Thursday, December 7, 2017




I'll have to keep this one short, but I had a great week! It's been full of finding, and some more finding. But we had an apartment check, and it was super cool to see Elder and Sister Bell from Oregon! Also, my previous companion Elder Jackson came over for stake conference. This stake is massive (geographically) an so six other elders had to take a train in and stay the night with us for that. However, we had to leave to go give out Books of Mormon at the Book of Mormon Musical that night they came over. That was funny, we let these six Elder into our apartment while we left the apartment in clean condition, and when we came back at 12:10 all floor space was occupied by sleeping Elders, and all our food had disappeared. And our TP, but I didn't ask about that.

Anyways, here's something quickly from the Book of Mormon. 2 Nephi 22:3: Therefore, with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation. Moral of the story, if you're coming unto Christ and it's not joyful then you're doing it wrong. Christ is always joy, and coming to Christ (repentance) is joyful. Repentance has such a negative connotation, or implicit definition, but it shouldn't. The Swedish word is much better I think, omvändelse. Mom just wrote me a bit about this, and Elder Renlund gave a great talk about it a while ago in General Conference, but omvändelse literally means "to turn around". Check out this sentence:
You should stop sinning and repent.
You're driving the wrong way, turn around.

Du bör sluta synda och omvänd dig.
Du kör fel väg, vänd dig om.

Anyways, I have it evil on time and have to go now.
Well, I guess English translations of Swedish phrases don't always work.

Äldste Wilson

ps, Emma Huntington's son Ballard of a Moonchild on Mormonchannel is super good

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