Santa's on strike

Hi guys!

So we taught this lesson to a man named Friðrik, and it was super awesome! But afterwards, the bus system would've taken us an hour to get to church, so we called one of the senior couples, who agreed to pick us up on their way to church. So we had like 30 minutes to kill and decided to go knocking around the area. We went to this apartment complex and started buzzing peoples doors. The first door we buzzed, the lady answered and she said she had her on faith and that was good for her. She was acting pretty offended that we'd even attempt to knock on her door as missionaries, even though we said we had not intention of forcing anyone to convert, and we just wanted to talk about faith. So we went to the next door and the lady also wasn't interested. The 3rd door we buzzed, the lady let us in, and since we're in a trio we can do that because it's not supposed to be 2 guys and one girl for safety reasons. This lady was super old though, and super deaf. She didn't charge her hearing aids, so she had no clue what we were saying. We started talking about the book of Mormon, and it's message of happiness and all that stuff, but she couldn't really hear us. She had to go into the other room to grab something, and then we realized that none of us had a Book of Mormon that we could give her XD. The only material we had was a family proclimation to the world. So when she came back, our message did a 180 from the Book of Mormon to the family Proclimation. She accepted the pamphlet though! Even though she couldn't hear us. She told us to follow her into the kitchen, and there she had a soup mix. Except it was in finnish, so we couldn't read it. She said that this old people company usually brings her food but they were closed that day, so we started trying to help her make this Finnish soup. Right as we started, there was a knock on the door, and I went to see who it was. On the other side of the door, was santa. He had a a plain white shirt on, white hair, a white beard, and a set of suspenders that I have only seen santa wear in cartoons and movies when he's back home resting after giving presence to the world. Only he wasn't too holly or jolly. I thought he was this lady's wife at first, and that he was made because he found his wife making soup with 3 young men. He came in without much invitation, and went to talk to the lady. He asked if she knew who we were, then he said he was gonna invite us out. The lady responded "you're inviting me out?" because she couldn't hear. But then the man just motioned for us to go out the door, so we went. He then followed us down the hall and all the way out the apartment complex. Where he turned and went into the first door we knocked. He didn't even ask the lady if she was alright ;-; or help her make soup at all, so the lady went hungry for all we know. I don't know why he was so upset at us, but we literally were just trying to help this lady have dinner. It was such a weird exchange though lol. We were just making soup for this poor old lady, then santa decided we deserved coal for christmas and sent us out, without even helping he.

Ever since the rededication, so many people have been appearing that are ready for the gospel. It's so amazing. I can't talk too much more this week, but the Church is true! The power of the priesthood is very real, and very important. Also, if you're ever talking about the gospel, in any environment, don't be afraid to bare your testimony. It's a powerful way to use the spirit.

Read Mosiah chapter 3! It's so good.

Öldungur Rasmussen