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| Me, Syster Gambles, Syster Hauglid (my future companion... we just didn't know that yet!) and Syster Miller! We all had our golden nuggets which represented various people that we were working with. We needed to "summon those nuggets" and take care of them to the fullest and help them to the the fullest! Beautiful Uppsala! |
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| ZONE PICTURE!!!! Elders Packer, and Tietjen, Syster Hauglid, Elder Hanson, me, Syster Gambles, Syster Allen, Elder Keele, Elder Larson, (Elder Hitch and Nieminen in front), Elder Floyd, Elder Pehrson, Syster Anderson, Elder Ogaard, Syster Miller and Syster Davis (Elder Davis was taking the picture). Taking care of those nuggets! "Summon the freaking nugget!" haha |
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| Elder Nieminen and Elder Larson (our zone leaders and actually not a part of the district, but came for district meeting). Syster Hauglid, me, Syster Miller and Syster Gambles. In front: Elder Packer and Elder Tietjen |
An experience that let me know that those scenes in romantic comedies can actually happen and that sometimes... well I should just explain. It was the third of August, 2013. "Today was hot! Over 30 degrees Celsius (which is only about 90 degrees for those of us here in the States and is nothing to what I experience in Fresno every summer... but it seemed hot haha), which is high for Sweden especially considering just how humid it gets here. We started the day by meeting Moses at the church to show him where football is and he brought 2 friends with him! Football was fun, but most definitely ridiculously hot--I drank both of the water bottles I had brought with me. (apparently the heat really made an impression on me that day haha).
"The other main event of the day was when we went to go see E. We left a little early and waited a little bit at the train station before we started walking to his friend's apartment. When it was 20 minutes after when we were supposed to meet with him and we hadn't heard back from him yet, we sent him a text and he responded back letting us know that he had missed his connecting bus and was running significantly late. We ended up backtracking and meeting him halfway between his friend's place and resecentrum (the central bus station).
"We talked to him for a little bit, trying to figure how he was doing because we knew that he been in the hospital the last few days, though we had no idea why--still don't know for that matter. We tried to answer his questions about baptism for kids and the sacrament and how it was different from communion. As we were finishing our lesson (we were outside sitting on a couple of benches on a dock by the river that runs through the center of town) it started to rain... well sprinkle. I hurried to say a 30 second prayer and by the time I said amen it was pouring. And I mean POURING!!!! We all started running down the street.
"Are you taking the bus? " ...We don't know.. uh bye!!!" (Very articulate when we are sprinting through the pouring rain haha). Syster Gambles and I quickly realized we had missed the nearest bus by 4 minutes and that the next one wouldn't be coming for nearly an hour so we decided to walk home in the POURING RAIN because we were already all the way soaked through (because OF COURSE we didn't have ANY jackets or umbrellas... or thought to plan ahead or anything). It poured for about 15 minutes before it lessened to a more normal rain. We did arrive back at our apartment about 45 minutes after we started. There was lots of thunder and lightning involved... and we decided to make cookies to celebrate surviving the journey."
But really when you least expect it, it can start pouring rain without any notice whatsoever. We decided it could have a been a good scene in a romantic comedy--if we weren't missionaries and if we were with love interests. It made for a very memorable lesson nonetheless.
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| Pre-drenching haha.. |
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| My little interpretation of us walking through the rain |
To round off this entry: Adam's baptism!
I'm sad to say that I don't really have any pictures of me and Adam on that day (I was busy playing piano during the group photos) but it was really just one of those feel-good, Spirit filled baptisms. I remember being so happy for him and feeling that he was so ready to take this step. The primary song, When I Am Baptized, always comes to mind when I think of this day:
I like to look for rainbows whenever there is rain
And ponder on the beauty of an earth made clean again.
I want my life to be as clean as earth right after rain.
I want to be the best I can and live with God again.
I know that when I am baptized my wrongs are washed away,
And I can be forgiven and improve myself each day.
I want my life to be as clean as earth right after rain.
I want to be the best I can and live with God again
~Nita Dale Milner
You can listen to this song here:
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