A few things to describe a Swedish New Year....
1. Lots of Drunk College Kids
2.The bars FULL to the brim
3. Firework stands overflowing with people
4. LOTS of noise
5. LOTS of partying!
Luckily, New Years looked a little different than that for the Elders. They were able to spend New Years Eve with two different families, one of whom is the president's family. He has 5 little girls under the age of 8 so the elder's new years consisted of...
1. LOTS of patty cake
2. dodging little girl kiss
3. Girl Talk
4. Getting jumped on
5. little girl games
Aldste Haddon said that he had never felt so exhausted! But it was fun to spend New Years Eve with them and appreciated them opening their home to them.
On the Missionary Work side of things...
They had been working for awhile on trying to contact a family who was not from Sweden but has lived there for awhile. They have two daughters who are 19 and 21 and they were trying to get the missionaries to teach them. The elders had been working hard to contact them with no success so Elder Haddon had decided to write a note to himself to no longer contact them, assuming they no longer wanted to be taught. Then, Christmas morning he got a phone call from their dad asking him to come back to teach them. All the father wants is to be able to teach his family the gospel and be able to be sealed eternally as a family. Elder Haddon said it was such a blessing to see the importance of never giving up on people and that as long as we remain diligent, Heavenly Father will make up the difference!
HAPPY 2014!!
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