Step Up to the Plate

Well things have been crazy for Aldste Haddon in Sweden. Winter finally decided to show up! It was snowing like crazy this week! One morning they woke up to a foot of snow on the ground and they didn't even know it was supposed to snow at all!

 

The elders decided to liken missionary work to baseball because they are both sports lovers and what else should a missionary do?

 

Here's how it goes:

 

Strike out, or Out: Someone just shutting you down completely. “Busy!”,“Not interested.”, “I'm Muslim.” Anything to that effect.

Single: Someone being polite and nice, but not quiet interested.

Double: Having a gospel discussion with someone.

Triple: Getting someones number so we could meet again.

Home-run: A new investigator.

Grand-slam: Baptizing a whole family.

 

 

So, they have been working with an elderly man who is in his nineties and is quickly deteriorating. Aldste Haddon said from last Sunday to this Sunday it appeared that he had lost 10 pounds. He said that he's a little confused but they love him and have concern for him. So they walked to his house to visit him in a blizzard. They realized the importance and fragility of life and feel grateful to be able to serve and love this man toward the end of his life.

 

He finishes his email with his testimony:

 

"After that we defiantly realized that we don't have all that much time here, in Uppsala or on this Earth so we have to everything we can to be those people the Lord wants us to be. We had a good hour walk home after that visit, and it was probably the biggest blizzard I have ever been in. But we still talked to everyone we saw. We got some pretty crazy looks, that was for sure. But whither they listened or not, we still did it because that is what we are called to do. Stand up for Christ, in whatever nation, weather, or circumstance it is what we are called too. But at the end we ended up batting about .500 so it was actually pretty successful."

 

 

These pictures are of a service project they did this week. They helped a man build shelves and put thousands of pounds of paper on them, not totally sure why...