Sunday, January 31, 2010

Aldste Isaac Grindstaff, October 12 2009

> Hur är det med ni? (how is it for ya'll) Thank you for the e-mails.
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> Sweden is ok. It is cold and I wear my jacket, and coat almost all the time. It is actually kind of nice to be able to wear a jacket and not burn up inside of it. Lots of fun stuff happened this week. First, we got to go to Zone conference in Göteborg (Gothenberg), and we had a member of the 3rd quorum of the seventy speak to us. He is from France and was really awesome. He taught us all about how the church is set up and gave us an equation for success. It was S+L=U which leads to Zion. (so Spirituality (Spiritually minded, or coming closer to the Lord) + Love = Unity which of course leads to Zion ("and they were of one heart and one mind"... Scripture mastery somewhere in Moses) Sorry mom I forgot the reference. Then we had President Anderson give us a lesson on Working hard, Working Smart, and Working with the spirit, pretty much WORK. After zone conference we came home and got to work.
> We talked to a lot of people one rememered talking to us before, and actually lives in the building accross from us.
> The men from Pakistan Bilal and Imran came to the branch paj (pie) Höst (fall) party. Afterwords we took them on a tour of our church. Bilal has a lot of questions, and can't understand why other christian churches don't believe in Joseph Smith or the Book of Mormon. He also told us when we gave the Book of Mormon in urdu to him that he has read only one religious book in his life, (the koran) but the Book of Mormon will be his second. I am so excited for the missionaries that will get to go to the Middle east. Those are some of the nicest people I know, and a lot of them are prepared.
> But there are prepared Swedes too. We got a call a few days ago from a man who wants to know more. He heard about us from his friend and wants us to send en stycke Mormons Bok to him so he can read it. His friend also told him that he will be able to feel the Holy Ghost better if he stops drinking, so he stopped. We will send the book out today, he wants to read it before meeting us.
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> Thank you all again for the letters.
> Mvh (I just know it is what swedes use for sincerely)
> Äldste (just like this hermana Grindstaff, but I don't think you have the letter "Ä" oh well, just use an E and it will be Norwegian) Grindstaff
> Ps. Thank you for the word "verde" now what is the chair is green (la silla är verde) I don't know anymore. Sandra, your spanish exceeds mine by a lot. Ha det så jätte bra!!!!!

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