This week has been great. Summer is winding down here finally. School starts in two weeks and then we think that things will get back to normal. Although we have become super busy again.
On Sunday we had 8 investigators at church! Our branch is really amazing and we now have six branch missionaries who are ready and willing to help us with everything we have to do. We also have a great branch mission leader. This is good because we have so many positive investigators right now who are working towards baptism. We have five investigators right now who have baptismal dates and we are working really hard to get them baptized in August. Our weeks have really filled up with teaching our investigators. We are trying very hard to meet with each of them two to three times a week. I love the gospel!
Lately, people around us have been asking Syster Jacobs and I if we are twins. Haha. We don´t really look the same at all but, we have gotten it a couple of times within the last week. Haha. We think it´s because of our short hair and the light that we carry with us. It´s really funny. Some members from the branch have started calling us the twins now. Haha.
Last Thursday night we had an amazing party at Åhus, which is a really pretty beach town about 30 minutes away from Kristianstad. The Eriksson twins invited a bunch of their friends for a BBQ and to meet us. It was a great experience. Syster Jacobs and I were bouncing around talking to everyone. We counted 15 non-members! The members here are really amazing and are some of the best missionaries I have ever met! Most of our branch missionaries were there too and they were really helping out with the work as well. I love seeing the full time missionaries and the member missionaries really work together. That truly is when success comes. We had made a triple batch of American chocolate chip cookies for everyone and we walked around passing them out and everyone loved them. They were dang good if I do say so myself. Syster Jacobs has the best recipe for them, which I will be bringing home. No worries. And I can´t even imagine them with real chocolate chips instead of cut up candy bars. Yum. By the end of the night we had taught two different people about Joseph Smith and the importance of prayer and got some phone numbers and even an lunch appointment for the next day! Heavenly Father really knows what we desire and if we but show our faith then miracles will happen.
This past week we met with a couple who will be getting married soon and then baptized the next week... anyways they have been out of town for the past week camping and so we were a little worried about them actually reading and praying. While they were camping they met another couple who were members of the church! They invited them to read from the Book of Mormon with them every night. We were shocked when they told us that. Heavenly Father provided another couple to help them along with their conversion process. The church is true and God loves each one of His children! Both couples had one person who was a member and had one who was working towards baptism.
Heavenly Father also led us to another Swedish couple last Monday while we were grocery shopping on pday. The man from the couple stopped us and asked us if we were twins and if we had gone to a certain school because he recognized us. We said no and told him that we were actually from America. At that point he noticed our nametags and said, "oh, you"re missionaries for the Church of Jesus Christ." He knew exactly who we were. He then told us that he had grown up in the church and that his dad was a very faithful member. WOW. We got their phone number and set up a time to meet them again. We actually invited them to the Åhus party and they traveled there with us. And they both came to church yesterday!! We have plans to meet with them again this upcoming week. The best part of all this is that the members recognized him and were so excited to see him back in church. We truly are just the Lord's hands here in Sweden.
I love the work and I love the gospel! The church is true and I know it. I have started reading the Book of Mormon for the third time and it´s amazing to me all the new things that I am learning. Scripture study is so important and really is something that helps strenghten our testimonies of our Savior Jesus Christ.
I love you all and see you in 6 weeks! AHHH.
Love, Syster Talisa Vistaunet!
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