TJABBBBA!
The quote of the week goes to our dear friend Oswaldo. “I am ready to
convert; I’ll quit all my old habits and start anew. I know this is what I
need to do.” He told us that about 2 ½ weeks ago, and then disappeared. His phone was off, so we couldn’t reach him. He emigrated from Guatemala, and was always running around in Stockholm and he always seemed to find missionaries where ever he went. So we thought that he was eventually going
to show up and he would just find us. But last week he had the chance to make a drive up to his home, and that is when learned that he had passed away about the same time we lost contact.
It was a small African family that was giving us then news of this and we were defiantly shocked, our amazing friend was found dead in the streets of Stockholm. They tried to comfort us, and let us know that they were extremely close to him and it was hard for them as well. We then had the opportunity to teach that family about the Gospel and now we will be teaching them.This was a very sad experience, but in the same time I know Oswaldo is fine. He is going to except the Gospel on the other side, because he already was accepting it on this one. He even help guide us to this wonderful little Kenyan family.
This week has been absolutely insane! We had a zone conference of 122 people, prepared for the new mission president and still work in our area. It has been crazy but in the same it has been fun. (Except the Zone Conference I had to roll play teaching in front of everyone in Swedish, it was a little nerve raking.)
On Friday night, we had the chance to proselyte all night, and we had a
really cool experience. We were in a place called Åkersberga, and we were about to head home. Until we both felt this feeling that we needed to try to visit one more person. We had an old list, to swing by people and this one woman’s name stood out. So we hopped in the car and drove there.
We had no idea who she was, we imagined she was an old investigator, but we
went up knocking. She opened the door with the biggest smile on her face. We started to talk to her and we still not knowing anything about her we asked her if she had met the missionaries before and if she was still interested on learning more. She started to choke up a little bit as she
replied, “Jag är ju Mormon, och jag ska aldrig förneka det.” (I am
absolutely a mormon, and will never deny it.)
As we spoke to her on her door step, the tears began to just flow from her
face, and she told us how she had been praying for this. She knew she
wanted to come back and didn’t know how, and then we knocked on the door. It was a direct answer to her prayers. She then was able to come to church on Sunday and she hasn’t been in 14 years. I’ve never seen somebody so
M happy.It’s times like these that makes being a missionary completely is worth it. When you get to help be a tool in the Lord’s hands, it’s just Indescribable. We had no idea, that we would have had so much impact for stopping by that woman, but we were guided by the spirit to help find her
and bring her back.
Well, lastly we had to say goodbye to our beloved Mission President,
President Newell. About 45 minutes before we were planning on going over to have our last debriefing, he gave me a call and asked me something I neverwould have thought in a million years. He said, “Elder Haddon, could you
come a little early before our meeting….. And cut my hair. I see that you did a marvelous job for all the elders in the office do you think that you could just trim me up a bit.” In my head I screamed in terror, ”WHAT!@#!?”
But then responded quietly, “Yes, I could probably do that.”
So right before our last meeting I had the opportunity to cut former
Ambassador President Newell’s hair. (It doesn’t look to shabby either.)
To be honest, that was a very hard experience to say goodbye to them both, they were like a Father and Mother to me and to the 200 missionaries here.
They had helped so many people in Sweden, and truly effected hundreds of thousands. They will be missed.
I love you all thank you for the support and love. Stay in tuned for next weeks adventures.
Love,
Äldste Tyson Farlig Haddon
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