All Things Are Possible

Jaså!

Oh man! Vilken vecka! It has been a good one, this week is a “double whammy,” of quotes.

1)     1) Missionary I was able to go on exchanges with, “So like after your mission…. Are you going to date girls?”

Me:”... is this a trick question?”

2)     2)  (Explanation after.) “If you don’t get here with a laptop the blood of all the Iranians is on your hands.”

Background: So we have been helping a church service missionary with getting things set up for translation for Persian speakers. She is awesome and is doing a fantastic job but her work load is just a little too much. So we now are assisting her with that. She had been in the hospital, for different health issues, so we had come and given her a blessing the day before and she is now on the rise.

Now, flash to yesterday after church. We are in our car driving to a place called Åkersberga which is probably about 45 minutes north of Stockholm. On the way we get a call from her, furiously upset! Because she won’t be able to teach her Persian class because she is in the hospital. That’s when she cursed us with the blood of these Persian speakers if we don’t get her a laptop before 14:00. Well the thing is the call was made at 13:30. There was no physical way that I could pick up a laptop and get to the hospital before the class started.

We had the phone connected to the speakers in the car, so we could hear her yelling at us in surround sound. We are probably 1 hour away from the hospital. We don’t have a laptop. It was pretty much a game over. But then I remembered something in my patriarchal blessing, “You will been blessed to see problems and tasks, and prayerfully make solutions.” So I hung up the phone. Turned the car back around and drove directly to the hospital. In her yelling she said if we are late she won’t do the class because at that validity of the church would already be lost. So we had to get there in 30 minutes, (through downtown Stockholm), with a working device or the blood of the Persians were on us. So my companion prayed and I just drove.

Somehow the red sea of Stockholm parted and there were no cars. We made it to the Sjukhus in a 28 minutes. Then as we are running in the hospital we downloaded the app on our iPhone, got connected to the Persian group in the elevator and at 2 o’clock on the dot, gave the iPhone too her. And she just started going off teaching.

This was nothing short of a miracle. Helped us understand that literally anything is possible with the Lord, even if that is just getting us to a hospital in time.

This week has been a good one for the work. We have several people that we are progressing super well and we are just doing everything to raise the bar in our missionary work. (See attached file. It was our message for the mission.) Just loving live and loving being a missionary. It is so cool to see these people that we are working with change. We have a Chinese family that is preparing for baptism who only a few months ago met with us and wanted to learn about “The God.” Now is planning on getting baptized and absolutely love the church.

I love this work, I love being a missionary. “Vad mer kan jag saga?

Love,

Elder Haddon

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