a blessing. So that's just what we did, and it
went very well. I was actually pretty sceptical, it was way rushed, and
her kids were making a lot of noise in the background. But we gave the
blessing and we later found out that it helped her calm down a lot and
it especially helped her to start thinking reasonably about how she
could get her kids back and so on. A way special occassion for me, and
it was a big testimony builder when I heard that it did give her the
comfort that she needed.
After that whole
experience. We sat down and ate with Simon and Lise Lotte, then we had a
nice chat on the restoration. We also talked about the organization of
the church, and why we have apostles and so on. It was an exciting but
good night.
We had our zone training, it went
way well. We played some simon says, got everyone to do some dance
moves. Then we talked a lot about obedience, and what it really means to
be obedient. We focused on how we need to be converted to the rules,
and that we need to actually understand the why of following them. I
used a lot of stuff from this talk from Elder Uchtdorf: (https://www.lds.org/general-
Another
good thing that happened was that we stopped by an investigators mom,
and her son let us in, and we started talking with him. In the middle of
talking with him, he stops us and says "wait one second" and stands up
and comes back with his mom, so we say a prayer, then I say like 1
sentence on how God is our heavenly father and that he loves us, and the
mom was like "This is so wonderful! One second" and stands up and
brings in her husband and tells us to say the same thing over again, so I
did. After I finished the one sentence, they stand up and said "thank
you so much for that message!" and then left. But that was when the son
asked if we had a book or pamphlets with us about our church. So we had a
way sweet lesson with him, and we have started meeting with him 2 or 3
times a week.
We also got to go on a road trip
with the Hicks. They are this way funny missionary couple. We went with
them to stop by all these referrals that we had in a town called
Ebeltoft. A way pretty place, and the houses were way nice. It was loads
of fun. We just joked around the whole time and ate a whole ton of
candy. Sadly nothing really came of the trip investigator wise, but good
memories were had.
Well... my mind is running
empty. We played tennis this morning which was fun. Then we ate lunch
with Ashley here in the church.
That's all for this email. Thank for everything. Loves for everyone
Ældste Swan
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