Hey everyone!
This week was pretty exciting! As it turns out, I will be
assigned to serve with a missionary coming directly from the MTC for the next
twelve weeks! It will be pretty exciting seeing as he won't be able to speak
practically any Swedish for a couple weeks and I'll have to handle nearly
everything that goes on. In missionary-lingo, this means that I am becoming a
"father" and my new companion will be my "son." I'm really
excited to meet him on Wednesday!
With this new assignment, I got the
opportunity to attend a training meeting in Stockholm and got to stay the night
in the office there with a couple other elders. It was super fun. It is a 6
hour one-way trip though so that was a little "jobbigt" as Swedes
say. I'll be making the trip there and back again this week to meet my new
companion so I'll have a good amount of travel time this week as well.
The scripture I chose this week
stuck out to me while I began to read the Book of Mormon again from the
beginning. I liked it a lot, not only because of what it says, but also because
of the context it gives when compared with the beginning of the next chapter.
The Lord counsels Nephi to keep His commandments and comforts him with
blessings he will receive in doing so. Then--as the scriptural record would seem
to indicate--only minutes later, his father--prophet of God--relates to Nephi
how the Lord had commanded him and his brothers to return to the land of
Jerusalem and confront Laban in request for the genealogical records of the
Jews.
Nephi immediately relied on the
counsel he had just been given from the Lord to follow His commandments to the
letter. This is an example to us of how the Lord not only prepares a way to
follow His commandments, but also prepares us to receive them! I would
encourage each of you to reflect on how you have been prepared by the Lord to
accomplish His purposes.
Have a great week!
1. TU is the abbreviation we use for "Potential
Investigator" in Swedish. We thought it was funny but you guys probably
won't. I decided to send it anyway.
2. This is the biggest dog I have ever seen. You can't
really tell because no one is standing next to it to reference to, but it's
head reached well past my elbow.
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