Sweden - April 8, 2013

I was able to watch three sessions of conference, 2 of which were live (the Saturday and Sunday morning sessions which were kl 18,00/ 6pm our time haha).  The stake had recorded the Saturday afternoon session, so we watched that early Sunday afternoon.  I was glad that I was able to get to watch them in English so that I can actually get something out of them!

Lessons were a little more sparse this week, but that certainly doesn't mean that we haven't been working hard!  We just had to deal with a lot of fairly last minute cancellations, which isn't any fun.

We have a couple of new investigators this week.  One is the cousin of a member in our ward, came to general conference and we've had a lesson with her before.  She agreed to meet with us on Wednesday, so I 'm excited to get to know her better!  We also have another member referral from Handen, who wants to learn more about the Church and to learn some more English as well, so we're hoping to be able to help him with both.  

We've been working with a couple of potential investigators as well. There is a couple that we're very optimistic for.  My Companion first met them last month, where they said that they would love to meet us after the 6th of April (one of them was involved with an art show).  We were able to meet them at the art show and we plan on meeting with them later this week.  We also have been working with another member referral. We were first able to actually meet him last week and we have an appointment with him on Tuesday and another on Sunday.  He was eager to learn more about how we have a living prophet so we were glad to be able to give him a copy of last month's Liahona.

I had one instance that really stood out to me in regards to the Spirit this week.  Early in the day I had found my copy of Elder Holland's talk "None Were With Him" and as a little side note to myself, I stuck it in my bag on the off chance that I would be able to read it throughout the day.  Well, that day we had a lesson with an inactive.  It turned out that talk wasn't meant for me, but rather for her.  It fit perfectly into her situation.  We were able to give it to her to read and she told us that it really did help her.  

This is certainly one of the reasons that I've been a little more focused on my studies in the Book of Mormon this week.  One thing that I found really interesting was a story of conversion in Alma 24.  In Chapter 24 the Lamanites came to destroy the people of Anti-Nephi-Lehi.  The Anti-Nephi-Lehites had already taken up their oath to never fight and they instead just remained kneeling in prayer.  A thousand and five individuals were killed that day. The Lamanites saw this and realized just what they were doing.  They repented of their deeds, and more than  a thousand were converted to the Lord that day.  In verse 27 it states quite deftly "Thus we see that the Lord worketh in many ways to the salvation of his people."  Which is most definitely true.

Love you all!