Week 28

Tjena !!

Hard to believe I'm already back in this chair, writing yet another email that will someday probably be shared on the news or something like that, crazy.

This week I have learned a lot about how God really does make beauty out of ashes. He did it over and over again this week.

On Wednesday we had quite the trek to go and deliver a book of Mormon to someone who had called us and requested it. When we arrived at the planned time and knocked on the door, someone else answered, saw our tags, and said "you'll have to talk to him." And then closed the door.

Slightly deflated, we walked up the hill into the forest. We got slightly more dissappointed when we realized the next bus out of there was an hour away.

Now I wish I could this story was one.where I was super positive... but I wasn't happy, I was car sick, tired, annoyed, and hungry. Not a great combo.

But then I had the thought to reach out to a less active who I thought was in the area, and he said to come over. It ended up taking another hour to travel there, but we left feeling the spirit and totally uplifted.

Not a huge glorious miraculous story, but that night as I thought about beauty from ashes I realized that's what God did for me that day. Even when I was at a low, he helped me take the next step. He had us reach out, and we wouldn't have if we weren't in that area.

Pretty cool

Here are some other highlights:

- got bikes

- had splits in Örebro

- hit one of the ysa in the face with tje soccer ball, 2 seconds later an Elder hit my comp in the face with a soccer ball.

- Made 400 sanwiches

- Ate soup in a jar while sprinting to the train

- In Örebro met this man who had so little but expressed over and over again how thankful he was to God.

- Helped someone move for 9 hours?? But really we just did the dishes bc "that's the girl's job" - The elders

- rode my bike on a flat tire for 30 minutes bc I'm no quiter

- ran in some pretty nature

God is real! He lives and loves you :)